British High Commissioner to Ghana Jon Benjamin has said jollof from Ghana is “superior” to Nigerian jollof. Last year when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria, he described Nigerian jollof as delicious but was cautioned by his close Nigerian friends not to compare Nigerian jollof to that of other countries. The caution stems from the fact that there has been ...

Mrs. Matilda Amissah-Arthur, wife of the former Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has encouraged children to learn hard and pass their exams well in order to become future leaders. Mrs. Amissah-Arthur gave the advice on Wednesday during a visit to Multikids Inclusive Academy at East Legon in Accra. Descriding herself as a friend to children and a mother for all, ...

Harare – Will any top Zimbabwe officials actually send their children to the new Robert Mugabe university that’s being set up in honour of the 93-year-old president? That’s what Zimbabweans have been asking after the official Chronicle newspaper reported this week that the authorities had begun the process of “setting up” the new institution, which is being billed as a ...

The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU), has lashed out at the U.S. embassy for supporting Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko’s claims that the Embassy has not paid its electricity bills for more than two years. The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko had earlier revealed that American Embassy’s 160 facilities in Ghana had not been billed for two years, adding that the Embassy ...

A member of the management team of the Black Stars, Ernest Thomson said targets set for Kwesi Appiah are realistic and achievable. The former Al Khartoum manager had been tasked to qualify and win AFCON 2019 in Cameroon and employ his possible best to qualify the team for the 2019 World Cup in Russia and to build a strong national ...

Abuja – Nigeria’s government on Thursday retracted its announcement that another Chibok girl was free, saying she was not one of the 219 whose kidnapping more than three years ago caused global outrage. The presidency said on Wednesday evening that the teenager was picked up by the military after fleeing from Boko Haram jihadists. But Laolu Akande, spokesperson for Vice ...

May 17 (UPI) — He has many more luxury vehicles, but the small collection Floyd Mayweather showed off Wednesday is still worth much more than most people can afford. The former professional boxer posted a video to social media displaying his array of Rolls-Royces. The six cars featured were: two Drop Heads, a Phantom limousine, a Phantom Limited Edition, an ...

Washington (AFP) – LeBron James delivered 38 points and Kevin Love had a career playoff high 32 as the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers opened their Eastern Conference final series with a blowout win on Wednesday. The Cavaliers were coming off a 10-day break but showed no signs of rust by going wire-to-wire to easily beat the Boston Celtics 117-104 at ...

With poverty appearing to be as permanent as her tribal marks, it would be okay for the 20-year old to roll over and remain a yearly statistic for Ghana Statistical Service’s poverty survey. But with two hands and a granite skull, Memunatu Bakuri is pulling together her own great escape from penury by pounding fufu and carrying load until 2018. ...

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has directed the country’s port authorities to act decisively in halting the inefficiencies at the ports. Such inefficiencies and other bottlenecks, he said, had resulted in significant losses in revenue to the state, businesses and individuals. “The inefficiencies encourage collusion among some importers, clearing agents, and Customs officers to exploit the system to the detriment ...