Новости за 26.04.2018

Mr Awal Mohammed, the Head of Public Relations for the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has said the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS) would be taking on the successful recruits in Pitch Management and Federation Assistance of its Youth in Sports Programme. He said the applicants who would be successfully selected after their training in ...

Egypt have been boosted by the news that Arsenal midfielder Mohammed Elneny should be fit for their World Cup campaign. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says the ankle ligament damage he suffered in Sunday 39;s 4-1 win over West Ham means he will miss the rest of club 39;s season. Mohamed Elneny is out for the rest of the ...

In hardcore politics, there rarely are friends. Decisions taken are usually not personal. It 39;s just business. But occasionally, political bonds take on a new sheen and venture into the area of friendship. That rsquo;s when splits if they do happen, become personal. Since assuming power in late 2005, Kwesi Nyantakyi has shown that h ...

Confederations of Africa Football president, Dr Ahmad Ahmad has stated that Ghana Football Association president, Kwesi Nyantakyi to seek for a fourth term in office in 2019. The CAF president rsquo;s comment comes days after Vice President of GFA George Afriyie was sacked by the Executive Committee of the nation rsquo;s football go ...

Joy News has heightened the campaign to get justice for Multimedia Journalist, Latif Iddrisu, who was brutalized by police late last month. The move is aimed at mounting more pressure on the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police to expedite a process to arrest perpetrators of the brutality. Latif Iddrisu has been left with a f ...

About 26 pharmacy students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and four professional workers will be embarking on the second edition of the Advance Pharmacy Initiative in Florida s Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), USA, this year. The exchange program which has been described as an ambitious agenda fo ...

Local governance expert, Dr Eric Oduro Osae, says the postponement of a proposal by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to elect Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) indicates it was not well thought out. ldquo;I think initially, they thought it can be done easily. But having come into office and looked at the alte ...

Afro-pop singer Odehyieba who featured Kwadwo Nkansah Lilwin on one of his hit songs Ladder claims Ghanaians are hypocrites. He argues that the way and manner Ghanaians talk about our celebrities is very nauseating and urges everyone to appreciate our celebrities and their hard works. In his new track which comes with the title lsquo; rsquo;Gha ...

Staff of GCB Bank have donated assorted items to the inmates of the Weija Leprosarium in Accra. The items including bags of rice, cooking oil, GCB branded chocolates, used clothing, and toiletries were contributed by individual staff of the Bank. The donation by the staff was motivated by the Bank rsquo;s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ...

Ghana has maintained its status as a high-risk, debt-distress country after first making it onto the infamous list of countries whose debt burdens had reached alarming levels in 2015. In separate reports released in March and April, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirmed that the country was in a high risk of debt dis ...

Top local journalist Daniel Benin aka Ohim, is fighting back in his quest to call 39;political dogs 39; to order after surviving an attack by the camp of the newly-elected Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Divine Otoo Agorhom. Ohim, who reports for Atinka TV and contributes to other media networks includ ...

A pressure group, Caucus for Democratic Governance has warned the President of Ghana, H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Government that the will be voted out of power if things do not change by the year 2020. In a press statement signed by the convener Dr. E. K Hayford, the caucus stressed that Article 71 s ...

Ave Progressive Youths, an influencial cadre group in the Akatsi North District of the Volta region have commended the DCE of the area, Hon. Dr. Prince Sodoke Amuzu for chalking successes within a short time in office. According to them, the DCE has performed remarkably in the areas of Education, Road Infrastructure, Employment, Tourism ...

A planned coronation of a paramount chief for Botoku in the North Dayi District in the Volta Region is generating tension as two factions lay claim to the title. The scheduled coronation of one Nelson Gbadagba as Togbe Sei II, as the paramount chief of the area on Saturday, April 28, 2018, is likely to start a bitter chieftaincy dispute in the V ...

Vincent Bollor eacute;, one of France rsquo;s most audacious industrialists who last week stepped down as chairman of media group Vivendi, was placed in police custody on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected bribery of foreign officials in Africa. Prosecutors are investigating whether a subsidiary of the French billionaire rsquo;s ...

Police in the Sefwi Akontombra Assembly of the Western region have not been able to retrieve GHC88,000 stolen by two former officials of the Sefwi Akontombra district. The two officials are said to have taken money from the sale of lands and not taking account of it to the assembly. But instead, they opened a private account in one of the local ...

A taxi driver who allegedly defiled a 13 year old girl at Pig Farm and escaped to Sokpoe his hometown in the Volta Region has been remanded into custody by an Accra Circuit Court. Richard Dakudzi, charged with defilement pleaded not guilty. Dakudzi is expected to reappear in court on May 7. Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (AS ...

As the annual number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa to both the United States and Europe has grown for most years this decade, a Pew Research Center analysis of 2015 U.S. Census Bureau and Eurostat data finds that sub-Saharan immigrants in the U.S. tend to be more highly educated than those living in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Portu ...

Hanson Kumi, a 19-year-old mason has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a six year old boy at Teshie. Kumi, charged with defilement pleaded not guilty and the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku remanded the accused into Police custody to reappear on May 8. The trial judge however doubted Kumi 39;s a ...

Hanson Kumi, a 19-year-old mason has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a six year old boy at Teshie. Kumi, charged with defilement pleaded not guilty and the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku remanded the accused into Police custody to reappear on May 8. The trial judge however doubted Kumi 39;s a ...

Juaso (Ash), April 25, GNA - A 24 year old man has run into trouble with the law for threatening to kill his own father over a mobile phone. Yakubu Abukari was said to have chased the father out of the family house with a cutlass - forcing him to spend the night with a neighbour. For doing this, he has been ordered to spend three years in pri ...

The nation 39;s foremost indigenous Oil Marketing Company (OMC), Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) had paid a total sum of GH cent;1.128 billion, which comprises taxes and levies to the government during the year 2017. In spite of making lower than expected volume of sales, the GOIL Group 39;s financial results were impressive as the Group made ...

Bankyim (WR), April 25, GNA - The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Mr. Kofi Nti, has called for businesses to ensure transparency and truthfulness in their dealings with revenue collection agencies. 39;All we want is transparency, clarity and truthfulness in the business relationship 39;, he said at the start of his two-da ...

The Business Sector Advocacy Challenge Fund (BUSAC) has organised a day 39;s training workshop on the Planting for Food and Jobs (PfFJs) programme for members of the Ghana Society for the Physically challenged. The workshop, held at Nkoranza in the Brong-Ahafo Region, and attended by about 30 members of the Society, is aimed at sensitising the ...

Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, has impressed on the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to develop a short messaging service (SMS) portal for farmers. Dr James Asibuo, of the CRI, said this was critical to providing farmers with a one-stop shop on critical information on crop production, ...