Accra Hearts of Oak attacking midfield gem Salifu Ibrahim says he needs to put in more hard work to propel the team in its quest to win honours this season.

Zambia’s founding father and former president Kenneth Kaunda has been admitted to hospital, his office said Monday. In a terse statement, it said Kaunda, 97, “has been unwell and was admitted to… Maina Soko Medical Centre,” a military hospital in the capital Lusaka. It gave no further details. Kaunda ruled Zambia for 27 years, taking …

The head of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has urged members to respond to China’s rise at a summit designed to shore up US support for the Western alliance. The summit is expected to issue a statement describing China’s behaviour as a “systemic challenge” after the meeting in Belgium. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the meeting …

Ziona Chana, the head of a religious sect that practised polygamy, died on Sunday, leaving behind 38 wives, 89 children and 36 grandchildren. The news was confirmed by Mizoram’s chief minister, Zoramthanga, who offered his condolences on Twitter “with a heavy heart”. Chana reportedly suffered from diabetes and hypertension. Doctors told PTI news agency that …

A Deputy Minister of Health-designate, Mahama Asei Seini, says government will focus on promoting preventive health service to reduce the disease burden in the country. Among other things, he said, exercises and dieting, which were natural ways of wellbeing would be promoted through policies and programmes. Mr Seini explained that the Ministry of Health would …

ProofedThe whole world marked World Blood Donor Day yesterday, June 14. The World Health Organisation (WHO) initiated and declared this day on June 14, 2004 using the birthday anniversary of Karl Landsteiner. Landsteiner, born June 14, 1868, in Vienna, Austria and died June 26, 1943 in New York, was an immunologist and pathologist who discovered …

A DAF articulated truck carrying two 20-foot containers of engine oil on Friday night crashed onto guardrails on the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange flyover, in Accra. The vehicle with registration number GT 8337 X   was coming from Tema enroute to the Kasoa, in the Central Region, and at the old Obra Spot while climbing the flyover, …

The Accra High Court yesterday adjourned to June 21, the case in which the Ghana Police Service is seeking to stop the planned #FixTheCountry protest, in Accra. The Supreme Court, earlier last week, quashed an order of the High Court barring the protest, but there was another motion against the protest, pending at the High …

Gunmen yesterday killed a policeman and woman, injured two others, after they attacked a bullion van at Adedenpo, near James Town, Accra, in a daylight robbery. The robbers reportedly four in number on three motorcycles were said to have broken the padlock on the van with registration GT 8592 W, shot dead the armed policeman …

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has resumed normal administrative and academic activities as the University’s Chapter of the Senior Staff Association called off its strike on Monday, June 14.

Belgian midfielder Francis Amuzu shared photos of himself in his native country, Ghana holidaying.

Member of Parliament for the Builsa South constituency, Clement Apaak, has expressed his surprise at how some political actors vigorously engaged in the Green Ghana Project, and yet these persons have not had the courage to speak against illegal logging of Rosewood in the country.

The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, Felix Mensah Nii Anang-La, has praised President Akufo-Addo over the launch of a National Security strategy for the country.

Executive Member of the Tema East branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr.

Police in the Ashanti Region have commenced investigations into the killing of one Benedicta Pokua Sarpong in Kumasi.

Police in the Ashanti Region have commenced investigations into the killing of one Benedicta Pokua Sarpong in Kumasi.

Tullow Oil, the largest shareholder in and operator of Ghana’s two oldest oilfields – the Jubilee and Tweneboa, Eyenra, Ntomme (TEN) oilfields respectively – along with its partners, have commenced a 10 year investment programme that will see them put some US$4 billion into the expansion and upgrade of the two fields.

Stakeholders at a roundtable on the need for Ghana to consider non-custodial sentences in cases of a misdemeanour have called on Parliament to pass the Community Service Bill (non-custodial law) to help decongest the prisons and make them more effective.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Public Sector Reforms Secretariat, Thomas Kusi-Boafo has called on government to prioritize the welfare of children in order to end child labour in the country.

Deputy Minister-designate for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon.