Uganda's Constitutional Court has annulled the tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed by MPs in December without the requisite quorum and was...
A plant has been found to halt the deadly Ebola virus in its tracks in laboratory tests, scientists have said. They used a compound from Garcinia kola, a plant commonly eaten in West Africa....
A Cape Coast High Court has sentenced a fisherman to death by hanging for setting ablaze five children, resulting in the death of one child.
The fisherman, Kwabena Amakye, a native of Moree in the...
Ghana’s cedi, the world’s worst-performing currency this year, weakened as the government ruled out an International Monetary Fund bailout, stoking concern it will miss targets to narrow a budget...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended to people to find different ways of greeting, apart from handshake, to reduce the chances of contracting the Ebola virus.
It also advised people to...
The upcoming national delegates’ congress of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to elect new national executives has taken an interesting twist, founder of the NDC, Jerry John Rawlings is...
The head of the World Health Organization and leaders of West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak are to announce a joint $100m (£59m; 75m euro) response plan.
They will meet in Guinea on...
The Chief Executive Officer of Kessben Group of Companies, Kwabena Kesse, has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court, Thurday.
The Kumasi based business man is being held for two counts of money...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org initiative launched last year with the goal of helping make the internet available to the entire world.
Internet.org is taking a big step towards this by...
One newborn child dies every 15 minutes in Ghana with 30,000 newborn deaths recorded each year. This according to a statement by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF),...
Right Reverend Emmanuel Nartey, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana has expressed his deep seated reservations about President Mahama's choice of appointees in government.
The professor who...
In April 2014, when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) elected its New National Party Executives, most of the party's supporters were of the view that the party would now have a unified front that could...
The over 41% dip in the value of Ghana’s currency, the cedi, this year has caused many Ghanaian cocoa farmers to smuggle their beans to Ivory Coast where they can get 58% more in dollar terms for...
A former presidential candidate of Ghana’s biggest opposition party says contrary to the “propaganda” that he is too old and weak at age 70 to run for president again, he is “fit and...
Cocoa bean farmers are at the bottom of a global supply chain that stands "firmly against ." Because the traders, processors, exporters and manufacturers all sit above farmers on that chain and...
Ebola have become a global threat. These is a lot of misinformation about the Ebola virus. In this post we seek to give you the defintieve guide to Ebola, from the current state of the virus, to the...
Nigeria's weightlifting gold medal hero 17 years old Chika Amalaha has been provisionally suspended from the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games after failing a doping test.
Chika who won gold on Friday...
Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare has won gold in the 100 meters final at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Blessing edged out Jamaica's two time Olympic gold medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown and...
It is with a heavy heart that we report the death of Dr Sheikh Umar Khan, Sierra Leone's leading virologist in the battle against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
He died under the care of the...
The National Blood Service is warning of crisis if measures are not immediately put in place to encourage voluntary donation of blood to meet demands of health facilities nationwide.
The service says...
