Lead contender in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flag bearer race, Nana Akufo Addo has stated that he won the party’s super delegates congress on merit. He therefore debunked widespread assertions by opposing forces within the party that the delegates were coerced to overwhelmingly endorse his candidature. According to Nana Akuffo- Addo, the delegates who ...

South African Judge Thokosile Masipa is due to give her verdict at the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius. The Olympic double-amputee sprinter faces 25 years in jail if found guilty of premeditated murder. He denies intentionally killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year, saying he thought there was an intruder. The judge ...

Kwadwo Opare Hammond, a former Director of Finance and Administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to the party’s National Council of Elders to immediately resolve the various conflicts and issues raging in the party. Opare Hammond was relieved of his post for gross disobedience, impropriety in handling of party finances and his ...

A former Attorney General under the Kufuor administration, Ayikoi Otoo has rebuked the chairman of the constitutional committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for recommending the reinstatement of Perry Okudzeto and Opare Hammond. According to him, the committee erred by giving an opinion on a matter that has not being referred to it. “This ...

Inflation for the month of August hit a record high of 15.9 %. This is the highest recorded since January 2010. Last month’s inflation increased from 15.3 % recorded in July to the current 15.9 %. The food inflation rate increased from 5% recorded in July to 5.1%. The group was dominated by the mineral ...

The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is urging the general public to disregard the report from the party’s Constitutional and Legal Committee calling for the re-reinstatement of two party officials; Perry Okudzeto and Opare Hammond. The statement signed by the party’s General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong urged all to “disregard the said publication with ...

The Black Stars scrape a close encounter in Lome, thanks to a Christian Atsu decider late in the 2nd half. The win for Ghana gives some hope to the Black Stars in making it to the 2015 African Cup of nations in Morocco. The Cranes of Uganda held the Black Stars to a 1-1 drawn ...

A South African court has sentenced four men to eight years in prison for trying to murder Rwanda’s former army chief Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa. He was shot in the stomach in Johannesburg in 2010, soon after he fled Rwanda after falling out with President Paul Kagame. The magistrate said the “main culprits” had not ...

The Madina Police Command is appealing for an immediate installation of traffic lights and street lights in the area to enhance pedestrian and commuter safety. The 5.6-kilometre highway from the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange to the Pantang Junction has become a death trap. There are no road markings, pedestrian walkways, traffic lights and street lights. The ...

The Peoples’ National Convention (PNC) has disassociated itself from the party’s General Secretary, Bernard Mornah’s decision to challenge the provisions of the Constitutional Instrument(C.I) 75 which makes biometric verification a prerequisite for voting. According to Bernard Mornah, the “No Verification No Vote” provision breaches article 42 of the 1992 constitution. His decision comes on the ...

The Founder of Christ Embassy Ministries, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has described as “silly and frivolous” media reports on his marriage crises. Pastor Chris and Rev Anita are currently undergoing divorce proceedings in a UK court. Media reports suggested that Pastor Chris had been making efforts to avoid divorce with the hope that the wife would ...

Former Black Stars coach Milovan Rajevac has said that he can’t wait to rejoin the technical team of the Black Stars after he touched down in Ghana. The Ghana Football Association (GFA), in August, set up a three-man committee to appoint a technical adviser for the Black Stars.Citi Sports had earlier revealed that the Serbian, who was ...

Ghana’s Sarkodie is up for nomination in this year’s upcoming MTV EMA awards. Sarkodie has been nominated along with Anselmo Ralph (Angola), Gangs of Ballet (South Africa), Mafikizolo (South Africa), Sauti Sol (Kenya),  and Tiwa Savage (Nigeria) as wildcard nominees. The wild card nominee with the highest votes will join four other acts in the Best African Act ...

Former Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has defended how GHC34 cedis for food for each Ghanaian supporter at the Brazil world cup, “miraculously” turned into $35 per head. On Tuesday,Horace Ankrah who chaired the Grounds, Events and Logistics Sub-committee revealed at the Justice Dzamafe Commission that amounts agreed with caterers to cook food for Black Stars supporters ...

What on earth do ladies do when guys ask them out?  If this isn’t accurate, then I don’t know what you could possibly be doing that takes so long. 1. Start by laying out all your clothes on your bed. All of them. Nothing is off the table. That sweater you wore in secondary school? You pulled ...

All senior high school students, especially those in boarding houses, will be screened for symptoms of Ebola when they return to school. Each school is expected to receive screening kits from the Ministry of Health through School Health Education Programme (SHEP) coordinators today. Mr Samuel Ofori-Adjei, the National President of  the Conference of Heads of ...

Failure on the part of some electricity consumers to pay their bills in 2013 cost the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) about 12.40 per cent of its annual revenue. Additionally, the company lost 10.97 per cent revenue as a result of frequent network breakdowns and associated power outages. According to the Minister of Energy and ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron implored Scots on Wednesday to shun independence to keep the United Kingdom “family” intact as he scrambled to stem a steep rise in secessionist support ahead of the Sept. 18 vote. In a sign of panic within the British ruling elite, Cameron and opposition leader Ed Miliband scrapped their weekly ...

Apple Inc unveiled a watch, two larger iPhones and a mobile payments service on Tuesday as Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook seeks to revive the technology company’s reputation as a wellspring of innovation. The first new product to be developed and introduced under Cook’s reign is a timepiece tethered to the iPhone that will combine health ...

  Liberia is facing a “serious threat” to its national existence as the deadly Ebola virus “spreads like wildfire” there, its defence minister says. Brownie Samukai told the UN Security Council that the international response to the crisis was “less than robust”. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that thousands more cases could occur ...