Anas, KSM et al billed for TEDx Accra 2016

EDxAccra has announced a diverse speaker lineup for this year’s TEDxAccra conference under the theme ‘Re-Think’ and scheduled to take place at the National Theatre from April 19, and to climax on April 23...

‘New’ Tigo ready to accelerate its business growth in Ghana

After two years of investing heavily to improve on customer experience, mobile network operator Tigo has unveiled its new brand identity, “Live it, Love it”, in Accra. In July 2014, the telecom operator took a...

Mac ransomware caught before large number of computers infected

The first known ransomware attack on Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) Mac computers, which was discovered over the weekend, was downloaded more than 6,000 times before the threat was contained, according to a developer whose product...

Nike suspends contract with Sharapova

Nike has suspended its relationship with Maria Sharapova after the five-time Grand Slam tennis champion admitted failing a drug test. Also, Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer cut its ties with the tennis star. Nike said it was...

Tanzanian teachers get free bus travel in Dar es Salaam

Teachers in parts of Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam are being given free transport to and from their schools. Kinondoni District Commissioner Paul Makonda said he hopes to expand the scheme across the entire city. The...

Disaster in waiting: Asutuare residents thread dangerously through patchy bridge

Residents of Asutuare in the Shai Osudoku district are living in fear as they risk their lives daily to cross a dilapidated bridge hanging loosely over a river. The bridge which is fast deteriorating links...

Worry no more about unemployment – Mahama tells Nungua youth

Flagbearer of the People's National Convention (PNC) Dr. Edward Nasigre Mahama has assured youth in the Krowor Constituency of the Greater Accra Region that “there's no need to worry anymore” since his government is capable and committed...

Kwaku Manu damns Ghana Movie Award organisers

Popular movie actor, Kwaku Manu, has taken a swipe at the organisers of the Ghana Music Awards for the ‘unfair treatment’ given to the country’s local film actors, which he said is disrespecting. The actor-cum-comedian...

Meet Majorie Arthur: a DJ cum Banker as we celebrate Women

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on Tuesday March 8, 2016, I take a close look at Majorie Marcel Arthur a.ka DJ MJ, a banker by profession who was born and bred in...

ISD workers in crunch meeting over Ghana@59 brochures

Staff of the Information Services Department (ISD) are in a crunch meeting in an attempt to clear the air over the brochures for the 59th independence anniversary celebrations. Though an apology has been rendered by...

Ex-US missionary jailed for abusing Kenyan orphans

A former US missionary has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya. Matthew Lane Durham, 21, had committed "heinous crimes on the most vulnerable victims", the...

JJ goes to Ghana’s rescue as State Protocol flops

One of the biggest flops at this year’s independence celebration was at the close of the event. After the departure of President John Dramani Mahama, the visiting presidents – Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta and Guinea-Bissau’s Jose...

Mahama cuts sod for project to boost technical education in Ghana

President John Dramani Mahama was at the Ada Technical Institute on Monday, March 7 to cut sod for the construction facilities to boost technical and vocational training across the country. Under the Development of Skills for...

JJ goes to the rescue as State Protocol flops

One of the biggest flops at this year’s independence celebration was at the close of the event. After the departure of President John Dramani Mahama, the visiting presidents – Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta and Guinea-Bissau’s Jose...

Horrific! ‘Surgical negligence’ leaves 8-yr old bedridden with gaping hole [Graphic Images]

An alleged surgical negligence by medical doctors at the Sunyani Regional Hospital has left an eight-year-old girl bedridden with a gaping hole in her intestines. Doctors at the Hospital who operated the primary two pupil...