Residents of Winneba and its surroundings towns in the Central region have had their electricity restored. They are however expected to undergo a temporary load shedding exercise until all burnt down equipment at the GRIDCO substation are repaired. Areas with no power supply now include Apam and Ajumako. They have been without electricity for almost ...
The Police in Ho in the Volta Region have intensified security following a violent protest by the youth in the region. The protest was against  the arrival of the supposed new paramount chief of Aflao Traditional Area, Togbui Afla The Police warned the Torgbui Detu against entering the town after security intelligence revealed his actions could ...
A Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Alex Kyeremeh has disclosed that the Ministry has implemented a system where public school teachers will be paid according to the number of days they show up to teach. According to him, the move is geared towards reducing the rate of teacher absenteeism in the various schools within the ...
Last week, I found myself attending the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana’s press conference together with some colleague media men. Well, it was my first time so I was particularly attentive in order not to miss any relevant information from the Governor, Dr. Kofi Wampah. After spending what seemed to be an ...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Enterprise Support(YES) Fund, Kojo Adu Asare has been relieved of his post. It is unclear whether Mr. Adu Asare’s sacking is related to his role as head of the one of the Committees that executed the plan for Ghana’s participation at the 2014 World Cup. Ghana’s appearance at ...
e-TV Ghana is set to excite its viewers with a new line-up starting this October. The line-up includes new programs like Y-TV, Star Talk and Wats-Up TV. Existing programs such as the “The late Night Celebrity Show†will now have two new faces, Giovanni Caleb and Vanessa Gyan and “Awake†has new segments introduced to ...
Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has disclosed that from 2015, the full implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) will begin. Since the implementation of the pay policy in 2010, Ghana has seen a number of labour agitations with some workers claiming the policy was causing distortions and variation in their salaries. The Finance Minister ...
Outspoken Northern Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu has taken a swipe at some Members of Parliament in the region, describing them as “errand boysâ€Â. He claimed majority of MPs in the Northern Region who have been in the House for ages, still lack the parliamentary antics to lobby ...
Wayne Rooney believes he can still improve as a footballer and that his best years are yet to come. Speaking to The Sunday Times  to mark 10 years at Old Trafford, the 28-year-old said he “reads the game” better than ever. In an interview before Saturday’s sending off against West Ham, the Manchester United and England captain said he ...
Residents of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are feeling safer and more optimistic than they were a year ago, according to a new survey. The Heritage Institute of Policy Studies, which analysed data collected from more than 1,600 residents, said people reported a decline in violence. However, serious concerns remain, such as attacks by Islamist group ...
A “poisonous combination†of record debt and slowing growth suggest the global economy could be heading for another crisis, a hard-hitting report will warn on Monday. The 16th annual Geneva Report, commissioned by the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies and written by a panel of senior economists including three former senior central bankers, ...
The mayor of Accra, Dr. Alfred Oko Vanderpuije has been presented with the gavel of the president of mayors. This makes him the first president of the World Alliance of Mayors and leaders of Africa and of African descent. He was elected during the Second Meeting of the Global Alliance, held from 19th to 21stSeptember ...
President John Drmani Mahama has said Ghana is the most peaceful and stable country in the West African Country suitable for undertaking fruitful business ventures and investment.  ”Ghana is not affected by any security threat, or disease that can deter investment, although we are surrounded by others that are facing some challenges in the sub-region,” ...
A Cape Coast High Court has placed an interlocutory injunction on the demolition of the Kotokuraba Market scheduled for Wednesday October 1. The demolition was to pave way for the construction of the much awaited ultra-modern market, one of the two most important projects, dear to the hearts of Cape Coasters, initiated by the late ...
Lawyer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Victor Adawudu, has expressed optimism of settling the lawsuit brought against the party by a member in the Ashanti region out of court. A former president of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC at the Akrokerri School of Education, Linus Njonola, has secured a court injunction ...
Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford says the cedi has not appreciated in value against other major foreign trading currencies as it is being reported. The Cedi from the beginning of the year depreciated against major trading currencies by about 40% which adversely affected cost of living and trading activities in the country. But within the past ...
An advance team of the newly established UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) will arrive in Accra on Monday, September 29, 2014. The team would be led by the UN Secretary-General Special Representative and Head of UNMEER, Anthony Banbury. A press conference is scheduled to take place at 13:30hrs (1:30 p.m local time) at ...
President Barack Obama has acknowledged that US agencies underestimated the threat posed by the Islamist insurgency in Syria. In a frank TV interview, he said that al-Qaeda had been beaten in Iraq by US forces working with Sunni tribes. But they took advantage of the power vacuum in neighbouring Syria to emerge as Isis, later ...
A little over a week after Apple delayed the launch of its much-buzzed HealthKit platform due to a bug, the first batch of HealthKit-enabled app are now available. FitPort ($1.99)  which monitors health information and tracks steps taken, calories burned and other data is among the first HealthKit-compatible apps listed in the Apple App Store, as ...
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