GhIPSS initiates moves to enhance usage of E-Zwich card
The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) has intensified activities to revive the patronage and usage of e-zwich cards.
Patronage of the electronic payment...
Reform smokers rather than jail them- NACOB boss
The Executive Director of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Yaw Akrasi Sarpong, has called for the need to reform drug addicts specifically smokers rather...
Three students steal housemaster’s Xmas goat, stripped of boarding status
Three final year students of Adventist Senior High School in Kumasi have been stripped of their boarding status for stealing a goat on campus...
Syria conflict: Massive power blackout across country
Syria has suffered a massive power blackout across the country due to "unknown reasons", state media said.
Officials were cited as saying power had been...
Return CPP’s confiscated assets or pay compensation – Greenstreet
Flagbearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet has called on government to return confiscated assets of the party or pay compensation...
EC to conduct background check on Election Steering Committee members
The Electoral Commission says it will in future conduct a thorough background checks on persons before being selected to serve on the newly created...
Oscar Pistorius denied leave to appeal for Steenkamp murder
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been denied leave to appeal against his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The Constitutional Court has made...
Two Policemen held over extortion granted bail
Two Policemen who allegedly mounted a road block and extorted cash amounting to GH¢ 247.00 from unsuspecting drivers at Tabora junction have been granted...
C-Poly Alumni demonstrates over Technical University Conversion
The Cape Coast Polytechnic Association and the Coalition of Central Region Youth groups have staged a demonstration to register their displeasure over the non-inclusion...
Somalia’s al-Shabab journalist Hassan Hanafi sentenced to death
A Somali military court has sentenced to death a former journalist who helped al-Shabab kill five fellow reporters.
Hassan Hanafi assisted the Islamist militant group...
Nigeria police hunt Lagos schoolgirls’ kidnappers
Nigerian police are hunting for three teenage girls abducted from their boarding school on the outskirts of Lagos city by heavily armed men.
Kidnappings for...
I discovered my talent out of hunger – Funny Face
Popular Ghanaian comedian, Funny Face, says it was hunger that pushed him to the limit to discover his real talent, which has now become...
Flavor donates musical instrument to the church his career began
Nigerian A-list Artiste, Flavor recently visited the church his career began and donated few musical instrument as an appreciation and remembrance of his root.
Though...
Scented candles and air fresheners; the silent killers
Lives are being put at risk from air pollution inside homes caused by everything from boiler fumes to air fresheners and scented candles, it...
Armed robbers attack traders at Sekyere Afram Plains
Some unknown assailants have robbed traders from Afram Plains traveling to Kete-Krachi in the Volta Region, of their money and personal effects.
The about 65...
Is ‘porn addiction’ a real thing?
A video series by actor Terry Crews detailing his struggles with pornography has been watched by millions over the past few weeks - but...
Give me 3 yrs to pay back money – Woyome begs...
Embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has pleaded with the Supreme Court to give him a period of 3 years to pay back the GHȻ51.2...
NDC withdraws from Abuakwa North by-election
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will be “insensitive” and “unsympathetic” if it contests the March 29 by-election in the Abuakwa North Constituency.
The...
Adam Johnson not guilty of child sex crime
Ex-England footballer Adam Johnson has been found not guilty of one count of sexual activity with 15-year-old girl.
A jury at Bradford Crown Court is...
Kufuor calls for second chamber of parliament
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has called for the creation of a second house of parliament that would ensure that laws are passed with...