The final trailer for the hotly-anticipated “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” dropped Thursday, giving fans more insight into the beginnings of the saga’s rebel alliance two months ahead of the movie’s release. The first standalone “Star Wars” story, “Rogue One” is set just before “A New Hope” — the original film in the blockbuster ...
Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed’s candidature for the position of the African Union (AU) Commission Chair has been received positively by African leaders. President Uhuru Kenyatta separately held bilateral talks with eight Heads of State and Government to drum up support for Amina and the leaders indicated their receptiveness to Kenya’s candidature for ...
Violent political clashes have erupted at Ga, a community in the Wa West district of the Upper West region among supporters of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). The clashes started on Saturday over a press conference that was to be addressed by the suspended constituency chairman of the area, Alhaji Seidu Abdullai popularly ...
Community and opinion leaders in the Greater Accra Region have resolved to end child marriage in their respective communities. They resolved to work hard to end the practice which is depriving the girl child of education and plunging her into immeasurable abuse and suffering. The stakeholders made these resolutions at a meeting organized by Action ...
Supporters of the All People’s Congress (APC) in Ashaiman failed to turn up in their numbers during the party’s constituency campaign launch in the area. The programme which was billed to start at 10:00am dragged on till 5:00pm. As at 4 pm, the platform was still under construction and the supporters were no where near ...
Angry Haitians looted aid trucks as the UN secretary general visited parts of the country hit by Hurricane Matthew, which killed 900 people. Ban Ki-moon said he witnessed a looting incident in Les Cayes, where he promised more aid to Haiti. He also urged countries to donate more. Officials say more than 1.4 million people ...
Apple is on a research & development spree! The company has announced a bunch of new R&D centers over the past few months, and R&D spendings have skyrocketed. This time, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company plans to open a new center in Japan during a visit in Tokyo, according to Xinhua. This ...
Turkish-backed rebels have captured the symbolically important Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group, rebel commanders and monitors say. The rebels took Dabiq after “IS members withdrew”, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The small northern town holds great value for IS because of a prophecy of an apocalyptic battle, and ...
Persons seeking to adopt children in Ghana will soon be required resort to the High Courts for clearance. This is because the Children’s Amendment Bill currently before Parliament makes the clearance mandatory. The Bill, which aims to protect adopted children both home and abroad, spells out conditions under which the adoption process can be reversed. The ...
Awake Purified Drinking Water, a product of Kasapreko Company Limited (KCL) has made another donation of GHc70,000 to the National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle Bu, exceeding its annual donation package of Ghc100,000 for the year 2016. The company has this year made a total cash donation of GHc120,000 to the Cardio Centre to support economically disadvantage ...
Northern Region’s premier second cycle institution called Tamale Senior High School (Tamasco) has celebrated its 65th Anniversary without receiving feeding grants from government. According to the headmaster, Shaibu Adams Wilberforce, Tamasco is among second cycle institutions in the three regions of the north yet to receive feeding grant for the past two academic terms. “Feeding ...
The Black Maidens have arrived in Accra after exiting from the ongoing 2016 FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament, being held in Jordan. The Ghana U17 female side suffered a 2-1 defeat to Korea DPR in the quarter final stage after the Asian side scored a 94th minute goal. The Ghanaian delegation left Jordan on Friday ...
Ghana’s Andre Ayew has been named in the CAF’s initial 30-man shortlist for the CAF Player of the Year Award. The Black Stars player has enjoyed life in English football with a great debut season leading to a record move to West Ham. Ayew has also been key for the Black Stars in their qualifiers ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has accused rival Hillary Clinton of being “pumped up” during their last debate, saying they should both be tested for drugs before the next one. He also suggested the presidential race was looking like a “rigged election”. The comments came in the wake of the publication of a recording in ...
The Chairman of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Constituency of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Joseph Bernard Eshun, has said that the disqualification of the party’s flagbearer from contesting in the upcoming presidential elections is affecting their parliamentary candidates. According to him, some electorates have the impression that all parliamentary aspirants of the PPP were also disqualified. ...
The Chairman of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Constituency of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Joseph Bernard Eshun, has said that the disqualification of the party’s flagbearer from contesting in the upcoming presidential elections is affecting their parliamentary candidates. According to him, some electorates have the impression that all parliamentary aspirants of the PPP were also disqualified. ...
A 48- year farmer, who allegedly shot his girlfriend for denying him sex, has appeared before the Prestea District Magistrate court. The accused, Kwame Anane, reportedly shot his 46- year-old lover Agyeiwaa Nkrumah, in her left thigh at Abotereye, near Bogoso in the Prestea Huni/Valley district. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempted ...
Online transport technology company, Taxify, has begun operations in Accra, Ghana. The Taxify app will allow customers to use their smartphones to request trips from the nearest Taxify driver, who will use GPS to locate the customer, then take the customer to an agreed destination. With competitive rates and reliability, Taxify is set to be ...
President John Dramani Mahama has urged students of the University of Ghana to vote massively for him in the upcoming elections. According to him, he has made remarkable progess in transforming Ghana’s economy for the better since he assumed office. Speaking to students of the University of Ghana on Thursday, as part of his Greater Accra ...
With barely two months to the December 7 polls, the Catholic Bishops Conference has unequivocally condemned reports of votes buying by some politicians. The highest decision making body of the Roman Catholic Church considers vote buying as an insult to the integrity of the Ghanaian electorate. The two main political parties, the governing National Democratic ...
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