President Nana Akufo-Addo says the late former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Busumuru Annan, gave him sensitive advice when he took over as President of Ghana. Nana Akufo-Addo said he appreciated the advice from the late diplomat. “He gave me sensitive, deeply appreciated advice when I became President of the Republic,” Akufo-Addo said when he read his tribute at Kofi Annan’s ...

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has eulogised Kofi Annan as a great leader, describing the former UN boss as “one-of-a-kind”. “He was an exceptional global leader,” Mr. Guterres said in Accra Thursday during the burial service of Mr. Annan at the Accra International Conference Centre. Mr. Annan who died on Saturday August 18, 2018 in a ...

At least fourteen teacher trainees who sat for the just ended teacher licensure examinations are currently in police custody for their roles in the alleged leak of exam questions. Reports emerged on Wednesday that some of the questions for the exams leaked, while long delays characterised the exam at various centres across the country. The teachers arrested over the leakages, ...

Gold trading firm Menzgold has urged its customers to keep calm despite the directive from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for it to stop their trading activities with the public. The company, however, says it is disappointed in the regulator for leaking to the public, its directive to the compnay in spite of their cooperation and submission to investigations into their ...

The School of Agriculture at the University of Cape Coast has demonstrated a greenhouse production and the greening of the environment in urban residential areas in Cape Coast. The project seeks to test an idea of greening, actively managing and using urban spaces that are currently unmanaged or unused to produce vegetables and green landscape. The project mobilises regulations, policies ...

The Headmaster of Mfantsipim Senior High School in Cape Coast, Mr Manfred Barton Oduro has described the former United Nations Secretary-General and an old boy of Mfantsipim School as a perfect gift to Mfantsipim and strongly believes the next Kofi Annan will be from the same school. Kofi Annan who was the first black African to lead the United Nations ...

The Ministry of Trade and Industry, in collaboration with B5Plus Limited, a foreign steel manufacturing and distribution company, has cut sod for the construction of a steel company in the Ningo Prampram District. The project is part of the Government’s efforts to establish one factory per district to reduce the unemployment rate in the country. The project is fully funded ...

Management of Menzgold has announced Thursday morning that it has temporarily halted its collectables and any new business related to its gold vault market with immediate effect. According to the company, the halt of what is also called extra value payments takes effect from today Thursday, September 13 and will be in place for six days, “by which time we ...

The First lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has called on the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health to take urgent steps to prioritize breastfeeding as one of the major public health interventions in the country. She said the early beginning of breastfeeding in infants and sustained exclusive breastfeeding among babies, especially in the first six months in life, would ...

‘A watershed moment in officiating’ Williams’ claims of sexism were backed by the governing body of women’s tennis, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), whose chief executive said the umpire had shown the 36-year-old a different level of tolerance than if she had been a man. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) also supported Williams’ claims, while Billie Jean King, founder ...