The race for slots to represent the National Democratic Congress in Ghana’s parliament in different constituencies across the country is heating up. Many new faces have emerged to challenge the old guard for selection to try their hands at the business of legislation. Such is the story in the Garu Constituency in the Upper East […]
Organized labor says it is skeptical government will lay off workers during the implementation of the first phase of the International Monetary Fund, (IMF) bailout programme. Although government is expecting the second tranche of the bailout, organized labour wants government to implement the recommendations of the Senchi review of the economy and ignore proposals by
The outcome of the meeting between the Chief of Staff and President of GJA, Affail Monney, which was suggestive that, there was no wrongdoing in the accident involving the Presidential Press Corps has been dismissed by the NRSC.
The National Security Co-ordinator, Mr Yaw Donkor, has confirmed that two Ghanaians have joined the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He said per the records of the National Security, Nazir Nortei Alema, a 25-year-old graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and another person, whom he identified
Yippee!!!!. I am happy to read that Ghana’s media have found another “former Chief Executive of the VRA’ besides me. Twelve years after I left the position, and no matter what I do or talk about, from the doctors’ strike to abolishing TV licence fees, every reportage starts with ‘the former Chief Executive of VRA…..
An Accra Circuit Court Thursday denied a bail request for Lester Ekow Micah, President of the Ghana Music Council who is on trial over narcotics related charges.
Leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has defended his party’s call for a new voters’ register.
Manchester City’s Yaya Toure has asked not to be included in Ivory Coast’s squad for their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Sierra Leone. Coach Michel Dussuyer has also left out Newcastle’s Cheick Tiote, plus Siaka Tiene and Lacina Traore for the match on 6 September. Dussuyer says Toure is still thinking about his international
Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic, has died before he could be tried for child sex offences. His trial in the Vatican was adjourned in July after he was taken ill. He was accused of paying for sex with children in the Dominican Republic. Wesolowski, 66, would have been
Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway. They originally estimated that between 20 to 50 people died in the vehicle, found near the Hungarian border. Police discovered the decomposing bodies on Thursday morning after being sent to investigate the dumped lorry
