Ghana’s boxing sensation, Bastie Samir (17 – 0, 1, 15Ko’s), handed Lokossou Raoul of Benin, a catastrophic round two knock-out in an international Catchweight contest in the early hours of Sunday, at the Bukom Boxing Arena, Accra. Bastie, who was making a return to the ring after a year and …
Read More »Armed Robbers Takes over the Sawla to Damongo
Armed robbers in the early hours of yesterday Sunday ambushed and succeeded in robbing passengers onboard a Bole bus on its way to Tamale early in the morning with another in the evening. Speaking to Bole based Nkilgi Fm reporter in Damongo Zion Abdul Rauf in Damongo after the incident, …
Read More »Mahama will remain one-term president – NPP
The Volta regional secretary for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Joseph Homenya, says former President John Mahama will remain an ex-President, despite his victory in the just ended National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearership primaries. The secretary who doubles as the Volta Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Scheme …
Read More »Radio station closed down; 4 persons arrested at Bimbilla
Bimbila based Gmantanbu 96. 1MHz, a powerful radio station serving several under-reported districts in the eastern corridor enclave of the Northern Region, has been shut down temporarily on Friday, February 22, 2019. The closure followed a fistfight which broke out at the Municipal Assembly building between managers of the radio …
Read More »Ministry of Health clears air on nurses’ recruitment
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has reaffirmed the statement by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akofu-Addo that 14,254 nurse assistants (Clinical and Preventive) have received financial clearance to be recruited. According to the MoH, indeed the nurses who belonged to the tranche that passed their exams in 2016 from government health …
Read More »EOCO boss K.K Amoah sacked
Executive Director of anti-graft agency, the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), ACP K.K Amoah, has been removed from office. Myjoyonline.com sources in government say he has been replaced by DCOP Adusei Poku. ACP Amoah has since been ordered to hand over to DCOP on Thursday, February 28, the sources …
Read More »Government unveils 62nd Independence Day activities
The government has announced that this year’s 62nd Independence Anniversary celebration will take place from Thursday, 28th February to 8th March 2019. During his recent state of the nation address on Thursday, 21 February, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced to Parliament that the national celebration, will, for the first time ever, …
Read More »My boyfriend of 2 years robbed and ‘forced’ me to buy a GHC20,000 new car for him – Woman narrates
n anonymous Ghanaian woman has narrated into details how the ‘fraudster of a boyfriend’ willingly gave his car to her, stole it and forced her to pay for the lost car. The victim, in her quest to advice ladies to be careful of men these days narrated her story to …
Read More »Standards Authority, CID closes down illegal gas cylinder plant
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police Service on Friday closed down a gas cylinder manufacturing plant in Oyarifa for operating illegally. George Anti, the Business Development Manager of the Authority in an interview said the Authority had a tip-off of a …
Read More »Today in History: Kwame Nkrumah’s overthrow
Today marks exactly 53 years when the former president of Ghana Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was unconstitutionally ousted from office through a military and police coup de’tat on February 24th, 1966. Undoubtedly the most important indication of Nkrumah’s lasting impact is how much better he has done in retrospect than those …
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