Policy Analyst, IMANI AFRICA is demanding a justification for Government’s decision to takeover rural water systems, warning the judgment could threatens water supply to the poor. Civil Society organizations in rural and community water services, COCOWAS has criticized government for not rescinding its decision to bring all community pipe water …
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Professor Adei sacks Kwaku Kwarteng and Carlos Ahenkorah from GRA Board
Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr. Kwaku Agyemang Kwarteng and Mr. Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, Deputy Trade and Industry, have been sacked from their position as board members of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) with immediate effect, DAYBREAK can authoritatively report. This was communicated to them by the new board chairman, Professor …
Read More »Dysfunctional Ghanaian Democracy Caused by Corrupt and Weak Judiciary System – Jacob Osei Yeboah
The Independent Presidential Candidate in 2012 and 2016, Jacob Osei Yeboah has observed that the agitations by the recent law students give hope that the new crop of students is tired of the corrupt, weak and outmoded fantasies of the Judiciary System. “This is not an option but the cancer …
Read More »National Insurance Commission Warns Against Fake Insurance Brokers
The national Insurance Commission is warning the general public against dealing with fake insurance brokers. The warning follows a swoop operation by Officials of the special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the NIC in collaboration with the Ghana police service to arrest operators of Zeta Insurance Broking Services when it discovered …
Read More »Otumfour Asamponhene’s Murder: Family Storm Court; Invokes Curse On Accused, Lawyers
Some family members of the late Otumfour’s Asamponhene Nana Kwadwo Afordour, yesterday besieged the Asokore Mampong district court to invoke the powers of their ancestral gods on the suspect and his Counsel. According to otecfmghana.com reporter Isaac Nsiah Foster who at the court reported that, some family members who wore black mourning …
Read More »ZETA Insurance Brokers Shut Down For Operating Illegally
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) has completely shut down ZETA Insurance Brokers for operating illegally. According to the commission, the said company has been operating for the past five years in Accra. Addressing the media on Thursday, the Commissioner of Insurance, Justice Yaw Ofori says the Police are currently investigating …
Read More »Nigeria has taught Ghana how to defy ECOWAS protocols – GUTA
Since late August 2019, Nigeria has closed three of her borders -Seme-Krake, Igolo and Idiroko. According to President Buhari, the move is to curb smuggling of rice into the country through its neighbouring countries. The country further tightened the screws by banning trade across all land borders to force its …
Read More »Mexico drug wars: Fighting erupts as El Chapo’s son goes free
Heavy fighting broke in northern Mexico after the security forces seized one of the sons of jailed drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Fighting raged for several hours after Ovidio Guzmán López was found during a routine patrol in the city of Culiacán. Footage on Mexican TV showed armed men …
Read More »Gov’t scheming to plunder ECG assets through PDS share restructure – NDC alleges
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) claims it has intercepted a document that allegedly exposes a clandestine plan by the government to loot the assets of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The intercepted document, a letter addressed to the Chairperson of Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), Professor Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, …
Read More »Seductive dressing by female students contributes to sexual harassment – Lecturer
Collins Badu Agyemang, a lecturer at the Psychology Department of the University of Ghana, is of the view that provocative and seductive dressing of some female students contribute to sexual harassment and misconduct in society. To Dr Agyeman, “there is the issue of power play in all sectors of society …
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