Did you have a childhood sweetheart? In many cases, a childhood sweetheart tends to be a neighbor or schoolmate whom we spend many hours of our glorious juvenile years playing with and, more often than not, drifting apart as we grow up and life takes us to different places. However, fate is a mysterious thing. ...

The University of Ghana’s 2014/2015 academic year will begin on Friday, September 5, 2014. The academic year  was supposed to begin on August 11, but was suspended due to a strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). A statement issued by the University of Ghana however noted that the University will re-open on ...

Government has released more cholera drugs to hospitals across the country to combat the disease. Patients are reporting that although they are not to pay for the treatment of cholera, some health facilities request to be paid before treatment. Tony Goodman, the Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Health has explained that the hospitals ...

Some recent university graduates have expressed disappointment at their postings by the National Service Secretariat (NSS). One of them, a graduate of the University of Ghana who has been posted to a mortuary said he was unhappy with the choice of posting because it has nothing to do with his area of study. The NSS ...

M.anifest’s song Someway Bi went viral days after its release. The song, off his Apae album, trended on social media sites Facebook and Twitter and has enjoyed massive airplay since its release. Following the success of the audio release, the rapper went ahead to release an awesome video which also trended for days on Twitter. ...

A flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alan Kyerematen has said his inclusion in the top five candidates to battle for the flagbearership slot, is an indication that the delegates still believe he is capable of leading the NPP in 2016. Kyeremanten in a statement expressed his appreciation to delegates who voted for ...

MTN Ghana in collaboration with an anti-fraud team made up of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, National Communications Authority (NCA) and other telecom service providers have nabbed two suspects engaged in a SIM Box syndicate operating in Dome –Pillar 2,Accra. This was made known during a press briefing held at ...

Lukoil Russia’s second-largest oil producer, has made a discovery at Ghana’s offshore Cape Three points project, according to a person with direct knowledge of the development. The company has 90 days to evaluate the find and decide what the next step is, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t ...

A Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Institutions, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has assured polytechnic teachers that government will soon pay their August salaries that were frozen as a result of their earlier strike. The Polytechnic Teachers Association (POTAG) declared a strike on May 15 to protest government’s decision to scrap the Book and  Research Allowance. The ...

A carjacked vehicle belonging to the Kenyan president’s security convoy has been found in Uganda. The BMW car was taken at gunpoint last Wednesday night in the capital Nairobi. The director of Interpol in Uganda, Assan Kasingye, told the BBC that the vehicle would now be driven back to Nairobi. The latest Kenyan police figures ...

As social media and technology use grows and becomes inevitable in the lives of millions of Ghanaians and billions of users around the world, 97.3 Citi FM has designed a show to highlight and discuss the trending issues on social media and the tech world, the first by any radio station in Ghana. Citi Trendz, the ...

Flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo will on Monday resume campaigning ahead of the party’s October 18 national delegates’ congress. After the overwhelming 81% votes he received in Sunday’s super delegates congress, Nana Addo and his campaign team say they are poised to get the final endorsement from the 140,000 delegates. The ...

The Municipal Chief Executive for Tema, Isaac Ashai Odamtten is calling on government to upgrade the Tema General hospital to the status of a regional hospital. This, according to him, will enable the hospital deliver efficiently on its core mandate of providing quality health care to patients. As the main referral health centre for most ...

Ghana has been ranked 111th in this year’s Global Competitiveness Index published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Ghana ranked 103rd last year. According to the World Economic Forum, Ghana jump to 111th this year, largely as a result of slight improvements in its macroeconomic indicators, a reversal of last year’s trend but adds fiscal ...

Chiefs and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the Upper West Region have called on government to urgently place a moratorium on the passage of the Plant Breeders Bill (PBB). The also want government to empower research institutions in the country to join their counterparts in Europe, India and china to come out with a concrete ...

Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has returned home after fleeing the mountain kingdom to neighbouring South Africa on Saturday. At the time he said the military had staged a coup – a charge it denied. Regional leaders rejected his call for troops to be deployed to restore order. The unrest is thought to be linked ...

The Food and Drugs Authority says a change in Ghanaian attitudes towards personal hygiene and the environment will halt the spread of cholera. According to the Head of the Animal Products and Biosafety Department of the Kofi Essel, people continue to live in poor sanitary conditions in spite of numerous educational campaigns on sanitation and personal ...

The United States plans to fight Islamic State until it is no longer a force in the Middle East and will seek justice for the killing of American journalist Steven Sotloff, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. He added destroying the militant group will take time because of the power vacuum in Syria, the abundance ...

The authorities of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has announced that the 2014/2015 academic year will begin next week. The strike by university lecturers forced all public universities across the country to indefinitely suspend re-opening date. UCC indefinitely postponed its re-opening date due to what it describes as “circumstance beyond control” UCC was initially scheduled ...

An Economic analyst is making a strong case for the Ghanaian team for the IMF negotiation to request for a programme that is geared towards developing the country’s cocoa industry. The team from IMF is expected in the country by end of this week to begin negotiationsfor a bailout programme for Ghana. Economic  analyst Dr ...