Hermes Reports Record Annual Profits
Luxury goods group Hermes has reported record profits for 2016, boosted by sales of its handbags. The French company, best known for its £8,000 Birkin bags and £300 silk scarves, posted a 13% rise...
Day: March 22, 2017
Two German-Born Terror Suspects To Be Deported
Germany says it will deport two men born in the country but whose parents are foreign - the first such case in German history. The men, a 27-year-old Algerian and a 22-year-old Nigerian, were...
The Next TECNO Camon Is Set For Global Unveiling
The next TECNO Camon Smartphone will be launched globally a few days from now. Tecno Camon Lines are camera-centric smartphones that boast of quality selfie camera and state of the grade back camera....
Akua Donkor Thrills Court
Further cross-examination of Akua Donkor, founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) and failed presidential hopeful, in the case in which she is accusing four persons, including her driver, of...
Flight Ban On Laptops ‘sparked By IS Threat’
An aircraft cabin ban on large electronic devices was prompted by intelligence suggesting a terror threat to US-bound flights, say US media. The US and UK have announced new carry-on restrictions...
Parliament To Vet Akufo-Addo’s Last Batch of Ministers From Monday
Parliament will from Monday begin public vetting of 54 Ministers of State and Deputy Ministers nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The ministers are expected to be the last batch of...
IS Conflict: Air Strike ‘kills Dozens In Village Near Raqqa’
At least 33 people have been killed in an air strike on a school in a village west of the Islamic State-held Syrian city of Raqqa, a monitoring group says. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
More Women Join Booming Kayayei Business
Head porters in the central business district of Accra say more women have been attracted into the business following the abolishment of the kayayei levy. It is barely three weeks since the Minister...
Children Dead In China School Toilet Stampede
A stampede at a primary school in central China has left two children dead and 20 injured, state media said. Xinhua news agency said students were crowded into a toilet during the morning break in...
Nurses, Midwives Could Lose Their Job, Licence Over Confidentiality Breach
A Chief Nursing Officer at the Brong-Ahafo Regional Hospital in Sunyani, Madam Cordelia Yeboaa-Yeboah, says it is a serious offence for nurses and midwives to take and share pictures of patients on...
Stop Depending On Foreign Aid – Nana Addo Tells African Leaders
President, Nana Akufo-Addo has advised his African counterparts to stop depending on foreign aid. According to him, the continent’s many challenges will be resolved if African leaders learn to...
Car Bomb Kills At Least 5 In Somalia’s Capital
Blast near the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu targeted a security checkpoint with soldiers among the dead. A deadly car bomb blast targeting a security checkpoint near the Presidential Palace in...
Minority Pushes For Arrest of NPP’s Invincible Forces
About 20 students died in the tragic accident at the Kintampo waterfalls Pressure is beginning to mount on the police to arrest members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group,...
Health Minister Orders GHS To Resume Posting
The trainee nurses recruitment according to the Minister of Health, includes only those who where granted financial clearance in December, 2016. The Ghana Health Service (GHS), has resumed the...
NDC Plots To Ditch Mahama
The plot to ditch ex-President John Dramani Mahama for the 2020 presidential election by some powerful opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) members is thickening by the day. The party’s...
Mahama Can Be Replaced; He’s Not Our Best Bet – NDC MP
Aggrieved NDC MP for Yunyoo, Bipoba Naabu says former President Mahama is not the only ‘Presidential material’ who can snatch power from the governing New Patriotic Party in the 2020 elections....
Butcher Shops Razed Amid Crackdown On Beef In India
Indian police said Wednesday they were not ruling out arson after fire gutted three butcher shops in Uttar Pradesh state, where a firebrand Hindu leader has taken office promising a crackdown on...
Djibril Kanazoe Dragged Before Court For Alleged Tax Evasion
An expatriate employee of Djibril Kanazoe the renowned Burkinabe contractor who gifted Former President John Dramani Mahama a Ford Expedition vehicle in appreciation of a contract, Luigi Martinis has...
Call For Calm As ‘toxicity’ Grows In India-Australia Test Series
A leading Indian commentator has hit out at the "toxicity" blighting the series against Australia, and called for both sides to show restraint before the winner-takes-all final Test begins Saturday....
One Arrested For Attempted Human Sacrifice In Western Region
The two were apprehended by the residents One person is in the grips of the Takoradi Police Command for allegedly attempting to use a six-year-old girl for money rituals. According to an eyewitness...