A founding partner of the E. O Group, George Yaw Owusu, credited with the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities in Ghana, has vehemently denied claim that, former President John Kufuor, used him and his colleague as fronts to chip away substantial part of the natural mineral to himself. Mr. Owusu, who worked in the Petrochemical industry for 27 ...

Former Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi, has admitted his committee received money from officials of the National Lottery Authority before deliberating on the amendment of the National Lottery Act, 2006 (Act 722). He said the Authority first presented GHC 50,000 to the Committee “but when we looked at the provisions, we realised that the amount was not ...

The grand finale of the 2017 National Science and Math Quiz will be held today [Thursday], at the National Theatre in Accra. The event will see three schools; St. Thomas Aquinas, Adisadel College and Prempeh College, battle for supremacy and bragging rights. The three competitors successfully triumphed over other schools throughout the contest to make it to this stage. The ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, might soon face Parliament’s Education Committee following the refusal of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), to organize a special exams for some 200 students at Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region who could not write two papers in the just ended exams. The over two hundred students were unable to write this ...

The Northern regional chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu has called off indefinitely a process to confirm the District Chief Executive nominees for Gushegu West Mamprusi and Bunkprugu districts in the Northern Region. The President on Friday nominated new District Chief Executives for Gushegu, West Mamprusi and Bunkprugu districts but since the announcement of the ...

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has confirmed that his club has not held talks with Manchester United over the transfer of Alvaro Morata. It has been reported in Spain that Morata’s agent Juanma Lopez has held talks at the Bernabeu to try to negotiate the player’s departure. Lopez also revealed last month that Real had rejected an offer from AC ...

The Minority has sternly lambasted the Akufo-Addo led government for expressing its willingness to use the country’s natural resources as collateral in securing a $19 billion loan from the Chinese government. Vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia revealed after a four-day visit to China that the loan will not be based on the traditional model of borrowing and aid, but will ...

More than a quarter of the world’s population now uses Facebook every month, the social network says. “As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially two billion people,” founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg posted. The milestone comes just 13 years after the network was founded by Mr Zuckerberg when he was at Harvard. He famously dropped out ...

The head coach of Accra Hearts of Oak Frank Nuttal claims he is not paying attention to the league table, despite closing in on WAFA and Aduana Stars. The Phobians’ 0-2 win on the road in match-day 19 saw them draw closer to the top two teams who recorded a draw and defeat respectively. “I have not looked at the ...

A board member of Accra Great Olympics, Fred Pappoe, has admitted that the club was unfair to Godwin Attram in the appointment of a new coach, Tom Strand. Attram who doubled as a player coach for the Dade Boys was relegated to the post of an assistant coach role following the appointment of the former Medeama SC trainer as the ...