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The Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association have approved financial packages for clubs ahead of the start of the 2019/2020 Football Season. The package is an advance to the clubs to help them prepare for the upcoming season, and it will be deducted from sponsorship funds due the clubs …

Strengthening accountability enforcement institutions is critical to efforts aimed at fighting corruption, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. That is why, the President said, his government had increased budgetary allocations to anti-graft institutions from 25 percent in 2017 to 34 percent in 2018. “Since 2019, there has been 60 …

Five civil society organizations have kicked against the legalization of marijuana and the use of narcotic drugs in Ghana by jointly presenting a petition to the Office of the President. The organisations are Institute of Leadership and Development (INSLA), Community Anti-Drug Coalition of Ghana (CADCOG), Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), …

The Ghana Police Service has deployed over 15, 000 personnel across the country ahead of the Christmas and new year festivities, says the Inspector General Police, Mr James Oppong-Boanuh This, he believes would clamp down on the activities of criminals and also maintain law and order during the Christmas festivities. …

A High Court in Accra has adjourned the case of Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bossu, the two suspects who are being held for the murder of former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North,Joseph B. Danquah Adu to January 9, next year. When the matter was called, the trial judge indicated …

Director of Electoral Services at the Ghana Electoral Commission, (EC), Dr. Serebour Quaicoe says barring any unforeseen challenges delivering electoral materials to polling stations for Tuesday’s District Level election would be smooth, adding that electoral materials have already been dispatched to the regions. He explained that electoral materials can only …

Sergeant Daniel Alolga Akata-Pore (rtd), a key figure in the defunct Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), led by former President Jerry John Rawlings, has voiced out his willingness to join forces with the latter to ask the nation to pardon them. He wants Ghanaians to accept their remorse, reconcile and …

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has warned that any challenge to the power ans authority of the Overlord of Dagbon Yaa Naa Abubakari Mahama II will not be countenanced under any circumstances, MyNewsGh.com reports. The Asantehene made these declaration when the Ya Naa called on him at the Kumasi Traditional …

The President of the Ghana Best Farmers’ Association, Nana Abraham Adusei has asked policymakers in the cocoa industry to actively involve cocoa farmers in decision-making processes. Addressing a members of the World Cocoa Farmers’ Organisation (WCFO) themed “Consolidating the Cocoa Farmer’s Voice – a Key to Sustainable Cocoa Production and …

The Local Government Ministry has announced, the setting aside of some streets within Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions, as street markets during the yuletide. The “Street Hawking Markets”, according to a statement signed by sector Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama, will operate between 5am-11pm from Monday, December 16, 2019, through to …

MPs have approved President Nana Akufo-Addo’s appointees to the Supreme Court, JoyNews’ Kwesi Parker-Wilson reports from the House. The Appointment Committee vetted the three nominees earlier in the week and submitted their report to the House with a recommendation to proceed with their approval. Justice Mariama Owusu, Justice Lovelace Johnson …

Ghana’s most decorated rapper, Sarkodie has obviously forgotten all the wahala that are associated with the recent Cardi B concert in Ghana as he steps out in style in the UK. Described by many of the people who don’t actually know him as somebody who is pompous and over-confident, this latest …

Algeria has a new president in the person of Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The 74-year-old won controversial December 12 elections with 58% of the vote, the national electoral body announced quoting preliminary results. Mr Tebboune, 74, previously served as housing, then information minister. He served seven-months as Prime Minister two years ago …

Two Ghanaian have been sworn into office as high court judges in The Gambia. Justice Alexander Osei Tutu and Justice Francis Apangabuno were sworn into office by President Adama Barrow on Thursday, 12 December 2019 in The Gambia. Both judges were high court judges in Ghana prior to their appointment …

Abena Oppong-Asare of the labour party has been elected as the next MP for Erith and Thamesmead. She follows the footsteps of her male colleagues Adam Afriyie, Sam Philip Gyimah, and Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng. Abena makes history as the first female Ghanaian-British MP in the UK. She grabbed the …

A member of the erstwhile National Reconciliation Commission, Archbishop Palmer Buckle, has described as disheartening how some victims and survivors of various human rights violations in Ghana, during unconstitutional regimes, never received any form of compensations from the government as directed by the Commission. He expressed dissatisfaction with the delay, …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he has never been corrupt. “I’m certainly not corrupt, I continue to say that I’m not corrupt, I’ve not been corrupt; I’ve not taken money from anybody to give anybody contracts”, he told journalists at the Jubilee House on Friday, 13 December 2019 when he …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he has only two family members in his government, thus, ricocheted accusations by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that he has 51 relatives in his “family-and-friends” government. “I’m not presiding over a government of family-and-friends”, the President rebuffed at the Jubilee House on …

LPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that the government is working to ensure strict enforcement of the country’s laws to discourage foreigners from engaging in retail business in the country. The President said he sides with the Ghana Union of Traders Association’s (GUTA) interpretation of the country’s trade laws …

Boris Johnson has promised to deliver Brexit and repay the trust of voters after he led the Conservatives to an “historic” general election win. The prime minister – who has met the Queen to ask to form a new government – has a House of Commons majority of 78, with …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has refused to back a contract extension for Black Stars coach James Kwasi Appiah, claiming any pronouncement he makes will put the Ghana Football Association and the Ministry of Youth and Sports in an awkward situation. The President, during his Meet the Press at the Jubilee House …

The reschedule Presidential Cup match between Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko would come off at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium next Sunday. It will serve as a precursor to the 18-team Ghana Premier League that is expected to take place in the last weekend of December. The game was …

Cardi B in Ghana gave you a December to remember the experience? Then you’ll need to free more space in your mind to remember a lot of things about this December because Beyonce is reportedly coming to Ghana too. According to an exclusive report by pulse.com.gh, the Queen of pop, Beyonce, is …

Libyan military strongman General Khalifa Haftar has called on his forces to begin an advance aimed at capturing the capital, Tripoli. The General’s statement came in a rare, live television broadcast. In April, he launched a major attempt to seize the city – which is held by Libya’s UN-backed government. …

Musician Article Wan has observed that several investors have resolved to not plough money into the music industry mainly because of numerous unfair treatments meted out to them. He claimed in an interview that some artistes extend their promiscuous lives to the girlfriends of these investors as they snatch them …