The Bureau of Ghana Languages has officially certified the teaching and learning of the Ahanta language in basic and secondary school after schools on Ahanta land, especially in the Ahanta West municipality. This giant achievement means the language can be … Read more →
BARELY a week after the publication by your authoritative The Finder of the weak and dangerous nature of a bridge linking Effia to Effiakuma and other communities, the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has moved swiftly to provide a temporal wooden … Read more →
A 46-year-old-man, Bright Agyepong is in the grips of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Police Service for selling his four children into slavery on the Volta Lake for GH¢500. All four children have been rescued along with another boy … Read more →
A terrorist who used a hired lorry to kill at least 84 people in a rampage during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice has been named as a convicted criminal well known to the police for armed attacks. Tunisian-born Mohammed Lahouaiei Bouhlel, a 31-year-old … Read more →
A morbidly obese ten-year-old, who is reduced to wearing just a sarong as clothes do not fit him, has been put on a crash diet over fears he may die. Arya Permana, named the world’s fattest child, weighs an eye-watering … Read more →
The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu has revealed that the flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party Nana Akufo-Addo was his personal lawyer, before he ascended the throne. According to the Asante monarch, the former attorney general never charged him legal … Read more →
The Ghana cedi could trade between GH¢3.97-4.10 to the US dollar in the next two months, Ecobank Research has predicted. In its latest Ghana Economic Strategic Report for Quarter 3, the renowned research institution based in London said the dollar … Read more →
Foreign students attending Further Education colleges are to be banned from working in Britain under a fresh crackdown on immigration ordered by Home Secretary Theresa May. When courses finish they will have to leave the country before reapplying to return … Read more →
David Cameron has been given a standing ovation by Conservative MPs after his final Prime Minister’s Questions. The prime minister, who will go to Buckingham Palace later to tender his resignation to the Queen, told MPs he would “miss the … Read more →
About 200 Ghanaians living in Libya have fled the North African country back to Ghana following continuing violent attacks in that country. The returnees, mostly men in their mid-30s, had gone to Libya in search of greener pastures some years … Read more →
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has written to President John Mahama for his response to allegations of conflict of interest levelled against him by some political parties. The letter, dated July 7, 2016, is in line … Read more →
Theresa May is set to become the UK’s next prime minister after Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest to become Conservative Party leader. The timing of the handover of power from David Cameron looks set to be after PM’s … Read more →
Al Qaeda’s media arm has released an audio in which the purported son of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden threatens revenge against the U.S. for assassinating his father. In the video released by As-Sahab Saturday, Hamza bin … Read more →
It may seem weird and unbelievable, but that is the fate that has befallen a family at Sekondi in the Western Region. Selina Mensah, A.K.A Maame Ekua Akraba, 24, had stopped a Taxi together with her Mum Josephine Amoah, also … Read more →
It was a pathetic scene to behold on Monday afternoon, July, 11, 2016 when a JHS pupil who was accompanying a colleague on an errand for their teacher got trapped in a metal slab used to cover drains at Agona … Read more →
The government has released GH¢37 million to the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to pay the book and research allowance of lecturers for the 2016/2017 academic year, President John Dramani Mahama has announced. At the last in the series of … Read more →
Ghana has started a visa-on-arrival scheme at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) for all African Union nationals whose countries do not have a visa-free agreement with the country. A statement issued by Comptroller of Immigration (COI) Mr Francis Palmdeti, the … Read more →
Commercial drivers operating in the Western Region have warned that there is likely to be a disaster within the Sekond-Takoradi Metropolis if nothing is done to prevent some recalcitrant drivers from turning some fuel stations into lorry parks. According to … Read more →
Five Dallas police officers have been killed and six wounded by gunmen during protests against the shooting of black men by police, authorities say. Police are in a stand-off with one armed man in an indoor car park. Three other … Read more →
Once upon a time, Snapchat was a simple app. You took a picture, you sent it to a friend, and it disappeared shortly after. Nowadays, it’s a messaging app, a video sharing app and a news app. A face-swapping, dog-masking … Read more →
9 Muslims perish at Asawase in Kumasi after a Ramadan dance. There was a stampede at the entrance after the Jams was over at 2 am killing 9. The bodies of the victims, 6 females and 3 males have been deposited at … Read more →