The head of Los Angeles’s bid for the 2024 Olympics ruled out issuing an ultimatum to the International Olympic Committee on Friday, taking a veiled swipe at rival city Paris as the battle for the Games heats up. LA 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman told AFP in an interview that IOC moves to explore the possibility … Read more
Former Member of Parliament for La Dadekotopon Nii Amassa Namoale has finally revealed that his defeat was caused by his regional executives. According to the man who is lasing his boots to contest the flag bearer position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2020 Presidential elections said the regional executives became uncomfortable with … Read more
Paris and Los Angeles say they are only interested in hosting the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics – and not the 2028 Games. There have been suggestions the International Olympic Committee may award both the 2024 and 2028 Games in September. “2024 is now or never for us,” co-chair Tony Estanguet told BBC Sport. The LA … Read more
Donald Trump hailed America’s first populist president Wednesday, laying a wreath at the tomb of Andrew Jackson and waxing lyrical about the similarities between himself and the seventh US president. On the 250th anniversary of Jackson’s birth, Trump visited ‘Old Hickory’s’ Tennessee home, dubbed The Hermitage. Praising ‘the very great’ Jackson’s willingness to take on … Read more
Angela Garlington feels alone in the way she teaches science at a high school in Odessa, a Texas city populated by oil field workers. When she teaches evolution, the science of how Earth’s creatures evolved over billions of years, Garlington approaches it as a theory on par with creationism, the belief that life on Earth … Read more
Mr Lord Paul Boateng, Representative of the House of Lords, United Kingdom, has called on Africans especially Ghanaians to seek economic emancipation and take over their resources. He has also advised Ghanaians to seek for global hands that would help take care of the country’s resources. Mr Boateng made the call in an interview with … Read more
Vice-President Dr Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia has called for the combination of resources and energy for Africa to become developed economically and self-dependent. He said the issues of building self-sustaining independent economy was key for all and could not be done individually and called for stakeholders including the citizenry coming together to build it. Vice President … Read more
After eight movies over 17 years, Hugh Jackman returns this weekend for his final hurrah as Wolverine in “Logan,” an edgier, darker take on everyone’s favorite hairy, metal-clawed mutant anti-hero. Jackman, 48, had agreed with director James Mangold that if he was going to reprise his iconic role as the cigar-chomping loner one last time, … Read more
When traveling floats parade through the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras, the tradition is for the crowd to shout “Throw me something, Mister” — and for the riders to toss them brightly-colored beads in return. But these days, carnival societies in the southern US city are also hurling something sharper: political satire aimed … Read more
The US Supreme Court on Monday took up a case involving a North Carolina law that bars registered sex offenders from accessing social media and raises a broader question: can one live without the likes of Facebook? It goes back to a seemingly harmless event in April 2010, when a man named Lester Packingham learned … Read more
Fusion pioneer Larry Coryell, one of the first guitarists to win an audience bringing a rock edge to the jazz guitar, has died. He was 73. The guitarist, who kept a busy recording and touring schedule and had concerts planned well into 2017, died of natural causes at a New York hotel Sunday after playing … Read more
New York property tycoon Robert Durst confessed to carrying out the murder of close friend Susan Berman, a witness testified in a Los Angeles court Thursday. Durst, 73, whose life was the focus of an HBO series that ultimately led to his arrest, stands accused of the December 2000 execution-style killing of longtime friend Berman. … Read more
Reports of Ghana using child labour on its cocoa farms are grossly exaggerated and not a true reflection of practices in cocoa growing areas, the Western Regional Minister designate has said. When he appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) yesterday, Dr Kwaku Afriyie said he doubted the findings of researchers from the West … Read more
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday it’s “highly likely” the Senate intelligence committee will investigate former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s discussions with the Russian ambassador. “I think the fundamental question for us is what is our involvement in it, and who ought to look at it,” the Kentucky Republican said. “And the intelligence … Read more
Donald Trump may have given his unequivocal support to Los Angeles’s bid for the 2024 Olympics but the tumultuous first few weeks of his presidency have dealt a blow to the city’s hopes of staging the games, analysts say. Los Angeles and Paris are regarded as front-runners ahead of Budapest in the race for the … Read more
So Adele trumped Beyonce, then declared her love for her. Beyonce and her unborn twins performed then picked up an award of their own. Chance the Rapper swept the board in the rap stakes and David Bowie won five post-humous awards. Plus Adele smashed a George Michael cover (at the second attempt), Bruno Mars did … Read more
Beyonce will perform at this year’s Grammys complete with that twin baby bump, according to her dad Mathew. In an interview with a US TV show, he said the star sounds “tired” because she’s been working on the performance. He also said he was “shocked” to hear her pregnancy news and only found out after … Read more
The Managing Director of Global Media Alliance Broadcasting (GMA), Akwasi Agyeman, has been appointed acting CEO of the Ghana Tourism Authority. The Tulane University trained banker and management expert, is expected to bring his banking experience to bear on the Authority. He is currently in charge of the broadcasting wing of the Global Media Alliance, … Read more
The Managing Director of Global Media Alliance Broadcasting (GMA), Akwasi Agyeman, has been appointed acting CEO of the Ghana Tourism Authority. The Tulane University trained banker and management expert, is expected to bring his banking experience to bear on the Authority. He is currently in charge of the broadcasting wing of the Global Media Alliance, … Read more
The Managing Director of Global Media Alliance Broadcasting (GMA), Akwasi Agyeman, has been appointed acting CEO of the Ghana Tourism Authority. The Tulane University trained banker and management expert, is expected to bring his banking experience to bear on the Authority. He is currently in charge of the broadcasting wing of the Global Media Alliance, … Read more