On Thursday 3rd November 2022, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey will chair a UN Security Council Ministerial open debate. The debate is on the topic “Integrating Effective Resilience-Building in Peace Operations for Sustainable Peace”. The objective of the meeting is to highlight the imbalance between military action and non-military interventions and to make a ...

German footballer Jerome Boateng was ordered to pay a fine of €1.2 million ($1.17 million) on Wednesday after a German court upheld his conviction of assaulting his former girlfriend in 2018. Boateng was initially sentenced to a fine of €1.8 million in 2021. He had denied the accusation and appealed the sentence. The Munich court confirmed he was guilty of ...

Political strategist and a Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic (NPP) Ernest Owusu Bempah has rubbished claims that Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, daughter of President Nana Addo Dankwa is taking undue advantage of her father to grab juicy government contract. It has been alleged in some quarters that the state paid her $25 million Gyankroma Akufo-Addo to paint parts of the ...

Ranking Member on Parliament’s Energy and Mines Committee, John Jinapor, has cautioned government to apply petroleum sector revenues for their intended purpose. According to him, 500 million of energy sector levies which could not be accounted for by the Ministry of Energy had been used to pay for pensions and other non-petroleum related activities. The money, he said could have ...

Shatta Wale says he has asked the Inspector-General of the Police to look into the security lapses in the entertainment industry. This follows his allegations that Nana Asiamah, known as Bullgod, planned artiste manager Fennec Okyere’s murder. Shatta Wale told Captain Smart on Onua Maakye that he is exasperated at the rate with which people tarnish his name. He pointed out ...

North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel Okudzteo Ablakwa has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo only created the impression that he cut cost by dissolving the Ministry of Special Development Initiative (SDI) but in actual sense he did not. He stated that President Akufo-Addo increased the budget of the SDI Secretariat at the President from GHS1million in 2020 to GHS358million in 2021. In ...

Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club has appointed club legend Bernard Dong Bortey as the team’s Under 14 Development Coach. The appointment comes as part of Hearts restructuring moves following the recent appointment of Bernard Nana Adu Gyebi as General Manager. Dong Bortey served in coaching roles at lower tier sides Techiman Gold Stars and Wa Yasin Football Club and ...

A new video from Ghanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has emerged on social media, calling Kwaw Kese to fight for the late Fennec Okyere. Shatta Wale has alleged that Nana Asiamah, known as Bullgod, planned Fennec Okyere’s murder.  Kwaw Kese’s former manager Fennec Okyere was brutally assassinated in March 2014. And Bullgod was arrested as a key suspect in the murder case. Yesterday, ...

Tottenham forward Son Heung-Min is a major fitness doubt for the World Cup after Spurs confirmed the South Korea star will undergo surgery to stabilise a fracture around his left eye. Son was forced off during the first half of Tottenham’s crucial Champions League victory over Marseille on Tuesday following a challenge with defender Chancel Mbemba. The 30-year-old’s availability for ...

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has lauded the contributions made by the Group of Earth Observations (GEO) through the provision of critical data that continues to inform policy formulation, programme design and implementation in Ghana. Speaking in Accra at the 18th Plenary of the Group of Earth Observations (GEO) Week in Accra on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 Dr Bawumia said ...