Child Rights International is calling for the arrest and prosecution of parents who engage their children in illegal mining. According to the organisation, its latest findings on child exploitation in mining communities point to an alarming increase in the engagement of children as labourers on mining concession sites with at least four in every five homes within the designated areas ...

The Editor of the Finder Newspaper, Elvis Darko, has rubbished claims discounting the discovery of cocaine at the Tema Port that reportedly went missing. The Sector Commander of the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), at the Tema Port, Confidence Nyadzi, had earlier dismissed claims that 500 kilogrammes of cocaine worth about $30 million ...

The Water Research Institute (WRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says government will be effective at monitoring activities of small scale miners if it legalizes galamsey. The Institute said the degeneration of illegal mining in the country is a function of the absence of effective monitoring by the relevant state institutions. At a media encounter on ...

The Indian men’s football team on Thursday climbed to the 100th spot in the latest FIFA world rankings — their best rating in more than two decades. Despite having a population of well over one billion, India languishes as a footballing minnow, ranked equally alongside Nicaragua, Lithuania and Estonia in a global table headed by Brazil. India — where the ...

Prices of fuel in the second pricing-window for the month of April 2017 recorded some form of stability at the pump in reference to Petrol and Diesel. The stabilization in prices was as a result of stiff competition for market share among the various Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs). Gasoline and Gasoil sold at GHS3.99 per litre and GHS3.95 per litre ...

Notwithstanding the current economic and socio-political uncertainty, numerous companies in Africa are still positive about the growth potential of the continent. PwC research across the continent shows that 91% of CEOs are confident about their own companies’ growth prospects in the medium term. “This is the highest level of confidence since we started our research on CEOs in Africa in ...

SuperSport United and the South African Football Association have agreed terms on the release of coach Stuart Baxter to Bafana Bafana at the end of the current PSL season. Baxter will be officially unveiled as Bafana head coach by Safa President Dr Danny Jordaan upon his return to South Africa from CAF and FIFA commitments. The Matsatsantsa coach will, meanwhile, ...

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has stated how he visited Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe at his home last year in an attempt to bring him to the Emirates Stadium. Wenger has made no secret of his admiration for Mbappe, 18, in the past, saying in February that Arsenal have been tracking the youngster, before reiterating the club’s interest in him last ...

Barack Obama considered a same-sex romance and regularly snorted cocaine, an explosive new biography has claimed. The unauthorised biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Garrow, entitled Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, details a life of debauchery with drugs and sex long before the politician set his sights on office. Former girlfriend Genevieve Cook fell for a then 22-year-old ...

Feed the Future, an initiative by the United States government has mobilized more than $115 million in private sector investment for Ghana’s agricultural productivity, boost incomes, and link farmers to market and trade opportunities, Melinda Tabler-Stone, Chargé d’affaires, US Embassy has said. According to her, the US government is aware that the growth of commercial agriculture in Ghana is constraint ...