The EU says it will pay €2,000 (£1,770; $2,225) each to migrants in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands willing to go back to their home countries. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the scheme in Athens on Thursday. It was agreed with the Greek government. She said it was temporary – open for one month only – and ...

A 13-year-old girl with albinism is leading a campaign to make sure girls in Tanzania complete their schooling. Joyce Simon says her parents wanted her to deliberately fail her exams so that she wouldn’t continue her education. They feared for her safety in school because she has albinism. But people in her area Chamwino district of Dodoma say other parents ...

A base hosting US and UK troops in Iraq has been hit in a rocket attack, US military officials say. The attack was on the Taji military camp north of Baghdad. The US sources said an American soldier, an American contractor and a British soldier were killed but this has not been officially confirmed. Tension has been high since the ...

The Confederation of African football says it is ‘closely monitoring’ the evolution of the deadly coronavirus around the world, particular on the African continent and is considering a number of measures to ensure the safety of footballers and fans. In a press release copied to www.ghanaweb.com, the continental football body says it will consider playing games, including the 2021 Africa ...

The IGP/Mr. James Oppong-Boanuh’s observation in a speech read on his behalf during a function that police/public relations is not the best is an apt one. We would proceed to say rather brazenly that the relationship between the two is very bad and, therefore, needs to be reversed. There is no gainsaying that most Ghanaians do not trust law enforcers, ...

As the coronavirus spread around the world and with rising number of confirmed cases in Africa, the government of Ghana is set to impose stricter controls at its border checks to curtail the spread of the virus. The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a televised presidential address on Wednesday, said the Ministry of Health has been directed to designate ...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) wants Ghana’s Price Stabilization and Recovery levy (PSRL) scrapped. COPEC said the continuous imposition of the PSRL is inimical to consumers. “The PSRL must be immediately scrapped from the Price Build Up and a more sustainable source of funding be instituted for premix in order that the whooping 16p/litre charge on fuel prices ...

Multinational mining firm, Newmont, has announced on Monday March 9 that its Board of Directors (Board) plans to reduce the number of Directors from 15 to 11, effective following the Annual Meeting of Stockholders on April 21, 2020, with the completion of the Goldcorp integration. The Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and the Board determined that reducing the size of ...

A fatal accident on the Kintampo-Tamale highway in the Bono East Region has left at least 30 people burnt to death, Monday morning. Adom News’ correspondent Wiafe Akenteng who is at the scene says those involved, include women and children. According to him, a Yutong bus reportedly collided with a mini Sprinter bus with registration number AS 1801-18 causing both ...

The South is best understood as an exceptional region inside Ghana, with a unique political and cultural milieu birthed by the intersection of progress and development. This region has created the best of productive citizens, if not excellent to say. This pictorial description of how flourish the South is, is due to the character and behavior of the inhabitants of ...