– Every 14th wedding celebrated in Germany between October 2017 and December 2018 was for same-sex couples, according to figures from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Destatis data sent to Xinhua showed that a total of 449,466 marriages were contracted in Germany during this period, of which 16,766 were between …
Read More »I’m proud I can now buy an iPhone – Wendy Shay defends her net worth answer
Songstress, Wendy Shay says her answer to the question posed in the viral video was to tell Ghanaians that she can now afford somethings just by the snap of a finger. She mentioned that hitherto, she would have had to buy a phone on credit and pay but currently, she …
Read More »Youth Urged To Venture Into Sanitation Business
Youth in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region have been urged to take advantage of the sanitation market under the Community led Total Sanitation model to create jobs for themselves. This according to the Municipal Sanitation officer James Achana will reduce the increasing rate of unemployment in the …
Read More »#OFOR Campaign: MP drags Road Minister to Parliament over Sofoline-Abuakwa road
The Member of Parliament for Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency in the Ashanti Region Hon. Emmanuel Agyei Anhwere, has dragged the Minister for Roads and Highways Hon Kwasi Amoako Atta to the floor of Parliament to explain why works on Sofoline-Abuakwa highway has halted. He said that it has become necessary …
Read More »Senyo Hosi fires again: UG will become like Nokia 3310
The CEO of Bulk Oil Distributors Senyo Hosi has responded to a lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana who criticised his attack on the university’s management. The businessman advised Mr Gyampo to “inspire a modern face of what UG should be” as a young lecturer. Mr Hosi …
Read More »Cardinal George Pell loses appeal against sexual abuse convictions
Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of sexual abuse, has failed in a legal bid to quash his convictions in Australia. Pell was jailed for six years in March after being found guilty of abusing two boys in a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s. He …
Read More »Assistant headteacher of Prempeh College abusing students in a video
Ghana Education Service has on numerous times said that it has ban all forms of corporal punishments, which mostly are plain abuse of students, at primary and secondary schools in Ghana. In fact, even in the absence of this ban, what is done to Ghanaian students in the name of …
Read More »‘Judges not cooperating with galamsey fight ‘ – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo has complained some judges are not cooperating with his government’s fight against illegal mining. He said this after assenting to an amended law that prescribes stiffer punishment for illegal miners. “We had to take away some of the discretionary of the judges largely because with the greatest …
Read More »Police block PDS demo against govt
A planned demonstration against government by Civil Service Organisations (CSO’s) over the botched Power Distribution Services (PDS) deal has been foiled by the police. The protest, dubbed: ‘Drop PDS Demonstration’ is to express their displeasure against government’s inaction leading to suspension of the deal. But, the Ghana Police Service has …
Read More »Gov’t introduces ‘One -Pupil-One-Cocoa Drink’ policy
Government of Ghana is implementing policies that will help instill the habit of cocoa consumption in the populace and will, in the long run, create a market for cocoa products in the country. One of such policy initiatives is to provide a cup of cocoa drink to all Kindergarten and …
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