Tons of cashew nuts are getting rotten in the Brong Ahafo Region as cashew buyers are unable to export nuts to foreign markets due to an export ban placed on the commodity by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI).
The ban was enforced as part of measures to improve local processing of cashew which is expected to create jobs...
A law lecturer, Yaw Oppong, says although the Speaker of Parliament has assumed the country's presidency, he cannot perform certain critical functions without consulting President John Dramani Mahama.
He observed that the 1992 Constitution is silent on the decisions that could be taken by the Speaker of Parliament when he is sworn-in as the President in the absence of an...
President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, Lordina, have arrived in Glasgow, Scotland for an Official Visit, which will include a meeting this afternoon with the First Minister of the Scottish Parliament, Rt. Hon. Nicola Sturgeon.
Ahead of this afternoon's meeting, President Mahama will be the guest of the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament and observe the First Minister's...
The Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) is calling for independent auditors to audit and transmit the elections results in the upcoming general elections.
Ghana goes to the polls on November 7 to elect a President and Members of Parliament, but there have been concerns about the readiness of the Electoral Commission for the national exercise.
The Electoral Commission recently published a request...
The Public Relations Officer at the National Service Secretariat, Ambrose Antsiwah Jnr., has swayed public concerns about the scheme’s policy asking service personnel to pay registration fees.
According to him, the policy has been in existence for years only that people are now averting their minds to it.
The National Service Scheme has come under severe criticism by some national personnel...
Ghana's Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, has assumed the country's Presidency for a limited period of four days as both the President, John Mahama and his Vice are out of the country.
Mr Adjaho was sworn in a while ago by Chief Justice Georgina T. Wood at the Parliament House in Accra amidst cheers from the minority Members of...
Everyone strives to be a great person, kind, caring, and compassionate. But for some people, that’s not always the case.
There are many behaviours or ‘bad habits’ that people have that make them seem unattractive, annoying, or someone that no one wants to be around with.A few of these harmful characteristics are offered for you below, and if you happen...
President Barack Obama has nominated veteran appeals court judge Merrick Garland to be the next US Supreme Court Justice.
The Supreme Court vacancy follows the death of Antonin Scalia last month.
Judge Garland, 63, is viewed as a moderate and has won praise from senior Republican figures.
The appointment has to be ratified by the Senate, but its Republican majority has vowed...
The National Security Council has announced that countries within the sub-region including Ghana face possible terrorist attack.
The threat of possible attack came up on Tuesday when the Council reviewed the security situation in the country in a meeting with President Mahama and security chiefs.
“The National Security Council on the basis of briefings by the intelligence agencies and partners has...
Same old set of players, different set of matches. That was the underwhelming feeling when Ghana boss Avram Grant named his Black Stars squad for the double Nations Cup qualifying header against Mozambique on March 24th and 27th.
The Black Stars top group H after six maximum points and should negotiate the next two set of qualifiers without losing their...
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) wants all those complicit in the alleged fake certificate scandal that has rocked Ghana's educational sector to be arrested and prosecuted alongside the teachers.
The GNAT says there are obviously people who aided those teachers so far identified to have used fake certificates to get employed by the Ghana Education Service.
The Ghana Education...
France has said it will deploy a paramilitary police force in the capital of Burkina Faso to react quickly in the event of new attacks by Islamist militants in West Africa.
The move comes two days after gunmen opened fire at an Ivory Coast beach resort killing 18 people, including four French citizens.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it...
The Tetteh Quarshie Hospital at Akuapem Mampong in the Eastern Region has been brought to its knees by lack of basic equipment and infrastructure; a situation that is making the facility ineffective in providing some of its critical services.
Basic equipment like X-Ray, sterilization and laundry machines have been left un-serviced, almost a year after it broke down. This compels...
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, 2016 Vice-Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), says the party sees the need to restore allowances to trainee teachers and nurses as non-negotiable, explaining that teacher education, in particular, is critical to developing the quality human resource Ghana needs to succeed in the competitive global community.
“We will restore the teacher and nursing training allowances...
Oil Marketing Company, Ghana Oil Limited has unveiled former WBC Super featherweight Champion, Barimah Azumah Nelson as its brand ambassador.
The former boxing champion will be the face of GOIL for the next one year in all its promotional activities and Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes. A plaque of Azumah Nelson as the new ambassador has been unveiled and a...
