University of Cape Coast (UCC) has indefinitely postponed its re-opening date due to what it describes as “circumstance beyond control” UCC was initially scheduled to re-open school on the 2nd and 9th August, 2014 for fresh and continuing students respectively. Though reasons for the postponement was not clearly stated, it is believed that it is as a result of the strike by the University’s branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). A press statement issued by the University {....}

Some Journalists in Tamale have blacklisted one of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential hopefuls, Alan John Kwadwo Kyeremanteng for snubbing them during his visit to Tamale on Thursday August 7, 2014. What incurred their wrath was Alan Kyeremanteng’s decision to ignore them upon his late arrival to address the media prior to his meeting with party delegates at the Mafara Hotel in Tamale. By the invitation of his Local Coordinators in Tamale, Alan Kyeremanteng was scheduled {....}

Music has given space to many young people to explore their talents. One of the latest of such talents is 21-year-old Juuju who has just turned out her first song titled, Kakyerɛ Me. As she says in the song, Juuju cannot stand cases involving women who suffer heartbreaks in their relationships and so she wrote her freestyle song to prompt guys on how they must treat their women. Speaking to Showbiz last Sunday, Juuju revealed that she had been singing since she was seven years old. “I used to sing at {....}

The ravaging Ebola disease seems to be threatening every aspect of life in most West African countries and it looks like football may not be spared. Red flags have started flying even ahead of the start of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers next month. With various national teams criss-crossing the continent to honour matches and with the threat of the incurable disease lurking, many countries, including Ghana, are concerned about the risk travelling around could pose to their teams. Ghana's Black {....}

An official of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has advocated a medical insurance and risk allowance package for health workers who will handle Ebola cases should the disease break out in the country. The Head of the Public Health Unit of the hospital, Dr Philip K. Amoo, also asked for standardised personal protection equipment and training for health workers who had volunteered to be part of the Ebola case management team. That, he said, had become necessary in view of the high risk associated with {....}

The hope of a former Member of Parliament (MP) of Nkoranza North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Mr Eric Amoateng, to enjoy his new found freedom in Ghana after his incarceration in Brooklyn, Eastern District of New York for heroin offences has been dashed. He was whisked away by officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) for a debriefing session as soon as he arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on board a Delta Airlines flight from New York to Accra. More {....}

The police in Lagos have arrested the runaway boyfriend who took the life of Ms Njideka Lizzy Nzewe, the Managing Director of EDMARK. 31-year-old Kelechi Williams is said to have strangled his victim on July 19 in the Amuwo Odofin area of the state after which he escaped to Ghana with some of her belongings. In confessing to the crime, he said: “Lizzy was my girlfriend. I knew her three years ago. But we started getting serious in February this year. “I came back from Ghana to visit her {....}

So you’ve had your Samsung Galaxy S5 for a few months now, and you think you’ve figured out everything there is to know about it. Well, prepare to have that thought blown to pieces, friend, because there are likely a few things your phone can do that you never even realized. If you want to get more out of your S5, or just want to see what else Samsung’s flagship can do, you’re in the right place. These are the 10 things you might not have known you can do with your Galaxy S5, but will definitely want {....}

Until his performance at last Saturday’s 1018 Laughs event, not many lovers of stand-up comedy had taken DKB as a “serious” comedian. But the loud and sustained applause that greeted him at the Accra International Conference Centre was enough testimony that he had arrived and could rub shoulders with the big boys of the genre. An elated DKB, real name, Derrick Kobina Bonney who spoke to Showbiz on Tuesday couldn’t hide his pride after what he claimed was a “revengeful {....}

The Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA) has placed an order for two units of diesel trains to operate shuttle services on the yet-to-be rehabilitated western railway line. The trains will, however, not arrive in the country until rehabilitation and upgrading of the lines, which have suffered intermittent postponements, is completed. The Chief Executive Officer of the GRDA, Mr Alidu Sadiq, who disclosed this in an interview, added that each of the two trains has six coaches and are capable {....}

A Minister of State at the Presidency, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has denied a media report suggesting that he is lobbying to partner President John Mahama for the 2016 elections. According to him, such reports are only speculative and intended to distract government from fulfilling its 'Better Ghana Agenda'. The Al-Hajj newspaper Thursday claimed that Vice-President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur had declared his intention not to partner President Mahama at the 2016 elections. According to the {....}

The Chief Executive of Kessben Group of Companies, Mr Kwabena Kesse who is standing trial for money laundering and forgery of documents, has been granted bail. An Accra Circuit Court Thursday morning granted him bail in the sum of GHȻ350 million with four sureties, two to be justified according to Graphic Online court correspondent, Victor Kwawukume. Mr Kesse is also to deposit his passport with the registry of the court and to report once a week to the investigator. He has been charged {....}

Could Justin Bieber's popularity in the UK be waning ever so slightly? It certainly looked that way when the Baby hitmaker was booed during the auditions at Wembley Arena in London last Sunday. And he wasn't even there! With the second round of auditions well underway, EntertainmentWise went down to check out the try-outs, and it was after a performance from one hopeful that Justin's name came up when returning X Factor judge, Cheryl Fernandez Versini, was offering her constructive {....}

It was reported just last week that Karrueche Tran had called it quits with her on/off boyfriend Chris Brown. But now TMZ claim that Chris is the one who finished it with her. The site reports that representatives for Chris have spoken with them, and the rapper is said to have 'dumped' Karrueche after people in her camp leaked stories about the break-up. TMZ state that Chris even discovered Karrueche had been texting other men while they were still together, and used their relationship to {....}

Last night the President of Liberia – where victims have been dragged into the streets and abandoned – announced a state of emergency with the Army setting up road blocks for ‘Operation White Shield’. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said her countrymen were still refusing to send sick relatives to isolation centres, massively increasing the spread of the epidemic. ‘Ignorance and poverty, as well as entrenched religious and cultural practices, continue to exacerbate the spread of the disease’, she said. And enforced {....}

Barack Obama has said it is too soon to send an experimental drug used to treat the deadly Ebola virus to West Africa, as experts meet to decide whether the outbreak warrants declaring a global health emergency. Two US aid workers striken by the virus were administered ZMapp in Liberia ahead of their evacuation to America for treatment. Their condition appears to be improving, but it is unclear if the drug is directly responsible. ZMapp is a drug made from antibodies produced in a lab that has {....}

The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Wednesday described the Ebola outbreak in the country as a “national emergency’’. Mr. Chukwu made the statement at an emergency meeting convened by the House of Representatives Committee on Health over the Ebola outbreak in Abuja. He said that out of six Nigerians diagnosed with the Ebola virus, one died on Tuesday while the five others were receiving treatment. The minister said that everyone in the world now was at risk, adding that the {....}

The women’s organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anita Desoso, has been put on a ‘no-fly list’ to the United States of America (USA). This came to light after she was prevented from traveling to the USA at the Kotoka International Airport on Monday. Anita Desoso who is also a Deputy Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) is said to have been declared a potential security risk after she left threatening voicemails to a US citizen, Michelle {....}