Nana Akufo-Addo Nana Akufo-Addo has lamented the leadership crisis in Ghana and accused President John Mahama’s government of sending the nation’s development backwards. Addressing the UK Branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s monthly public meeting on Sunday in Wood Green, London, the man vying to lead the New Patriotic Party in 2016 described the situation in […]

Dr Amoako Baah A Political Science lecturer with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is appalled by the decision of government to fly a whopping amount of $3 million to Ghana’s players in Brazil. Dr Amoako Baah is even more embarrassed by the fact that government did not do any due diligence to […]

Kennedy Agyapong The Chairman of the Kenpong Group of Companies, Mr Kennedy Agyapong, has accused the former Youth and Sports Minister, Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, of personally arrogating to himself some of the organisational activities relating to the sponsorship of supporters to the Brazil World Cup. This, he said, were the reasons for the poor […]

Black Stars The signs pointed to a possible early exit of the Black Stars. When it happened therefore, it did not surprise observers following the trouble-laden soccer campaign. The preparations and everything about the 2014 World Cup tournament were shrouded in the usual drawbacks of mismanagement and abrasive politicisation. We cannot disagree with those who […]

Elvis Afriyie Ankrah President John Mahama has sacked the Minister of Youth and Sports, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah and his deputy, Joseph Yammin, following a very poor organisation for Ghana’s participation in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. A statement issued over the weekend by the Presidency indicated that the Minister of Information and Media […]

President John Dramani Mahama President John Dramani Mahama has defended his government’s decision of squeezing over $3 million from the Bank of Ghana and physically transporting it to the Black Stars in Brazil last Wednesday via a chartered flight. His justification of the move, described variously as “unprecedented in football history” comes in the wake […]

Kwadwo Mpiani The New Patriotic Party (NPP) virtually retained all the contentious members of the National Council during the party’s emergency conferences held in all the 10 regions, except one. The Volta Regional election had been postponed to Wednesday for some unexplained reasons. The regional political exercise, which was undertaken to elect representatives to serve […]

A section of the delegates endorsing the Ashanti Regional Candidates THE OPPOSITION New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the weekend hit back at the National Democratic Congress (NDC), describing the ruling party’s assertion that it would win one million votes in the Ashanti Region in the 2016 presidential election, as a “desperate and over-ambitious dream.” According […]

GFA officials sharing the money American movie industry, Hollywood, is to make a movie based on the bizarre transfer of three million dollars meant for the Black Stars from Ghana to Brazil via a chartered flight. The Guardian reported Monday that the screenplay, to be written by Darryl Wharton-Rigby, will centre on a courier tasked with […]

President Yoweri Museveni A television station in Uganda has been banned from covering presidential events after it broadcast images which it said showed President Yoweri Museveni snoozing in parliament. Dennis Katungi, the government’s media centre manager, told AFP: “The president has habits, he meditates and they know it, and still they go out and say […]

Mr. Charles Abugre (2nd left) speaking at the press conference Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) has signed a deal with Solar Giga, a Chinese company to construct a $120 million solar energy plant in Tamale, the Northern regional capital. The project, which is expected to begin by the end of September this year, would generate […]

Officials of Vivo Energy, NRSC, GES, as well as staff and students of participating schools VIVO Energy Ghana, the company that distributes and markets Shell-branded fuel and lubricants as part of its Community Investment Initiatives, has launched a school road safety empowerment programme in partnership with the National Road Safety Commission (NSRC) and the Ghana […]

Shaibu Haruna  Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL), a Diageo business subsidiary, has appointed Shaibu Haruna as sales director effective 15th May 2014. Mr. Haruna joins GGBL from the MTN Group where he led the delivery of successful distribution transformation programmes in Ghana and Uganda. He has over 16 years’ experience in Sales and Distribution spanning […]

Archie Hesse The Ghana Interbank Payment Systems (GhIPSS) will this year introduce the instant payment system to quicken the payment of a third party through the banking system. This electronic payment system will enable money transferred from one account to another to be credited to the receiver instantly. Presently, banks need to connect to it […]

George Blankson, GRA Boss The Ghana Revenue Authority has put on hold plans to introduce the VAT on financial services from tomorrow. It would have seen banks and other financial institutions charge 17.5 percent tax on some services rendered to the public. Some of the services that would be affected include closure of accounts, remote banking services including […]

Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius did not have a mental disorder when he killed his girlfriend, a psychological report said as his murder trial resumed. This means the Olympic athlete was criminally responsible for his actions when he shot her, the prosecution said. The defence team argued Mr Pistorius was suffering from an anxiety disorder. The […]

JM De Voice Tomorrow July 1, Pub 24/7, located at the Tema Community 7, will witness historic musical performances by seasoned Ghanaian music stars to entertain music fans during the Republic Day celebration. Bound to be a night with magical and fiery performances from an incredible line-up of celebrated Ghanaian music icons, organisers are looking […]

The mortal remains of the late chief being handed  over to the family, INSET: The late Naa Dasana Andani Abdulai II Kingmakers of the family of murdered chief of the Bimbilla Traditional Area, Naa Dasana Andani Abdulai II will on Friday enskin a regent to oversee the traditional affairs of the area until a substantive […]

Nana Akufo-Addo On the occasion of the Ramadan fast by Muslims the world over, the two-time presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has sent a goodwill message to the Muslim fraternity. Following are the unedited greetings. I extend fraternal greetings to all Muslims in Ghana and across the world […]