Barcelona say they will complete the £15m signing of Arsenal’s Belgium international defender Thomas Vermaelen on a five-year contract on Sunday. The La Liga club released a statement  on Saturday saying they had reached an agreement to sign Vermaelen, and the 28-year-old had passed a medical. Vermaelen joined Arsenal from Ajax for £10m in 2009 and made 150 appearances. ...

The Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has expressed optimism that the impasse between the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) over their book and research allowance will be resolved soon. He said the ministry had held a meeting with vice chancellors, and expressed the hope that the engagement would ...

A court in Egypt has dissolved the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing. The ruling will effectively prevent the banned Islamist movement from formally participating in parliamentary elections expected later this year. The government declared the Brotherhood a terrorist group in December. It was accused of orchestrating a wave of violence ...

US President Barack Obama has said he will not allow jihadists to carve out a “caliphate” straddling Syria and Iraq. On Friday, the US began launching air strikes on fighters of the Islamic State (IS) in northern Iraq. Mr Obama said there would be further air strikes if necessary but no US military operation on ...

Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Nkoranza North, Eric Amoateng is still in Police custody for failing to meet his bail bond. Mr. Amoateng was granted a GHC 200, 000 bail with two sureties by an Accra Circuit Court on Friday after he was charged with possessing forged document. A family source told Citi News, they ...

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) will start conducting an economic census of all businesses in the country between now and September. Dubbed “Integrated Business Survey (IBES)”, it will be structured in two phases. This was made known by the Government Statistician, Dr Philomena Nyarko, during an IBES stakeholder sensitisation workshop organised in collaboration with the ...

Ghana may be recording its first case of Ebola if tests on the blood samples of a Burkinabe man suspected to have died of Ebola proves positive. The man who was rushed to the Bawku Presby Hospital in the Upper East Region from Burkina Faso died on arrival. The Medical Director at the Hospital, Dr ...

Oil firms were last night withdrawing staff from Nigeria and Liberia after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak to be an international public health emergency. Leading medical experts said the virus – which has a death rate of 50% and has already killed nearly 1,000 people – required an “extraordinary response” to ...

The organisers of the annual Golden Icons Academy Awards (GIAMA) has released the list of the nominees for this year’s awards. The third in the series, this year’s GIAMA ceremony will be held in Houston, Texas on October 25. Since its maiden edition in 2012, GIAMA has recognised excellence in the African film industry by ...

An aspiring Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Mr Alan Kyerematen, has lashed out at the government for its inability to mitigate the worsening plight of Ghanaian workers. He noted that the dissatisfaction with public sector wages and the high cost of living had resulted in demonstrations and strikes by the various labour unions ...

The reopening of government-assisted senior high schools for the 2014/2015 academic year in September has been confronted with serious challenges that may disrupt the academic calendar. This follows a threat by heads of the schools to delay the reopening date, if the government fails to promptly release the last two tranches of subsidies for the ...

Julion Evans died at the young age of 42 from amyloidosis and his funeral was booked at the church he and his family had attended all his life. However, his husband, Kendall Capers, and Evan’s family were notified the night before that the church was cancelling the funeral due to the fact Evans was gay. KSDK reported that ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced it has received a formal request from Ghana to initiate discussions on an economic programme that could be supported by the IMF. The Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, Min Zhu in a statement said: “The Fund stands ready to help Ghana address the current economic challenges it ...

The Executive Secretary of the Divestiture Implementation Committee (DIC), Assakkua Agambila, has expressed shock over the involvement of some state institutions in an alleged fraudulent act. Appearing before the Judgment Debt Commission in Accra Thursday, Mr Agambila said it was very surprising that institutions like the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), National ...

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has charged the security agencies to make decisions based on their professional knowledge and traditional values imbued in them. He said the public would no longer accept excuses for their errors, and that, the decisions they make would be subject to scrutiny. Vice President Amissah-Arthur was speaking at the graduation ceremony ...

The Ashanti Regional Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye, has cautioned political party leaders to stop sending thugs to cause confusion at voter registration centres in the region. He said this would not be tolerated and offenders would not be allowed to get away with the impunity. He was speaking at a meeting held with the regional ...

A Greek Oil vessel, MT Fair Artemis, hijacked by pirates off Ghana’s waters in June this year has finally berthed at the Takoradi Port to offload oil. This is according to the Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Mr. Richard Anamoo. The pirates are said to have siphoned 3,500 metric tonnes of ...

More than 500,000 people die annually from Hepatitis B related diseases around the world. This is according to Dr Alhassan Abdul-Mumin, a Doctor at the Tamale Teaching Hospital. He said more than 2 billion people were infected with the disease globally, which needs a holistic approach to address the phenomenon. Dr Abdul-Mumin disclosed this during ...

Former Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah has refuted media speculations that he has set his eyes on the position of the Vice President of Ghana. Afriyie-Ankrah, who is currently a Minister of State at the Presidency, insists media reports suggesting that he is planning to vie for the Vice President role are baseless and ...

The fate of 90 remand prisoners, locked up for years at the Sunyani Central Prisons will soon be known under the “Justice for All” programme. The suspects have spent between three and 16 years on remand for various crimes including murder, manslaughter, armed robbery and fraud. The Justice for All is a programme initiated by ...