Suspected kidnappers grabbed in Tamale
A Tamale District Court has remanded into police custody three suspected members of an armed robbery and kidnapping syndicate believed to be operating in the Northern, Savannah and Oti regions. The three are accused of engaging in kidnapping and armed robbery and are to reappear before the court on May 31. The Northern Regional Police […]
Macron receives Akufo-Addo at Elysee Palace ahead of Summit
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been welcomed by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, Paris ahead of the Summit on Financing African Economies. The summit which will be held today in a temporary exhibition centre under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in Paris will try to fill a financing shortfall […]
Businesses challenged to harness potential in Public private partnership
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has charged private sector players to engage the government more on what needs to be done to enhance public-private partnerships in the country. He said government has rolled out a number of policies aimed at improving business growth and the onus lies on the private sector to take advantage of such […]
Government urged to pull plugs on illicit gold trade as country loses $2 billion annually
Plugging the gaping revenue leakages from the smuggling of gold by small-scale miners will boost the country`s fiscal revenue. Almost $2 billion worth of gold is said to be smuggled out annually by some small-scale miners to Dubai and India, making the country worse off. A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Abdallah […]
Queenmother partners Gold Fields to train women
The Queen mother of Wassa Fiase in the Western Region, through her Foundation, Nana Abena Kunadjoa II Foundation, has partnered Gold Fields Ghana to train forty women to make liquid soap, hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol to support their families. The women were selected from the nine host communities of Goldfields Damang Mine in the […]
Ghanaian Professor heads America’s Stanford Department of English
A Ghanaian in the person of Professor Ato Quayson has been appointed to the full headship of the Department of English, Stanford, one of the leading universities in America. Professor Ato Quayson is currently the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English at this top-class school, and he […]
Ariana Grande marries Dalton Gomez in ‘intimate’ ceremony
Pop star Ariana Grande has married her fiance Dalton Gomez in a “tiny and intimate” wedding. The 27-year-old American singer tied the knot in front of fewer than 20 people over the weekend, the PA news agency reported. Ms. Grande announced in December she was engaged to the Los Angeles real estate agent, 25. Their […]
‘Remorseful’ referee Maxwell Owusu apologizes for ‘awful mistakes’ in Hearts v Elmina Sharks match
Referee Maxwell Kofi Owusu has remorsefully apologized for his mistakes in the game between Hearts of Oak and Elmina Sharks on Sunday. The center referee unfairly awarded the Phobians a first-half penalty after a Victor Aidoo goal-bound shot hit the chest of Isaack Donkor, who was also shown the Red Card for protesting. Hearts missed […]
Tano South requires waste processing company under 1D1F – NGO
The Save our Environment Foundation (SEF), an environmentally-inclined non-governmental organization, has called for a waste processing factory in the Tano South Municipality, under the government’s flagship One-District-One-Factory (1D1F) programme. Mr Collins Osei, the Executive Director of SEF, who made the call, noted plastic waste generation in the Municipality was increasing but its management was highly […]
GHS: Go to same center for 2nd COVID-19 jab
Persons who are eligible for the second shot of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine will have to go to the same center where they took the first shot for the repeat dose when the exercise begins tomorrow, the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said. Also, all such persons must […]
