A joint police and military force is trying to restore calm after no less than four persons were feared killed during clashes between Konkombas and Dagombas at Agbogbloshie, a suburb of Accra.

The Ledzokuku Krowor Municipal Fire Commander of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Divisional Officer Two (DOII) Theophilus Dangbe, has called on residents of Teshie and Nungua to stop the practice of placing stones on their leaking liquefied petroleum gas(LPG) cylinders, ostensibly to stop leakages, while they cooked.

Assistant coach Godwin Ablordey has taken temporary charge of Kumasi Asante Kotoko following the dismissal of substantitve coach,  Zdravko Lugarusic, after 11 matches in the ongoing league.  Ablordey, a former captain of Kotoko, will act until a new substantive coach is appointed to replace the 52-year-old Croat who was dismissed for unimpressive results.

The FA Cup Committee (FACC) will conduct the Round of 64 draw of the MTN FA Cup at the Conference Hall of the Ghana Football Association (GFA)  at 11 a.m. on Thursday. The 16 Premier League clubs will join the 48 Division One and Two teams that qualified from the preliminary round to determine the pairings for the Round of 64.

Tema Youth settled for a 1-1  drawn game with Wa All Stars in their 11th-week encounter at the Tema Stadium yesterday. The original fixture last Sunday was abandoned in the 18th minute due to a rainstorm which left the pitch waterlogged and unsuitable for football and referee William Agbovi had no other option but to apply the rules by ending the game and rescheduling it (for yesterday).

  Visiting Aduana Stars survived a late onslaught from Great Olympics to win 2-1 in their rescheduled Match day 11 Ghana Premier League (GPL) fixture at the Accra Sports Stadium. The match was rained off last Sunday. When it was replayed yesterday, a ninth-minute own goal by Olympics captain Dan Quaye and Bright Adjei’s 38th-minute drive secured the win for the visitors, as Abel Manomey’s goal from a powerful shot in the second half only gave Olympics a false sense of

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Global Media Foundation (GMeF), a non-governmental organisation, (NGO) Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu has asked Regional Houses of Chiefs to work towards the prevention of chieftaincy disputes from occurring. He said the various Houses of Chiefs did not only exist for the purpose of solving chieftaincy disputes but also to prevent them from occurring.

The criminal case of the three accused persons of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), which is demanding the secession of the Volta Region and parts of the Northern and Upper East Regions from Ghana, to become the Western Togoland state as soon as possible has been adjourned to May 12, 2017. The three persons are standing trial at the Ho High Court on charges of conspiracy to

A global market economist, Mr Ayomide Mejabi, has predicted the local currency will from the third quarter of this year start depreciating at a slower pace to end the year at GH¢4.65 to a dollar. He explained that the recent performance of the local currency had been largely affected by the good-will from the citizenry after the general election in 2016.

With the expansion of the Victoria Falls International Airport in Zimbabwe, South African Airways has increased capacity between Johannesburg and the popular leisure destination of Victoria Falls.  The recent introduction of Airbus A330-200 wide-body aircraft on the route, adds 60 per cent more capacity in each direction, on a daily basis.

The Member of Parliament for Keta in the Volta Region, Richard Mawuli Quashigah says on a scale of one to one-hundred, the Nana Akufo-Addo administration deserves only 20 percent for its poor work so far since taking office. There have been too many gaffes in the 90+ days old administration, he says, and the 20 percent marks is the best it deserves.

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu in the Volta Region, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described as "too lenient" the punishment meted out to the thirteen members of the Delta Force who escaped from lawful custody and later surrendered to the police. “If you look at what Delta Force and what their accomplices did, it has never happened. I believe like most Ghanaians do, the verdict is lenient. Clearly this is just a slap on the wrist. They can easily come up with the money

The government is expected to lose an estimated GH? 308.30 million in revenue as a result of the reduction in the Energy Sector Levies.  Out of this amount, GH¢185.28 million and GH¢123.01 million are estimated National Electrification Scheme Levy (NESL) and Public Lighting Levy (PLL), respectively. These losses will be accounted for under the Power Generation and Infrastructure Support Sub-Account (PGISS).

Trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) ended in the positive in the week ending April 7, as investors, confidence in some banking stocks, revived their appetite for the equity. As a result, the GSE Composite Index improved by 1.79 per cent to settle at 1,898.34 points. This represented a year-to-date gain of 12.39 per cent.

The head pastor and founder of Blessing of Christ Ministry at Gyasikrom near Enchi in the Western Region, Isaac Twumasi and seven other suspected armed robbers have been arrested by the police. The gang of robbers who had laid ambush mistook a police night patrol vehicle for that of some Chinese gold miners, who were supposed to be conveying money on the route.

It is pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to complain about as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door. Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers. The sad thing is that this can easily be avoided.

The government has reduced the retail price of fertiliser from GH¢85 to GH¢54 to boost crop production in the country, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has said. He said the move was also to ensure that farmers were liquid enough to expand their operations within the agriculture value chain.

The President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), Ghana, Mrs Stella Addo, has urged public institutions to use electronic platforms for their procurements to increase their efficiency. E-procurement, she said, was fast driving growth in the private sector; hence, the need for the public institutions to move from the manual system.

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is to revive its pension scheme for informal sector workers after four years of inaction. The scheme was introduced in 2010 as a pension buffer for informal sector workers but fizzled out after going through some challenges. Currently, it is being managed by the NTHC, another state-owned enterprise.

The Western Region police have arrested 50 residents of Ekpu in the Half-Asini District during a dawn swoop Tuesday, led by the Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kwasi Mensah-Duku. Three hundred policemen drawn from various stations in the region took part in the swoop and those arrested are to be screened at the regional police headquarters in Sekondi-Takoradi..