US actor and comedian Robin Williams has been found dead, aged 63, in an apparent suicide. Marin County Police in California said he was pronounced dead at his home shortly after officials responded to an emergency call around noon local time. Williams was famous for such films as Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets Society ...

The move came after a request to the US from Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the government said. The news came as medical ethics specialists met in Geneva to explore the use of such new treatments. The World Health Organization, which is hosting the meeting, says some 1,013 have died from Ebola in West Africa. ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has decried the state at which prices of goods and services in the country keep increasing. According to him, a carton of milk which used to sell at GH¢35 is now selling at GH¢60. Speaking at the presentation of some food items to boxers Braimah Kamoko, alias Bukom Banko and ...

Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford is suggesting that all state-owned enterprises be subsumed into a Ministry as most of them have become redundant over the years. According to him, some of the state-owned enterprises such as the State Housing Company have outlived their usefulness. Highlighting on the real estate industry in Ghana, Casely-Hayford observed that there ...

A former Deputy Minister of Energy and Member of Parliament for Adanse Asokwa, K.T Hammond has said the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is not working because the government lacks the political will to transform refinery to run efficiently. ‘’Why can’t Tema Oil Refinery be helped to be back on its feet since it is this ...

The Head of Communications at the Ghana Gas Company, Alfred Obgamey has revealed that the Atuabo gas processing plant will generate about 150 million standard cubits of gas per day when completed. He stated that “ the plant will start operations with about 30 million standard cubits of gas per day and graduate the process” ...

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has called on the Minister for Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga, to fulfill his promise of changing the terms of reference of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry set up to look into Ghana’s 2014 World Cup in Brazil. This is in reaction to a letter from football’s world football governing ...

Ivory Coast has banned all passenger flights from three countries hit by Ebola in an attempt to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. It is the only country, after Saudi Arabia, to impose such a ban, amid mounting concern about the outbreak which has killed nearly 1,000 people. The ban covers Guinea, Liberia and ...

Nigeria has confirmed a new case of Ebola in the financial capital, Lagos, bringing the total number of people in the country with the virus to 10. The health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse who came into contact with a Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola ...

One of the leading contenders for New Patriotic Party’s presidential candidate slot, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo, has criticized government over “the lack of public education” on the deadly Ebola disease. Over 900 people have, so far, died from the disease in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and most recently Nigeria. Ghana has yet to officially ...

The Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) has congratulated Ghanaian youth and encouraged them to seize opportunities that exist in the areas of science and technology. In a statement released on Monday to commemorate the celebration of the International Youth Day on Tuesday, the Coucil said : “The youth of today, are faced ...

Rwanda has placed a German student with Ebola-like symptoms in isolation, and is waiting for test results checking for the deadly tropical disease, the health ministry says. “Samples from the suspected case have been sent for testing to an international accredited laboratory for approval, results will be available in 48 hours,” the health ministry said ...

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has stated categorically that natural gas from the Atuabo gas processing plant that is intended to power its three thermal plants at Aboadze in the Shama district in the Western Region will not end power rationing in the country. The VRA rather explained that, gas from Atuabo, would only substitute ...

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has indefinitely suspended its re-opening date over what it describes as ” Ebola scare in the West African Region.” The suspension, according to authorities of the school is to also“enable the university prepare adequately for re-opening in view of the University Teachers’ Association of Ghana’s (UTAG) ...

The leadership of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked all its members contesting for party positions to stop their campaigns until the Electoral Commission’s (EC) limited voter registration exercise is over. The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia says the directive will help the party to effectively monitor the registration exercise ...

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) says Ghana’s crude oil should only be refined at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) if it will be cheaper. The state owned oil refinery has over the years been saddled with debts and operational inefficiencies leading to low production capacity. Recently, workers of the refinery embarked on a ...

AngloGold Ashanti says it will continue to dialogue with a range of stakeholders in Ghana as it implements measures aimed at addressing the long-running poor performance of the Obuasi mine in Ghana. As part of these consultation efforts, on 18 July 2014 AngloGold Ashanti submitted its Amended Programme for Mining Operations (APMO)to the Government of ...

Medial test conducted on the blood sample of a man suspected carrying the deadly Ebola disease on admission at the Tamale Teaching Hospital has proven negative. The test was conducted on Monday August 11, 2014 in the laboratory of the Tamale Teaching Hospital ahead of the results of the earlier sample sent to the Noguchi ...

A Chinese man has suffered a lucky escape after a knife fell from the sky and landed in the top of his head. Xiao Yunzhi, 57, was out for a walk in his hometown of Guangyuan, Sichaun Province, before a five-inch kitchen knife fell from the top of a high-rise apartment block. Even more unbelievably, ...