Forget Mother’s Day, or even Father’s Day – August 11 is National Sons And Daughters Day. And while made-up holidays may get flack for being created by greetings card companies, for Kim Kardashian this is the perfect chance to reflect on the lessons of motherhood. The mother of two enthusiastically celebrated the holiday with a […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger will be be in the next Terminator film – his fifth and the series’ sixth – going by what the 70-year-old action star’s told The Playlist. James Cameron, director of the first two movies in the series, has dished a bit about his plan for Arnold’s involvement in the new installment, as Express.co.uk reported. Asked whether […]

 From Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi The Governing Council of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has duly ratified all certificates, diplomas and degrees the University awarded between September 1, 2013 to June 28, 2016. The Council has also by extension ratified all staff promotions by the defunct Governing Council which required validation. Accordingly, all convocation […]

  The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged newly qualified doctors who are posted to rural communities to undertake their housemanship not to see it as a form of punishment. According to President Akufo-Addo, “The early Ghanaian doctors of legend, the pioneers who built the medical profession, such as Charles Easmon, […]

  A board member of the Africa Center for International Law and Accountability (ACILA) and a former magistrate, Mavis Kwainoe, is advocating for the introduction of communal service into the country’s criminal justice system, as a measure of reforming Ghana’s criminal justice system and decongesting the overcrowded prisons. She made the call when executive members […]

From Richard Owusu-Akyaw, Kumasi. A public interest advocate has charged President Akufo-Addo to pay attention to institutional corruption in Ghana towards rebuilding the economy. “Government should pay attention to institutional corruption, because it may free more resources and may reduce our borrowing”, Dr. Ernest K.P. Kwarko has suggested. In an interview with The Chronicle, Dr. […]

  By Maxwell Ofori. When the former Minister for Finance, Mr Seth Terkper, announced in Parliament in 2013 that ministers of state, including the President and his vice, were going to donate 10% of their monthly salaries to support the construction of Community-Based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compounds throughout the country, many were Ghanaians who […]

  From John Bediako, Tema. The extension of the rail line from Tema to Akosombo would serve no meaningful purpose if attention is not given to dredging of key areas of the Volta Lake to enable the Volta Lake Transport Company (VLTC) to navigate all year-round. The Director of Strategy and Corporate Affairs at Ghana […]

  From Inusa Musah, Tema Hajia Alima Mahama, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, has charged the media to press duty-bearers to be responsible and accountable to the citizenry. The media constantly throwing their searchlight on public servants, she explained, would result in effective work output and consciousness to serve the nation with good […]

  By Joan Lisa Quarshie. The Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ) has launched its 4th edition of the IFEJ Flamingo Awards for business and financial journalists in Accra. Journalists, specifically, financial and economic reporters who write comprehensive and accurate business news, would be the beneficiaries of the IFEJ Flamingo Awards. The IFEJ is […]

  By Bernice Bessey To reduce vehicular accidents and death toll on the roads, engineers have been engaged to re-design the roads to make them more accommodating and condusive for all road users, especially pedestrians. Current roads designs, especially in the Accra Metropolis, are more to accommodating vehicular traffic than pedestrians and cyclists. Due to […]

  From Maxwell Ofori, Saltpond The 70th Anniversary celebration of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) was, on Friday, 4th August, 2017, marked in grand style on the land of its birth, Saltpond, in the Central Region. The anniversary celebration was kick-started with a Memorial and Thanksgiving Service at the Wesley Methodist Church. At about […]

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  Visa has announced its support of the new global QR Code Payment Specifications from EMVCo, the global technical body that manages the EMV Specifications. The specifications cover consumer-presented and merchant-presented QR code use cases for digital payment acceptance. QR Codes are two-dimensional machine-readable barcodes used to facilitate mobile payments at the point-of-sale. Visa and […]

  From Ernest Best Anane, Kumasi. MTN Ghana has launched Mobile Mobile Month and assured customers of its commitment to expand payments through the Mobile Money system. Mr. Abdul-Majeed Rufai, Mobile Money Manager for Corporate Business Development, explained during the launch that this year marks the 8th Anniversary of the mobile money month celebration, hence, the need […]

  Stories from Richard Owusu-Akyaw Military personnel, civilian employees and the Army Wives Association (AWA) of the Fourth Battalion Infantry (4BN) in Kumasi have to donated items to the Deduako Community Special and Vocation School to mark their 20 years of relocation from their old barracks to Complex, near the Prempeh College. The items, estimated […]

  From Sebastian R. Freiku. The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has acquired a new aerial platform truck (hoist) at a cost of GH¢520,000 under an Urban Development Grant (UDG). The new vehicle would help the Electrical Department of the KMA to undertake routine maintenance of the street lighting system. The Metro Chief Executive, Osei Assibey […]

Almost two thousand years ago, certain young man dreamt of forming a movement that would transcend all borders and spread to the ends of the earth. To have this very ambitious plan come into effect, He started to lay down concrete programmes. He first formed a group which He taught His ideas and ideals. He […]

  It is becoming increasingly clear that sections of Ghanaian motorists have been breaking the Road Traffic Regulation 2012 [L.I. 2180], which is the law governing the use of our roads in this country. Sections of our motorists, especially, government and state officials as well as micro-finance and private security companies, have been installing top […]

FROM NANA KWASI KOOMSON,SEKONDI. A community policeman, whose name was given as Ernest Fiabgenu, drowned at New Takoradi, in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, on Wednesday 2nd August, 2017, around 9pm, in an attempt to arrest suspected thieves in a canoe. Mr. Fiabgenu, who is in his mid-twenties, was pursuing suspected thieves who went to steal from […]