The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has pledged its commitment to ensuring that the founder of the party, Jerry John Rawlings is given a befitting burial. This was announced by former President and current presidential candidate of the party, John Dramani Mahama, after a closed-door meeting with the party’s political committee. Read more…
The second wave of the Business Tracker Survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service indicates that about 13,000 businesses that decided to close down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have rescinded their decisions. This is due to some interventions made by government and other sources. The survey revealed Read more…
More than nine million people may have had their details stolen in the 2018 cyber-attack. Source: BBC
There are plenty of reviews out there for the Hero 9 already, so I wanted to do something a little different. I decided to put GoPro’s latest to the test while hugging turns in my 1970 Chevelle. I recently swapped the automatic transmission in it for a Tremec Magnum 6-speed Read more…
BBC Click’s Omar Mehtab looks at some of the best technology news stories. Source: BBC
The boss of Call of Duty speaks to Newsbeat about the new game and its Warzone integration. Source: BBC
It’s no secret that a massive digital transformation is happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products to their offerings. Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, Read more…
The fate of TikTok in the United States got even more confusing this week. The U.S. Justice and Commerce Departments sent conflicting messages today about TikTok’s future, which is now up in the air with the upcoming administration transition. The Department of Commerce said Thursday it would abide by an Read more…
A Retired Educationist in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, Hajia Adisa Sulemana has described former President Jerry John Rawlings as a true nationalist and patriot whose leadership transformed Ghana’s economy. Hajia Sulemana who is a former Assistant Director II and Head of the Islamic Unit at the Upper East Regional Directorate Read more…
At least five persons have sustained various degrees of injuries after a fiery explosion at Anaafo, a fishing community in Cape Coast, swept through their homes. As at 1040 hours, when the GNA arrived at the scene, the Ghana National Fire Service and the Ambulance Service teams were busily working Read more…
The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Oquaye, and Leadership have described the death of former President Jerry John Rawlings as a great loss to the nation. In a statement sighted by JoyNews, Prof Aaron Oquaye described Mr. Rawlings as a “great statesman who devotedly spoke against corruption in all forms.” According Read more…
Togbe Afede XIV has been defeated in his quest to be retained as President of the National House of Chiefs. He lost to the Paramount Chief of Sefwi Anhwiaso Traditional Area, Ogyeahohuo Yaw Gyebi, in a landslide victory of 47 votes against 25. Paramount Chief of Lawra Traditional Area in Read more…
Reports that Dominion Software, which provides voting tabulation tools to about half the states in the U.S., “deleted” millions of votes have been soundly rebuffed after outgoing President Trump parroted numbers from a random internet forum. Tweeting Thursday morning about baseless claims of election fraud, Trump cited OANN, a right-wing Read more…
US Commerce Department halts ban on Chinese owned company. Source: BBC
Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Emmanuel Victor Smith, has described the NDC’s founder, Jerry John Rawlings as a major character in the country’s fight for democracy. Ambassador Victor Smith attributed Ghana’s development to the late President, explaining that coup d’états have especially been nonexistent in the 4th Republic Read more…
Ghanaians across the country have received the news of the sudden passing of Former President Jerry John Rawlings with disbelief and sorrow. The Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) passed on Thursday at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, at 73, following a short illness. At his Ridge residence and the Read more…
Tending to your home is an often forgotten form of self-care. Few people know this better than Bobby Berk, the interior designer who typically makes over an entire house under a tight deadline on the hit Netflix show “Queer Eye.” As a member of the “Fab Five,” Berk is charged Read more…
The suit slump was in motion long before COVID-19 forced us indoors and replaced our blazers with hoodies. Back in 2016, when J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. announced that its employees were no longer required to wear suits—the implied alternative was a shirt and slacks—the news made international headlines. It even prompted Vogue’s resident Read more…
The dismissed CEO of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) says the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) report is full of “aspersions, inferences, and assumptions”. Adjenim Boateng Adjei said the CHRAJ investigation that recommended his dismissal by President Akufo-Addo is empty. “The content of the 188-page report is Read more…
The latest Mac operating system arrives, Amazon faces a lawsuit over PPE and Disney+ turns one. This is your Daily Crunch for November 12, 2020. The big story: Apple releases macOS Big Sur This update, which was first announced five months ago at WWDC, includes a number of design changes Read more…