Marriage is a very important ceremony in every community in Ghana. The requirements for marriage differs from ethnic group to ethnic group. The dowry (or bride price), which is an amount a prospective groom pays to the brides family has become the source of sorrow for many would-be couples. In some part of the power-plagued ...

An ongoing press briefing by the national executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) turned bloody when some party youth stormed the headquarters with machetes. Some persons are reported to have sustained various degrees of injuries while some vehicles belonging to some party members have also been vandalized. Citi News’ Richard Dela Sky who was ...

A press conference by the national executives of Ghana’s main opposition, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) turned bloody on Tuesday when some angry party youth stormed the headquarters with machetes. Some supporters of the party who were present sustained various degrees of injuries while a vehicle belonging to the national women’s organizer, Otiko Djaba was ...

Land acquisition leading to prolonged litigation is a major challenge faced by developers and institutions in the country. There have been instances where one piece of land has been sold to several people. Surprisingly, all most of the people manage to produce documentation to prove ownership. Some people sometimes employ land guards to protect the ...

The Central Region of Ghana is one of the poorest in the country. Among the many challenges is the falling standards of education at the basic level. The regional capital, Cape Coast, is largely a fishing community with an estimated population of 170,00 people. Cape Coast is historically known as the citadel of Ghanaian education ...

The Bank of Ghana has moved to prevent microfinance companies in operation, from changing their names to cover their tracks after failing to manage depositor’s funds prudently. The Central Bank said the move follows its observation that some of the companies change their names in an attempt to hide liquidity challenges and seek a fresh ...

Is there a rule of thumb for getting married at a certain age? Most young Ghanaian women are pressured by their family, friends and the society at large to get married when they are in their late 20′s. The pressure usually leads to most of these women hastily getting into relationships that later do not ...

A dead whale was washed ashore at Atuabo in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region last Sunday. Measuring about 10 metres, the sea mammal was found in-between the pre-fabrication area of the Ghana Gas Company and the Atuabo ceme­tery. The Assembly member for Atu­abo, John Quashie, who confirmed the story, indicated that as at 3:00 ...

The DreamOval Foundation, in partnership with the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) and Ashesi University, has embarked on its annual teacher training program, iTeach, from the 17th to the 22nd of August this year. This year’s program will see close to a hundred teachers from the Northern Region of Ghana trained in ICT on ...

Statistics from the Ghana health service show a significant rise in the figures for teenage pregnancy every year. In 2013, the Ghana health service reported an alarming figure of seven hundred and fifty thousand pregnancy cases of girls between ages fifteen (15) and nineteen (19). The Central Region from 1993 remained the region with the ...

Google’s self-driving cars are programmed to exceed speed limits by up to 10mph (16km/h), according to the project’s lead software engineer. Dmitri Dolgov told Reuters that when surrounding vehicles were breaking the speed limit, going more slowly could actually present a danger, and the Google car would accelerate to keep up. Google’s driverless prototypes have been ...

Seventeen suspected Ebola patients who went missing in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked have been found, a minister has said. “They were traced and finally they turned themselves in” at a treatment centre, Lewis Brown told the BBC. The government had previously denied they were missing. New UN figures show ...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it had acquired U.S. air conditioner distributor Quietside LLC as part of its push to strengthen its “smart home” business. It is the South Korean firm’s second such acquisition within a week after it said on Friday it had purchased SmartThings, a U.S.-based platform developer which builds apps ...

Discussions on an economic programme that will be supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to bail the country out of its current economic challenges are to be held this week. A team from the IMF is expected to meet the government at the Peduase Lodge, where formal discussions are expected to open on the ...

The number of cholera cases reported in the Greater Accra Region has increased from 3,600 to 5,000 with 45 deaths since July this year, the Greater Accra Regional Health Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Linda Van Otoo has said. Out of the number, the Accra metropolis alone recorded about 2,500 cases with about ...

Popular Ghanaian rapper and 2014 MTV base awards winner, Sarkodie has taken a swipe at President John Dramani Mahama over the state of the economy the in his latest song. In the song entitled Inflation, the multi award winner lamented the erratic power supply in the country, the continuous depreciation of the Ghanaian Cedi, and ...

A 40-year-old driver who allegedly fathered a child with his biological daughter has found himself in the grip of the Adentan Police. The man, identified as Edem Fedieley, was arrested after his 17-year-old junior high school (JHS) dropout daughter told the police about the sexual abuse and assault she had suffered from his father since ...

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the various polytechnics have expressed their displeasure over the failure of government and the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) to re-open the schools after nearly three months of negotiations. POTAG, in May, embarked on a strike, due to what it describes as government’s failure to pay them their ...

Peri-Urban small holder farmers in the Northern Region are disgusted about government’s removal of fertilizer subsidy. In 2008, the government of Ghana instituted a country-wide subsidy on 50Kg bags of four types of fertilizer in an effort to mitigate the effect of rising energy and food prices. Farmers received the subsidy in the form of ...

Ghana’s 17-year old weightlifter Juliana Arkoh has allegedly threatened to commit suicide at the Youth Olympics currently ongoing in Nanjing if her per diem is not paid. The threat,confirmed by Ghana’s chef de mission for the Games, Mr.Arko-Dadzie, was made to officials of the Local Organising Committee of the Games in the Chinese city and ...