One person is reported dead with many others injured after river Todze in the Agortime-Ziope District capital overflowed its banks in the Volta region on Thursday. A heavy downpour which started around 7 pm lasted for about seven hours and is believed to have caused the river to push through its banks and destroyed property ...

The youth of Aflao on Tuesday demonstrated against the Police, following the arrival of the supposed new paramount chief of Aflao Traditional Area, Togbui Afla. The youth said they were angry because the Police betrayed them by allowing the supposed paramount chief to enter the town, after assurances them that they [the Police] would not allow him ...

Former Black Stars coach, James Kwesi Appiah, has told the Justice Dzamefe Commission that government’s inconsistent promises to the players regarding the payment of the appearance fee is what led to the player agitations at the World Cup in Brazil. He stated that the players, at a point, were willing to let go off their ...

The Minority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has backed calls for the immediate resignation of the Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). According to him, Lauretta Vivian Lamptey ought to have known better given the remit of the commission that she presides over saying, “she should have exercised ...

The ongoing nationwide street naming exercise is progressing in the Northern Region as the Tolon District and Tamale Metropolitan Assemblies have successfully completed the exercise ahead of the deadline. This is in compliance with President John Mahama’s directive asking all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to name their streets for easy identification. In Tolon, some of ...

The Volta Regionional Police Command has invited a claimant in the Aflao chieftaincy dispute, Togbui Awunor Detu Afla for questioning over attempts to outdoor him as the new divisional chief of the area. It was reported on Wednesday that tension was building up in the area following reports of attempts to outdoor a new divisional ...

The Public Affairs Director of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Bertha Dzeble, has defended the decision by the Authority to embark on another mass registration exercise in order to issue new national identity cards to Ghanaians. She explained that most institutions depend on data from the Authority, hence the need to upgrade their system to ...

A globally renowned and celebrated American artist Richard Rapaport Jr. has called on Ghanaians to sustain the country’s peace as an attraction for investors. Richard Rapaport Jr made the call during a speech read on his behalf by the Founding President of Youth Icons Ghana, Nana Yaw Osei-Darkwa at the 1st New Multicultural Art Language ...

iWallet, the all-in-one money app that simplifies your transactions, purchases and more, was showcased to merchants and partners at the African Regent Hotel in Accra, during a breakfast meeting. This meeting brought together many of the key players in Ghana’s mushrooming eCommerce ecosystem to share the tangible impact of their success and share their visions ...

The President, John Mahama, has expressed shock at the level of isolation the three Ebola-stricken countries have been subjected to. He said he was astonished when he witnessed the deserted airports in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea during his visit last week. “In my travel to those three countries…I was shocked to find the airports ...

The Chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Samia Nkrumah has announced her willingness to step down to ensure merger talks between the CPP and the People’s National Convention (PNC) become a reality. According to her, this will send the right signals to the rank and file of both parties that she is ready to ...

French President Francois Hollande has strongly condemned the beheading in Algeria of tourist Herve Gourdel by a jihadist group linked to Islamic State (IS) militants. The president described the killing as a “cruel and cowardly” act. He said that French air strikes which began on IS targets in Iraq last week would continue. Jund al-Khilafa ...

- On Wednesday, Asamoah Gyan’s family held a clear-the-air press conference in Ghana’s capital to kill the bad press haunting their family ever since the Black Stars captain landed from Brazil. It has backfired spectacularly- both at home and abroad. At home Within hours of the presser, a popular Ghanaian lawyer, Maurice Ampaw, told Citi ...

Apple has apologised after an update to its mobile operating system left some owners of its new iPhones unable to make or receive calls. Users who had installed iOS 8.0.1 on the iPhone 6 models also complained it had caused problems for the handsets’ Touch ID fingerprint facility. The update had been released less than ...

The International Criminal Court has opened a formal probe into war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR). ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said there had been “endless” instances of rape, murder, forced displacement, persecution and pillaging since 2012. She said both sides had committed atrocities in what has become a religious conflict between mainly Muslim ...

Wiyaala is expected to drop her new single, “Africa” on  September, 29th, 2014. The song was debuted live at “A Night of 1018 Laughs” to a wildly enthusiastic crowd in a performance described by critics as “immense”, “awesome” and “the Angelique Kidjo of our time”. Following her knock-about antics in the hit songs, “Rock My ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has decided to undertake a fresh registration of all Ghanians under an “expanded registration project”. The decision by the governing board of the NIA comes six years after the authority began a mass registration exercise, completing it in seven regions and parts of the three northern regions; and card distribution ...

President John Mahama on Tuesday made a strong case for multinational companies to consciously add value and process Africa’s raw materials on the continent. Speaking during a panel discussion on ‘Employment & Decent Work for Inclusive Development’ organized by the International Labour Organization in New York, the President noted that processing Africa’s raw materials on ...

The Chief Executive of the Techiman North District Assembly in the Brong Ahafo Region, Anthony Kwaku Manu has disclosed that all streets captured in the street naming project in the district’s capital will be tarred. President John Dramani Mahama directed the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to carry out the street naming exercise within a ...

Blackberry has launched a distinctive handset featuring a square screen and a keyboard that offers both physical keys and touch-enabled gesture controls. It said work-focused users in particular should benefit from the Blackberry Passport’s innovations. Sales of the company’s handsets – which are powered by its own operating system – have been in decline. Analysts ...