Arsenal sent out a statement of intent for the season as they impressively dismissed Manchester City in the Community Shield at Wembley. The FA Cup winners took the lead through Santi Cazorla’s angled shot and added to that when Aaron Ramsey drove in a strike to finish a counter-attack. Premier League champions City came close ...

Dan Abodakpi, a founding member of National Democratic Congress (NDC) has observed that leadership of the party has lost touch with the grassroots. Mr Abodakpi who is also one of the of the aspirants vying for the national chairmanship position of the party made the observation in Bolgatanga after touring the party’s constituencies in the ...

Barcelona have completed the £15m signing of Arsenal’s Belgium international defender Thomas Vermaelen on a five-year contract. The 28-year-old passed a medical on Saturday and Barcelona have now finalised the deal that ties Vermaelen to the club until the end of the 2018-19 season. Vermaelen joined Arsenal from Ajax for £10m in 2009 and made 150 appearances. ...

The organisers of the Miss Ghana beauty pageant, Exclusive Events, has debunked the news that it has selected Miss Nadia Ntanu, the first runner-up in 2012, to represent Ghana at this year’s Miss World pageant in December. According to Miss Inna Mariam Patty, CEO of Exclusive Events Ghana, her outfit is yet to get a ...

The Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana has welcomed the review of the export procedures at the Tema Harbour by the Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority. The Commissioner of Customs, Wallace Akondor, this week announced the setting up of a four-member committee to review the export processes at the port. The committee is mandated ...

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mavis Ama Frempong, has advised women to reduce their expenditure on funeral cloths and rather invest in the education of their children. She gave the advice at the formal opening of the Eight Biennial Diocesan Christian Mothers’ Association Congress at the St Theresa’s Catholic Church at Suhum. She said the ...

The charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) has told the BBC that Liberia’s medical services have been completely overwhelmed by the Ebola outbreak. The MSF co-ordinator in Liberia said official figures were “under-representing the reality”, and that the health system was “falling apart”. Nearly 1,000 people have died and 1,800 have become infected in West Africa. ...

There is a saying in Akan “wo nim ewuo aa hw3 nda” meaning, if you don’t know how death looks like take a look at sleep. In 2014, cholera still remains an epidemic Ghana has been unable to effectively combat and now, we have to deal with almighty Ebola disease which we are told is ...

Communications and Governance Consultant, Kathleen Addy says the people of Nkoranza North highly regard Eric Amoateng because he satisfied their needs in ways governments over the years have failed to fulfil. According to her, they would not have hailed their ex-Member of Parliament (MP) if systems worked efficiently in Ghana. “There is an element of ...

Guinea has announced the closure of its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, the virus that has killed nearly 1,000 people in the three West African countries this year. At least 367 people have died in Guinea since March and 18 others are being treated in the country in isolation, but the ...

Nestle Ghana has introduced paternity leave for its male employees to support exclusive breastfeeding for infants within their first 1000 days in life. Speaking to climax the World Breastfeeding Week Celebration in Accra, Moataz El Hout Managing Director of Nestle said the company had introduced paternity leave for its employees. The Company is also scaling ...

A 22-year-old national of Gabon has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing an Ivorian to death at Weiman in Accra. John Maviane, a student of the Ambassador University College at Lapaz, is believed to have struggled with the 24-year-old Ivorian, Madeleine Josian E. Souaduo, before stabbing her in the abdomen several times. The police also ...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development will query Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive (MMDCE) who fails to furnish the Ministry with evidence of action taken against sanitation offenders within the next two months. Julius Debrah, the sector Minister said he has observed that MMDCEs are not enforcing the sanitation bye laws and ...

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary Education on Saturday inaugurated a 17–member Governing Council for KAAF University College. The Council, chaired by Professor Kwamena Ahwoi would supervise the administration of the University to ensure that it achieves the mandate for which it was established. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Mr Ablakwa ...

Union Savings and Loans through its Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SME) Clinic has offered free education on the new 17.5 percent VAT/NHIL to clients. Education on the provision of the VAT Act 2013 (Act 870) on financial services for which fees and commissions are imposed has generally been low in Ghana. According to the ...

Caterpillar has evacuated a handful of employees from Liberia. Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. has suspended a drilling project. British Airways has canceled flights to the region. ExxonMobil and Chevron are waiting to see whether health officials can contain the danger. The Ebola outbreak, which has claimed nearly 1,000 lives, is disrupting business and inflicting economic ...

A special programme initiated by the Department of Social Welfare to rid the streets of Accra of children used as aides to the physically and visually impaired to solicit for alms has been suspended due to lack of funds. “The budget available to the department is too small. We are waiting for government’s response and ...

Some houses at the Buduburam Refugee Camp in the Central Region were demolished on Saturday under the supervision of the Ghana Police Service. The Buduburam camp houses over 12,000 Liberian refugees who fled their country during the first and second Liberian civil war in the late 90s. It was established by the United Nations High ...

Contractors at ArcelorMittal SA’s iron ore mine in Liberia are evacuating the country and other miners are sending staff home to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Mining companies in West Africa are acting swiftly to keep Ebola at bay, screening employees and restricting access to remote mining camps while keeping production of ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairmen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) are accusing each other of being responsible for the recent acts of violence at some registration centers. There were reports of violence at some registration centres in the region resulting in the destruction of some registration equipment and the stabbing ...