The Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat Wamkele Mene has arrived in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire to begin a four-day working visit upon the invitation of the President of Cote d’Ivoire Alassane Ouattara. This is the Secretary-General’s first official visit to Cote d’Ivoire and he is expected to hold talks with a number of government officials and ...

This year’s Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) and Emancipation Day celebration which seek to promote Ghana as the gateway to Africa will take place between July 26 and August 1. The event being organised by Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) in partnership with PANAFEST Foundation is on the theme, “Securing the African family: Our health, our wealth, our soul,” with the ...

Multiple award-winning Ghanaian artiste Sarkodie and United Kingdom based female rapper Darkoo ignited the ‘Ghana Party in the Park’ event when they took to the stage as they produced an electrifying and memorable performance. The hundreds of fans gathered at the Trent Park in London to witness the biggest Ghanaian festival outside Ghana were taken by surprise with the stage ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is lacing his boots to contest the 2024 presidential election, barring any hitch. He has, therefore, tasked Muslims in his hometown Bole in the Savannah Region, to pray for him, as he prepares to return into the contest once again after losing the 2016 and 2020 elections respectively to the NPP’s candidate Nana Akufo-Addo. Radio ...

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. I have not come into your homes for some time, because I had hoped that the next time I did so, I would come to announce that we were ready to lift the restrictions and protocols, and get our lives and economy back to normal. Alas, that is not the case, so it has become necessary ...

US R&B star R. Kelly has been accused of fresh abuse allegations, including the claim he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy. Prosecutors allege the singer abused the teenager after meeting him at a Chicago McDonald’s in 2006. They want evidence of this, and other alleged but uncharged crimes, to be heard at Kelly’s trial in August. Kelly ...

At the age of just 13, Japan’s Momiji Nishiya made history on Monday by winning the first-ever Olympic gold medal in women’s street skateboarding. Nishiya topped a youthful podium with Rayssa Leal of Brazil, also 13, taking the silver medal and Japan’s Funa Nakayama, 16, winning bronze. The youngest-ever Olympic champion is Marjorie Gestring, who won the springboard title at ...

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Sam George has said he and his colleague anti-LGBTQI+ legislators are ready to debate anyone who is opposing their anti-gay bill before parliament but their disagreement must be based on law, fact, and science and not emotions or thoughts. He said people have the right to disagree with the stand they have taken to criminalise ...

President Akufo-Addo has announced a ban on post-funeral receptions across the country in the wake of a third wave of COVID19 in Ghana. According to the President, all funerals must also be held in open spaces and there must be the observance of the one (1) metre social distancing rule by sympathisers. Delivering his update number 26 since the outbreak ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stressed that the wearing of masks in public places is mandatory and anyone who flouts this law will have him/herself to blame. He bemoaned and described as ‘troubling’ that the high compliance rate of mask-wearing had declined drastically. Failure to adhere to the Covid-19 protocols according to the President had led to the upsurge ...