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A lively event at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra on Tuesday launched the 80th anniversary of the Asafotufiami, an annual traditional festival celebrated by the people of Ada, in the Greater Accra Region. This year’s festival which starts on August 3 and ends on August 10, is under the theme, “Peace and Unity as a tool for socio-economic transformation ...

The Cape Coast Metropolitan Director for Social Welfare, Daniel Wallace Acheampong has described as misleading, statements in the media suggesting he said teenage girls in the region, demand GH¢1.00 recharge card in exchange for sex. He explained that at no point in the said interview did he indicate that the teenage girls charge such items in exchange for sexual services. ...

Rank Name Pay Salary/Winnings Endorsements Sport #1 Cristiano Ronaldo $93 M $58 M $35 M Soccer #2 LeBron James $86.2 M $31.2 M $55 M Basketball #3 Lionel Messi $80 M $53 M $27 M Soccer #4 Roger Federer $64 M $6 M $58 M Tennis #5 Kevin Durant $60.6 M $26.6 M $34 M Basketball #6 Andrew Luck $50 ...

President Donald Trump is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for possible obstruction of justice, US media reports say. They say senior intelligence officials will be interviewed on whether Mr Trump tried to end an inquiry into his sacked national security adviser, and about the firing of FBI chief James Comey. Mr Trump tweeted that the move was the ...

Some illegal Ghanaian immigrants in the United States of America have been deported. They arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra on Wednesday, 14 June in handcuffs. The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and the Ghana Police Service screened the deportees upon arrival. The deportees, most of whom had no records on them, ...

Melania Trump and son Barron have moved into the White House – five months after her husband Donald took office. Mrs Trump and the couple’s 11-year-old son had stayed behind in New York so Barron could finish the school year. The decision was seen as strange by some, as she was the first presidential spouse in recent years not to ...

International Relations expert and MP for Gushegu in the Northern Region of Ghana, Dr Ziblim Iddi, predicts the United Kingdom faces difficult times after the snap general elections that started on Thursday. Results trickling in shows the Conservative party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, have lost their majority and has resulted in a hung parliament. With just a handful ...

Comic politician, Madam Akua Donkor is alleging that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-addo cannot wholly absolve himself from circumstances that led to the death of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. She backs the accusation by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that death of the soldier who was the platoon commander at Denkyira-Boase should be blamed on the President who has ...

The High Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to produce evidence of concrete steps it is taking to implement a law – the ROPAA (Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2006 [Act 699] – allowing Ghanaians abroad to vote in national elections. Justice Anthony Yeboah gave the order after the EC stated in its defence in a case before the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that education and skills training are the most important source of empowering and providing opportunities to the youth to help drive Ghana’s development, and in the process create jobs. According to him, the countries that have done well, even without natural resources, are the countries that have invested in education and skills training, ...