The 2017 African Pride Awards comes off at the Montcalm Hotel on Sunday, August 13,2017. Leading the award nominations this year are Wizkid, Davido, Mr Eazi, Tekno, Yemi Alade, Shatta Wale, Tiwa Savage and Diamond Platnumz, who are all nominated for the ‘Artist Of The Year (Africa)’ award, with the likes of Maleek Berry, Sona, Moelogo, Eugy, Juls and Ms. ...

MANCHESTER UNITED will allow Wayne Rooney to join Everton on a free transfer, according to reports. Manchester United and Everton are locked in talks over deals for both Wayne Rooney and Romelu Lukaku. The Red Devils have agreed a £75million deal with Ronald Koeman’s side for Lukaku, although Chelsea still have a chance of snapping him up. That means that ...

Vatican police have broken up a gay orgy at the home of the secretary to one of Pope Francis’s key advisers, it has been reported. The flat belonged to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is in charge of tackling clerical sexual abuse. When police showed up, they found drugs and a group of men engaged ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today July 6, 2017 commission the FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor to begin production of oil in commercial quantities in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) oilfields in the Western Region. The Floating Production and Storage Vessel (FPSO) was named in honor of the former President; John Agyekum Kufuor in Singapore in February this year ...

The Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) has told Citi Business News it will come out with a comprehensive data base of all insurance holders in the country to help reduce insurance fraud. The move is also targeted at improving information sharing among insurance companies to synchronize information provided by clients. Speaking to Citi Business News at a forum organized by Dun ...

ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger is pushing ahead with a deal for Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez and hopes the Algeria international can rediscover his best form, reports claim. Arsenal tried to sign Mahrez from Leicester last summer but the Foxes held firm and ultimately kept their star asset. However, he was unable to replicate the form of the 2015/2016 season where he ...

Ghana cannot meet the September 21, 2017 deadline set for the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting, the Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said. The country missed the initial June 2015 deadline set under the Geneva 2006 agreement of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for countries to migrate onto the digital platform, citing delays in accessing funding for ...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed that government is preparing to meet the board of the International Monetary Fund later this month. A team from the IMF led by Joël Toujas-Bernaté, earlier visited Accra on the 10th of February this year to welcome the government’s intention to conduct a full audit of outstanding obligations under the External Credit Facility ...

Since 2005, Ghana continues to show steady improvements in economic growth of over 7% per year on average, making it the first African country to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. However, as growth has accelerated the disparities between the Northern and Southern broad regions, in terms of economic development, becomes clearer. To ...

A group of 18 international rights organisations has told the Tanzanian government to stop threatening local civil society organisations which champion gay rights and the right for teenage mothers to return to school. Last week, the government threatened to deregister any organisation which continued to campaign for schoolgirls who get pregnant to be allowed to return to school after giving ...