Glasgow 2014 has been hailed as “the standout Games in the history of the movement” by Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper. After 11 days of action across 17 sports, the event came to a close at Hampden Park on Sunday evening, with hosts Scotland finishing fourth overall with a record haul of 19 ...

2012 presidential candidate of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey is calling for a return to military rule as the surest way to accelerate the development of the country. He believes if the nation was under military rule, rampant corruption in the country would not be in existence for the nation ...

A senior Israeli military official said it would not apply to the town of Rafah and that Israeli troops would respond if they were attacked. Earlier, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon described an Israeli strike near a UN-run school in Gaza as “a moral outrage and a criminal act”. Palestinian officials said at least 10 ...

Electoral Commission will begin its limited voter registration exercise today. The exercise which will take place  across 6,000 centers will allow persons who could not vote during the last registration exercise and those  who turned 18 years after 2012 to register. The limited voter registration exercise was scheduled to begin on June 20 but was ...

A legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong says government’s failure to provide public toilets  is to blame for the current cholera outbreak in the capital. ‘’…it is a problem caused by the authorities either by their omission to do what they are supposed to do or by their own commission; because you can walk from here [Adabraka] ...

President John Mahama has directed that immediate initiatives be taken to open discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other development partners in support of Ghana’s programme for stabilization and growth. This was contained in a statement signed by the Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah. This comes a few weeks after Finance ...

The Bank of Ghana is expected to review further, the controversial forex rules next week August 4 – 9, 48 days after the last reviewed date. This will be the third review since the bank was introduced the measures five months ago. The cedi has depreciated nonetheless more than 27% against the dollar and other major ...

Manchester City are set to sign former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard on loan from New York City FC. Lampard was released by Chelsea this summer after 13 years at Stamford Bridge, his 211 goals in 649 matches making him the club’s record scorer. The 36-year-old signed for New York City last month on a two-year ...

Liverpool defender Kolo Toure will stay at Anfield despite the club receiving a bid from Turkish side Trabzonspor, according to Sky Sports sources. The 33-year-old has a year left on his current contract after signing from Manchester City on a free transfer last summer. He made 24 appearances for the Reds last season, including 15 ...

President John Mahama met the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Economy on 1st August, 2014 at the Flagstaff House to reflect further on the range of issues affecting the Ghanaian economy. The Committee’s discussions focused on measures aimed at restoring macroeconomic stability, promoting growth and improving the living conditions of the people. Arising out of the deliberations, ...

Wayne Rooney has said he has enjoyed the first few weeks of Louis van Gaal’s reign as Manchester United manager. Speaking in Michigan, where United are preparing to face Real Madrid on Saturday, the 28-year-old admits he is happy with the role he has been asked to play under the Dutchman. Since taking over at ...

Ashley Young admits he is ready to change his role with Manchester United in order to impress new boss Louis van Gaal. United’s Dutch manager looks set to play with wing-backs and Young has been tried there in pre-season, and he is enjoying it. The 29-year-old – whose future Old Trafford looked uncertain – is ...

Arsene Wenger believes his role in ensuring Arsenal remained competitive during their barren years has been the most important achievement of his reign. Wenger’s side ended their nine-year trophy drought when they beat Hull City to win the FA Cup in May. The Frenchman had delivered three Premier League titles since taking the reins in ...

Nana Ato Dadzie, lawyer for the former Attorney General, Betty Mould Iddrissu, has dismissed calls for her prosecution for role in the payment of fifty-one million cedis to businessman Alfred Woyome. The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, unanimously ordered Alfred Agbesi Woyome, to refund GhÈ» 51.2 million, paid to him by the state as judgment debt. ...

Intrigued Londoners looked on as a smartphone’s battery was charged by a strange contraption made of 800 apples and potatoes connected with hundreds of nails and lengths of copper wire. The art installation was created outside the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush, essentially just a large-scale version of the classroom science experiment where a ...

By the year 2018, no mentally challenged person will be seen roaming the country’s streets, the Director of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Kwesi Osei, has assured. Dr Osei, who gave the assurance in an interview with The Mirror, said the hospital in collaboration with the Mental Health Authority and some donors had initiated a ...

President John Dramani Mahama will this evening leave Accra for the United States of America, to attend the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC, at the special invitation of President Barack Obama. President Obama in his invitation expressed his special connection to Ghana, stating that he and US First Lady Michelle Obama would like to ...

1. Why did the World Bank agree to lend money to Ghana for secondary education at this time of tight budget control?  Ghana’s Constitution mandates that all efforts are made to make education gradually universal and progressively free. With access to primary education becoming near universal in Ghana, new priorities are emerging at post-basic level where ...

The conduct of Arik Air on the Accra – Lagos route is strong evidence that the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has completely lost the plot for regulating the aviation industry in this country. It is indeed true that some of the issues at the country’s airports are due to infrastructural deficits, many of which ...

The conduct of Arik Air on the Accra – Lagos route is strong evidence that the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has completely lost the plot for regulating the aviation industry in this country. It is indeed true that some of the issues at the country’s airports are due to infrastructural deficits, many of which ...