A major drive to engage every church member in Total Member Involvement has helped propel the Seventh-day Adventist Church past 20 million members for the first time in its history. The Adventist Church had 20,008,779 members as of Dec. 31, 2016, a net increase of 882,332 people, or 4.6 percent, from the previous year, the church’s Office of Archives,…
In a medical rite in the U.S. known as Match Day, where graduating fourth year medical students are given envelopes and find out where they have been matched to continue their medical training in a three to seven year residency program, Ghanaian Nancy Abu-Bonsrah was matched with Johns Hopkins Hospital to specialize in neurological surgery. The match made her…
On the 60th day of his presidency came the hardest truth for Donald Trump. He was wrong. James B. Comey — the FBI director whom Trump celebrated on the campaign trail as a gutsy and honorable “Crooked Hillary” truth-teller — testified under oath Monday what many Americans had already assumed: Trump had falsely accused his predecessor of wiretapping his…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Accra on Sunday for Geneva, Switzerland to attend the Fifth Edition of the Africa Chief Executive Officers (CEO’s) Forum, which opens on March 20, 2017. The President will return on Thursday, March 23. The Forum, expected to attract CEOs of the largest African and international companies, political decision makers from more than 40…
A Pastor Richmond Nana Danso was on Monday remanded by an Accra Circuit Court for dishonestly appropriating an amount of $10,080 and GH¢ 2,000.00, belonging to one Lucy Korkoi Tetteh. Richard pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded by the court presided over by Mrs Afi Agbanu Kudomor to reappear on March 30. Prosecuting Chief Superintendent of…
The Disciplinary Committee of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has decided to ban the Ghanaian match official Joseph Odartei Lamptey from any kind of football-related activity at both national and international. According to FIFA, Odartey Lamptey is banned from administrative, sports or any other activities related to football. The official was found guilty of breaching art. 69…
The First Lady Mrs Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo has empathised with the bereaved families and the wounded in the Kintampo rainstorm tragedy. The tragedy which, occurred on Sunday afternoon at the Kintampo Waterfalls in the Brong- Ahafo Region has so far claimed 20 lives involving students of Wenchi Methodist Senior High School and the University of Energy and Natural…
NYON, Switzerland — When Aleksander Ceferin talks about changes, he means the grand, sweeping variety. He means the sort that might begin to repair the “stained” reputation of football’s governing bodies: things like term limits and transparency, the policies that helped elect him president of UEFA by a landslide in September. He means the kind designed to stop the…
MANCHESTER, England — Even an hour after the game, Pep Guardiola was still pulsing, coursing with energy. He was still a little breathless, his words tumbling and flooding out. He confessed his love for his defender John Stones. He declared his undimmed happiness. He called it one of the greatest days of his professional life. It all felt a…
WASHINGTON — President Trump began Monday as he has started so many other presidential mornings — by unleashing a blistering Twitter attack on critics who suggested his 2016 campaign colluded with the Russians. By the afternoon the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, had systematically demolished his arguments in a remarkable public takedown of a sitting president. Even…
