It is emerging that the American Embassy may have goofed in the ongoing media banter with Ghana’s electricity distributor over the state of indebtedness by the Embassy. Email conversation between an embassy official and ECG personnel intercepted by Myjoyonline.com indicate that the Embassy has paid its bills to March 2017. The details of the email … Read more
Military tensions on the Korean peninsula should not prevent the nuclear-armed North sending a team to the 2018 Winter Olympics in the South, according to the head of the Games organising committee Lee Hee-Beom. The former diplomat and trade minister also said the heavily-fortified border between the two Koreas would be opened to allow any … Read more
Footwear of mourners has continued to flood the doorsteps of the family of a senior high school student attacked and killed in the recent chieftaincy-related clash in Bolgatanga, the Upper East regional capital. Sumaila Mohammed, aged 20 years, died Tuesday of gunshot wounds at the Tamale Teaching Hospital in the Northern Region, 3 days after … Read more
Ambassadors and High Commissioners who served during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama have paid a courtesy call on him to thank him for their appointments and opportunity to serve the country abroad. Spokesperson for the former envoys, Ambassador Sam Pee Yalley, praised Mr Mahama for his dedicated service to Ghana, noting that he … Read more
Two Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 jets have conducted an “unprofessional” intercept of a US aircraft, the US military said. The US WC-135 plane was on a mission to detect radiation in international airspace over the East China Sea. One of the Chinese jets came as close as 150ft (45m) to the US aircraft, according to US … Read more
Bulldog, former Manager of Shatta Wale’s is alleging the self-acclaimed dancehall king planned to kidnap one of his boys. The motive for this action, Bulldog revealed is over a paltry GHC600.00 Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) royalties. He expressed shock his former ‘best friend’ could stoop so low to plan a kidnap when he [Shatta … Read more
American software giant Microsoft held back from distributing a free security update that could have protected computers from the WannaCry global cyber attack, the Financial Times reported Thursday. In mid-march, Microsoft distributed a security update after it detected the security flaw in its XP operating system that enabled the so-called WannaCry ransomware to infiltrate and … Read more
Non-career Ambassadors and High Commissioners who served under former President John Dramani Mahama have expressed gratitude to him for the honour and opportunity to serve the country abroad. The spokesperson for the former envoys, Ambassador Sam Pee Yalley, congratulated President Mahama for his dedicated service to Ghana, noting that he served with honour and distinction. … Read more
Court of Appeal judges in London have stuck two fingers up to Nestle’s attempts to trademark the shape of its famous four-fingered KitKat bar. The ruling is the latest twist in a decade-long UK chocolate wars saga between Nestle and Cadbury. The Dairy Milk maker failed in its own attempt to trademark the shade of … Read more
The family members of Gregory Afoko, who is standing trial at an Accra Fast Track High Court in connection with his alleged role played in the gruesome murder of the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, NPP, Adams Mahama have hinted they will petition the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and … Read more
India will shortly take delivery of two M-777 ultra-light howitzers, manufacturer BAE Systems said Thursday, the country’s first such acquisition in over three decades after a major corruption scandal in the 1980s. The equipment is a part of a $750 million deal New Delhi signed with the US last year to buy 145 howitzers as … Read more
US soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military files to Wikileaks. A US Army spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that she had left Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas. Most of what remained of her 35-year sentence was commuted by … Read more
Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the UK, Mr Victor Smith has said he does not talk to former President Jerry John Rawlings. He described his relationship with his former boss as “not the best.” Mr Smith was fired by Mr Rawlings as his spokesperson on 9 April 2008 via text message ahead of that year’s … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) did not lose the 2016 elections because its founder Jerry John Rawlings failed to be part of the party’s campaign, Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the UK, Mr Victor Smith has said. The former Abuakwa North MP aspirant told Francis Abban on Accra-based Starr FM on Wednesday, 17 May that … Read more
Ethiopian opposition politician Yonatan Tesfaye has been found guilty of encouraging terrorism for comments he made on Facebook. He was arrested in December 2015 as a wave of anti-government protests in the Oromia region was gathering momentum. The authorities objected to several posts including one in which he said the government used “force against the … Read more
Recent comments by the Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Daniel Bugri Naabu, did not only disgrace his political grouping – the New Patriotic Party (NPP) – but has also emboldened the family of Gregory Afoko, who is standing trial in a court, to press for his immediate release from prison custody. Gregory … Read more
A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 184 people in recent weeks with another 11,000 suspected cases across the country, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday. The figures cover the period of April 27 to date, an ICRC spokesperson told AFP. The toll marks a sharp increase from Sunday’s count of … Read more
Chelsea Manning will continue to receive health care and other benefits given to active duty soldiers after she is released from prison on Wednesday, it was reported on Monday. The transgender army soldier, who was jailed for one of the largest leaks of classified documents in US history, will remain eligible for the benefits so … Read more
The former Mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly ( KMA) Hon. Kojo Bonsu has rejected claims that his office inflated costs of the historic recreational facility, the Rattary Park his administration built in Kumasi. He deems those reports captured in the sessional address of the new Mayor, Hon. Osei Asibey Antwi as merely populist and … Read more
Over 5,400 School Feeding caterers will this morning picket at the Gender Ministry Pupils of public primary schools who are beneficiaries of the School Feeding Program will from today, May 15, 2017, have to depend on their parents for food during school hours following the boycott of caterers of the Program over non-payment of their … Read more