The Management of the Cape Coast University (UCC) has announced the cancellation of the John Atta Mills commemorative lecture which was scheduled for its campus this week. In a statement, the university said the decision was informed by the COVID-19 pandemic which makes it impossible to hold large gatherings. The …

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has hit 601,213, according to the tally by Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has hit 14.2 million, while more than 7.9 million people have recovered. US deaths from the novel coronavirus exceeded 140,000 on Saturday as cases continued to …

The Fight Over Nkrumah’s Remains: On April 27, 1972, Kwame Nkrumah, the deposed President of Ghana and a great Pan-Africanist died in Bucharest, Romania after six years in exile in Guinea far away from his birthplace of Nkroful at the age of 62. Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah arrived in Conakry, …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has confirm the death of a final year Senior High School (SHS) student at Methodist Girls High School located at Mamfe in the Eastern region. The final year SHS student died just a few weeks after resumption of academic work to prepare for the final …

Chemical tanker CURACAO TRADER was attacked at around 1100 UTC Jul 17 in Gulf of Guinea, 230 nm south of Lagos, Nigeria, while en route from Lome Togo to undefined port. Pirates boarded the tanker and kidnapped 15 crew, according to Dryad/IMB report. They’re believed to be of Russian and …

South Africa now ranks fifth in the world for confirmed coronavirus cases as the African continent faces the pandemic’s first wave head-on, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. South Africa on Saturday reported 13,285 new confirmed cases for a total of 350,879. That puts the country ahead of Peru, …

A Ghanaian woman yesterday shocked followers of popular relationship blogger Abena Magis with her ‘MyMotherMyRival’ story. The woman who pleaded to be anonymous revealed how her own mother has collapsed her 7-year-old marriage by dating her son-in-law. The story which many followers of Abena are finding it difficult to believe, …

The communications director of Medeama SC, Patrick Akoto, noted that there is an anxiety among the football fraternity ahead of CAS’ decision on Wilfred Osei Palmer’s case against the Ghana Football Association. Palmer was disqualified from the presidential elections in 2019 by the Normalization Committee and dragged the case to …

A total of 7,279,237 eligible Ghanaian voters have been registered so far by the Electoral Commission in the ongoing voter registration exercise. A lot of those captured are in the Greater Accra Region (1,524,600) followed by the Ashanti Region (1,319,498). From the EC’s data, 63.8 per cent of the registered …

A top executive of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region has threatened to kill a National Democratic Congress (NDC) polling station agent the way Issah Mobila, a former Northern Regional Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) was murdered. In a chilling on- record telephone banter, …