Mac users are being warned about new variants of malware that have been created specifically to target Apple computers. One is ransomware that encrypts data and demands payment before files are released. The other is spyware that watches what users do and scoops up valuable information. Experts said they represented a threat because their creators ...

Africa’s agriculture sector is at a crossroads. Though it has about 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land, Africa’s net food import is predicted to grow from $39bn in 2016 to over $110bn by 2025. Food production is desperately low due in part to the region’s poorly developed climate and weather alert systems to help ...

Film producer Socrate Safo has finally been served an appointment letter as Director of Creative Arts, responsible for Programmes & Projects at the Commission for National Culture. This comes after recent reports indicated that he had been working from the commission as Executive Secretary for the past months at the National Commission on Culture (NCC) ...

The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, has called on residents of Savelugu to desist from continually preventing their Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) from working. The Minister also urged the media to do its part to educate the irate youth who have been protesting against the approved MCE. Speaking at a ...

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has equaled Robin Van Persie and Edin Dzeko’s record of 50 international goals. The 31-year-old reached the milestone after netting in his country’s 5-0 win over Ethiopia in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations over weekend. The iconic Ghana captain is tied in 35th place with the Dutch and Bosnia & ...

The Northern Regional Police Command has reinforced Police visibility at the precincts of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH). Police personnel were today [Tuesday] dotted at some vantage points there. This followed a rancor between two pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) groups over legitimacy to the Tamale Teaching Hospital Chief Executive Officer (CEO) position. Citifmonline.com checks revealed ...

A licensed US gold buying firm, Green Global Resources, has accused the Ghana Police of serious corruption at the highest level in the case of an alleged GHc 1.3 million gold scam. This gold scam case led to the interdiction of the then-East Legon Police Commander, DSP Emmanuel Basintale, and 6 others after they seized 13 ...

Financial sector analysts are predicting a further contraction in credit to the private sector following their high contribution to the Non Performing Loans (NPL) of banks. They argue that the development which threatens the banking industry is also likely to freeze the growth of Ghana’s banking sector. According to the Executive Director of the Policy ...

A Police man believed to be in his 30s has been shot dead by two armed men. The Policeman, Michael Kporye was shot in the face and in the chest on Monday evening at Tulaku near Michel Camp in the Greater Accra Region. Michael was on night patrol duties in the area using his motorbike ...

Stock market analysts are confident that the positive performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange will continue till the end of 2017. After recording negative growth for about two consecutive years, the market is said to be recording a positive turn at least as at the middle part of the year. The Managing Director of the ...

Fifteen people are reported missing after a seven-storey building collapsed on Monday night in an eastern suburb of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The Kenya Red Cross tweeted that response teams were at the scene, in the Kware Pipeline Embakasi area. The Star newspaper said dozens of people had been evacuated moments before the collapse. Witnesses ...

Oakland, Calif. (AP) Kevin Durant capped his spectacular first season with the Warriors by bringing home that coveted NBA championship he joined Golden State last July so determined to get, scoring 39 points in a fast-and-furious, Finals-clinching 129-120 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night. Stephen Curry added 34 points, 10 ...

Luther fans, your prayers have been answered – the husky-voiced detective is returning for a fifth series. Idris Elba will once again don his tweed coat for the four-part season, which has been described as “utterly heart-stopping and unmissable”. The crime drama was last on screens in December 2015, although Elba reprised the role for ...

The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has vowed to pursue and arrest persons who murdered a development Chief at Adeyman, Nii Tettey Saban in the Ga West Municipality last week. The Chief was killed in cold blood on Thursday, June 8, 2017 in his family house. A statement by the Regional Command on Monday said ...

You don’t have to be diagnosed as obese to be at risk of dying from illnesses related to excess weight, a global study suggests. Of the 4 million deaths attributed to being overweight in 2015, nearly 40% were not considered clinically obese. The study found more than 2 billion children and adults suffered from health ...

Sony has teased a string of new games for its PSVR virtual reality headset hardware prior to the E3 video games show in Los Angeles. VR content for role-playing adventure Skyrim was shown, as was a new first-person horror title, The Inpatient. A virtual reality fishing simulator for Final Fantasy – Monster of the Deep ...

Panama has cut long-standing diplomatic ties with Taiwan and established relations with China instead. The government said it recognised there was “only one China” and that it considers Taiwan part of it. Taiwan expressed “anger and regret” and accused Panama of “bullying”. China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province. A handful of countries maintain ties ...

The Ashanti North branch of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has suspended water supply to both state and private institutions in the area over unpaid bills. The Manager of GWCL for Ashanti North, Ing. Gilbert Quaye who made the revelation, indicated that some state and private institutions are indebted to the company to the ...

A group of angry residents in Savelugu who staged a demonstration against the assumption of office of the elected Municipal Chief Executive, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu have vowed to prevent her from occupying the office even at the peril of their lives. According to them, she bribed assembly members to secure their mandate after her nomination ...