A new e-commerce report has revealed that online fraud against UK merchants is at alarming levels and has forced many to refuse orders from certain countries, with Ghana, Nigeria and the US topping the list. Internet fraud or cyber fraud refers to the use of internet services to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds... 

TODAY newspaper has been compelled to revisit a very important issue that happens to be the headache of successive governments and civil society at large. IT is the alarming rate of stinking corrupt practices and furtive deals among public officials that have been the bane of Ghana’s development. THE paper reported in its yesterday’s edition after months of undercover investigations that shady... 

Not too long former President John Agyekum Kufuor met with sitting President John Evans Atta Mill at the Castle, Osu- the seat of government. That meeting has been hailed by many well-meaning Ghanaians. But interestingly, at the time, there were some people — especially NPP elements — who suggested President Mills invite their 2012 presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to the Castle. Their... 

There is no denying the fact that the breakdown of family values in recent times across the country has fuelled widespread indiscipline, especially in our urban areas. Obviously, the increasing spate of disorderliness and insults among irate youth demanding the removal of, particularly government appointees, is adversely affecting Ghana’s level of growth in all sectors. In recent times, it is no... 

Technological advancement and the globalization of communication, along with world economic inter-dependence, have changed the social and political landscape of the globe. Each and every day organized criminals take advantage of powerful instruments of technology and globalization to perpetrate their unwholesome activities. Since criminals respect no territorial boundaries, law enforcement must act... 

LAST Tuesday, March 8, 2011 marked International Women’s Day (IWD). And as we have always been seeing the day was observed globally. In some parts of the world, women on such a day are not made to go to work, but instead allowed to sit in the comfort of their homes and celebrate the day. IN commemoration of the day, Today seizes the opportunity to applaud and congratulate Ghanaian women- especially... 

WE on the Today newspaper are very optimistic that Sunday’s 54th independence anniversary celebration did not even trouble and perhaps gave President John Evans Atta Mills and officials in the top echelon of his government a sleepless night like the recent industrial actions on the labour front. AS the first black African country to gain independence on the 6th of March, 1957, it is sad to note... 

Today highly commends the Vetting and Crime Analysis (VCA) Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquartered in Accra and the National Accreditation Board (NAB) for taking steps to halt the operations of a new university in Mankessim in the Central region. The university, known as the University College of Jesus Nazareth, according to media reports, has been in existence for a year... 

Yesterday, Thursday, February 24, 1966 is exactly 45 years since Colonel Akwasi Amankwaah Afrifa and Colonel Emmanuel Komla Kotoka of the Ghana Armed Forces took up guns to overthrow our first Prime Minister/President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Those who lived in those times were observers of events before the overthrow and some among them, interestingly across political traditions, insist that that... 

When Egyptians took to the streets in droves to demand the resignation of their President, Hosni Mubarak, there were a few sceptical people who thought the Egyptian president would not bow to the will of his people. Of course, it was understandable especially as he (Mubarak) had been so defiant in the face of almost three weeks of mass protestations against him. What even made the whole situation dicey...