The Ministry of Trade and Industry has presented a cheque of ¢2.29 million to enterprises affected by the July 5th, 2021 Makola fire disaster. Presenting the cheque, the Sector Minister, Alan Kyerematen, reiterated the government’s support for Ghana’s informal trade sector. “I tasked the Ghana Enterprises Agency to liaise with …
Read More »Schoolboys ‘burn dormitory over Liverpool match’
Four Kenyan schoolboys are in police custody over the burning of a dormitory after reportedly being denied permission to watch the match between Liverpool and Manchester United, the Daily Nation site reports. It quotes a local police boss as saying the students were among 14 others questioned over the incident. …
Read More »15 Assembly members granted bail for cursing Regional Minister
Fifteen aggrieved Assembly Members, who together with three others, invoked curses on specific political and public officials in the Central Region, have been granted GHC5,000 bail each with a surety each, by the Assin Nyankumasi Magistrate’s Court. They are Sadique Aidoo, P. K. Ocran, Kingsley Enniful, Felix Mensah, William Appiah, …
Read More »Man waits till wedding day to confess to bride that he has no legs
She is the best woman – This is the reaction of a man identified as Ndayisenga when his bride-to-be gave a nod to their wedding despite a last minute confession he made at the altar. Ndayisenga waited after years to disclose to his bride that he was a physically challenged …
Read More »Police set records straight on case of missing Lands
• Rhodaline Amoah-Darko of the Lands Commission went missing on August 30 • Police have been investigating the case • Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey, her husband, has been referred for psychiatric examination The Ghana Police Service has stated that it has no evidence to point to the fact that Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey, the …
Read More »Contracts for 27 E-blocks terminated
The contracts for some 27 E-blocks have been terminated, the Education Ministry has announced. Those blocks, the ministry explained, were still below the sub-structural level several years after they were awarded to the contractors. However, twenty-one others are billed to be completed and operationalised soon. Out of that number, 16 …
Read More »Rubbish engulfs Tamale Teaching Hospital following HSWU strike
Filth is gradually building up at the Tamale Teaching Hospital following an industrial action by Health Services Workers Union. About seven hundred members of the union workers at the TTH, a significant number of these workers are cleaners whose main duty is keeping wards and the hospital environment tidy. As …
Read More »LGBTQ+: My thoughts are with boys exploited by some of your priests – Sam George to Bishop of London
• Bishop Mullally has called for a rejection of the anti-LGBTQ bill • She claims the bill promotes hate and threatens the life of homosexuals • Sam George has challenged her to cite aspects of the bill that support her argument Bishop of London (head of London’s Anglican church), the …
Read More »Sam George tops Twitter trends after BBC interview
• Ningo Prampram MP granted an interview to the BBC on the anti-LGBTQ+ Bill. • His responses in the interview have scored high marks by social media users •Parliament has commenced debate on the Bill Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey Goerge, has topped Twitter trends after his interview …
Read More »Incest case involving NDC official: Daughter narrates ordeal in court
The daughter of embattled Emmanuel Kwesi Dawood, Central Regional Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress on Wednesday, narrated the ordeal she went through at the hands of her father, to a Cape Coast Circuit Court. Dawood had on Wednesday, October 13, pleaded not guilty to defilement, incest, illegal abortion …
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