Ex-FIFA President Havelange dies at age 100

Joao Havelange, the former president of world football governing body FIFA, has died in hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Havelange, who turned 100 in May, had been admitted last month to the Samaritano hospital in the Botafogo district of the…

Is the media an oxymoron for governance?

The recent brouhaha surrounding the media in public discourse in Ghana has led to numerous proposals on the functionality of the mass media in the coming elections and on governance in general. Yet democracy as the dominant ideology of…

NPP threatens to sue four EC officials

The New Patriotic Party(NPP) in Dormaa Ahenkro is  dragging  four officials of the Electoral Commission(EC) to court for obstructing and challenging the  party’s agents from  objecting  to over 200 foreign nationals whose names appeared  in…

Accra bourse continues on bullish trend

Consumer Price Inflation dropped by 170 basis points (bps) to 16.7 per cent in July from 18.4 per cent in June on the relative stability of the cedi, base drift and seasonality effect on food pricing. Consequently the benchmark Ghana…