The Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has disclosed that government will soon review the embargo which has been placed on public sector employment. The review will be informed by the next assessment stage of the Single Spine Pay Policy. In 2010, the government placed a ban on the recruitment of employees in the public sector to ...
About 1,300 troops from 15 countries – including the US and other Nato members – have begun a military exercise near Lviv in western Ukraine. The US says the drill had been planned before the current crisis in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have been battling pro-Russian rebels. Clashes have continued in eastern Ukraine, particularly ...
The bodies of two British tourists have been found stripped and bludgeoned to death with a garden hoe on a beach at a popular holiday island in southern Thailand. The couple – understood to be a 23-year-old woman from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and a 24-year-old man from Jersey – were found just before 5am today ...
The Ghana Police Service has said it will investigate the officer  who was secretly filmed begging for money from a driver. The police officer stopped the driver ostensibly to check his driving documents but he was rather caught on tape requesting for money for supper. The following ensued between them: Female passenger [speaking in twi]: ...
Many migrants have drowned while trying to reach Europe after their boat sank off Libya, the Libyan navy says. Navy spokesman Ayub Qassem said 36 people had been rescued after the vessel – which carried 250 – went down near Tajoura, east of Tripoli. “There are so many dead bodies floating in the sea,” Mr ...
Former France striker Nicolas Anelka will play for Mumbai City in the inaugural Indian Super League. The ex-Arsenal and Real Madrid player was sacked by West Brom in March for gross misconduct. His departure from The Hawthorns came after he was banned and fined by the Football Association for making the “quenelle” gesture during a ...
The first Android One-branded budget-priced “high quality” smartphones have been released in India. The handsets provide a minimum set of features determined by Google, which has sourced several of the components to help cut manufacturing costs. The company has also teamed up with a local network to make it cheaper to download Android updates and ...
The Chief Executive Officer of Horseman Shoes, Tonyi Senayah has donated sandals to some students in Navrongo in the Upper East region. He also went to Paga to visit the women working with the NGO, Beads of Hope. Beads of Hope is an enterprise set up to economically empower old unemployed women, widows, teenage mothers ...
Giving young people Botox treatment may restrict their emotional growth, experts warn. Writing in the Journal of Aesthetic Nursing, clinicians say there is a growing trend for under-25s to seek the wrinkle-smoothing injections. But the research suggests “frozen faces” could stop young people from learning how to express emotions fully. A leading body of UK ...
Pilots for Air France have begun a week-long strike. The carrier will run less than 50% of normal flights, it said. The pilots are protesting against a transfer of jobs by the airline to a low-cost carrier to keep up with competition. Air France is urging passengers around the world to change or postpone travel. Last ...
A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Richard Anane has blamed the two-time presidential candidate of the party, Nana Akufo-Addo for the friction between him and ex-President John Kufuor. He alleged that Nana Addo and his campaign team in 1998 approached party elders including the late Bernard Da Rocha and the then party ...
Disgruntled youth in the Sefwi Bodi District of the Western Region have given President John Dramani Mahama a three-day ultimatum to sack the DCE for the area or face their wrath. According to them, the DCE, Solomon Fuachie has been engaging in certain corrupt practices which has affected the development of the district. They accused ...
In news that is liable to break your brain with shock, I now present you some recent research about sex. Are you ready to have your world thrown into a tizzy from which the likelihood of recovery is days away? A new study has found that those who have a television in their room get twice the action ...
In a country with a population as large as China’s (over 1.3 billion), unique solutions are sometimes needed for pedestrian management. With the practice of texting while walking becoming increasingly common, the city of Chongqing recently came up with an idea that may seem ridiculous at first, but could catch on: separate cell phone lanes for pedestrians. ...
Whether hip-life artiste Theophilus Tagoe, popularly known as Castro, is dead or alive will be put to rest by the police at a press conference today (Monday). Castro disappeared mysteriously with a lady friend, Janet Bandu, about three months ago during a jet-ski ride at Aqua Safari, a beach resort at Ada in the Greater ...
Do you have a file on your computer that you want to obliterate? Well, it’s going to take a lot more than dragging and dropping it into the little trash can at the corner of your desktop. Your computer’s trash bin only removes a file from your desktop. And even if you empty the trash ...
A Non-Governmental Organisation Young Educator Forum (YEF) is calling on media houses to include more literacy and educational programmes in their media. The NGO insists that the educational role of the media is being under utilized hence the need to step up their efforts to augment efforts of educational insitutions. The Country Director of the ...
A Chinese multi-purpose bus manufacturing company has expressed interest in building a $100 million automobile plant in Ghana. Officials of the Hubei Dali Bus Company Limited announced this at a meeting with the Ghanaian delegation led by Deputy Minister of Trade, Mr Murtala Mohammed, on the sidelines of the 18th China International Fair for Investment and ...
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has begun its nationwide constituency elections in the Tamale South constituency in the Northern Region. As the maiden constituency election, the CPP’s Tamale South constituency electoral college by popular acclamation confirmed unopposed all those who contested the various positions. The Sagnarigu District Electoral Commission Officer, Fadilatu Mahama supervised the exercise. ...
The Ministry of Education has denied reports that it has postponed the re-opening date for Senior High Schools and Basic Schools. Reports on social media suggested that the Minister gave the directive to facilitate the dismissal of some pupil teachers who have failed to upgrade themselves. The ministry condemned the practice of spreading false messages ...
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