The Asutifi North District Assembly in the Brong Ahafo Region on Wednesday [22nd March, 2017], failed to elect a new Presiding Member to steer the affairs of the assembly after three rounds of voting. Two assembly members, Hon. Stephen Kofi Baah, the assemblyman for Manhyia Electoral Area, and Hon. Ebenezer Kwala Addo, an administrator of ...

The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, has insisted that although they will be receiving foreign aid for its projects and programmes, government won’t be influenced by its donor partners. According to her, government will have a strong say because the aid will mainly be in the form of loans. The ...

A 15-year-old Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidate of the Sekyere Himang Methodist JHS in the Wassa East District of the Western Region, on Tuesday met his untimely death when he drowned in an abandoned galamsey pit at Sekyere Himang. The deceased, Ransford Donkor, reportedly went to wash in the abandoned pit after carrying farm ...

The Black Stars have lined up an international friendly against Mexico to be played on June 28 at Houston’s NRG Stadium in Texas, USA. The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF), Soccer United Marketing (SUM), Lone Star Sports & Entertainment and the Houston Dynamo today announced that Mexico will play Ghana on Wednesday, June 28 (7:30 ...

The people of Funsi, in the Upper West Region have honoured energetic, award-winning songstress, Noella Wiyaala in a special way by naming a street after her. The singer revealed this on her Facebook page in a post that read, “My people said they had a surprise for me. Little did I know. #WIYAALA#STREET ???? ????????????????????.To the ...

Betway Ghana, a leading online sports betting outfit, and 4 Change Initiative a Non-Governmental Organization has provided a 7,500 litre water storage system to the people of Oyarifa in the La Nkwantanang Madina Municipality to commemorate World Water Day. The provision of the water storage is expected to considerably improve water supply to the community ...

The Director General of National Lottery Authority (NLA), Mr. Kofi Osei-Ameyaw says NLA will soon clamp down heavily on illegal lottery operators, popularly referred to as Banker to Banker, to help generate revenue for national development. Mr. Osei-Ameyaw was interacting with members of the Association of Lotto Marketing Companies (ALMC) who called on him to ...

The Director General of National Lottery Authority (NLA), Mr. Kofi Osei-Ameyaw says NLA will soon clamp down heavily on illegal lottery operators, popularly referred to as Banker to Banker, to help generate revenue for national development. Mr. Osei-Ameyaw was interacting with members of the Association of Lotto Marketing Companies (ALMC) who called on him to ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has condemned the terrorist attack near London’s Houses of Parliament. Four people, including an armed police officer and man believed to be the attacker died in the incident. The President in a tweet said “this attack is a stark reminder of the threat terrorism poses to the world and the duty it ...

General Electric (GE), a US based oil and gas company specialized in deep water offshore services in the oil and gas sector has opened its newly Sub Saharan facility at the Takoradi Port in the Western Region. The facility, according to the company will provide support services for its customer operations. In 2015, GE was ...

Ahotor, a farming community in the Atebubu-Amanten District of the Brong Ahafo Region was on Tuesday [March 21, 2017] thrown into a state of shock and mourning, following the death of two pupils in a dug-out pond in the area. The deceased were Kindergarten (KG) pupils from the Ahotor DA Primary School. They were only ...

Parliament has, by consensus, approved a total of GhS321million as annual budget for the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, and as it turns out, some 85 percent of the amount is expected from donor sources. Whether donors will release the funds, meanwhile, is contingent on the government of Ghana providing counterpart funding, which ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Nyaho Medical Centre, Dr. Elikem Tamakloe, has said that Ghana needs innovative solutions to surmount the numerous constraints that plague its healthcare service delivery. Speaking at a medical symposium organized by the Centre, under the auspices of its Corporate Social Responsibility arm, the Nyaho Dove Foundation, he said understanding patients’ ...

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that government will address three main policy pillars which are financial inclusion, the national identification project as well as property addressing system by close of this year. According to him, the government’s economic team has set this year as the benchmark to achieve all three pillars to ...

The Ministry for Employment and Labor Relations will later today announce figures related to the unemployed population in the country. The figures are based on findings from the Ghana Statistical Service. The survey will serve as a basis for future surveys related to employment issues in the country. The survey which commenced in 2015 is ...

Ukraine has barred Russia’s Eurovision contestant because of a visit she made to Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014. Julia Samoilova was banned from Ukraine for three years because she had entered Crimea “illegally” – entering directly from Russia, not via Ukraine. Samoilova, 27, has confirmed that she sang in Crimea in 2015. Ukraine is ...

About 160 million cedis is expected to hit the accounts of banks that are owed the energy sector debts, by the end of March 2017. This is according to the President of the Ghana Association of Bankers, Alhassan Andani. The payment will be the first to be made this year since the erstwhile NDC government ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), Archie Hesse, says he will work with stakeholders to enable telcos to become interoperable by the end of the year. He was reacting to a challenge thrown by the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, that stakeholders should ensure ...

A Lithuanian man has been charged with tricking two US technology firms into wiring him $100m (£80.3m) through an email phishing scam. Posing as an Asian-based manufacturer, Evaldas Rimasauskas tricked staff into transferring money into bank accounts under his control, US officials said. The companies were not named but were described as US-based multinationals, with ...