GENERAL NEWS

The Zongo Movement for Development (ZOMOD), a Zongo Development advocacy group, has hit out at former President John Mahama for what it calls “flagrant display of disrespect towards His Eminence Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu.” In a press release issued in Accra, the group accused Mr. Mahama of disrespecting the National …

Founder and Leader of the Prophetic Hill Chapel, Prophet Nigel Gaisie, has clapped back at assertions made by President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council, expressing disappointment at the latter. According to Prophet Gaisie, Prof Frimpong Manso’s assertion that pastors who predict election results are fake proves he doesn’t …

A businessman, Samuel Nyamador, has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers at Juapong in the Volta Region of Ghana. The incident occurred on Tuesday night, 11 August 2020, when Mr Nyamador and his wife were on their way home from work. According to eyewitness reports, three armed men heckled …

Togbe Afede XIV, President of the National House of Chiefs has bemoaned the effect of the border closure on indigenes of the Volta Region who are trapped between the borderlines. Ghana’s borders were closed to human traffic because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of the voter registration exercise, military …

West Africa, with about 380 million people, is the final frontier for global automakers looking to increase manufacturing capacity in a region where they currently have little presence. While local assemblers in Nigeria, home to nearly half of the region’s population, have partnered with companies such as Volkswagen AG to …

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has disclosed that the National Population and Housing Census (PHC) will be conducted next year. The GSS explained that the coronavirus pandemic and destabilisation of Ghana’s population by the upcoming general elections and related activities necessitated the postponement. The 2020 Population and Housing Census (PHC) …

Three Ghanaian citizens have petitioned the United Nations (UN) over what they say are threats to Ghana’s peace ahead of the December 7th elections. The three, Elikem Kotoko, Stephen Kwabena Attuh and Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese submitted their petition to the office of the Resident Coordinator of the UN earlier …

The Akufo-Addo government has created two million jobs since coming into office, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said. At a meeting with the youth wing of the governing New Patriotic Party on Wednesday, 12 August 2020 to mark International Youth Day, Dr Bawumia said the government has collated the job …

The Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Libreria and Sierra Leone, Ms Shani Cooper, has called on the government to speed up digitization after the COVID-19 pandemic. She said because of the COVID-19 pandemic many countries, companies, institutions and Organisations had resorted to the use of digital systems for their operations. The …

Renowned Kenyan pan-Africanist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has acknowledged the leadership qualities of President Akufo-Addo by saying the Ghanaian president will make his list of exclusive African leaders. Speaking to Kweku Sakyi Addo in an exclusive interview on Assase Radio’s Sunday Night Live, the renowned Kenyan orator named the …