Mostafa Baluch, 33, sparked a 17-day nationwide manhunt after allegedly cutting off an ankle bracelet which had tracked his whereabouts in Sydney.
Authorities said they pulled over a lorry after receiving a tipoff.
Mr Baluch - a suspected drug smuggler - was found in a car inside a shipping container on the lorry, police said.
Police noticed the container was not locked,...
The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has hit back at the Catholic Bishops Conference for criticising government’s management of the public purse.
Yaw Buaben Asamoa said the comments of the Conference lacks clarity.
In an interview with Accra-based Citi FM, he said the Conference’s observations would have been considered, but it lacks focus.
“Where are the specifics on...
President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Most Reverend Philip Naameh, has lamented the perceived level of corruption perpetrated by political actors.
Speaking at the plenary session of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Wa on Monday, Most Rev Naameh said corruption is having a toll on the national economy, thereby increasing Ghana’s poverty situation.
He said President Akufo-Addo has defaulted...
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has revealed that more than 200 homes have been destroyed by high tides that swept through some communities in the Volta Region.
Speaking to JoyNews, the Deputy Director-General of NADMO, Seji Saji Amedonu said that their preliminary assessment shows the devastation is massive.
“The data we got we are having almost over 200 to 300...
Gospel artist and evangelist Cecilia Marfo has said that she adores English melodies and won’t quit singing them in spite of her off-base selection of words
Cecilia Marfo has been moving for a couple of days after her recordings of her circulated around the web via web-based media. Cecilia Marfo was heard singing a famous melody “What will I say...
A middle-aged tricycle operator is feared dead and another in a critical condition at the West Gonja Hospital following a road crash.
The accident involved a saloon car with registration number NR 86-18 and a tricycle, popularly known as Motor King in the Damongo Busunu highway in the Savannah Region.
Meanwhile, Police sources said the two victims were the only occupants...
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, is said to have written to the Police administration informing them that Madina MP, Francis-Xavier Sosu is out of the country on Parliamentary business.
The embattled MP was to show up in court on Monday morning but failed to turn up.
Police Prosecutor ASP Sylvester Asare informed the Kaneshie District Court that a letter had been...
Government has cautioned desperate job seekers to be cautious of the activities of QNET, an international e-commerce based direct selling company which claims to offer jobs outside Ghana.
Deputy Information Minister, Fatimatu Abubakar, speaking at a press briefing in Accra on Sunday, noted that victims of QNET have suffered heinous conditions over non-existing jobs.
“Victims are lured into lucrative non-existing jobs...
More than 20 children were killed and dozens injured when a fire broke out in a school in Niger's second-largest city on Monday morning, according to authorities in Maradi.
Three school classrooms made with straw were consumed by the fire, killing children aged between three and eight, local media reported.
The cause of the fire and where it started was not...
Renowned broadcaster, Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson has been granted bail after four days in remand.
The Media General employee was remanded in prison for two weeks on November 4, 2021 after publishing a fake kidnapping case.
Paa Kwesi Simpson has been granted a GHc 50,000 bail with two sureties. Paa Kwesi Simpson, the morning show host on Connect FM, a Media...
