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Accra Mayor Mohammed Adjei Sowah has attributed the tidiness of Rwanda’s Kigali to the kind of governance system practiced in the country. According to him, the seeming authoritarian and autocratic rule practiced in the East African country makes it easy for state authorities to ensure order and absolute rule of …

Customer experience is being taken to another level in the services sector (banking, insurance, telecom etc.) following the increasing importance of customer services, service quality and telephone etiquette in today’s business. Ghanaian firm RayCom Technologies, a business communications software, systems and services delivery company and its partner Avaya, a leading …

Private sector credit growth is expected to rebound from the first quarter of 2019, following a tightening stance by commercial banks on loans to enterprises during the last two months of 2018, according to Bank of Ghana’s financial sector report for January 2019. The survey projects an easing of banks’ …

A five-month-old boy has died after parents performed a circumcision at their home in Italy, officials say. The baby was sent to a Bologna hospital in cardiac arrest on Friday night but died shortly afterward. Authorities in the northern Reggio Emilia province have opened an investigation against the parents, who …

Scores of passengers are feared dead following a head-on collision involving two buses on the Techiman – Kintampo road on Friday. Eyewitnesses say one of the buses caught fire with the other seriously mangled. Health officials say at least 28 people are currently receiving treatment at a health facility with …

Euro 2020 qualifying starts on Wednesday with 55 countries battling for 20 spaces at the tournament next year. How does it all work? Who is looking in good shape? And how does the Nations League tie into this? BBC Sport answers all those questions and more. What can you tell …

A government delegation comprising a team from the Ministry of Finance and officials from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) will today begin a Eurobond road show. Government is planning to raise three billion dollars through the bond to cater for infrastructure development in the 2019 budget as well as retire …

Boeing has grounded its entire global fleet of 737 Max aircraft after investigators uncovered new evidence at the scene of the fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash. The US plane-maker said it would suspend all 371 of the aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration said fresh evidence as well as newly refined satellite …

According to him, the youth must begin to question why these politicians do not recruit their own children and relatives for such tasks. Dr. Bawumia was speaking at the 51st anniversary ceremony of the birth of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) by Sheikh Abdul Wadud in Kumasi on Sunday. “They come to …

Italian striker Mario Balotelli is rarely out of the headlines, and this weekend was no exception. Balotelli scored the opening goal of the Ligue 1 match against Saint-Etienne with a spectacular overhead kick, but his celebration eclipsed the strike immediately. The much-maligned Olympic Marseille striker took celebrating with the fans …