MTN Ghana remains tight-lipped about its direct involvement in the Next Gen Infraco (NGIC) consortium that is set to lead the nationwide rollout of 5G in Ghana. 

During MTN Ghana’s recent Q3 earnings call on November 1, CEO Stephen Blewett refrained from confirming whether MTN Ghana would sign onto the NGIC-led platform, which was officially launched on the same day (November 1) with the backing of the government and several key technology partners.

Cybersecurity firm SOPHOS has issued an urgent alert for computer users following reports of a cyber attack linked to a seemingly innocent Google search. 

A prominent member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has responded to comments made by the Executive Chairman of the McDan Group, Daniel McKorley alias McDan on the perceived lack of support for Ghana’s private sector from government policies.

Originally intended as a teaching aid, the Rubik’s Cube became a global craze in the 1980s,

The Hungarian inventor of the Rubik’s Cube on Saturday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the creation of his spatial puzzle that became a global craze, sold half a billion units and has 43 quintillion possible combinations.

Vice President and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has highlighted the importance of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy in reducing inequality and advancing Ghana’s development. 

A 20-year-old motor tricycle (Aboboyaa) rider, Kofi Gideon, has been sentenced to six months in prison by the Bibiani District Court for causing the death of a two-year-old child in an accident.

Bitcoin surged close to $80,000 on Sunday, reaching an all-time high amid President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-crypto stance and a Congress featuring key supporters of digital assets. 

Ghana has raised its cocoa farmgate price to align with Côte d'Ivoire’s recent increase, marking the second price hike this season to strengthen farmer incomes and address challenges facing the cocoa sector. 

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has destroyed over 150,000 Kilograms (kg) of various illicit drugs, which it seized between 2021 and 2024. 

The overflow of the River Oti has brought education in the Kucha Electoral Area of the Saboba District of the Northern Region to a standstill, forcing fisherfolk to convert an abandoned school building into a workshop for mending nets.

For three months, students from eight communities—Kucha, Butuin Upper, Butuin Lower, Moagbar, Kunjib, Kacheen, Kibonboni, and Lomok—have had no access to teachers, disrupting their education and leaving many to either accompany their parents to farms or wander the community aimlessly.

What the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal could in fact be the latest episode in the real-life drama over who will become Equatorial Guinea’s next president.

Over the past fortnight, dozens of videos - estimates range from 150 to more than 400 - have been leaked of a senior civil servant having sex in his office and elsewhere with different women.

They have flooded social media, shocking and titillating people in the small central African country and beyond.

As part of efforts in enhancing regional security cooperation, senior officials of Ghana’s security and intelligence agencies, led by the Minister of National Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah, the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Bismarck Kwasi Onwona and other senior military officers on Friday held strategic discussions with Mali’s Minister for National Security and Civil Protection, General Aly Mohammedine and other Senior Security Officials of the Malian government at Bamako in Mali.

The high-level meeting, which followed similar engagements with Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Togo, underscores Ghana's ongoing leadership in championing collaborative efforts against terrorism and insecurity in the West African sub-region.

Haba! Parliament has disturbed my sleep today having decided again to go on break, or ‘adjourn’ at the poor tax payer’s expense.

The reason is embarrassing: there appears to be confusion as to who ‘sitteth’ at the right hand of ‘God,’ the Speaker.

Indeed we have sunk so low to have taken a decision that whichever party holds vigil, rushes to parliament at dawn, and occupies seats at the right hand of the Speaker shall automatically be called Majority.

It becomes a simple matter of first come… In that case, the left hand of God the Speaker belongs to late comers, the Minority, whose seating is automatically a custodial sentence.

Residents of the Kucha Electoral Area in the Saboba District of the Northern Region, are suffering preventable losses due to a lack of safe transportation across the swollen River Oti.

Flooding has left those in the “overseas” part of the district cut off from essential services, including emergency healthcare in the district capital, Saboba.

With no outboard motor available, residents are forced to make dangerous river crossings, often relying on unstable dugout canoes in desperation. These delays in transporting patients have led to deteriorating health conditions and, tragically, several fatalities.

Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah, a political scientist and Senior Fellow at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has urged Ghanaian leaders to put national unity ahead of party interests. 

He advocated for the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to help reduce the growing tension between parliament and the judiciary, which he says could endanger the country’s democratic stability. 

Dreams FC ended their winless spell in this season's Ghana Premier League with a lone goal victory over a hapless Medeama FC side at the Tuba Astro Turf on Saturday after nine weeks of agony.

Skipper Joseph Esso finally converted from the spot in the 71st minute to calm the nerves of the impatient home fans who had survived countless heartbreaks in the game.

In an era of rapid digital transformation, residents of the Kucha Electoral Area in the Saboba District of the Northern Region remain isolated from essential telecommunication and internet access.

With no mobile network coverage, residents resort to extreme measures to make phone calls, such as climbing trees or tying their phones to branches in hopes of catching a signal.

This lack of connectivity impacts all aspects of life, from emergency communication to digital learning and mobile banking.

When calls can be made, they are often broadcast on speaker mode, sacrificing privacy due to poor reception.

Residents of Duong in the Nadowli-Kaleo District in the Upper West Region have expressed their appreciation to the European Union for its support to the community in combating the effect of climate change and adapting to it.

They said through the teaching they received through Conservation Agriculture under the Resilience Against Climate Change (REACH) project being implemented by the German Development Agency (GIZ), they have been able to learn new ways of improving their farm yields without harming the environment.

REACH is one of the programmes under the European Union Ghana Agriculture Programme (EUGAP) being funded by the EU and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The project duration is from 2017 to 2025.

The intentions expressed by four Members of Parliament to contest the December 7, 2024 parliamentary elections in different capacities from the status on which they are presently in Parliament cannot be concluded as 'crossing carpet,' former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said,

He said Ghanaians were watching what was happening in the House of Parliament and therefore there was no need to use any "tactics" or "technicalities" to disturb the peace of the country when Ghanaians were well aware of how they want to vote for which side to lead the House.

Nana Owusu Achiaw from the Sekyere Central District in the Ashanti Region was last night adjudged the Overall Best National Farmer for 2024 at a gala dinner at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.

For his prize, he took a cash of GH¢1 million sponsored by the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) PLC.

Ernestina Osei Tutu from the Akwapim North Municipality in the Eastern Region was adjudged the National Best Female Farmer.

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has urged the Speaker of Parliament, Alban S.K. Bagbin to show leadership in the current parliamentary stand-off, describing the situation as embarrassing.

In an interview with Asempa FM's Osei Bonsu on Friday [Nov 8, 2024], former President Kufuor said Speaker Bagbin has all the solutions to the current standoff in his bosom, and urged him to exercise strong leadership in the ongoing stand-off in Parliament over sitting arrangements.

He expressed disappointment over the situation, describing it as an “embarrassing” impasse that could tarnish Bagbin's career in the House of Parliament.

Ghana has taken a significant step towards solidifying its position as Africa’s leading gold producer with the commissioning of Cardinal Namdini Mining Ltd, the third largest mine in Ghana and the pouring of its first gold to mark the official opening by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday [Nov 8, 2024] in the Talensi District of the Upper East region.

The operationalisation of Cardinal Namdini, which is the largest single-stream mine in West African sub-region, is expected to consolidate Ghana's position as one of the world’s leading gold producers, with projections that the company will produce three hundred thousand ounces (300,000 oz) annually in the first three years.

I voted for VP Kamala Harris. I appreciated her concerns and that of many about the future of America’s democracy. After all, as the exit polls showed, seven out of ten (73%) Americans feel the country’s democracy is threatened. In addition, she committed to continuing the administration’s fight to secure debt relief for borrowers burdened by federal student loan debt.

The Biden-Harris administration has made efforts, unsuccessfully though, to provide relief to Americans burdened by federal student loans but have been met with stiff resistance from Republicans. So far, the efforts have been blocked by the courts. Most importantly, I preferred her political temperament.

Former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, has said Ghana can only be transformed through engineering. 

Additionally, he noted that Ghanaians needed a change of mindset, determination, commitment, ethical behaviour, leadership and truth, to develop the nation. 

Prof. Frimpong Boateng said that when he chaired the Annual Ethics & Leadership Lecture series of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE), in Accra.

The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has urged the Health Service Workers' Union (HSWU) to retract and apologise for issuing a press release before a meeting scheduled between the two parties. 

The Chief Executive of the FWSC, Benjamin Arthur, at a conference held at the FWSC Head Office in Accra  yesterday described the statement issued by the HSWU as unfair labour practice; hence, the call for an apology while the parties prepare to meet next week Monday,