Thursday, January 17, 2013 President Mahama has made more appointments. Significantly absent from the list are those variously qualified as “babies with sharp teeth” and “evil dwarfs” (apologies to JJ Rawlings). These elements are best known for fighting the wordy warfare with political opponents of the NDC/government (especially those in the NPP) that characterized the [...]

Four Ghanaians held hostage by Somali pirates on a ship called the Iceberg have been released. The four are Jewel Kwesi Ahiable, Edward Asare, Prince Agbo and Francis Koomson

In accordance with article 78 of the 1992 Constitution, President John Mahama has released another list of ministerial nominees bringing the number to 19

President John Dramani Mahama will on Friday 18 January leave Accra for an emergency summit in Abidjan

Mr Emmanuel Wilson, National Organizer of the People’s National Convention (PNC) on Thursday said the party would soon restructure and reorganize existing structures across the country

Erica Boateng, one of the victims of last Friday’s road crash involving a petrol tanker at Anyinamso Number-One in the Atwima-Mponua District, had died at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH)

The Osu District Court on Thursday began the extradition process of Justin Katinan, an ally of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo currently in the country

Minority Leader, Hon. Kyei Mensah Bonsu has dismissed media reports that he and some other minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament are planning to replace the NPP National Chairman, Mr. Jake Obetsebi Lamptey

The National Security Coordinator, Col. Larry Gbevlo Lartey is assuring Ghanaians the country's security agencies are alert and ready to foil any terrorist attacks. The insurgency of Islamist rebels in northern part of Mali, whose activities have spilled over into Algeria has caused anxiety in Ghana as the country contributes troops to ward off the rebels

More than 50,000 slum dwellers at Sodom & Gomorrah will soon be moved to make way for the implementation of the 600 million dollar Accra sanitation and drainage upgrading project

Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has once again stated his innocence in the GH¢51 million judgment debt saga saying he knows he would be vindicated at the end. Mr. Woyome made this known in a press release, titled ‘a note of appreciation’ issued on Wednesday in Accra

Education, the means of acquiring moral values, norms and means of knowledge, probably started with humans since their biological make up demands that they have to learn to interact with each other

Ms Adriana Kandelige, Eastern Regional Director of Education, has said indiscipline in the country was causing the nation billions of cedis and adding that “it is very nauseating where it has reached.”

Ghana has moved up four places in the first of the New Year’s monthly ranking released by the Federation of international Football association (FIFA), on Thursday

President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday commended the Australian government for providing scholarships to Ghanaian students since 2010

Rueben Gavor, 36, a Security Officer at the Ketu-South Municipal Hospital at Aflao, and his second wife are being held by the police following the death of his senior wife, Rose Dzigba

Ghana will begin the New Year and the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations as the continent’s fourth-best ranked team. The Black Stars are 4th in the African placements – just like they finished the previous year – in the first edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking released on Thursday. Having moved up four places, the [...]

A member of the National Democratic Congress legal team has called for a ceasefire on the composition of the Supreme Court judging panel sitting on the NPP’s election fraud case

Volta regional executives of the National Democratic Congress have denied altering the delegates list for the Akatsi South by-election

Security Expert Kwesi Aning has applauded Ghana’s decision to contribute troops to the Western African pool of peace keeping soldiers scheduled to intervene in the festering Islamic insurgency against the Malian government