Fuel prices are expected to dip by 70 pesewas following the amendments of the bill on the Special Petroleum tax Thursday. This means one would be paying about GH¢4.50pesewas for a gallon of petrol beginning tomorrow (Friday February 16, 2018) instead of GH¢4.67pesewas. The president is expected to assent the bill today, Thursday February 15, 2018 so the adjustment could ...

The Ghana Navy’s Western Naval Command has asked the government to equip it with the requisite tools to enable it to combat activities of criminal groups on the sea. Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Commodore Isaac Osei Kuffuor said the failure to safeguard Ghana’s sea power will not only be irresponsible but constitute a criminal negligence. Speaking at a ceremony to ...

Tullow has appointed Kweku Awotwi as Managing Director for its Ghana operations effective April 1, 2018. His appointment is coming on the heels of the impending retirement of the current MD Charles Darku. Darku leaves office after March 2018. Awotwi is an experienced international business executive with over 25 years’ experience working in the energy sector, electricity, oil and gas, ...

A lawyer representing 14 persons indicted for the murder of military officer, Major Maxwell Mahama, has given up on some of the accused persons at the eleventh hour, leaving them in limbo as trial is set to start on March 5. Lawyer George Bernard Shaw, who had been representing all the 14 accused persons in the preliminary stage of the ...

JURGEN KLOPP has hailed Liverpool’s perfect night in the Champions League and insisted their quality shone through against Porto. Liverpool have all but booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 5-0 thrashing away to Porto in the first leg of their last-16 tie. Sadio Mane grabbed a hat-trick to become only the second Liverpool player to ...

The daily procession of Pastors and Men of God trooping to radio stations to claim credit for predicting the deaths of Ghanaian celebrities and politicians first; is becoming too embarrassing for some top spiritual personalities in the country. It could be recalled that soon after the death of the young Ghanaian music artiste Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng popularly called Ebony Reigns in ...

An anti-establishment push to remove the need for entrance examination into law school, has entered its second phase of resistance. They want MPs in parliament to throw out a Legislative Instrument to legalise entrance exams declared illegal by the Supreme Court in June 2017. Standing in their way is the General Legal Council (GLC) keen to ensure that exclusive club ...

CEO of Slip Entertainment Mark Okraku-Mantey says he has nothing against controversial musician Shatta Wale but rather pities him. Mr Okraku-Mantey in a ‘One-on-One’ interview with Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM noted that he pities the singer because he may not know the implications of what he is doing. Mr Okraku-Mantey was being interviewed on the show ...

Hip-Life superstar, Michael Owusu Addo, known in showbiz as Sarkodie, says he is not bothered when people think his continuous rise is because he is a member of the secret society, Illuminati. Illuminati refers to several groups of both real and fictitious secret society perceived to be controlling events in the world. Members of Illuminati are believed possess the deep ...

An aspiring presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), who doubles as the 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament and the Member of Parliament for Nadowli West, Alban Sumani Kingsford Bagbin has said whether he wins the 2020 elections as president or not he will work for the development of democracy in Ghana. According to Hon. Bagbin, he believes ...