Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has schooled Chief of Akropong in the Ellembelle District, Nana Adu Kwame on how Ghana Gas Company came about. The Chief at the weekend hailed Former President John Dramani Mahama for his vision of establishing the Ghana Gas Company Limited at Atuabo in the Nzemaland of the Western Region ...

Close to 1,000 Ghanaians have signed an online petition to mount pressure on the police to find the three kidnapped Takoradi girls. After nine months Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 15, Ruth Love Quayson, 18, and Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21 are yet to be found after they were reported kidnapped in the Takoradi metropolis. Nigerian Samuel Wills is standing trial as the ...

Guinea’s national under-17 male football team on Sunday lost 3-5 after penalty kicks to their Cameroonian counterparts in a pulsating final match at the Africa Under-17 Nations Cup competition. In the final match played at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania both sides drew goalless after 90 minutes of intense action. Both sides failed to score ...

The authority responsible for producer price of cocoa beans in the country has sent a strong response to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) saying it will not reduce prices of cocoa in the country as being directed. COCOBOD’s last producer price review for the year 2016/2017 season was from GH¢ 6,670 per tonne to GH¢7, 520. Meanwhile IMF reports indicates ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has officially inaugurated all the standing and ad-hoc committees of its National Council as required by the party’s constitution. The committees include: the Constitution and Legal Committee, the Vetting Committee, the Finance Committee, the Elections Committee, the Disciplinary Committee and the Communications Committee. The rest are; the Organisational Committee, the Research Committee, the Events Committee, ...

The bodyguard of the Tamale mayor Iddrisu Musah Superior had to fire a warning shot to prevent a mob from attacking his boss at a suburb called Viting. Mr. Superior was in the community upon an invitation by authorities of the Viting Senior High School, following a renewed land encroachment dispute between the school and some residents. Dozens of structures ...

Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, a Deputy Minister of Energy in charge of Petroleum, says a total of US$95 million dollars was spent between 2013 and 2016 for drilling oil wells but none resulted in the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities. He said 13 petroleum contracts were signed between the previous government and oil investors with US$880 million set ...

Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government minister has said. The country’s education minister Lazarus Dokora told the pro-government Sunday Mail newspaper that schools will have to show flexibility when it comes to demanding tuition fees from parents, and that they should accept not only livestock, but ...

Ghana has recorded its first open-heart surgery, outside tits premier public hospital, the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the renowned Cardiothoracic Surgeon, over the weekend, led a medical team of 10, to replace the damaged mitral valve of a 61-year man with an artificial one at the Providence Specialist Hospital, in Accra. The move will lead the way ...

Sri Lanka has banned face coverings in public, following a spate of suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed at least 250 people and injured hundreds. President Maithruipala Sisirsena said he was using an emergency law to impose the restriction from Monday. Any face garment which “hinders identification” will be banned to ensure national security, his office said. The niqab ...