Member of Parliament for Kpandai, Mathew Nyindam, has said the Minority in Parliament is wasting the time of all parliamentarians with regards to the motion filed in relation to the alleged extortion of $100,000 from expatriate businessmen by the Trade Ministry during the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards held in Accra. The Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, has recalled ...

BARCELONA are set to launch a £133m offer for Liverpool star Philippe Coutinho in a bid to prise him away from Anfield this month. That’s according to La Liga expert Guillem Balague. Barcelona are desperate to finally land Philippe Coutinho after seeing their offers rebuffed last summer. Liverpool have been reluctant to part with their star man but Balague claims they are ...

The General Secretary of the Ghana Federation of Labour(GFL) Abraham Koomson has said some ministers of the Akufo-Addo government are oblivious of the President’s agenda and aspirations. According to him, several of the ministers don’t act in sync with the president’s objectives. “Whereas he’s heading towards Takoradi, some of his ministers are reversing to Ashiaman and Adjei Kojo. They’ve lost ...

The end of a relationship can sometimes feel like the end of the world. How do you pick yourself up and find happiness again? In this article, Beauty and Tips finds out. Unfortunately, even those relationships we thought would last forever sometimes end. No matter how high our hopes were, and no matter how much of ourselves we invested in ...

The Israeli government has issued a notice for thousands of African migrants to leave the country or face imprisonment. The migrants will be given up to $3,500 (£2,600) for leaving within the next 90 days. They will be given the option of going to their home country or third countries. If they do not leave, the Israeli authorities have threatened ...

For bond investors, Africa was a happy hunting ground last year. Its local-currency and dollar securities easily outperformed those of emerging markets overall as investors piled into a continent offering high yields and starting to recover from the commodity bust of three years ago. But risks abound, among them policy tightening in advanced economies, local and global politics, weakening currencies ...

A leading New Patriotic Party (NPP) member Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has kicked against moves to set up Special Courts to prosecute TV license defaulters. The TV licensing Act 1966 (NLCD 89) of Ghana mandates the collection of license fees from persons or households owning TV sets. The collection of the fee was reintroduced in 2015. Domestic TV users are to ...

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George, has said the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) cannot impose a levy on Ghanaians because it is now a commercial media organisation competing with private media houses for sponsorship. According to him, to the extent that the GBC has veered off its public service mandate, and become a commercial broadcaster, it cannot continue ...

Helen Dunmore has won the Costa Book prize for poetry for her 10th and final collection, Inside the Wave. She was named on Tuesday along with four other winners across five categories in the Costa Book Awards. The poet and novelist died from cancer in June last year. Inside the Wave explores the borderline between the living and the dead ...

The Majority Chief Whip, Matthew Nyindam, has said the Special Prosecutor will deal with corrupt public office holders across all political divide and will not harass members of a particular administration. According to him, the Office of the Special Prosecutor was approved by parliament after a thorough deliberation on the proposal, therefore, deep considerations went into its creation, a situation ...