President Akufo-Addo's Day-1 of 4-day tour of Central Region
Relentless Liverpool sweep aside Tottenham to stay top
Liverpool continued their perfect start to the season to stay top of the Premier League after a goal in each half gave them a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley on Saturday. Georginio Wijnaldum picked the perfect time to score his first away goal in the Premier League when he headed Liverpool into a […]
Egyptian court orders arrest of Mubarak's sons over stock market manipulation
CAIRO – An Egyptian criminal court ordered the arrest of ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s two sons on charges of stock market manipulation, state news agency MENA reported Saturday. Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, with seven other men, are accused of violating stock market and central bank rules to make unlawful profits through dealing in shares of […]
Man City owner Sheikh Mansour promises another decade of success
Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan has outlined his long-term plans for the club, promising another decade of success at the Etihad Stadium. City’s annual report this week showed Sheikh Mansour has spent more than 1.3 billion pounds on the club since he took over in 2008. In a letter to the club’s […]
Education minister dissolves Prempeh College Board
The Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has dissolved the Governing Board of Prempeh College over claims of complicity in the sale of the school’s lands. The action follows a visit to the school upon a series of protests from the Prempeh Old Boys Association who have been complaining about the wanton sale of […]
Menzgold customers express confidence in company despite shut down
Dozens of customers of gold dealership company Menzgold who massed up at the company’s branches have expressed confidence in the operations of the company. This comes after management of Menzgold temporarily halted some of its operations following a directive from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Menzgold Ghana Limited temporarily halted all extra value payment […]
Nvidia launches the Tesla T4, its fastest data center inferencing platform yet
Nvidia today announced its new GPU for machine learning and inferencing in the data center. The new Tesla T4 GPUs (where the ‘T’ stands for Nvidia’s new Turing architecture) are the successors to the current batch of P4 GPUs that virtually every major cloud computing provider now offers. Google, Nvidia said, will be among the […]
Mediocrity did not exist in Atukwei Okai's Dictionary – JJ's Tribute to the Iconic Poet
Atukwei Okai’s impact on the Ghanaian literary climate was and will remain phenomenal. As a poet, academic and culturist, Atukwei Okai rose above it all, perching at a dizzying height, dictating the pace as he chose fit. The name Atukwei Okai was synonymous with everything literary in our part of the world. His ubiquitous and […]
Tackling economic and political inequalities strengthens democracy – UN Sec Gen
Tackling economic and political inequality is at the root of strengthening democratic institutions at a time when they are under huge strain, said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday, marking the official International Day of Democracy. “It means making our democracies more inclusive, by bringing the young and marginalized into the political system,” he continued. “It […]
"Strategic Investor being sought for Komenda Sugar Factory" – President Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that Government is in the process of finding a strategic investor to revive the “debt-ridden and idle” Komenda Sugar Factory. According to President Akufo-Addo, the search for a strategic investor has become necessary because his administration, upon assuming office on January 7, 2017, inherited a non-operational Komenda Sugar […]
