The man behind the massively successful ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is facing major financial hurdles in his own fight against ALS. Pete Frates lies on life support in the bedroom of his house with his care costing somewhere between $85,000 and $95,000 every month, his family says. The family told CNN affiliate WBZ they are … Read more
The Galatasaray star posted his Christmas version of the viral challenge, including team-mates, Football teams and players fully embraced the mannequin challenge this year, but Wesley Sneijder’s Chrsitmas-themed attempt is surely one of the best. From the likes of Borussia Dortmund, Cristiano Ronaldo, Belgium and Spain to Serie B side Cittadella, the video challenge has … Read more
The President of the Ghana Real Estate Developers (GREDA), Mr Kwakye Dopoah-Dei, has asked members of the association and estate developers in general to prioritise quality over quantity in the construction of houses for the general public. This, he said was needed to ensure that estate developers give value for money to their customers while … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday begun registration of prospective voters ahead of the December polls in a process dubbed: “continuous registration exercise.” The exercise was carried across the district offices of the commission nationwide. The EC in May registered 90 percent of 1.2 million voters it was targeting to capture onto the electoral register … Read more
Residents of Gbullung and its environs in the Kumbungu District of the Northern Region have called on President John Dramani Mahama to, as a matter of urgency, construct the three major roads linking Gbullung to Kumbungu, Tolon and Nyankpala. Over 1,500 residents, comprising the youth, nursing mothers, covered over eight kilometers from Gbullung through some … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has given an assurance that Ghana’s inflation rate will fall to a single digit by 2017 when the country exits from the three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The programme would also help reduce the country’s budget deficit, while stabilising the cedi, the President said … Read more
Mental health care is becoming a critical international concern, but as a country we are still straining to attend to the mental health needs of our suffering and stigmatized citizens across the country where government and the society has not given proper attention to mentally ill patient in the country. Psychaid and Love has observed … Read more
A group of students and lecturers at the Kumasi Polytechnic in Ghana’s second main city, are resorting to electricity to solve some of the challenges in the automobile industry. Ghana imports an estimated 70,000 vehicles annually. These vehicles are powered either by petrol or diesel. Some of them are also old meaning there’s the challenge … Read more
The Outreach Director for the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, Colin Bloom should mind his own business and focus on the challenges confronting the Conservative party and how to fix those challenges, Hanna Tetteh, Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has said. Mr Bloom appeared to have incurred the wrath of Ms … Read more
Famous Ghanaian actress, singer, philanthropist and model, Juliet Ibrahim claims that Ghanaians only believe she’s on screen because of her skin color but not because she’s a talented actress. According to Juliet Ibrahim, she didn’t face a lot of challenges coming into the movie industry but her challenge has always been how to disabuse people’s … Read more
Cocoa Processing Company Limited (CPC) says most of the structural challenges facing it have been resolved, as the company prepares to break into the West African sub-regional market. “Arrangements are almost complete to commence from the Nigerian Market…The expansion of the local market is currently being pursued by recruitment of suitable key distributors in the … Read more
Government has set up the Senchi Economic Report Implementation Committee to ensure that the Report was effected to the benefit of all. President John Dramani Mahama, who announced this on Friday, said “I am chairing the strategic advisory committee which is to work on policy alternatives that Ghana needs in a short term to overcome … Read more
“It is will be a painful insult if President Mahama presents himself again as a candidate in 2016. It will also be an indictment on the intelligence of the average Ghanaian if Mahama presents himself as a candidate and he is voted for…” Kwamena Duncan, who made the above statement, opined that looking at the … Read more