Nicholas Kwame Woode THE TEMA Magistrate Court on Monday granted bail in the sum of GH¢60,000 with three sureties to Nicholas Kwame Woode, the self-styled medical officer accused of raping a 22-year-old student, on health grounds. The court, presided over by Isaac Adjei, however ordered the accused person to surrender his driving licence, passport and […]

Free for all fight at the NPP head quarters yesterday The headquarters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at Asylum Down in Accra was yesterday virtually turned into a Hollywood movie scene when hired hoodlums clashed with the party’s security boys in a free-for-all fight. It was during a press conference by Kwabena Agyei Agyepong […]

Kwabena Agyepong Mr. Kwabena Agyepong has a poor sense of humour and an inordinate phobia for caricatures, especially if these represent his countenance or mimic his hubris attribute.  For a man of his stature—a General Secretary of one of the two largest political parties in the country—caricatures should not have ruffled his feathers the way […]

President John Mahama Policy think tank, IMANI, has blown the lid on an alleged secret deal between the John Mahama administration and American lobbyist firm Jefferson Waterman International LLC (JWI), to project a positive image of the country to the United States government, in spite of the country’s severe economic challenges. JWI is alleged to […]

image ISLAMABAD: Protesters demanding the fall of government blockaded parliament and key ministries Wednesday in the latest round of a week-long political drama that has shaken country. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan and populist ...

From Libery: Some of lethal weapons on display at Bawku There was renewed violence in the Bawku Municipality Monday evening following the shooting of some two persons at Patelime – a densely populated community – by some yet-to-be-identified gunmen. Until the Monday night firing incident, the Bawku Municipality in the Upper East Region had been […]

MONROVIA (Reuters) - Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd agitating to leave a neighbourhood placed under quarantine because of the Ebola virus, witnesses said.

The search for singing superstars for this year’s Vodafone Icons Remix edition will start from the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi on Saturday, August 23, 2014. The audition, which will take place at the Golden Tulip Hotel, will give music lovers in the garden city and its surrounding communities the opportunity to be part of the ...

The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Assembly in the Eastern region has elected a new presiding member, who is the third woman to lead the Assembly since 1992.

The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Mines, Mr Sulemani Koney, has urged the executive and legislative arms of government to work harmoniously to ensure the ratification of minerals rights in the country as required by law.

The Minister for Communication, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, has called on agencies under the Ministry to endeavour to prepare themselves adequately to embrace the Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting migration by the 17th of June 2015.

Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller insists he has not been tempted by a move elsewhere, despite being offered "astronomical" sums of money. Muller, fresh from another outstanding World Cup for Germany, came through the youth ranks at Bayern and ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Four beheaded corpses were found by residents of a town in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, security sources said, blaming Islamist militants waging an insurgency against Cairo.

Nana Akufo Addo One of the contenders for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearership race, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has denied media reports that he was not ready for the August 31, 2014 special delegates’ congress of the party. A statement issued in Accra yesterday and signed by Eugene Arhin, Press Secretary to Nana Akufo-Addo, […]

Security forces in Liberia's capital deploy to enforce a quarantine in a large slum area in Monrovia in order to contain the spread of Ebola.

Former presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo, has said Tuesday’s mayhem at the party’s headquarters in the national capital, risks compromising the NPP’s electoral fortunes in the next elections

A 42 year-old mother of five, Philomena Biadoo, at the weekend stabbed her son to death at Tarkwa Breman in the Western Region

A 26-year-old carpenter, who allegedly inserted his finger into the private part of an 8-year-old girl, will spend three years in prison for the offence. The suspect, Frank Bansah, was jailed by an Accra Circuit Court presided over by Sedina Agbemava, who said the prosecution, led by ASP Sarah Akua Acquah, had been able to […]