Harvest Praise 2017 promises to be one of the most vibrant and exciting as hit gospel songster and worship leader Todd Dulaney joins believers in the country to worship and praise the Lord Almighty on Good Friday, April 14, 2017. This year’s edition, which is the 20th, will take place at the Accra International Conference ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo now has a total number of 110 people to serve as ministers, ministers of state and deputies in his administration, the highest in the country’s history. Out of the total 110, 20 are Regional Ministers and their Deputies, 40 ministers for various ministries, with 50 deputies. In the President’s latest list of ...

The Minister of Education Mathew Opoku Prempeh has revealed government’s intent to convert the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into a placement exam for Senior High Schools. The BECE is a requirement for entry into the secondary educational level but the Minister said this left over 120,000 students failing to progress because of the limited ...

The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has named 54 persons to serve as ministers of state at the presidency and deputy ministers of state in his government. This will bring to 110, the number of appointees who will be serving in Nana Addo’s administration, one of the highest in the country’s history. In a letter addressed to ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA), has cautioned the general public to disregard any information making rounds that the Authority is currently recruiting personnel to serve in various capacities in an upcoming registration exercise. A statement signed by the acting Head of Corporate Affairs of the Authority, Pearl Akonobea Offei, stressed that the NIA is not ...

Citi 97.3 FM has announced an exciting line-up of acts for this year’s Music of Ghana Origin (MOGO) celebration. The annual event that seeks to promote Ghana’s indigenous music forms, especially Highlife, would have some of the most revered names in the industry on March 25, 2017 to celebrate sixty years of authentic Ghanaian music. ...

The Sports Minister, Isaac Asiamah, was left red-faced at the late start of the Ghana Olympic Committee’s Elective Congress on Tuesday at the Alisa Hotel. The Minister arrived at the venue for the event at the advertised time of 9:00am, but after waiting for about 30 minutes, he decided to leave. He was slated to ...

As a rule, I do not comment on the work of other journalists. I try not to criticize their views on life or national debates either. It’s a small community, and, we often are on one side, trying to hold the powerful accountable and keep citizens informed. We do so much with so little under ...

SUNDA Ghana Investments (SUNDA), a Chinese company, has responded to the plea of victims of last Sunday’s fire at Busia Junction in Accra. Mr. Isaac Hu, the Managing Director of SUNDA, importers and distributors of household items for the past thirteen years in Ghana, said the company could not sit by and watch the suffering ...

Basic education in the Banda Ahenkro District of the Brong Ahafo Region, has been brought to a halt amidst threats on the lives non-indigenes in the community, which includes teachers in 40 basic schools in the area. The threats emanated from an unidentified group in the area which is fiercely opposed to all government workers who ...

Basic education in the Banda Ahenkro district of the Brong Ahafo Region has been brought to a halt amidst threats on the lives  non-indigenes in the community, which includes teachers in the 40 basic schools in the area. The threats emanated from an unidentified group in the area which is fiercely opposed to all government workers ...

Government will have to cut down its expenditure significantly if the Ghanaian banking sector is to see a reduction in the high-interest rates, the Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, Ken Thompson, has noted. “If we really want to get the interest rates down, then the government must start with expenditure,” Mr. Thompson said on the ...

With the growing competition in Ghana’s telecom industry, telecom analyst, Fouad Chalabi has urged Expresso to concentrate on a section of the market or face extinction by market forces. According to him, the company can direct its investment into providing data while it looks for investors to upgrade its technology from CDMA to GSM. In ...

The newly appointed Metropolitan Chief Executive for Tamale, Mohammed Iddrisu Musah, popularly known as Musah Superior, has outlined three priority areas for the people of Tamale as he prepares to take on the mantle of leadership in the area. Musah Superior was appointed last week together with three others in the President’s first list of Chief ...

Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Gloria Akuffo, has called for an amendment to the provisions of the Presidential Transition Act, 2012 (Act 845) to make it more definitive. Speaking during an Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) 2017 Presidential Transition forum, Madam Akuffo noted that the controversy over the residences and vehicles for outgoing government officials, ...

Government has been ostensibly hamstrung by some last-minute contracts signed by the Mahama administration, the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Marfo has revealed. The Mahama administration came under intense criticism for what was described as midnight decisions to contract and recruit for and on behalf of the country within the last two weeks of its lifespan. Speaking ...

Social media giants should “do a better job” to protect users from online hate speech, British MPs have said. Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google were asked by the Home Affairs select committee why they did not police their content more effectively, given the billions they made. They were told they had a “terrible reputation” ...

Egypt’s general prosecution has referred Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou to the country’s Economic Court on charges of violating local anti-monopoly rules. Caf Secretary General Hicham El Amrani has also been charged. A lawyer representing both parties attended a hearing on Monday. With Caf based in Cairo, Egyptian authorities maintain it is governed ...

US President Donald Trump paid $38m (£31m) in tax on more than $150m (£123m) income in 2005, a leaked partial tax return shows. Two pages of the tax return were revealed by US TV network MSNBC but they gave no details on income sources or of charitable giving. The White House said publishing the tax ...