Pressure is been mounted on President John Dramani Mahama to appoint a substantive Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Tamale Teaching Hospital. The former CEO, Dr. Ken Sagoe went on retirement about a year ago leaving the Tamale Teaching Hospital without a substantive CEO. As a major referral health facility serving the three regions of ...

A hit song performed by Colombian pop star Shakira was indirectly copied from another songwriter’s work, a federal judge in New York has found. Judge Alvin Hellerstein said Shakira’s Spanish-language version of Loca in 2010 had infringed on a song by Dominican singer Ramon Arias Vazquez. Her English language version of Loca – which featured ...

Barnes & Noble has unveiled a customised version of an existing Samsung tablet as a replacement for the Nook HD , which it manufactured itself. The US book chain is marketing the device as the “first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading”, based on its inclusion of pre-installed Nook apps and homescreen shortcuts. However, its screen ...

Security forces in Liberia’s capital Monrovia have deployed to enforce a quarantine in a large slum area in order to contain the spread of Ebola. The move set off protests from angry residents in West Point and people gathered at roadblocks to complain. The president has also ordered a countrywide night-time curfew as part of ...

Some political parties in Ghana have condemned the Tuesday’s clashes at the headquarters of the New Patriotic Party on Tuesday, describing it as disgraceful. Angry machete-wielding youth stormed a press conference being  addressed by the Chairman, Paul Afoko and the General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong at the party’s headquarters. The youth were unhappy with the decisions ...