The accident truck in the drain Two Persons met their untimely death, whilst two others sustained various degrees of injury in separate accidents which occurred in Tema, in the Greater Accra Region. The first victim who was not immediately identified but believed to be in his late thirties, died on the spot after he was […]
Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman, Minister for Education, taking Council Members through their oath of office The Minister of Education, Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has inaugurated a newly constituted Governing Council for the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA). The swearing-in ceremony of the new council was held on the campus of the University. The 15-member council is […]
Mariam Sinare An aspiring National Women’s Organiser of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mariam Sinare, says the people of Ghana should blame God for the current energy crisis and not President John Mahama. She said it was unfair for Ghanaians to continue blaming the President when they knew it was God who was supposed […]
As the New Patriotic Party (NPP) frantically gets ready for the final phase of the presidential primary on 18th October for an estimated cost of over 30 billion old Ghana cedis, one just has to ask: ‘what is the point?’ The party held the first phase of its primary on 31st August.  Seven contenders filed […]
SAN FRANCISCO – A newly-discovered computer security flaw with the alliterative name “the bash bug” leaves a potential security hole in many widely-used operating systems. The bug makes use of a program called a “bash” used in Apple Macintosh, Linux and other operating systems. Most importantly, it is used in the software of the Apache […]
HIGH Court 2 in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, presided over by Jacob Boon, has granted Nii Okaija III’s application to be part of the Gbese Mantse chieftaincy matter, which is currently before the court. The presiding judge ordered that Nii Okaija III was eligible to be an interested party in a case where Nii […]
Group picture of Mayors across the world 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 […]
Hundreds of residents from about five municipalities and districts in the Central Region would have no light for some time due to a fire outbreak on Saturday which gutted a GLICO substation at Winneba junction, destroying a big transformer that supplies electricity to those areas. The affected areas are Kasoa, Apam, Agona Swedru, Winneba, Gomoa […]
The government’s own watchdogs tried to hack into HealthCare.gov earlier this year and found what they termed a critical vulnerability — but also came away with respect for some of the health insurance site’s security features. Those are among the conclusions of a report released Tuesday by the Health and Human Services Department inspector general, […]
Kojo Adu Asare The Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) Fund, Kojo Adu Asare has been removed two months after his appointment. The YES fund is a Government of Ghana programme initiated by President John Dramani Mahama with a ten million Ghana cedis (GH¢10,000,000) seed fund to assist young Ghanaians with creative […]
The people of both Nkoranza North and South in the Brong-Ahafo Region last Saturday thronged the Nkoranza township to give embattled former Member of Parliament (MP) Eric Amoateng a rousing welcome. The former MP for Nkoranza North expressed gratitude to the chiefs and people of Nkoranza for the massive support they had given him when he was incarcerated. […]
After spending the past two years in damage control mode over Windows 8, Microsoft will officially begin a new era for its OS on Tuesday, when it’s expected to unveil a preview of Windows’ next major version during an event focused on enterprise customers. After the success of Windows 7, Microsoft misread the market with […]
Last Wednesday marked the sixth anniversary of your journey from this wicked world to Samanfoland. Many of your compatriots may have forgotten about you, but some of us remember you very fondly. I’ve therefore decided to use the sixth anniversary of your departure to communicate with you. Pardon me for not communicating with you earlier. […]
The website has only been available to the public for a little over a month, but it’s already gaining attention among tech elite. Have you ever wanted Facebook to get rid of all those ads? Paul Budnitz went out and did something about it. Budnitz founded Ello, a social network that launched about six weeks […]
Meet the Nixie, a prototype wearable quadcopter drone equipped with a camera that you can use to capture the ultimate selfies. The Nixie, brainchild of Stanford postdoctoral researcher Christoph Kohstall, is an attempt to make the world’s first flyable and wrist-wearable camera. The Nixie is for those moments in life when you really want a […]
Senyo Hosi The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors, Senyo Hosi has stated that Ghana is well placed to export petroleum products to other countries in the sub-region. According to him, Ghana can only achieve the feat if politicians allow the private sector to take over the petroleum industry. Mr. […]
Dr. Henry Wampah,  Governor BoG The Bank of Ghana (BOG) is collaborating with security agencies to locate and eliminate unregistered micro-finance agencies operating in the country. Desmond Agbobah of the BOG Financial Institutions Supervision Department gave the hint at a colloquium of tertiary students in Ho as part of the 2014 National Financial Literacy Week celebration. […]
Dr. Tweneboah Senzu Bastiat Society of Ghana, an economic think tank, has rebranded to Bastiat Ghana in line with its mission to empower small-scale enterprises in Ghana and Africa as a whole. Dr Tweneboah Senzu, Managing Director of Bastiat Ghana, who announced this in a statement issued in Accra, said the Council and Fellowship members […]
Some pilgrims and their relatives at the Hajj Village. The airlifting of Ghanaian pilgrims to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for this year’s hajj rituals ended last Saturday. At about 4pm on the last day, 200 pilgrims were airlifted by Nas Air, a Saudi airline. The Chairman of the Pilgrims Affairs Office, Ghana, Alhaji Abdul Rauf Ibrahim Tanko […]
Alistair Mathias Two Ghanaians, who stood sureties for Alistair Jude Mathias, a Canadian businessman before he was granted bail by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, have been ordered by an Accra Circuit Court to produce him on October 15, 2014. Readers will recall that in the Monday, September 15, 2014 […]
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