The Ghana Police Service together with Border Patrol Officers of Ghana Immigration Service on patrols have arrested two trucks loaded with bags of smuggled fertilizers meant for government flagship planting for Food and Jobs social intervention initiative in the Upper West Region. According to the police, a total of 1,950 bags were retrieved from the...
A farmer and resident of Ejisu Abenease in the Ashanti Region, Isaac
Osei Mensah, is appealing to Ghanaians and the Abuakwa Police Command to
speed-up investigations into his missing 17-year-old daughter, Daniela
Osei Mensah, a form 1, Home Economic student of Jachie Pramso Senior
High School.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra, Mr Mensah said the last time...
A former UN adviser on governance Prof. Baffour Agyemang Duah has raised
concerns over the rapidity at which President Akufo-Addo is renaming
national monuments.
According to him, although it is appropriate to honour heroes of the
nation, the current situation appears to be fraught with politics.
The comment comes after President Akufo-Addo disclosed that the
Sunyani-based University of Energy...
The 2018 Auditor-General’s Report has revealed several financial
irregularities that have led to huge financial losses to the state in
the running of the Ghana School Feeding Programme, with 81 metropolitan,
municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) and the management of the
programme blamed for the mismanagement.
Bloated enrolment figures, duplication of schools and payments of
grants to non-existent caterers...
Popular Ivorian musician, Houon Ange Didier known artistically as #DJArafat passed away at the age of 33. He died this Monday 12th August 2019 at about 8am following a road accident Sunday night in Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire.
In Ivory Coast, the famous singer DJ Arafat was the victim of a serious traffic accident in Abidjan on the night of August...
Investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azuri Awuni is questioning if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is under the spell of voodoo known as ‘Juju’ in local parlance. It is not clear if this question is related to renaming of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani in the Bono Region after the late Prime...
Donewell Insurance Company Limited (DICL) has expressed disappointment
and dismay that Al Koot, a reinsurance company in Qatar, has denied
knowledge that it has issued an insurance bond guarantee to Power
Distribution Services (PDS) as one of the conditions for taking over
some assets of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
“We state with great dismay that Al Koot...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is forecasting that beneficiaries of the Free Senior High Education programme being implemented by the government will pay more in taxes in the future. According to the Commissioner-General of GRA, Emmanuel Kofi Nti, the programme is an investment to build skilled labour pool which will translate to increase in...
The Police in the Central Region say the Attorney General’s Department
intends to charge the police officer who publicly bragged about taking
bribes, with the offence of extortion contrary to section 151 (1) of the
criminal offences Act 29 (60).
He is also to be prosecuted by the circuit court in Cape Coast.
The police officer, Sargent Owusu Ansah who is...
Government of Ghana in the late hours of Tuesday, July 30 announced the abrogation of the contract with Power Distribution Services barely six months after the company took over from the Electricity Company of Ghana.
In a statement signed by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, it disclosed that “the decision follows the detection of fundamental and material breaches of PDS...
