I worry in utter dismay, why the 2008 and 2012 electoral defeats of the NPP is sorely and solely pinned on Nana Addo’s candidacy at the silly neglect of other obvious mitigating factors. It is out of sheer folly, that any reasonable being who is not on a psychoactive drug would expect a landslide victory ...

Poverty makes you fight over petty matters that have no consequence on the end result and future of your being. You fight over scraps that in reality are not worth the time, except for the loss in value of your place in a queue, the loss of a piece of petty real estate and the ...

Luis Suarez scored his 29th to  make Liverpool history as the title-chasing Reds went top of the Premier League table with a 4-0 win over Tottenham. Tim Sherwood’s visitors didn’t look anywhere near up for the prospect of exacting sweet revenge on their hosts for the 5-0 pounding they suffered in December at White Hart ...

Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford says Ghana is rapidly becoming an expensive nation to live in due to the economic hardships and the frequent increases in utility tariffs. “Ghana is becoming very, very, very expensive,” he lamented. According to him, a website he visited which compares the cost of living across countries and “if you go ...

Kotoko were lucky to get a draw after Richard Mpong saved them from certain defeat against Chelsea. The First Capital Plus Premier League match with Berekum Chelsea on Sunday came on the back of some poor showings by the league leaders. Kotoko had lost two straight games before kickoff, but the win slightly puts the ...

Ghana Premier League side Medeama have advanced to the next round of the CAF Confederations Cup. This was despite their 1-0 loss in Zambia on Sunday. Medeama have thus qualified for the next round, after beating Zesco United 2-0 in Ghana. The man of the match for the Tarkwa side was the goalkeeper, Muntari Tagoe. ...

Liverpool moved to the top of the Premier League as they humiliated a woeful Tottenham side at Anfield. The game was live on Citi FM as part of the weekend’s Premier League games. A second-minute Younes Kaboul own goal, following Glen Johnson’s low cross, put the Reds on course for an eighth successive league victory. ...

Everton recorded a fifth successive Premier League win to continue their push for a Champions League berth, dumping Fulham deeper into trouble. Substitute Steven Naismith’s shot deflected off David Stockdale to give the Toffees the lead, before Ashkan Dejagah drilled home an equaliser. But Kevin Mirallas’s left-foot shot and Naismith’s stabbed finish ensured the visitors ...

An Aflao-based creepy and hardened criminal, who would smear his body with faeces to escape capture has finally been nabbed. George Nii Dodoo Blankson, alias Yaro Badzi, 35 was last Monday overpowered by two border operatives, even though he had again smeared his body with faeces. A source close to the operatives told the GNA, ...

The Adisadel College in Cape Coast woke up to tragedy Sunday when one of its tutors was found hanging on a tree behind his bungalow. The lifeless body of Mr Appiah Menka, about 58 years and an English tutor at the school was found dead by his colleagues at 6am. Mr Menka’s body was found on a ...

A delegation from the Ministry of Education led by the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, will travel to Germany on Saturday on a short study visit to selected technical universities in that country. According to the Ministry, the visit will afford the delegation the opportunity to assess at first ...

Microsoft has started offering an iPad edition of its Office software suite. It was announced at the first launch event hosted by Satya Nadella since he became chief executive of the firm. Three separate productivity apps are available – Word, Excel and Powerpoint – each of which has been optimised for touch-based controls. Within hours ...

A UK industry regulator has called for the law to be changed to require pornography sites to carry out age checks before granting access. Video-on-demand watchdog Atvod said the government must act to protect children from seeing graphic adult material. It said credit and debit card operators would be forbidden from processing payments from British ...

There’s a common relationship misconception that, learning the truth now will save you from unnecessary heartache and frustration. We women, nurturers that we are, erroneously think that the more we take care of a man and pay attention to him, the more he will take care of us. We do this even from the beginning ...

Health officials are racing to contain a deadly Ebola epidemic in Guinea, with one neighbouring state closing its borders and two others reporting cases amid warnings of a “serious threat” to the region. Senegal on Saturday said its border crossings to Guinea would be closed “until further notice”, while neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone have reported ...

Five Nigerian gay men were stripped naked and paraded by an angry mob through the streets of Ekurede Urhobo, Greater Warri in the West African country for being homosexuals. The men were identified when two of them were engaged in verbal altercation over money. According to reliable reports, one of the men, known as GP, ...

The 44 year-old music mogul is reverting back to the moniker he used in the 90′s for the release of ‘Big Homie’, his latest single featuring Rick Ross. Music mogul Sean Combs, A.K.A P Diddy or just plain Diddy, announced the name change on Tuesday (March 25th). The reason behind reverting to Puff Daddy, which ...

University of Ghana Vice Chancellor, Prof Ernest Aryeetey has been re-appointed for a second term in Office. His first tenure ends in July this year. Prof Aryeetey’s re-appointment was decided at the University Council’s meeting on Thursday March 27, 2014. His first tenure has seen him introduce some policy decisions which in his view would ...

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini says Arsenal can still win this season’s Premier League title. The Gunners came from behind to draw 1-1 with third-placed City at Emirates Stadium, on the day leaders Chelsea lost 1-0 at Crystal Palace. Arsenal, in fourth, are only five points adrift of Jose Mourinho’s side. “Of course Arsenal are ...

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has expressed government’s readiness to partner any investor who will assist the country to build a refinery to add value to gold. “It is unfortunate that a country that was branded as Gold Coast by our colonial masters has not been able to brand Ghana’s ...