Cemeteries in the Ho Municipality in the Volta Region are overstretched far beyond its limits. In view of this, the Adaklu District Assembly is now charging high fees before allocating a plot of land to bereaved families to bury their loved ones. The District Chief Executive (DCE) of the area, Emmanuel Sky Ganaku disclosed to ...

An American journalist kidnapped in Syria nearly two years ago has been freed and handed over to UN representatives. Peter Theo Curtis was freed from captivity on Sunday, after being abducted in Antakya, Turkey, where he planned to enter Syria in October 2012. Footage of the the American was released on June 30, showing a disheveled Curtis with long ...

This was very nearly a second successive 1-0 victory for ten-man Hull and second successive 1-0 defeat for Stoke but a scrambled equaliser from Ryan Shawcross seven minutes from time gave Mark Hughes reason to breathe easier. He had seen his team play for 76 minutes against Steve Bruce’s reduced side following James Chester’s sending ...

A member of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the Head of the Finance Department, Ghana Business School, Godfred Bokpin, says lecturers do not take delight in reneging on their duties to the detriment of their students. According to him, contrary to public perception, UTAG members are eager to get back to work. ...

It was a day of sub-plots at White Hart Lane, perhaps the most interesting Harry Redknapp and Glenn Hoddle’s return to Tottenham. But there was no fairy-tale ending for the Queens Park Rangers duo, only misery, as they watched their team – and new 3-5-2 formation – decimated by Mauricio Pochettino’s slick new look Spurs. ...

Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of United Nations (UN), has called on the country’s leadership to adhere to the tenets of peace and security, respect for human rights and rule of law to promote development. He said no nation could develop without obeying these values and urged the country’s authorities to engage citizens in the ...

Botswana’s High Court has ordered the government to provide treatment to HIV-positive foreign prisoners at the state’s expense. Justice Bengbame Sechele ruled on Friday that the denial of anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to foreign inmates violated their rights. Dickson Tapela and Mbuso Piye, two Zimbabwean prisoners had sued the government for refusing to provide them with free ARVs, ...

Many comtemporary artistes in Ghana have always depended on great beats and instrumentals to produce hit songs but hiplife artiste, Choirmaster, believes that Ghanaian artistes should also invest in developing their writing skills. He said that was one of the surest ways to rub shoulders with other artistes on the international music scene as the ...

The Minister for Youth and Sports and Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has called for peace in Bawku following sporadic shooting in the area last week which claimed two lives. He has also called on the security agencies to intensify their search aimed at retrieving light weapons and rifles to ensure ...

A charitable Non-Governmental Organization called Mawuenam Foundation Ministry has presented two big poly tanks and other items worth thousands of cedis to the premier Nyohini Children’s Home in Tamale. With a population of 25 needy children, the orphanage is bedevilled with numerous challenges and water scarcity is the major one. Management of the orphanage have ...

At least 35 Nigerian police officers deployed to a training academy in the northeast region have gone missing after Boko Haram attack on the facility, a government spokesman has said. The government admitted that the armed group attacked the academy just outside the town of Gwoza in Borno state earlier this week, Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh, ...

Economist, and Head of Finance Department, Ghana Business School, Godfred Bokpin has backed Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s claims that exchange rates and inflation figures are not credible. He asserted that there was a 23% variation in the figures published by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). “From January to May, there wasn’t so much of a wide variation, ...

Suddenly, easy seems hard. When the much-feared Fixture Computer gave Manchester United an opening run of Swansea, Sunderland, Burnley, QPR, Leicester and West Ham, fans and pundits rubbed their hands and declared it a dolly of a start for Louis van Gaal – especially compared to Davie Moyes’s initial tasklist last season, which included Chelsea, Liverpool ...

When Harry Redknapp trudges out of the White Hart Lane tunnel on Sunday for the first time since leaving Tottenham two years ago, he may well wonder where it all went wrong. The last six months of the 67-year-old’s Spurs tenure were thoroughly miserable; he was helpless to avoid the north Londoners blowing effectively a 16-point ...

The fine line between success and failure in the Premier League was clearly demonstrated by these two teams on the opening day of the season. Hull came out on top of a 1-0 scoreline in the battle of the 3-5-2s at Loftus Road, despite being dominated for long periods by QPR and only threatening occasionally themselves. ...

The Christian Council of Ghana has stated that although the emergence of several churches in Ghana is good, the “excesses” of some of those churches are worrying. Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana said a number of churches are extorting money from the people through “prophecies and miracles” rather ...

An aspiring executive member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Greater Accra Region, Bossman Oduro-Fosu, has initiated a court action against the party, asking it to place a perpetual injunction on the election of regional committee members of the party until the revocation of paragraph 6 (c) vi of the party’s constitution. The ...