Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have suspended the Republic of Mali from the regional body, ordering the military leaders who are currently in charge of the nation to restore the transitional arrangement put in place in August 2020 with the aim of returning the troubled West African state to democratic rule by 27th ...

US actor Joe Lara, best known for playing Tarzan, is presumed dead after a plane crash in Tennessee. The 58-year-old is among seven people believed killed when a light aircraft crashed into a lake near the town of Smyrna on Saturday. His dietician wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded a weight-loss church, is also among the victims. Rescue workers say ...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secretly planned wedding at Westminster Cathedral. The marriage took place in a “small ceremony” on Saturday afternoon, a Downing Street spokesman said. The spokesman added that the couple would celebrate again with family and friends next summer, with their honeymoon also delayed until then. The prime minister ...

An Educationist, Mr Samuel Ziga has called for a review of the Free SHS policy saying the policy in its current state is not sustainable. According to Mr Ziga, parents who are in the position to pay fees must be allowed to pay to ease the burden on the government and also help the government undertake some infrastructural development in ...

The Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, the Most Rev Henryk Mieczysław Jagodziński, has described the election of Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin as the Speaker of Ghana’s 8th Parliament as a historic event that should guide future leaders. He said the fact that a candidate of the opposition party had been elected Speaker of Parliament should send a clear message to ...

There was chaos at St.Pauls Technical School in Akyem Kukurantumi in Abuakwa North Municipality in the Eastern Region Sunday when students in the school went on rampage and impounded a taxi cab being used by the matron of the school to transport alleged stolen food from the school’s kitchen. The students, some of whom were armed with stones and sticks, ...

Nigerian officials say gunmen have kidnapped many students from an Islamic school in Nigeria – the latest in a series of such attacks on schools. Authorities in Niger state confirmed to the BBC that gunmen had seized an unknown number of students from the school in the town of Tegina on Sunday. A teacher told the BBC that 150 students ...

The mother of former Black Stars midfielder Sulley Ali Muntari, Hajia Kande, has reportedly passed on according to reports in the Ghanaian media. Hajia Kande is said to have battled illness for some months but unfortunately succumbed to the illness. The mother of the former AC Millan and Inter Milan star reportedly died at Konongo in the Ashanti Region. Source: ...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has warned that doctors in Public Health facilities across the country will be forced to reject laboratory results without authorization by qualified Laboratory physicians if the impasse in the laboratory space is not addressed immediately. Addressing the media in Koforidua Sunday, May 30, 2021, the GMA said attempts by the laboratory scientists in public health ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Ministry of the Interior, the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Fire Service and the national office of the Electoral Commission (EC) to speed up the investigations into the fire outbreak at the EC office in Tano South and bring the perpetrators to book. “We hold the view that this case of ...