Manchester City have agreed a £52m deal for Monaco defender Benjamin Mendy. The 23-year-old France left-back, who joined Monaco from Marseille last summer, played 34 times for the club last season and helped them to their first Ligue 1 title in 17 years. His fee would eclipse the initial £45m paid by City for right-back Kyle Walker earlier this month and the £47.5m deal for centre-back John Stones last summ ...

The University of Leicester in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2017 posthumously awarded Major Maxwell Mahama a MSc in Security and Risk Management at the school’s congregation. The award was received by the late Ghanaian military officer’s mother, Veronica Bamford. Major Mahama was lynched two months ago by residents of Denkyira-Boase in the Central Region on suspicion of being an armed robber after a snail ...

Members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will fight and ensure that the chair of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, is not removed from office, Bolgatanga Central MP Isaac Adongo has said. According to him, the office of the Chair of the EC is a constitutional office that must be protected from the influence of anybody or entity, hence the decision to resist the removal of Mrs Osei from offi ...

It is a concern that some staff of the Electoral Commission (EC) who have petitioned the President to probe chairperson Charlotte Osei have not disclosed their identities, Kwame Jantuah, a member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and Vice Chair of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has said. According to him, the non-disclosure of the names of the petitioners fuels the perception ...

A start-up technology and investment company in Ghana, Comfortable Life Technologies and Investment (CLTi) Ltd, has launched an online service for the Ghanaian automobile market. The service, which is being delivered under the brand name Auto Dad, brings automobile dealers, service providers, and customers together in a simple, efficient and effective manner to conduct business. This was disclosed on Class ...

The Ranking Member on parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has suggested new ways of dealing with terrorism across the globe including negotiations, as the use of military force has not yielded the desired results given more people are joining the ranks of terror organisations. “Just using force and thinking that you can identify key ringleaders [to deal with them will not work]. ...

According to the analysis of the 2017 National Budget, focused on the food and agricultural sector, the Planting for Food and Jobs policy which is expected to provide 750,000 jobs, is laudable because it has the potential of absorbing unemployed youth as well as increase productivity, food security and the nutritional status of families. The report also said the "One District, One Factory" policy should pri ...

Accusations of wrongdoing against some commissioners of the Electoral Commission are injurious to the image of the election management body, Dr Richard Amoako Baah, a former head of the Political Science Department at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has said. According to him, many Ghanaians already have doubts about the political neutrality of the EC and allegations currently ...

Some legislators are angry over the deplorable conditions at the burial grounds of late President John Evans Atta Mills at the Asomdwee Park in Accra. This comes in the wake of preparations to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the demise of the former president. According to the Member of Parliament (MP) for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) constituency, Samuel Atta Mills, who is also the brother of th ...

Ghanaian Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has cautioned critics of President Nana Akufo-Addo to leave him alone. The ‘Taking Over’ hitmaker in a 30-second video said the President’s critics must know that it is not easy to be president, adding that huge funds are needed to execute promises such as the one-village-one-dam and one-district-one-factory policies hence Ghanaians should stop the undue pressure they ...