The US Embassy‘s claim that the Electricity Company of Ghana is inefficient in the processing and collection of bills is merely to hasten the process for the concessionary sale of the ECG to an entity the Embassy has an interest in. This is the belief of the Director of Operations of the Progressive People’s Party … Read more
Mr Rouhani was re-elected with 57% of the vote Moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said his re-election shows voters reject extremism and want more links with the outside world. After avoiding a run-off with a 57% outright victory over his main rival, Mr Rouhani said he respected his opponents’ right to criticise him. Mr … Read more
The United States and The Netherland Embassies in Ghana have pledged support for the country’s fight against illegal mining. According to the US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, the fight against ‘galamsey’ needed to be sustained to save the country’s environment and natural resources from further degradation and pollution. Figures from the Ministry of … Read more
The US Government has announced its readiness to support government’s efforts to protect the Atiwa Forest reserve and improve the quality of life of residents who depend on the resource. The Forestry Commission is expected to present its plan on converting the Atiwa forest reserve into a national park to cabinet soon. The plan when … Read more
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former US Congressman, estranged husband of one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides and former candidate for New York mayor pleaded guilty on Friday to sexting a school girl. The 52-year-old Weiner, wearing a dark suit and tie, broke down repeatedly — sobbing, sniffing and wiping his brow — while reading out … Read more
General Electric (GE), a digital Industrial Company has partnered with the Ghana Ministry of Health and Bouygues Batimat International with the support of the United States government to overhaul the Greater Accra Ridge Regional Hospital in Accra. GE Healthcare is on board as a technology partner through the supply and installation of various high-end medical … Read more
Almost 32 million US adults admit to extreme binge-drinking at least once in the past year, meaning they consumed eight to 10 alcoholic beverages — or more — in a single sitting, US government scientists said on Wednesday. The study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that instances of extreme binge-drinking from 2012-2013 … Read more
Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for giving US secrets to WikiLeaks, said Wednesday she was looking to put the past behind her as she walked free from a maximum-security prison in Kansas. “After another anxious four months of waiting, the day has finally arrived. I am looking forward to so much!” Manning, whose … Read more
A US government attorney insisted Monday that President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban did not unfairly target Muslims, in the latest twist in a months-long legal battle that has dogged the new US administration. Crowd rallied in protest outside an appeals court in the western city of Seattle where a panel of federal judges was … Read more
President Donald Trump’s top cyber and homeland security advisor said Monday that no US government systems had been hit by the world’s biggest ransomware attack. “As of today, no federal systems are affected,” said Tom Bossert, adding that his hard-hit British counterparts now had a “feeling of control” over the sprawling attack, which affected computers … Read more
The Syrian government has been accused of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners by the US government – which released satellite images to prove it. The Trump administration claims the bodies of those killed were burned in a large crematorium attached to the Saydnaya prison complex outside the Syrian capital of Damascus. The … Read more
A US government attorney insisted Monday that President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban did not unfairly target Muslims, as a panel of federal judges weighed the legality of the order. The latest twist in the months-long legal battle, which has dealt a stinging setback to Trump’s young administration, took place in the western city of … Read more
Questions are swirling over who is responsible for the security flaws exploited by hackers in the world’s biggest ransomware attack to date, which crippled thousands of businesses and public organizations around the world. Here are some answers: Because hackers exploited a security hole in some Windows versions discovered by the National Security Agency, Microsoft says … Read more
Hanging in a corridor outside the Pentagon press office, a blow-up of a Time magazine cover shows a weary US soldier drawing deeply on his cigarette. Barbed wire and snowy foothills loom behind him. The headline: “How Not to Lose in Afghanistan.” The date: April 20, 2009. More than eight years later, the Pentagon finds … Read more
Top US intelligence chiefs on Thursday publicly expressed doubts about the global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs because of its roots in Russia. Six leading intelligence officials told a Senate hearing on external threats to the United States of their concerns over the firm’s broad presence, without specifying any particular threat. Asked if he was aware … Read more
The head of US intelligence agencies offered a pessimistic assessment Thursday of the security situation in Afghanistan, where the US government is planning to send more troops to combat resurgent Islamic extremists. “The political and security situation in Afghanistan will also almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in the military assistance … Read more
The Ghanaian company that will take over the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact programme must invest at least $500 million in the company, the Energy Minister has said. This will help meet government’s plan of ensuring that Ghanaians have at least 51 percent stake in … Read more
Claims by government that the two former detainees of Guantanamo Bay were to spend only two years in Ghana, have strongly been disputed. The two, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, were in detention for 14 years, after being linked with terrorist group Al-Qaeda and later transferred to Ghana under a … Read more
Chuck Nelson spent 30 years underground in nearly every mining job available but today he is in no doubt about it: “There is no future in coal.” For the fourth-generation retired miner, the politicians — Donald Trump chief among them — who won votes in his native West Virginia on a promise to bring back … Read more
Terrorists are planning to kidnap foreigners on a Philippine island popular with tourists, the US embassy has warned, a month after a foiled abduction attempt by Islamic militants at another tourism hotspot. An advisory from the US embassy in Manila on Tuesday warned Americans to “carefully consider” going to Palawan, naming a World Heritage-listed underground … Read more