The Electoral Commission has made public an approved rate for personnel who have been engaged in the 2020 voters registration exercise. The development comes after a GhanaWeb publication which projected the plights of some registration officials. The personnel had expressed discontentment over the decision by the body to pay them an amount …

American social media giant Facebook says its investments in internet connectivity in Africa will see the continent’s economy grow by nearly $60bn (£47bn) by 2024. A report released by the company shows that an increase in access would significantly lower the cost of internet on the continent. Facebook says it …

A Chinese scientist suspected of visa fraud and concealing ties to the military has fled to China’s consulate in San Francisco, the US says. Prosecutors allege that the case is part of a Chinese programme to send undercover army scientists to the US. On Wednesday the Trump administration ordered the …

President Cyril Ramaphosa will tonight brief the nation on developments in South Africa’s risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of Coronavirus. “The President’s address follows a number of meetings of the Cabinet and the National Coronavirus Command Council,” said the Presidency on Thursday. The President’s address is scheduled to get …

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta is set to announce a temporary financial relief programme for persons who lost their jobs as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). To be known as the National Unemployment Insurance Scheme, the initiative is to be a temporary income and will be paid to …

Utility consumers are to enjoy free water and electricity supplies for the next three months. It follows plans by the government to extend the free electricity and water relief packages that ended in May for three more months. The new measure is to be announced in the mid-year budget review …

The Country Director of Amnesty International, Robert Akoto Amoafo, has urged government to deal with human trafficking issues as one of its priorities. His call follows several harrowing experiences by some Ghanaian and Africa migrants who survived or died from ‘modern-day slavery’ in Libya and some Arab states like Saudi …

A second-year student of the Ejisu Secondary Technical Senior High School has been hospitalised after drinking liquid soap in what is believed to be an attempted suicide on campus. This was after an Assistant Headmaster locked him up with a colleague, overnight, in his office, for stealing the school’s electric stabiliser …

Police at Ejura in the Ashanti Region have nabbed a 35-year-old woman alleged to have killed her two children at Yeboah-Akosua near Sekyedumase. According to police, the bodies of the suspect’s one-month-old baby and a two-year-old child were found at separate locations when police followed up after the father of …

A man has been killed after gunmen fired shots at a group of taxi drivers at the Eindhoven taxi rank on Thursday in Delft, Cape Town. According to Western Cape police, reports indicate that two unidentified suspects approached the taxi rank and started firing shots at taxi drivers who were …