Two Burundi officials have been arrested after their town’s football team allegedly “roughed up” President Pierre Nkurunziza who was playing during a match with his personal team, legal sources and witnesses said Friday. A legal source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the administrator of the northern town of Kiremba as well as his deputy, who is in charge ...

Popular author and educationist Professor Ama Ata Aidoo has set the stage for a national debate by calling for the scrapping of the boarding component in state-owned senior high schools (SHSs). “Ghana has never been able to afford boarding as a major component of its state-owned education system. We cannot afford it, and not wanting to admit this puts us ...

The Ghana Health Service says it has begun investigations to ascertain the identity of the mortuary attendant allegedly seen fondling the bodies of late dancehall artiste Ebony Reigns and her friend Franca Kuri in a video. There was widespread contempt from Ghanaians over the week after the video, reportedly capturing a mortuary attendant touching and examining the badly injured bodies ...

Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak has blamed the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye for the passage of the controversial legal profession regulations Bill 2018. The bill which was passed on Friday allows the General Legal Council (GLC) to continue to conduct entrance exams at the Ghana School of Law. The committees led by Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga and ...

A woman has been arrested for allegedly filming an altercation between a police officer and dancehall artiste Shatta Wale. The woman, whose identity has been withheld was picked up and later granted bail for allegedly capturing the video of Shatta gesturing and swearing at a Police Officer. The dancehall artiste was said to be driving an unregistered vehicle and was ...

Arguably, Sarkodie is second to none when making the list of most featured artiste for the past decade regardless some are of the view that he’s selective. On this note, rapper E.L in a recent interview has revealed how Sarkodie keeps rejecting his collaboration proposal for the past six months. The former BBnz record label artiste shared his bitter experience ...

Representatives from various civil society organisations have re-iterated their call for a revision of the “UPOV-compliant” Plant Breeders Bill. They called for a “sui generis” plant variety protection system as demanded under the WTO TRIPS Agreement. The representatives included Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG), Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), General Agricultural Workers Union – GAWU of TUC Ghana, Centre for Indigenous ...

MISSION STATEMENT “We are the voice and the hand that encourages people to change their lives with hope, comfort and peace.” Some people brought to him a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “Be encouraged, my child! Your sins are forgiven.” Matthew 9:2 VISION STATEMENT We are a ministry founded on biblical ...

Four suspected armed robbers on Friday attacked a total fuel station at Bosofour, a suburb of Asante Mampong and stole an amount of GHc9,000 from the station. The robbers also stole GHc3,000 from a mobile money vendor nearby. According to the police the incident occurred around 6:45pm on Friday. “On 02/03/18 at 1845hrs four suspected arm robbers with three wielding ...

The Akufo-Addo administration has been criticised for the initiatives they are taking in the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) as well as other agencies which aim at solving the issues of unemployment in the country. On the floor of Parliament, Thursday March 1, Ras Mubarak, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu challenged the purpose of the National Service Secretariat (NSS) ...