Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has instructed officials to speed up the release of all the commodities at its ports, as the country continues to grapple with a dollar crunch.
In a meeting with the country's prime minister and m…
Dr Eric Nkansah has been confirmed as the substantive Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES).
A letter dated January 4, 2023, signed by the Acting Director of HRMD at the GES, Ms Angela Frimpomaa Nkansah, addressed to all…
Spain's Jon Rahm shares the lead with Americans Collin Morikawa and JJ Spaun after the first round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
The trio shot rounds of nine-under-par 64 at the PGA Tour's first event of the year in Hawaii.
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Kenya’s President William Ruto has defended the country’s move to import genetically modified (GM) food, assuring Kenyans that it was safe,
The president criticised those who were against the lifting of the ban on such products, saying …
Call it rebranding and you will not be wrong. The ancient community of Moree, also known as Moworey, is working hard to make the area a place to see.
It is now the “City of Light” and the community believes that the shining light tag wo…
Chelsea's season continues to go into reverse and it was a damning sign of their current reduced status that Graham Potter's side departed to a smattering of polite applause following the home defeat to Manchester City.
No show of ang…
The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, has failed in his latest bid to get elected speaker in a paralysis of US government not seen since the pre-Civil War era.
A cohort of right-wingers in hi…
Ghana should institute a legislation that would put a limit on the taxation the government can impose, a lawyer, David Ofosu-Dorte, has advocated.
He said the current taxation system of the country was structured against tax payers and …
The Ugandan government has disowned Facebook and Instagram pages operating under its name after controversy arose over why it was using social media platforms it had restricted to its citizens.
Uganda banned Facebook in January 2021, ac…
Assistant Divisional Officer II, Alex Ken Nartey, of the Public Relations Department of the Ghana National Fire Service, says the Service will soon undertake an audit of fire hydrants nationwide. This he said has become necessary as fire …
Nearly a year after Sony and Honda shared plans to jointly make and sell electric vehicles, the two companies revealed a prototype under the brand name Afeela.
The four-door sedan was driven onstage at CES Wednesday as Kenichiro Yoshida…
They may share a similar physique and previous work experience, but Dave Bautista is adamant that he's not the second coming of Dwayne Johnson. "I never wanted to be the next Rock," the former WWE star says emphatically in a new GQ intervi…
Taylor Swift’s cat, Olivia Benson, has landed at Number Three on a new list of — wait for it — the world’s wealthiest pets.
The Forbes-style list was compiled by the website AllAboutCats.com, which calculated pet net worth by using Inst…
A delegation of businesses from the Textiles, Garments and Leather Sector of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), and the Spinnet Textiles and Garment Cluster has participated in the India International Textile Manufacturing Expo (IT…
Eleven deprived communities in the Tano North Municipality of the Ahafo Region would soon be connected onto the national electricity grid, Dr. Freda Prempeh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North constituency, has said.
The MP sa…
The Ministry of Roads and Highways has denied responsibility for a publication on social media alleging that the Ghana Highway Authority will from Friday, January 06, close the Buipe Bridge in the Northern Region to vehicular traffic.
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A total review of the 1992 Constitution without a change in culture and mindset as a people will not resolve the myriad of challenges facing Ghana, a lawyer, David Ofosu-Dorte has said.
According to him, the 1992 Constitution was not th…
The country presently finds itself in a serious debt situation, a development which has prevented the government from accessing the international capital markets to borrow.
Among other things, the present situation has triggered a num…
About 20 fake meters which were being used by some residents in the Yilo and Manya Krobo municipalities in the Eastern region have been confiscated by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
During a monitoring exercise on Thursday,…
Comedian Dave Chapelle is the latest African American celebrity to arrive in Ghana ahead of the inaugural Black Star Line Festival which is being fronted as an event to forge connections between black people around the world.
The week-l…
World number one Iga Swiatek was left in tears after a straight-set defeat by American Jessica Pegula in the semi-finals of the inaugural United Cup.
Pegula, ranked third in the world, needed just 71 minutes to wrap up a dominant 6-2 …
The Ministry of Education has asked public universities that charged more than the 15% approved fees to refund the extra amount paid by their students.
The directive comes after the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, held a mee…
Jack Grealish says adapting to Manchester City's style of play has been "much more difficult" than he imagined.
The £100m England playmaker underlined the champions' strength in depth by coming off the bench to create their winning go…
Israeli opposition figures and activists have warned that plans to curb the powers of the Supreme Court pose a serious threat to democracy.
The reforms unveiled by the new justice minister include enabling parliament to over…
It has been confirmed that Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has submitted his resignation letter to the Presidency to enable him concentrate on his presidential campaign.
Impeccable sources from government circles and…
Data science has long been the domain of hardcore data professionals who understand the complex frameworks and languages involved, but those professionals are in notoriously short supply.
Fortunately, the landscape of tools and framewor…
R. Kelly silenced Aaliyah and her family through a non-disclosure agreement, following his marriage and subsequent annulment to the then 15-year-old singer.
The new allegations were made in the final installment of Lifetime’s “Surviving…
PWDs in the Kwahu East area of the Eastern region are urging the government to credit their personal accounts immediately when the disability fund is distributed.
They contend that doing so increases allegations of fund misuse and corru…
Local mining firm, Adamus Resource Limited, will co-headline the 47th edition of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) Awards Night.
The event is scheduled to take place at the Accra International Conference Center on Saturday,…
Pope Francis has joined pilgrims in St Peter's Square to preside over the funeral of his predecessor, who resigned from the papacy in 2013.
The dome of St Peter's basilica at the Vatican was shrouded in mist as the cypress-…
The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) has strongly opposed the 43 percent increment in insurance premiums by the National Insurance Commission.
The regulator of insurance, the National Insurance Commission (NIC), on January 1 implemented…
The new Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah, has held a meeting with the honorary clinical specialists of the hospital to get their buy-in for his vision to make the teachi…
Ghana is poised to request debt relief through the G20 Common Framework programme and has sought reassurances that the negotiations can be expedited before proceeding, Reuters sources has said.
It said Ghana, which secured a $3 billion …
A year-long project aimed at building the capacity and living conditions of orphans at the Nyamedua Children’s Home in Accra has been launched.
Spearheaded by the Music for Quality Feet Heart Project (MQF), the initiative is targeted …
Supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been urged to embark on a massive grassroot mobilisation campaign to get more people on board as the party prepares to annex power from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2024.
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Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the Central Region have been tasked to step up their supervisory roles to ensure efficiency at the district assemblies to ensure officers deliver on their mandates in the …
The rebel group M23 has announced its withdrawal from a strategic military base that it captured in October 2022 in the Rumangabo area in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
In a statement, the group said it would hand over the camp o…
Jeremy Renner’s Marvel family expressed their love and support for the Hawkeye actor after he published a selfie on Instagram from the hospital in the aftermath of his critical snow plow accident. Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and ort…
For the first time, the government has announced minimum producer prices for oil palm and rubber across the country.
The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), which has been charged with the regulation of the tree crops sector, set…
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) wants the government to consider maintaining the visa-on-arrival policy as part of efforts to boost tourism in the country.
The Transport Ministry introduced a visa-on-arrival policy for passengers trav…
The Volta Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Makafui Woanya, has said the revival and remarkable progress of some key infrastructural development projects in the region bear ample testimony to the party’s commitment to giv…
A rare privacy penalty for Apple: France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has announced it imposed a sanction of €8 million (~$8.5M) on the iPhone maker for not obtaining local mobile users’ consent prior to placing (and/or reading) a…
Kevin McCarthy's gruelling bid to become speaker of the House of Representatives may finally be decided on the second anniversary of perhaps the most difficult day of his career.
On January 6, 2021, as a mob of Donald Trump'…
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says he will be patient reintroducing Jadon Sancho to his team as "footballers are not robots".
Sancho has struggled for form since his £73m move to United from Borussia Dortmund in July 2021.
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Arsenal legend, Ian Wright, believes the club’s chances of winning this season’s English Premier League would depend on the fitness of Thomas Partey and two other key players.
According to him, the Ghana midfielder together with Odegaar…
Two days of voting are in the books, and the US House of Representatives isn't any closer to electing a Speaker.
In fact, the chamber may be farther away. Kevin McCarthy, who has served as the party's House minority leader f…
Stop us if you've heard this one before - Harry Kane made some more history and saved Spurs yet again.
At half-time at Crystal Palace, Spurs - without a win since the World Cup - were in trouble.
Then Kane happened.
His header…
China’s Grand Lisboa is one of the most iconic architectural feats the world has seen. It is a 5-star hotel located in Macau, a region on the south coast of China, across the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong. The building is the first tall…
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has appealed for the strengthening of the relationship between the Church and the State, which, he said, will help in the construction of the progressive, prosperous Ghana.
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The Chinese government has suggested that travel restrictions imposed by several countries on Chinese arrivals are politically motivated - and has warned that it may retaliate.
The US, India and the UK are among the nations…
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