New York Club Turns Lights Out
With flashy lights and lasers increasingly the norm at concerts, a New York promoter is trying a new effect to bring the focus back to the music -- darkness. In an experiment Friday night, more than...
Day: May 13, 2017
Deal Reached To Evacuate Rebel-Held Damascus District
Syria's government has reached a deal with rebels in the Qabun neighbourhood of Damascus for the evacuation of opposition fighters, Syrian state media and a monitor said on Saturday. The deal comes...
Arsenal Earn Rare Win At Stoke To Put Pressure On Liverpool
Champions League-chasing Arsenal moved within a point of fourth-placed Liverpool with a comfortable Premier League victory over Stoke. Despite collecting the three points, manager Arsene Wenger faced...
Tunisians Protest Over Corruption Amnesty Bill
More than 2,000 Tunisians protested Saturday in the capital against a bill that would allow officials being prosecuted for alleged corruption to be amnestied in exchange for reimbursing embezzled...
Government Will Equip You With Skills Not Mere Certificates
President Nana Akufo-Addo has assured students of Technical High Schools that his government will equip them with skills to cope in a fast-changing world. According to President Akufo-Addo, his...
Hawkers Vandalize UCS Facility At Nkrumah Circle Interchange [Photos]
Hawkers at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange area have vandalized a structure belonging to UCS facility management. An eyewitness, Philip Gyetu, who witnessed the incident, explained that the...
Kings Sink Sharks For Historic Triumph
Southern Kings defeated a fellow South African side for the first time in Super Rugby when they edged Coastal Sharks 35-32 Saturday after a thriller in Port Elizabeth. It was also the first time the...
Moyes Avoids Sunderland Fans After Swansea Defeat
Sunderland boss David Moyes admitted he skipped the traditional fans' appreciation at the end of the final fixture of the season at the Stadium of Light for fear of making the hostile atmosphere...
Business Dev’t Ministry To Partner With GYE In Setting Up A Business Facilitation Centre For the Youth
Talks are currently ongoing between the Ministry of Business Development and the management of Ghana’s Young Entrepreneurs (GYE) on the need to set up a One-stop shop business facilitation center...
Savelugu/Nanton MCE Nominee Confirmed Amidst Heavy Security
After what seemed like an unending battle with the youth wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Savelugu Constituency after her nomination, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu finally gets the nod to lead...
Guru Not An A-List Artiste – Artiste Manager
Artiste Manager Mel Kwasi Davis, who doubles as the boss of Event Republic, has stated emphatically that hip-life artiste Guru cannot be classified as an A-List artiste in Ghana. Explaining who an...
Leaders WAFA End First Round With 2-0 Win Over Inter Allies
Ghana Premier League leaders West African Football Academy (WAFA) wrapped up the first half of the 2016/2017 season with a 2-0 home win over Inter Allies. The match played at Sogakope in the Volta...
Hunger and Fear In Syria’s Tabqa After IS Defeat
When Dalal Ahmad heard that the fighters who expelled the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Tabqa were distributing food, she began to run, desperate for any scraps. After more than a month...
Windies Hit Back After Abbas Five-Wicket Haul
Pakistan's Mohammad Abbas claimed his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket to trigger a West Indies first-innings collapse to 247 all out before lunch on the fourth day of the third and final Test...
Bus Crash Near Turkey’s Marmaris Kills 23 People
The cause of the crash remains unclear At least 23 people have been killed and 11 wounded when a bus carrying Turkish tourists crashed near the southwestern holiday town of Marmaris, local...
60% of Ghana’s Water Bodies Polluted – Water Resources Commission
About 60 per cent of Ghana’s water bodies are polluted, with many in critical condition, the Water Resources Commission (WRC) has said. Mr. Ben Ampomah, Executive Secretary of the Commission at a...
MP Donates To Storm Victims, Appeals For More Aid
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Techiman South Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, Henry Yiadom Boakye, has appealed to donors and development partners in the area to come to the aid of the...
Black Starlets Wing-Wizard Isaac Antah Confident of Cameroon Scalp
Black Starlets winger Isaac Antah is confident of inflicting defeat on Cameroon in the opening match of the 2017 Africa Youth Championship in Gabon. The two-time Africa Champions have been drawn in...
Ibrahim Mahama Freed
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has dropped a case against former president John Mahama’s brother Ibrahim Mahama. SSNIT hauled Mahama to court over alleged non-payment of...
Loose Ends In the Anti-Galamsey Campaign
Ghanaians have become so cynical these days – and with good reason – that they suspect something is grossly amiss when they don’t immediately see what they think they ought to be seeing. So,...