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A cocktail of adrenaline-infused biking and abseiling adventures earmarked the launch of the National Biking & Abseil Festival at the start of the Easter holidays at the Shai Hills Reserve near Doryumu in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region. The partnership between the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission of Ghana and BraveHearts Expeditions, West Africa’s leading adventure tourism firm unveiled, for the first time in a protected area in all of West Africa, saw series of adventure activities that enabled participants to bike a total distance of 17.8km through the Park. The modern-day explorers, made up of journalists and avid adventurers, further hiked up the rocky incline of the Mogo Rock, strapped into high quality abseiling equipment, leaned back over the edge of the 20-metre rocky precipice and descended into vertical space in search of what the adventure tourism firm refers to as “Greatness”. Speaking at the launch of the festival, Mr. John Allotey,

Nigerian female pop star, Tiwa Savage’s estranged husband Tunji Balogun, popularly known as Teebillz, has expressed his regrets. Teebillz revealed that if he could turn back the hands of time, he would not do an elaborate wedding. He said the belief that men should always dominate every aspect of the marriage was incorrect. Teebillz was speaking as a panelist at “Mind the Gap X”, a love and relationship class for single, married and divorced people organised by Pastor Wale Adefarasin and life coach, Lanre Olusola. According to him, “If I have the chance of doing my marriage over again, l will put God first and not have an elaborate wedding. “It’s the 21st century and as men, most of us want to live like we are the lords of the marriage. “You’re a partner. It’s about our weaknesses, we’re here to help each other.” Teebillz further advised men to be more concerned about communication, understanding in the marriage instead of being selfish.

The President of the Northern Ghana Union of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church has called for a national discourse on the exploitation of the vulnerable in the name of religion. Pastor Kwame Kwanin Boakye advocates severe punishment for people whose activities breach the laws of the state to serve as a deterrent. He says the growing tendency for some pastors to hide behind the cassock to amass wealth and perpetrate sexual and other forms of abuse against the citizenry must stop. According to Pastor Kwanin, the modern self-seeking minister of the gospel has instituted a system which lures and preys on church members into accepting deceit for prophecy. Some pastors, he notes are even resorting to occultism to dupe their own congregation. Pastor Kwanin Boakye says Ghanaians must be concerned about the present state of the church. “I’m much worried about how people are abusing themselves in the ministry because of wealth; because of sex and because of power...Christ must be internalized i

Many NDC bigwigs are blaming former President John Mahama for the defeat the party suffered in the 2016 general elections, but former Member of Parliament for the Akwatia Constituency in the Eastern Region has begged to differ. According to him, the defeat the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) experienced in the 2016 elections was a collective failure of all party officials including himself as certain policies they implemented pushed the NDC into opposition. Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Baba Jamal disclosed that policies like scrapping teacher and nursing trainees allowances in an election year brought the downfall of the party. He again stated that the defeat of the NDC was largely caused by the increase in the Electoral College during the party’s primaries as it brought disunity into the party. “I realised that our primaries caused our defeat due to the disintegration it brought. The mode of selecting Parliamentary Candidates was wrong an

Government has announced that all arrears owed service providers of National Health Insurance Authorities (NHIS) will be settled in by close of April 2017 “Let me take this opportunity to announce that the amount owed service providers especially Ghana Health Service and the privates facilities with respect to 2017 will be settled by close of this week”, Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu revealed. The minister also announced measures the government is putting in place to improve on the health being of the citizenry and to modify the NHIS in order to sustain it. “The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) aims at ensuring health and well being for all at ages by improving reproductive, maternal and child health to achieve universal health coverage”, he said. Addressing the 2017 Ministry of Health Summit currently underway in Kumasi under the theme “Accountability in the health sector to achieve the health related SDCs” the minister explained that government will achieve its target by

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, launched the “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme at Goaso, in the Brong Ahafo Region. According to President Akufo-Addo, the programme is the basis of the answer to the twin-problem of the migration of youth to city centres in search of non-existent jobs, as well as an end to the disgraceful spectacle of Ghana importing food stuffs from neighbouring countries. Planting for Food and Jobs, the President explained, will be anchored on the pillars that will transform Ghanaian agriculture: the provision of improved seeds, the supply of fertilizers, the provision of dedicated extension services, a marketing strategy and the use of e-Agriculture. “The Planting for Food and Jobs programme is expected to increase the production of maize by 30 per cent; rice by 49 per cent; soybean by 25 per cent; and sorghum by 28 per cent from current production levels. This programme will create 750,000 jobs in both d

Nigeria's foreign spy chief Ayo Oke has been suspended after anti-corruption officers found more than $43m (£34m) in a flat in the main city, Lagos, the president's office has said. Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into how the spy agency headed by Mr Oke came into possession of the money, his office added. Mr Oke has not yet commented. However, unnamed intelligence officials told local media that the money was kept in the flat for covert operations. Anti-corruption officials have uncovered bundles of cash in Nigeria this year. Mr Buhari took office in 2015 with a pledge to root out corruption in government. Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories Sharing Nigeria's cake In a statement, his office said he had also suspended his close aide, David Babachir Lawal, pending an investigation into contracts awarded to deal with the humanitarian crisis in the north-east. The region has been hit by an insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. A three-membe