The captain of the Black Maidens Sandra Owusu-Ansah has said, the team is targeting the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup trophy which is scheduled to kick start on Friday, September 30 in Jordan. Owusu-Ansah who scored nine goals for Fabulous Ladies in the National Women’s League will be making her second appearance at the tourney … Read more
Key business organizations in the country have called for all shipping lines that flouted the Transport Minister’s directive asking them to halt charging the Terminal Handling Charges to be sanctioned. Transport Minister Fiifi Kwetey directed all shipping lines in the country to stop charging the Terminal Handling Charges which is a newly introduced clearing charge … Read more
Nigerian male Barbie, Idris Okuneye, has declared he is not gay in a new interview with TW magazine. He said, “I am not gay…No, I am not gay. Idris appears awkward to Nigerians due to his feminine dress sense and the make ups he wears. He added, “I think it is because of my look. … Read more
The framers of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution envisioned the respect for human rights hence the enjoyment of Political rights. These political rights enable citizens to actively participate in the political process and activities of the State. Concomitantly, there are limitation on the extent an individual can engage in political activities depending on the position, status and … Read more
Dr. Edward Nasigre Mahama flag bearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC) has said that Ghanaians should stop blaming colonial masters for the woes of this country and resolve to remove the bottlenecks bedevilling the economy. Dr Mahama made this assertion on My Turn show on GTV Govern, during the station’s question and answer session, … Read more
The framers of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution envisioned the respect for human rights hence the enjoyment of Political rights. These political rights enable citizens to actively participate in the political process and activities of the State. Concomitantly, there are limitation on the extent an individual can engage in political activities depending on the position, status and … Read more
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has described as false a recent report which appeared in the Daily Graphic, headlined “Government spent $750,000 on Rio 2016” at its press conference held in Accra on Friday, September 16, 2016. A rejoinder signed by the Secretary-General of the GOC, Richard Akpokavie, however, acknowledged that the said headline contradicted … Read more
Dear President Barack Obama I hope this letter meets you well.? Like they say back home in Nigeria” Se dada ni gbogbpo ile wa? “ Eku Donald Trump ati Hilary Clinton. Eku Election Fever. I do not really know how to translate this last one on Clinton and Trump but the Yorubas of Nigeria have … Read more
The Minister of Youth and Sports has revealed that his ministry has initiated talks with security agencies in the country with the aim of investigating allegations of corruption in the 2015/16 Ghana Premier League. NiiLanteVanderpuye, in an interaction with members of ‘Football Africa Arena’ on the matter of corruption in the GPL, said: “Soon, you … Read more
A former diplomat, Ambassador James Victor Gbeho, has underscored the need for African countries to train a new crop of negotiators who will be able to defend the interests of the continent in the global arena. He indicated that there was a general feeling of dissatisfaction among former diplomats and negotiators that African countries deserved … Read more
There are strong indications that the majority of Ghanaians want the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to retrieve all monies lost by the state through corruption scandals, especially judgement debts. According to the latest survey by policy think-tank, IMANI Ghana, it is important that the government pursues and retrieves such monies for the benefit … Read more
The overall level of economic freedom in Ghana has grown higher than the country’s neighbours, says the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom released by Heritage Foundation at Institute of Economic Affairs. The Washington-based organisation scored 186 countries across the world on four fundamental pillars covering open market, rule of law, regulatory efficiency and limited government. … Read more
The recent press statement by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) regarding the issues of accreditation, promotion of university lecturers in Ghana, and the publication of academic work by university lecturers does not only smack of a compromised position of UTAG Executive Council but it also reveals how some labor unions can be hijacked … Read more
President Mahama has been rated ‘F’ in his attempts at fighting corruption in the country by the New Patriotic Party (NPP). A US-based policy think tank, The Heritage Foundation in its 2016 economic freedom index, earlier observed that although Ghana had made significant progress in areas such as rule of law, the country was still … Read more
Selling ourselves into 21st Century slavery; the regrettable story of ECG “WE HAD TRADED IN THE MARKET COMPETITIVELY PERFECT TILL YOU CAME, …AND CUT OUR RIBS, DRIED OUR COWS.” -(“EXPELLED” by Jared Angira, Kenyan Poet) A commonly accepted thesis is that the scramble for Africa from about 1885 until the beginning of World War I … Read more
As a major fuel supplier in Africa, Puma Energy says it welcomes Public Eye’s call for a tightening of fuel quality specifications in African countries, and will continue to support cooperation between governments and industry to achieve this goal. Puma’s comment follows a revelation by the Swiss NGO through a three-year research project that importation … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has touted his government’s achievement in improving food production in the country. According to him, Ghana currently produces 60% of its meat requirement and only imports 40%. President made this remarks when he co-hosted the “Pathways to Zero Hunger” in New York with his Togolese counterpart Faure Gnassingbé in partnership with … Read more
Another Ghanaian pilgrim whose name has been given as Alhaji Yakubu Zakaria has passed on in Saudi Arabia. This follows the passing on on September 13 of Alhaji Alhassan Kuku of Accra. The latest casualty, 65, is said to hail from the Volta Region. He died of cardiogenic shock, according to the Ghana Medical Team … Read more
A four-day ECOWAS health resilience training programme to equip selected individuals from the fifteen West African states has ended in Accra. The initiative is to create a Regional Rapid Response Team to tackle future disease outbreaks in the sub-region. Member states of ECOWAS met in May last year to dialogue and take a strategic decision … Read more
In spite of a broader slowdown in the economy, Ghana’s ICT sector has seen high double-digit growth over the past 12 months, supported by new infrastructure and value-added mobile services. Growing penetration helped the ICT sector outpace broader economic growth, according to data issued by the Ghana Statistical Service in late June. While GDP expanded … Read more