The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU), the mother body of staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), is threatening legal action against government over its intended move to give out the power distributor on a 25-year concession. According to the union, the current concession agreement did not make provision for the payment of severance packages to ECG workers in ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama’s intention of contesting for the flagbearership race of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is no longer shrouded in secrecy as he has kicked-off his campaigns with regional visitations. According to this paper’s sources close to the former President, he has snubbed the recommendations of the Prof Kwesi Botchwey Committee’s report which recommended that the party ...

ALVARO MORATA is angry at Real Madrid for demanding Chelsea and Manchester United pay £80million to secure his signature, reports claim. Real Madrid star Morata has been linked with moves to Chelsea and Manchester United throughout the summer transfer window. United initially looked in pole position to snap him up but instead rocked Chelsea by signing the Blues’ top target, ...

Hon Mahama Ayariga Moves to Ensure Accountability in Universities Fees Fixing Hon Mahama Ayariga has moved to ensure accountability in the fixing of fees and charges by public universities and senior high schools (SHS) in Ghana by demanding that they should be brought to Parliament for approval pursuant to the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009 (Act 793). The ...

  University of Ghana has over the past few months recorded cases of death of students – Some of which were reported to have been suicides, accidents and health complications. Unfortunately, the University populace would be welcoming a few more deaths in the next few days all because of the negligence. After a careful review of the state of spome ...

“Obviously there are other good strikers in football but the Premier League is a very specific habitat, a difficult habitat, normally players need some time to adapt but Lukaku has played in the Premier League for the last four or five seasons so now he comes to a club with a different responsibility than Everton or West Bromwich Albion. “I think ...

No one’s going to claim Africa has all the best beaches in the world, but it has some of them. From the wind-tickled shores of the Seychelles to the haunting, seal-dappled coast of Namibia, the continent’s sandy fringe is varied and dramatic. Here’s a small sample of Africa’s best beaches. 1. Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt You really can walk across the ...

Former Member of Parliament for Dayi Constituency says the Deputy Trades Minister lost the fact that he is now a politician and not a diasporan, as he wanted to be seen by the Diasporan community he addressed. George Loh says Robert Ahomka Lindsay now comes in a political cloak and that is how he is going to be judged. He ...

Security analyst, Kwesi Anning is predicting more bouts of violence in the country if government fails to equip security officials with the needed tools and gadgets to keep them armed against trouble makers. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has recently revealed that the main reason for the ill-fate on most security officers is due to the fact that they ...

Director of Administration at the Prison Service, Stephen Coffie, has revealed that Ghana currently has no hangman to execute death sentences. According to him, the last professionally trained hangman Ghana had has long left the system and is yet to be replaced. The last time the death sentence was used on convicts was in 1993, during former president Jerry John ...