The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has received 40 Ghanaian deportees from the United States of America for offences ranging from the trafficking of banned substances, assault, vehicle theft, burglary, fraud, domestic violence and immigration-related issues. A statement issued by the Assistant Superintendent Barbara Sam, in charge of Public Relations at …

Amanda Akuokor Clinton wants to do something no Ghanaian woman has ever done – become President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Best-known for representing the GFA as they made formal responses to the government of Ghana and FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland and representing different international corporate clients who invested …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has rebuked Tanzania for failing to provide information about possible Ebola virus infections. The WHO said it had learned of one suspected fatal case in Dar es Salaam and two others but, despite repeated requests, was given no information. Tanzania has said it has no …

A 52-year-old woman Akosua Dwamena has been arrested for allegedly using Pig feed to bake wheat bread at Obomeng in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region. According to the District Environmental Health Officer of the area Welbeck Afevia Dzidza, the arrest was made on Saturday evening. Speaking to …

Seven individuals have filed their nominations to contest the upcoming Ghana Football Association (GFA) election to choose a new president. The seven nominees are Mr George Afriyie, Mr Kurt Okraku, Mr Wilfred Kwaku Osei Palmer, Nana Yaw Amponsah, Mr George Ankamah Mensah, Mr Kojo Yankah and Madam Amanda Clinton. According …

The bodies of four children have been recovered from a watercourse in a flood-prone area at Bremang UGC in the Suame Municipality in the Ashanti Region on Saturday evening. The minors drowned when they went to the area to swim. Residents in the area made a distress call to the …

The Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has secured two separate mining concessions in Akrofrom district of Ashanti Region to be used for the Community Mining Programme to replace the destructive illegal mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’. Over three thousand (3,000) illegal …

Former Ghana Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi is returning to football politics in a big way – but not in a front line role. Nyantakyi, leader of the nation’s football governing body from 2005 to mid-2018, will be key to the destination of the GFA presidential elections on October 25. …

Ghana’s left-wing political movement, Economic Freedom Fighters, have made a case for a united continent, stressing it is the only way Africans can achieve true economic development. The leader Ernesto Kofi Yeboah observed that while Africans are fighting among themselves, its wealth is being carted away by Europeans and western powers. …

An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater on holiday in Tanzania. Steven Weber and his girlfriend, Kenesha Antoine, were staying in a submerged cabin at the Manta Resort, off Pemba Island. Footage shows Mr Weber diving under water to ask Ms Antoine to marry him. In …