Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission calls on GBC
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana has reiterated its partnership with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) for capacity building and exchange programmes. The Ameer and missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya mission in Ghana, Alhaji Mohammed Bin-salih made this known when a delegation of the mission paid a courtesy call on the management of the GBC […]
Ghana, Malta to sign Aviation agreement
Bilateral relations between Accra and Valletta continue to deepen as a delegation from Malta paid a courtesy call on the Minister for Aviation in Accra. Ghana and Malta in the coming weeks will sign a memorandum of understanding that would facilitate further collaboration in the aviation sector. This will take place once Parliament ratifies the […]
Senegal confirms second coronavirus case
A second person in Senegal has tested positive for coronavirus, the country’s health ministry confirms. It says the patient is an 80-year-old French national who arrived in the West African country on 29 February. He is being treated at the same hospital for infectious diseases in the capital city, Dakar, where another Frenchman was hospitalised […]
World Wildlife Day observed
Ghana on Tuesday (March 3, 2020) joined the rest of the world to commemorate this year’s World Wildlife Day in recognition of the importance of nature to socio-economic development. The UN, in December 2013, adopted March 3, every year as World Wildlife Day to create awareness of and draw attention to the decline in the […]
Zambia politician who ‘refused to greet first lady sacked’
A mayor in a Zambian city has been removed from post in the governing party, the Patriotic Front (PF), after he refused to greet the wife of President Edgar Lungu, the state-owned Daily Mail newspaper reports. Kitwe mayor Christopher Kang’ombe was suspended from the party last week but has now been stripped of his position […]
Coronavirus: Iran temporarily frees 54,000 prisoners to combat spread
Iran has temporarily released more than 54,000 prisoners in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus disease in crowded jails. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told reporters the inmates were allowed out of prison after testing negative for Covid-19 and posting bail. “Security prisoners” sentenced to more than five years will not be […]
Sogakope Assemblyman killing: Fmr President Rawlings offers GHC25,000 for killers
Former President Jerry John Rawlings is offering an additional amount of 25,000 cedis to earlier offers towards reliable information leading to the arrest of the attackers who killed the Assemblyman for Sogakope, Marcus Adzahli last Sunday and for those who committed another violent robbery in Vume, also in the South Tongu District about a month […]
Methodist University dragged to court as 32 former employees want benefits paid
Thirty-two former lecturers and non-teaching members of staff of the Methodist University College (MUC) have sued the university for terminating their employment. In a suit filed at the Labour Division of the Accra High Court on December 17, last year, the plaintiffs averred that they were sacked as a result of a redundancy exercise, but […]
2020 Wear Ghana Festival officially launched
The National Commission on Culture (NCC) on Tuesday launched the third edition of the Wear Ghana Festival, with the aim of promoting local textiles as well as creating employment for the youth who are into fashion. This year’s festival themed “Hy3 Wode3, Wear Your Own’’ is being organized by NCC in collaboration with the Ghana […]
Voters’ register is not obsolete, decision to throw away is ‘irrational’- Group
The Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voters Register (IPRAN), has described the Electoral Commission’s decision to compile a new voters’ register for the 2020 upcoming General Elections as “irrational”. At a Press Conference in Accra on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, the group, made up of six political parties, including the National Democratic Congress (NDC), maintained […]
