The Ghana Police Service has yet again rung changes to its management board (POMAB) and some regional commands. Director General of Research and Planning COP Nathan Kofi Boakye has been moved to head Legal and Prosecutions. In his place comes the Central Regional Commander, DCOP Paul Manly Awini, who will have Transformation in addition to […]

Leeds United have been promoted to the Premier League after 16 years away. Their place in the top flight for next season was confirmed by West Brom’s 2-1 defeat at Huddersfield Town on Friday. Leeds will now be crowned champions if Brentford do not beat Stoke on Saturday or the Whites then take a point […]

The University of Ghana, Legon has announced that it will hold a maiden virtual congregation on Thursday, July 30. The ceremony will be for final year undergraduate students of the School of Law and students who took supplementary examinations at the University of Ghana Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. A notice issued and signed by […]

Commodity Monitor, a commodity trading, logistics, and research company based in Accra, has rolled out the first-ever successful mercury-free mining equipment that efficiently recover more gold for artisanal and small-scale miners in Ghana without using any chemical like mercury. In a demonstration organized in June this year in the Prestea-Huni Valley District of the Western […]

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has denied issuing a voter identification card to an Asian male. This follows the circulation on social media of a new voter ID card with a photo of an Asian male. According to the EC, the card with an ID No: 2809012504 which was originally commissioned to Nana Kweku Okai […]

Two registration officials of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) in the North East Gonja District have been arrested by police in Tamale for allegedly smuggling a registration kit from the Savannah region to Viting in Tamale to register people. The machine was detailed to be at the Tantulani Registration Center in the North East Gonja […]

A final year student of Samoo SHS in Cape Coast is in the grips of the Kotokuraba Police for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death. The incident happened at Ekon, a suburb of Cape Coast. The 25-year-old student, whose name has only been given as Enoch, appeared before a Cape Coast District Court on Friday, […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s decision to ask the Auditor-General to proceed on his accumulated leave remains unchanged despite a petition by some citizens, the Presidency has said. In a letter dated July 13, 2020 and signed by Secretary to the President Nana Asante Bediatuo, the Presidency said the arguments of the petitioners were part […]

Final year students of the Kpandai Senior High School who fled campus after a misunderstanding with their teachers are returning to the school. Security personnel deployed to the school have also been withdrawn. On Wednesday, July 15, a misunderstanding ensued between the students and their teachers over an alleged use of mobile phone by a […]

Staff of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) are protesting a directive by the Minister of Communications to have channels of their employer on the national digital terrestrial television (DTT) network reduced from six to three. The directive given in a letter dated June 26, 2020 has stirred controversy with the Minority describing Ursula Owusu-Ekuful as […]

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced that the 2020/21 league season will start in the second week of October should the government approve it. In a statement, the GFA said it will “continue to work with Government, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the National Sports Authority, the Ghana Health Service, the GFA Medical […]

Medical negligence may seem difficult to prove owing to the protection health professionals get by legislation. While some surgeries end up with permanent disability, others result in fatalities. But how can a lay person prove medical negligence? Medical negligence is said to occur when a medical professional fails to provide acceptable standard of care, causing […]

The bodies of the two police officers suspected to have drowned while chasing some armed robbers in Krobo, a suburb of Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, have been retrieved. The police announced on Friday, July 17 that the bodies were retrieved from the Oda River. The officers – Lance Corporals Stephen Kyeremeh and Amedius Akwesi […]

The association between self-reported ill health and a poor work-life balance was slightly more pronounced among women than men Those who struggle to achieve a balance between their professional and personal lives are twice as likely to report physical ill health, according to a new study published in the journal BMC Public Health. Data on more […]

To lay bare the scale of challenges small businesses are facing in the Covid-19 pandemic, and to understand their ongoing challenges and areas for further support, Facebook published the Global State of Small Business Report. Compiled in partnership with the World Bank and the OECD, it surveyed over 30,000 small business owners and employees from […]

After producing Abedi Pele, one of Africa’s most prominent players, the Tamale Kaladan Park in the Northern Region quickly became one of the most iconic football grounds in Ghana. But what has the story of this taled grounds been? This has been a real football ground in Ghana. Before the construction of the Aliu Mahama […]

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency Samuel Nartey George has urged Ghanaians to disregard reports making rounds that the International Criminal Police Organisation, INTERPOL, has issued an arrest warrant for Samuel Adam Foster, also known as Samuel Adam Mahama. “The Interpol has not issued any warrant for Adam Mahama,” he strongly […]

The quest for a new voters’ register has been one of the biggest controversies in the run-up to Ghana’s 2020 general elections. Origin of controversy The idea for a new voters’ register pre-dates the 2020 election cycle. The then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) first made the claim that the register that was used for […]

Brazil has now tallied more than two million confirmed virus cases. It was less than a month ago that Brazil reached one million cases – and there is little sign that the rate of increase is slowing. Brazil, which is home to around 210 million people, is the second worst affected country behind the US. […]

Professor Ransford Gyampo of the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, has argued that Ghana’s quest to tackle Covid-19 must first begin with a sophisticated awareness of the caliber of people who constitute the population of the nation. He noted that one of the several distinguishing features of developing countries all over the world […]