The Regentropfen Education Foundation, a non-government organization (NGO), that provides support to the needy but brilliant students in Northern Ghana, has been adjudged as the best Social Institution in Northern Ghana for the Year 2017. The maiden edition of the Northern Investor Awards, sponsored by the Investment Consult, Buta Photography, Tamale Film and Television Academy, […]

Akosua Hanson, co-host of the award-winning Celebrity Fanzone has cautioned journalists against asking questions related to why certain female celebrities in Ghana are single. Akosua Hanson, who was reacting to an interview actress Yvonne Okoro granted Showbiz last week insisted that journalists should stop asking high flying women why they are not married. Yvonne Okoro […]

After capping a 20-year-long career as lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr Margaret McIntyre bows out and prepares to leave Ghana in September this year. Dr McIntyre arrived in Ghana in 1997 to teach Mathematics at the University of Ghana upon the advice of her late Ghanaian husband Professor Agbedazi, who […]

A National Youth Organiser hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Poku Frefre, has called on the various appointees of the NPP government to sack perceived loyalists of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who are still at post at the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). He made this controversial call at the official launch […]

The Paramount Chief and elders of the Tema Traditional Council have expressed appreciation to His Excellency President Akuffo Addo for listening to the plea of the people of Tema and as such giving them a qualified deserving indigene as the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tema. In a press statement signed by the Shipi of the […]

Laifi’n babba, rowa, laiii’n yaro, kiwuya. (The boy complains that his master is stingy, the master that his boy is lazy.) “The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you’re not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I’m […]

Information reaching the corridors of NewsGhana indicates that the recent “Infinix S2” which was launched over the weekend in Accra, has overshadowed all the mobile devices emerging in the Ghanaian Smartphone Market. Since Infinix, the fast growing global mobile brand, released this latest phone “Infinix S2”, onto the Ghanaian market at the University of Ghana, […]

From Femi Fani Kayode to Felix Hyatt to Babatunde Omotoba to Stella Odua to former Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Corps Marshal Osita Chidoka, Nigerians had not had it better in the aviation sector. Under the incumbent administration, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as Minister of Transportation and Senator Hadi Sirika as Minister of State Aviation are […]

The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Monday confirmed the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kwesi Nyantakyi as its first vice president. The decision was made at the executive committee’s meeting in Bahrain, the GFA said. DR Congo’s Constant Omari Selemani was also named the second vice president of […]

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for increased funding to help accelerate development in Africa. AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina said the bank is leading African Union in mobilizing domestic resources required to execute the bank’s five developmental priorities dubbed the “High 5s,” noting that financing gap to meet these needs are huge, some as […]

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe arrived in Zambia on Monday for the start of his two-date state visit. The Togolese leader’s plane landed in the morning at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka, the country’s capital, and he was met by his Zambian counterpart Edgar Lungu. The two leaders were expected to hold bilateral talks. […]

South Korea is set to hold a presidential by-election Tuesday as former President Park Geun-hye was impeached and arrested in March over corruption allegations. Public demand for the transfer of presidential power exploded with the influence-peddling scandal, involving Park and her longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil who is also now in custody and on trial for […]

Emmanuel Macon, the 39-year-old former minister of economy, won the 2017 runoff French presidential election on Sunday, defeating his far-right rival Marine Le Pen, according to polling agency projections. The projections indicate that Macron garnered between 65 to 66.1 percent of votes, and Le Pen between 33.9 to 35 percent. The results will make Macron, […]

The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow challenged his public officials to be proactive in the offices and not to be underperforming, the presidency said on Sunday. “We have inherited many challenges including a low performing public service, lack of accountability as well as a credible policy direction, that have understandably led to growing frustrations of the […]

Kenya is currently in talks with South Africa so that it can resume its exports of Avocados that have been banned since 2010 due to the presence of the fruit fly pest in the commodity, Kenyan officials said. Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) General Manager of Phytosanitary Services Isaac Macharia told Xinhua recently in […]