Two persons have been confirmed dead in a gory accident in the Tolon district of the Northern Region. About 90 casualties with children being the majority are on admission at the Teaching Hospital. District Chief Executive for Tolon, Seidu Abukari narrated that the accident happened at Lingbunga when a mummy truck on which the traders ...

  Ghana is in international competition. Yes, again. Would it be good news in the end or another shameful story about in-fighting as has been since in the last World Cup in Brazil or the just-ended Commonwealth Games? We’d soon know. The Women’s World Cup begins today in Canada play the opening game at midnight ...

Despite the unambiguous judgment delivered by the Supreme Court that the controversial financier of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, obtained the much publicized GH¢51 million from the state without any legal basis and that he does not deserve the money, the former Deputy Attorney General, Ebo Barton Odro still insists ...

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday, August 4, at the commencement of the limited voter registration exercise, toured a few constituencies in the Greater Accra Region to monitor the exercise. The UCOMS registration centre, at the Bortianor-Ngleshie Amanfro constituency, was Akufo-Addo’s first point of call. There, he interacted with registration officials, polling agents of the ...

Industrial relations expert, Kofi Dovor has called on the leaders of various trade union groups in the country to caution government against accepting any condition for job cuts during negotiations for the bailout with the International monetary Fund. The Government of Ghana announced on Tuesday to open talks for a bailout from the International Monetary ...

Nigerian authorities said Monday that a doctor in Lagos has contracted Ebola, the second case in the sprawling megacity as the deadliest ever outbreak of the disease continues to spread fear and panic across west Africa. The confirmation that a fourth doctor had been infected comes as fear and anger about the dead being left ...

The World Bank has announced that it is allocating $200m (£120m) in emergency assistance for West African countries battling to contain the Ebola outbreak. The money will be distributed to the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as well as to the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of people killed in the outbreak ...

Israel has announced the withdrawal of all of its troops to “defensive positions” outside the Gaza Strip. The move came moments before the latest truce – brokered by Egyptian mediators late on Monday – came into force at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT). Israel claims the main aim of the conflict – to destroy militants’ ...