The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has taken a major step towards its agenda to recapture power in the 2020 election with the inauguration of a 21-member election manifesto committee. Chaired by a former Minister of Health under the Mills-led administration, Professor Kwaku Danso-Boafo, the committee will tour all the 16 …
Read More »Judge threatens Shatta Wale with bench warrant
The Adjabeng magistrate court in Accra presided over by His Worship Mr Isaac Addo has issued a stern warning and threatened to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of Charles Nii Armah a popularly known as called Shatta Wale if he fails to appear in court at the next …
Read More »Tafo-Pankrono: Five MOMO fraudsters busted
Five suspected fraudsters have been busted by the Tafo-Pankrono Police Divisional Command in the Ashanti region for duping people into various sums of money. They were arrested at their operational hideout in a hotel at Atimatim in the Afigya Kwabre South district in the Ashanti region upon a tip off …
Read More »Man trafficking cocaine to finance his wedding arrested
Ibeh Augustine Chukwuma, a Brazil-based Nigerian man has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after arriving the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja with a maximum ECOLAC bag which had 5kg of pure cocaine. The 36-year-old Nigerian man who revealed that he has been working with a …
Read More »Accra Mall to be shut temporarily Thursday
Tenants at the Accra Mall will temporarily close down their shops on Thursday, October 24, to express their objection to what they say is difficult conditions at the mall. The shop owners are asking among other demands a reduction in their rent charges and also an improvement in promotions to …
Read More »Auditor-General orders Osafo-Maafo to refund GH¢5.5m ‘paid’ to UK consultancy firm
The Auditor-General (AG) has ordered Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo to refund about GH¢5.5 million allegedly paid to UK based consultancy firm M/S Kroll and Associates within sixty-days. Mr Osafo Marfo is accused by the Auditor-General of paying the private firm more than GH¢4 million cedis for no work done. …
Read More »A/R: Fully equipped CHPS Compound abandoned at Kentikrono
Residents of Kentinkrono in the Oforikrom municipality of the Ashanti region are angry at the municipal assembly for their inability to open for services, a constructed and equipped Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compound that have been left to rot for years. The health facility which was constructed by …
Read More »ECG terminates PDS contract; assumes full control
The Electricity Company of Ghana has announced it has taken full control of power distribution as it terminates its contract with Power Distribution Services (PDS). Consequently, all activities which were hitherto undertaken by PDS have reverted to ECG. In a statement announcing the takeover, ECG said all stakeholders and customers …
Read More »Menzgold begins document validation for payments
Menzgold has announced outlets in the various for their customers to go and verify their documents in order for payments to be effected to them. A statement by the gold collectible firm said the document validation period will begin on October 28, 2019 and end on November 28. The outlets …
Read More »2 arrested for stealing Otumfuo’s Club for $1.3 million
Two (2) Persons have been arrested by Zongo Police in Kumasi for allegedly stealing and registering Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s Club known as Kumasi Club in their name at the Registrar Generals Department in Kumasi in order to perpetrate fraud. One other person who is said to have played …
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