It can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu, so imagine how 22-year-old Fatu Kekula felt nursing her entire family through Ebola. Her father. Her mother. Her sister. Her cousin. Fatu took care of them all, single-handedly feeding them, cleaning them and giving them medications. And she did so with ...
The film industry in India’s Tamil Nadu state is on a day-long fast to protest against the jailing of former chief minister Jayaram Jayalalitha. Jayalalitha has been jailed for four years for corruption and is in a Bangalore prison. She has challenged her conviction and applied for bail. The Bangalore high court will hear her ...
The film industry in India’s Tamil Nadu state is on a day-long fast to protest against the jailing of former chief minister Jayaram Jayalalitha. Jayalalitha has been jailed for four years for corruption and is in a Bangalore prison. She has challenged her conviction and applied for bail. The Bangalore high court will hear her ...
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Northern Regional internal election is getting heated. Six persons including the incumbent Chief Sofo Azorka are competing for the regional Chairmanship position. The other five seeking to unseat Chief Sofo Azorka are Ibrahim Alhassan Boham (a contractor), Abu Iddrisu Kpenaa (a chief), Alhaji Ibrahim Alhassan Libron (a contractor), Alhaji ...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo will today formally enrol as a graduate student at the headquarters of the National Open University of Nigeria in Lagos. He is returning to the classroom for a higher degree in Christian Theology. Having obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in 2009, the Owu-born high chief will now be working towards a ...
Fishermen at the Tema Fishing Harbour are appealing to government to increase the premix fuel it allocates to them weekly. According to them the appeal, has become necessary because of the influx of fishermen from other fishing communities to the area. Tema Awudum chief fisherman, Nii Odamettey, tells Citi Business News the four times a week allocation ...
Fishermen at the Tema Fishing Harbour are appealing to government to increase the premix fuel it allocates to them weekly. According to them the appeal, has become necessary because of the influx of fishermen from other fishing communities to the area. Tema Awudum chief fisherman, Nii Odamettey, tells Citi Business News the four times a week allocation ...
Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwah has stated that the advent of social media is negatively affecting the writing and speaking of English language among students in the country, especially those in the Senior High School (SHS) level. According to Mr. Ablakwah, even though social media has been very ...
Government is to soon begin rolling out a directive that will make it compulsory for occupants of state properties to undertake and pay for maintenance work on such facilities. Minister of Works and Housing Alhaji Collins Dauda made the announcement when he inspected the housing project for the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) in Sakumono. ...
Despite government’s free distribution of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders and stoves to eliminate the practice of burning wood for charcoal in Northern Ghana, the trade has not stopped. The practice has escalated especially along the Tamale-Yendi road. The demand of charcoal and firewood has increased because of the high cost of refilling LPG cylinders. ...
At least 3,700 children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone who have lost one or both parents to Ebola this year face being shunned, the UN has said. Carers were urgently needed for these orphans, Unicef said. A basic human reaction like comforting a sick child has been turned “into a potential death sentence”, it ...
Kenya’s economy overtook those of Ghana and Tunisia after the statistics agency overhauled its data to increase the size of gross domestic product by a quarter. GDP was measured at $55.2 billion last year from $44.1 billion previously, Zachary Mwangi, acting director-general of the statistics agency, told reporters in the capital, Nairobi. That compares with ...
It will be more difficult from now till the end of the year to secure loans from banks in Ghana. This is according to a report from Ecobank research on the banking industry in Ghana. Amid increasing interest rates on loans, the report indicates banks’ appetite for lending will weaken in the last quarter of ...
Former Constituency chair of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), David Hoezame, has been ordered by an Accra Fast Track High Court to use the grievance channels within the party to resolve issues for which he dragged the party to court. Mr. Hoezame was challenging the status of the party’s national council. In his suit, he ...
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has opened registration for private candidates for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE.) The move will allow BECE candidates, who could not pass their exams the first time around, have another go at the exams to get into Senior High School. The registration process, which will be done online ...
The presidency has finally received a petition filed by Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam Adoagyiri, Annoh Dombreh, seeking to impeach the Commissioner for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Lauretta Lamptey. Frank Annoh-Dompreh petitioned President John Mahama  over Ms. Lamptey’s decision to spend about $180,000 on rent alone with a space ...
The government exceeded its borrowing limit at the Bank of Ghana (BoG) by about 170% in 2012. This was contained in the Auditor-general’s report for 2012. The AG’s report is a comprehensive audit report on the public accounts of public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions in Ghana. According to the report, government and the central ...
Residents of Asaba, Delta State are yet to recover from the shock of how a 19-year-old Godwin (not real name) allegedly impregnated his mother while testing his love charm. According to report, the boy, famously known as Ekenem, was said to have gone to a native doctor, who allegedly prepared a love charm for him ...
1. He’s really hoping you’ll make a move first. He might like you a lot, but he’s too shy, introverted, or scared to say anything. Maybe he doesn’t know how. It’s possible (don’t laugh) that he’s never asked a girl out. Every time you spend time together, he’s crossing his fingers hoping you’ll just grab him ...
Three men said to be ‘goro boys’ operating around the Weija office of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with forgery of documents and possession of forged documents. They are Samuel Afari, Isaac Mensah, both insurance agents, and Daniel Boateng, a dismissed driver of the DVLA. ...
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