Hollywood star Angelina Jolie says she’s had a “difficult” time since splitting from Brad Pitt last year. She told the Telegraph: “It’s been difficult. I don’t enjoy being single. It’s not something I wanted. There’s nothing nice about it. It’s just hard.” In another interview with Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, she said she had spent much ...

The Living Faith World Outreach Centre (LFWOC) also known as Winners Chapel International, has expressed concerns over a ruling by an Accra High Court pertaining to a dispute between them and Winners Chapel Ghana, headed by Bishop George Adjeman. According to Winners Chapel International,  (WCI) the court failed to resolve all the issues under contention ...

Government says it is working to overcome the Internet-based challenges that have plagued the Computerized School Selection Placement Secretariat (CSSPS), and frustrated Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) graduates trying to beat the deadline for placement. Addressing the press on Monday, a Deputy Minister of Education in charge of pre-Tertiary Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, said ...

A team without a Soul The ghosts of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil threaten to hunt this Black Stars team and every member who was a part of the contingent till they finally fade from the scene.I am not even attempting to be superstitious but Ghana’s 1-1 draw against Congo opened my eye to ...

Black Stars winger Christian Atsu has revealed that he and his team are very ready to give off their best in Brazzaville on Tuesday when they face Congo. After the first encounter ended in a 1-1 draw last Friday, fans of the team have criticised the team’s performance and observers have ruled the team out ...

Come October 28, 2017, one of Ghana’s most hilarious Playwright, Nii Commey, will once again take the National Theatre by storm with his latest and stage play ‘Skirts and Suits’, under the flagship ground-breaking theatre series Where Two or More Women Are Gathered, by Laugh for Lives Africa. The average theatre lover is fully aware ...

The Black Stars will not have the services of forward Jordan Ayew in Brazzaville on Tuesday due to an upset tummy. The news was confirmed by GFA spokesperson, Ibrahim Saane Daara, on Monday after the team’s final training session in Ghana at the Accra Sports Stadium. Jordan Ayew played in the 1-1 draw in Kumasi ...

Government has defended a directive given to some Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who could not be posted to Senior High Schools across the country to reapply within 48-hours. The Deputy Minister of State in charge of pre-Tertiary Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, while addressing the press on Monday, explained that, the directive will ...

A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in charge of Annual Crops, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, believes that the swift recovery of farms infested by the fall armyworms across the country is a clear indication that the government has conquered the invasion of the fall armyworm. According to him, though some farms are still being affected ...

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has started a process to verify the academic qualifications of 2,465 of its workers. This exercise forms part of moves by the trust to cleanse its system of employees with possible fake qualifications. SSNIT’s Director-General, Dr. John Ofori-Tenkorang indicated that a directive in this regard was issued ...

With the onset of the Free Senior High School policy just a couple of weeks away, the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has assured that government will provide all logistics needed for the smooth take-off of the policy to schools before they reopen. Speaking at a meeting with District Directors of Education in the ...

The Member of Parliament for Tema West, Carlos Ahenkorah lost his cool last week when he unleashed anger on the Tema Metropolitan Assembly Works Engineer who was supervising the demolition of unauthorized structures erected on the edges of the road. The unauthorized structures, according to the Engineer, Maxwell Adu Boateng were creating nuisances along the ...

President Akufo-Addo recently returned from a 3-day official visit to Equatorial Guinea. The visit according to official government communication was to “deepen the cordial bilateral relations between the two countries and explore possible areas of cooperation.” Akufo-Addo, while in the Central African country signed a government-to-government Heads of State Agreement with Equatorial Guinean government for the ...

For the first time in the history of Africa, the Kenyan Supreme Court, made all students and activists of free, transparent and fair elections in the emerging democracies in Africa proud by having the faith of their conviction to declare the Presidential election held in that country null and void. The Supreme Court cited irregularities ...

The President has appointed Mr. Justice Yaw Ofori, as the Commissioner of the National Insurance Commission (NIC). He takes over from Lydia Lariba Bawa. Mr. Ofori, until his appointment was the Director of the Ghana Insurance College. He holds an International Executive MBA and a B.A. Honours from the University of Ghana (Political Science Major) ...

The leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey, is the latest to add his voice to calls on the government to revive the inactive Komenda Sugar Factory. The GCPP 2016 flag bearer, who is also an exporter of food crops and other products, has had to abandon his 100,000-acre sugarcane ...

China is streets ahead when it comes to digital payments. The latest leap is facial recognition technology that allows a customer to pay by literally flashing a smile. Alibaba’s Ant Financial affiliate launched the ‘smile to pay’ service in Huangzhou, the location of the company’s global HQ, where it is being trialled with KFC. As ...

South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted having an extra-marital affair, but denied reports of multiple affairs. Speaking after allegations about his private life were published in newspapers, he accused political opponents of trying to smear him. Mr Ramaphosa is planning to contest the leadership of the governing African National Congress (ANC). President Jacob ...

Black Stars captains Asamoah Gyan and Andre Ayew will have to cheer their team mates from the touchlines in Brazzaville after it emerged that they had picked up injuries ruling them out of the match. The two players were taken off in the 1-1 draw in Kumasi in the second half and it has now ...

The government says it is investigating the sale of outboard motors to fishermen across the country by the Mahama administration. According to officials, evidence shows that the country lost a substantial amount of money from the sale, hence the need for a probe. It has also emerged that most fisher folks who purchased the outboard ...