‘Chale Wote’ festival 2017 opens in Accra
The 7th edition of the annual street art festival, CHALE WOTE, has been officially launched amid cultural performances and art exhibitions. The week-long programme which is on the theme: ‘WATA MATA,’...
View ArticleMrs. Bawa Wins Award
National Insurance Commission (NIC), Mrs. Lydia Lariba Bawa, has been adjudged the Most Outstanding Innovation Achiever at the third Ghana Feminine Awards. The award comes on the back of her immense...
View ArticleTrainee teachers to take licencing exams—GES
Ghana Education Service (GES) has served notice henceforth that all teacher trainee graduates will take a licencing examination. “Before we recognise you as a professional teacher, you will need to be...
View ArticleBuffon, Messi and Ronaldo on Player of the Year shortlist
Gianluigi Buffon (Italy, Juventus), Lionel Messi (Argentina, Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Real Madrid) are the three nominees for the 2016/17 UEFA Men’s Player of the Year Award. The...
View ArticleWoyome’s GH¢51m not captured in ministry’s account
The GH¢51 million judgement debt which was paid to the businessman, Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, is missing from the accounts of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Controller and Accountant-General’s...
View Article‘3,000 workers not on SSNIT bio data’
Deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei Asare, has said 3,000 government workers are yet to complete their registration unto the SSNIT biometric database, which will affect payment of their salaries...
View ArticleHow Lydia Forson made me a sapiosexual
If I were a sapiosexual, I would marry Lydia Forson in impatient haste. Well, I am actually a sapiosexual; that is, I am a person who is likely to fall in love with another because of their...
View ArticleKilling of Galamseyers: ‘Akufo-Addo must be held accountable’
Member of Parliament (MP) for Bodi, Hon. Sampson Ahi, has charged Ghanaians to hold President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo responsible for every killing of an illegal miner. According to him, the...
View ArticleSierra Leone mudslide: At least 600 still missing in Freetown
At least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide and flooding that devastated parts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, a spokesman for the president has told the BBC. President Ernest Bai...
View ArticleOL reduces interest rate in response to current trend
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Opportunity International Savings and Loans (Opportunity International (OL)), Mr. Kwame Owusu-Boateng, has expressed that the steady interest rate decline, especially...
View ArticleFrimpong-Manso fined GH¢600
An Accra District Magistrate Court has slapped the Director of Sparrow Productions Limited, Shirley Frimpong-Manso, with a fine of GH¢600 for failing to pay Social Security and National Insurance...
View ArticleDela is soft and sweet—KKD
Ace broadcaster and master of ceremony, Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD), has commended Video Director, Prince Dovlo, for presenting “soft and sweet” Dela exactly the way she is in her ‘Let Me Go’ music...
View ArticleMan turns cemetery into cassava farm
Residents of Busua, a community in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, woke up to the bizarre news of eating cassava grown on the graves at the Busua Cemetery. This has generated a huge...
View ArticleIndian govt donates US$1m towards renovation of Flagstaff House
The Indian government has donated US$1 million to the government for the renovation of the Flagstaff House, an edifice which was financed and constructed by India. India’s Minister of State for...
View ArticleRTP Awards 2017 calls for nominations
Big Events Ghana, organisers of the annual Radio and Television Personality (RTP) Awards, has opened nominations for this year’s edition of the awards. Forms for nominations for the 2017 edition of...
View ArticleTiger Woods found with drugs in system
Former world number one golfer Tiger Woods had five different drugs in his system when he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in May, according to an ESPN report. ESPN, which...
View ArticleRafael Nadal now World No.1
Roger Federer has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open with a back injury, meaning Rafael Nadal will be the new world number one in next week’s rankings. Federer, who has participated in the Ohio warm-up...
View ArticleBurkina Faso attack justifies deployment of Operation Vanguard – Dr. Aning
Security expert, Dr. Kwesi Aning, says the government must demonstrate the capacity to deal decisively with resistance to the anti-galamsey campaign. The director of Academic Affairs at the Kofi Anan...
View ArticleGhana extends help to Sierra Leone
Government of Ghana is preparing to send relief supplies to Sierra Leone, a nation mourning the tragic loss of nearly 400 lives in a flooding disaster. “We are also trying in our own small way to put...
View ArticleAMA must sustain this decongestion exercise this time around!
THE Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has warned, especially hawkers, selling on pavements, footbridges and other open public spaces, to vacate these places with immediate effect. THE warning, which...
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