Ghana will from August 2016 ban the use of cosmetic products containing skin bleaching ingredient, hydroquinone. The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) served notice of the impending ban in accordance with a directive from the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA). Head of Communications at the FDA, James Lartey, who disclosed this at a public forum in […]
A national security task force is investigating reports about a number of Ghanaians purported to have joined the Islamic State (ISIS). According to Minister for the Interior, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo the task force would make its recommendations on the way forward in the wake of the new development. Although Mr. Woyongo could not state
There are strong indications that the daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings, Dr. Ezenator Agyeman-Rawlings will contest the Parliamentary primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Korle Klottey constituency. Ezenator, who made her intention known in an interview on GTV on Wednesday, said she decided to vie for the NDC ticket because
The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners has called on government to immediately review the activities of the Inter-ministerial Task Force Against Illegal Mining. The association accused the task force of extorting monies from its members whose operations have been regularized by the Minerals Commission. At a news briefing in Accra, the small scale
Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has charged the country’s security agencies to clamp down on religious extremism among other vices that threaten the security of the state.
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is undoubtedly one of the most powerful professional associations Ghana has ever known. Unmatched in its lack of tolerance for government’s halfhearted posturing towards workers’ demands for fair wages, and brutal in the ways and means they force the hands of the state to pay them their due. It has
A man who shot two journalists on live TV in the US state of Virginia has died after shooting himself, police say.
About 50 people have been found dead in the hold of a boat carrying migrants intercepted off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard says.
The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) will from today, Thursday, August 27, open nominations for the party’s November 7 presidential and parliamentary primaries.
The New Juaben Municipal Assembly says it will soon start arresting parents who refuse to enrol their children in school. This has become necessary because of the rising number of children seen loitering in the neighbourhoods whilst schools are in session. This was disclosed during a stake holders’ meeting organized by the Municipal Assembly in
