Can something which has no physical presence consume as much electricity as an entire country? The internet has recently been awash with claims that the digital currency Bitcoin could be using more electricity than a number of developed nations. So Reality Check wants to know: how did they work it out, and is it true? Although it has been around ...

Several influential figures responsible for creating the internet have demanded that a controversial vote be cancelled. This week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will decide on whether to repeal an Obama-era law that protects “net neutrality”. It refers to the principle that all traffic on the internet is treated equally. The pioneers said the FCC did not know what it ...

Over 150 senior well intervention experts will get together in March at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra to discuss their well intervention and P&A strategies in a bid to increase efficiencies and reduce the cost of both deepwater and shallow water projects. Well intervention & completions experts Ihechi Ojukwu (Chevron Nigeria), Kelechi Victor (Nigerian Agip) & Ifeanyi Ugbor (Shell ...

Juba – More than 170 people have been killed in fighting between rival cattle herders in central South Sudan in the past week, a lawmaker said on Tuesday. “When it comes to those who are wounded, it is almost 200,” added Dharuai Mabor Teny, a member of parliament from the Western Lakes area, some 250km northwest of the capital Juba. ...

Nana Kwaku Okyere Duah, better known in the showbiz circles as Tic Tac, says he is bigger than self-acclaimed ‘Dancehall King’, Shatta Wale. He said this in an interview on ‘Behind the Fame’ on Drive Time on Joy FM with Lexis Bill, Monday. Recently on the S Concert stage, Shatta Wale said that veteran artistes such as Tic Tac VVIP, ...

Mogadishu – A senior Somali intelligence official says a suspected US airstrike has largely destroyed a minibus travelling near a rebel-held village in southern Somalia. The official says the strike by an unmanned drone occurred near Mubarak village in Lower Shabelle region late on Monday night. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak ...

Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Amadu Sulley (in charge of Operations) and Georgina Amankwa (in charge of Corporate Services) are expected to be probed by a Committee over corruption allegations leveled against them. The EC Chairperson on Monday, December 11, appeared before the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court after President Nana Akufo-Addo forwarded a ...

MANCHESTER UNITED were beaten by Manchester City on Sunday in a game that means the Premier League title race is all but over. But Manchester United could be looking down, rather than up, at their local rivals had Jose Mourinho got his way in the summer. At the time, fans were happy. Romelu Lukaku, Victor Lindelof and Nemanja Matic were ...

Tensions were high at the central business area of Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region when military personnel stormed the town to ease vehicular movement after taxi drivers blocked the road with their cars leaving motorists stranded in gridlock for over an hour. The drivers who ply the Mankessim-Saltpond and Mankessim-Esuehyia lanes of the Accra-Cape Coast stretch ...

While Liverpool and the two Manchester clubs will be fairly pleased with the Champions League draw, Chelsea have paid a high price for finishing second to Roma at the group stage. The Blues have been drawn against Barcelona in the Round of 16, leaving them with an uphill struggle to make it into the later rounds. Though it might be ...