More than 17, 000 unregistered workers on government payroll remain unpaid as the government continues its exercise of ridding the state’s payroll system of ghost names. This was revealed in a statement by Chief Director of the Finance Ministry, Patrick Nomo, who has asked affected workers to head to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to get registered. ...

Mr. Randy Boitey, the Eastern Regional Cocoa Extension Service Officer has said 400,000 hectares of cocoa farms are to be irrigated, this year, under a pilot project, launched by the government to boost cocoa production. The programme to begin with the 27 cocoa centres across the nation and some selected farms could help to significantly raise crop yield and promote ...

Ghana’s U-17 , the Black Starlets will face the Young Menas of Niger in the semi-final of the CAF U17 Nations on Wednesday. The Young Menas finished runners in Group A after beating Tanzania 1-0 to qualify on goal difference and that earned them a place at the 2017 FIFA U17 World Cup. Last month, the Black Starlets beat Niger ...

Zinedine Zidane claimed winning La Liga as Real Madrid coach on Sunday surpasses his stellar achievements as a player and even lifting the Champions League in his debut season as coach last year. Madrid claimed the Spanish title for a 33rd time as Cristiano Ronaldo struck his 40th goal of the season and Karim Benzema slotted home early in the ...

It could have been mistaken for a political convention of some sort as members of the two major political parties, the NPP and NDC converged at the Dabala Parish of the Global Evangelical Church in the Volta Region. They were there to mourn with the famous businessman Alfred Agbeshi Woyome and his siblings as they bid farewell to their late ...

Over four hundred Allied Health professionals will today, Monday May 22, begin picketing at the Health Ministry to demand clearance for their posting. The irate health workers completed their studies in August 2016. They claim they were deceived by the Health Ministry that clearance had been secured for their posting as far back as February this year. The latest protest ...

A lady believed to be in her late 20s is in the grip of the Tesano Police in the Greater Accra Region, for circulating on social media naked pictures of an actress, Destina Tata. The suspect who identifies herself as Shanti K is reported to have photoshopped pictures of the actress and shared them on Facebook. The victim’s pictures were ...

Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant is not exactly known as an especially generous athlete. While Kobe has engaged in plenty of charitable acts (including advocacy for LA’s sizable homeless population), his persona has always depended on setting high expectations for those around him and offering only tough love, if not outright animosity. Plenty of his former teammates could testify ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has urged small-scale miners in the Ashanti Region to comply with government’s ban on all forms of small scale mining. According to him, the ban is a step in the right direction and will help curb the menace, as every Ghanaian has to accept that “this is being done to save Ghana from extinction.” ...

Washington (AFP) – Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted an American military plane over the East China Sea, the US Air Force said Friday. The US aircraft, a WC-135 Constant Phoenix, was conducting a “routine mission” in international airspace on May 17 when it was intercepted by two Chinese Sukhoi SU-30 fighter aircraft, the Air Force said in a statement. The ...