Ghana’s Sports Minister Mahama Ayariga says he is concerned by the massive exodus of players from the Premier League. The Minister made this observation during the inaugural Premier League awards ceremony since the takeover of First Capital Plus Bank as headline sponsors. Ghanaian players have been forced to seek greener pastures in various parts of … Read more
Cameroonian striker Albert Ebossé has died after being hit in the head by an object thrown from the stands during an Algerian league game. The 24-year-old was fatally struck by a projectile at the end of his club JS Kabylie’s meeting with USM Alger in Tizi Ouzou. Kabylie said in a statement: “The Ministry of … Read more
Takoradi which prides itself with the accolade the ‘Best Comes from the West’ is gradually loosing this pride to nothing, but filth, due to the inability of the city authorities to manage the sanitation situation. At the time that the deadly Cholera disease has raised its ugly head in Accra as a result of filth, … Read more
The Ministry of Roads and Highways last year generated an amount of Gh¢49.06 million from 35 toll stations and a ferry station at Ada. The Ministry, as at the end of June 2014, had collectecd Gh¢ 27.8 million at 38 stations, including the Ada and Senchi Ferry stations. Alhaji Inusah Fuseni, Minister of Roads and … Read more
It has emerged at the Presidential Commission investigating matters related to the 2014 World Cup appearance that government spent $471,130.39 on the Black Stars at the tournament. This figure is far less than earlier reports had suggested. It was previously thought that $7m was spent on the country’s World Cup campaign in Brazil but it … Read more
Health Minister Kweku Agyemang-Mensah says government has had to squeeze money from the Ebola fund to fight the cholera endemic. President John Mahama only last week ordered the release of six million cedis to augment the fight against Ebola. The president instructed that part of the money be used to purchase 10,000 additional Personal Protective … Read more
The first Nigerian Ebola patient has been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emergency Operation Centre, EOC, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos. News of the discharge of the unnamed female doctor, who was one of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian Patrick Sawyer, was broken, yesterday evening, by Minister of Health, Prof. … Read more
The government of Ghana has refused a request by Sierra Leone’s national team to play its 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against DR Congo in Accra next month. CAF instructed countries being attacked by the Ebola virus to find venues away from their respective countries for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations’ qualifying series. … Read more
Have you ever wondered why the Ghanaian government shuffles its ministers from ministry to ministry, despite the perceived poor performance of some of these government officials. I have also wondered as well and if that policy gets your goat, be prepared to lose an entire herd. It is common knowledge that Ghana’s trip to the … Read more
Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, a leading contender in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearership race, has asked the party’s delegates not to vote for what he called ‘a candidate that (only) NPP people want.’ Rather, he said, the delegates should select a candidate that “non-NPP people will vote for,” referring to what he has tagged ‘floating … Read more
Ghanaian workers on Jack Ryan rig on the Jubilee Oil Field are on a sit down strike in protest of poor salaries. The rig does exploratory work for Lukoil, the same company whose local and expatriate staff recently died in a helicopter crash at sea recently. The riggers, numbering about 43 have laid down their tools and … Read more
Ghana’s Beach Soccer Team have been ranked 8th in Africa after maintaining their 60th position in the World. Rapidly emerging Ghana saw no change in the latest Beach Soccer rankings released by the Beach Soccer Federation World Wide (BSWW). Nicknamed the ”Black Sharks”, team Ghana is ranked 8th in Africa ahead of South Africa and … Read more
One of the doctors who treated the Liberian Ebola patient who later died in Lagos has tested positive for Ebola Among those who had contact with the late Liberian on his way to Nigeria, 70 of them are currently under surveillance. Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, while briefing the press in Abuja, on Monday, … Read more
In April 2014, when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) elected its New National Party Executives, most of the party’s supporters were of the view that the party would now have a unified front that could provide stiff opposition to His Excellency President John Mahama’s 2016 re-election bid. Three months after the election of the NPP’s … Read more
A former presidential candidate of Ghana’s biggest opposition party says contrary to the “propaganda” that he is too old and weak at age 70 to run for president again, he is “fit and strong” for the task. “Ladies and gentlemen, I am fit and ready and my appetite is as keen as ever to go … Read more
Although power supply in the country over the past two weeks has improved tremendously which certainly has brought to an end the punishing load shedding exercise, government is said to be reluctant in officially announcing an end to the ‘dumsor dumsor’ phenomenon. Sources close to the country’s power production and distribution sectors disclosed that though … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama on Monday charged his ministers to roll up their sleeves and get to work, as there is a lot of critical and urgent work to be done. “Our people are tired of listening to fine talk, what they want to see is the deliverables that will make their lives better…I, therefore, … Read more
The Ministry of the Interior has declared Monday, July 28, 2014 as a Public Holiday. A statement signed by Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister for the Interior on Monday said the day marks the celebration of Eidul Fitr. “The general public is hereby reminded that Monday 28 July, 2014, which marks the celebration of Eidul-Fitr is a … Read more
For years, Ghanaians have futilely been looking for the source of the corruption and immorality that us decimated the moral fabric of our society. At the 2014 Minister’s Conference of the Baptism Convention, Rev Ocquaye unreservedly ascribed the blame for Ghana’s depravity to the inability of pastors to provide good leadership. In his opinion it … Read more
In the first half of 2014, GHANA received a total of $562,48 million in oil revenue according to the Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper. Of this amount, transfers to Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) for Equity Financing Cost ($33.72 million) and its share of the Net Carried and Participating Interest ($78.73 million) amounted to US$112.45 … Read more