Government has settled on audit and professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) as transaction advisors for the new national airline for Ghana. Citi Business News on July 15 reported that the World Bank was expected to give a no objection to the selection of PWC before the deal would be sealed. The Ministry of Transport, earlier ...

Tertiary institutions across the country are to extend their re-opening dates again in the wake of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in four West African countries. According to the Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Victor Asare Bampoe, the Ministry of Education has been asked to review the re-opening dates. The Education Ministry last ...

The Chairman of the West Africa Commission on Drugs, Olusegun Obasanjo and Kofi Annan, Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, will today meet with Ghana’s President, John Mahama, Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss regional responses to the growing drugs threat in West Africa. In June, the West Africa ...

A leading member of Ghana’s main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to Ghanaians to continue having faith in the party because all is not lost. Ghanaians on Tuesday expressed a vote of no confidence in the NPP after a press briefing at the party’s headquarters turned bloody. Angry youth of the ...

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) is calling on other smaller political parties in the country to capitalize on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government’s poor performance and the internal rifts within the New Patriotic Party  and unite to win the 2016 elections. The CPP says it should be considered a sign for the smaller parties ...

Former President Jerry Rawlings is seeking a perpetual injunction at the Fast Track High Court to restrain Professor Kwaku Danso-Boafo, Ghana’s ex-High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, from proceeding with the launch of a book the latter has written on Rawlings. According to Rawlings, the ex-diplomat has breached a contract between them to get his ...

Google has removed a total of 12 BBC News stories from some search results since controversial EU “right to be forgotten” laws came into force in May. The stories range from coverage of a court case on bomb-making in Northern Ireland 13 years ago to a dispute over a lost dog. Google notified the BBC ...

Liberia has imposed a night-time curfew and has quarantined an area of the capital Monrovia in a bid to halt the deadly Ebola outbreak. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the curfew would be from 21:00 local time to 06:00 (21:00-06:00 GMT). She said all movement would be blocked in and out of the West Point ...

A political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) says Tuesday’s clashes at the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) headquarters is an indication the party is in trouble . “Looking at what is happening, one will not be far away to say that NPP is heading towards a disaster,” said Aminu ...

Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Paul Afoko has alleged that the people who besieged the party’s headquarters on Tuesday wielding knives and machetes were members of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). Some angry persons stormed the premises of the NPP headquarters on Tuesday with machetes and knives disrupting an on-going press conference and ...

The Korle Bu Polyclinic in Accra  is overwhelmed with with cholera patients and will need about three days to decongest, according to the hospital. In a statement signed by  its Assistant Public Relations Officer, Gladys Ansong, the hospital stated that “over 923 cases of cholera had been reported at the polyclinic, resulting in the deaths ...

The President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe is claiming his cell phone numbers have been tapped. A post on his Facebook page on Tuesday alleged that “YES, My cell numbers in the public domain are officially being tapped. It has been confirmed now.” He however declared that despite the confirmation, he will not be deterred ...

The Bawku Municipal Security Council has assured the families of Alhassan Hadi and Tijani Issaka, the two victims of Thursday’s fatal shooting incident in the Municipality, that the culprits will be found. The two men were killed and two others injured when the group they were in was shot at, reportedly by two unknown assailants. ...

The government of Ghana has indicated it might consider banning flights from Ebola affected countries should they suspect anyone travelling into Ghana has the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged governments not to impose blanket bans on trade and travel on Ebola-affected countries. On Saturday however, Kenya declared a travel ban on persons traveling ...

The Agbogbloshie market is one of Ghana’s biggest slum communities. A visit to the place reveals the dehumanizing conditions people are living in. The crime rate in the slum has earned it the name Sodom and Gomorrah. Sanitation in the slum is very bad and the dump site close to the slump is believed to ...

About 61 per cent of girls miss school annually due to lack of menstruation hygiene facilities in their primary schools, experts have revealed. According to a United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) survey report conducted in 10 districts between 2012 and 2013, education specialists said girl pupils miss one to three days of class ...

Surfline Ghana, one of the three licensed 4G LTE telecom service companies in the country, will officially launch its commercial service Tuesday. The service  which is expected to change the landscape of data services in the country, will initially cover only the Greater Accra Region, with plans of expanding to other regional capitals in the ...

The national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko has clarified that the directive given to the party’s acting director of communications to proceed on leave was  a “purely administrative decision.” “… the party’s steering committee [subsequently] took the decision to make some appointments as deputy directors of communication for the party,’’ he ...

Sanitation is a major problem in Ghana. A recent cholera outbreak in Accra has claimed 45 lives and affected over 5000 others. Reports indicate that one person has died and about 25 other cases of cholera recorded in Kumasi. One of the main challenges when it comes to preventing diseases is access to toilet facilities. ...

Top Nigerian female singer, Tiwa Savage has hinted that she is expecting a baby nearly a year after she held her traditional wedding in Lagos and barely six months after her white wedding in Dubai. Tiwa, who married her manager, Tunji ‘Tee Billz’ Balogun, tweeted:, “The spirit of a mother, #Mrsteebillz #marriedandtaken.” Before now, there ...