One of the hottest music acts, Kofi Mole thrilled the crowed at last night’s Tidal rave which happened inside Kokrobite, Accra. The annual event night recorded high numbers and saw thousands of people storm the venue to catch their favorite music act on stage. Kofi Mole delivered an energetic performance …
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Ghana Standards Authority intensifies market swoops and warns traders
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) will intensify its swoops across the country to rid the Ghanaian market of substandard goods regardless of where the products were made or who the importers or manufacturers are. The increase in market surveillance is part of the Authority’s efforts to check the proliferation of …
Read More »Stop enhancing your genitals – Marriage counsellor
A marriage counsellor and relationship expert, Dr John Boakye, has cautioned married couples against enhancing their genitals for sexual pleasures, saying the fuss about genital enhancement is a “myth”. He said many people were obsessed with enhancing their body parts and spent huge sums of money in buying products for …
Read More »Letter To The President on Sanitation
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT Dear Sir, I believe and hope you very well and enjoying the full grace of our Lord Jess Christmas. Your Exellency, I will love to remind of view things you and your government are forgetting, Please I hope you witnessed …
Read More »New education policy will remove barriers to varsity education – Prof. Yankah
The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah has said that the new tertiary education policy document seeks to eliminate all barriers that restrict applicants from gaining admissions into tertiary institutions. According to him, the demand for pass mark in some core subjects before qualifying for …
Read More »Taxes on fuel: Tax to go up in budget review – Ato Forson
Former deputy Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson has urged Ghanaians to buckle up as government readies itself to announce an increment in the tax on fuel and talk tax in the mid-year budget review. He said an increase in the fuel tax will immediately affect the price of fuel at …
Read More »BUDGET REVIEW: Will Finance Minister propose electricity price increase?
A close associate of the President, Asare Otchere-Darko seems to be preparing the minds of Ghanaians to a proposal to increase electricity tariffs. This comes two days prior to the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta’s expected presentation in Parliament, on the mid-year budget review. “Will you rather pay a little …
Read More »JUSTICE & RIGHTS: Gregory Afoko, suffering five ‘cruel’ years in unlawful ‘degrading’ detention without Trial
Having been arrested on May 2015; yesterday 26th August 2019, which commenced officially the 2019 legal vacation for Ghana’s Judiciary, marked the fifth time, Gregory Afoko ‘innocent until proven guilty according to law’, would endure painfully in the continue unlawful sub-human custody and degrading treatments from the ‘coercive’ powers of …
Read More »Consult broadly on Universities Bill to ensure peace on campuses – Otumfuo to government
The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has urged the government to consult broadly before presenting the draft University Bill to parliament. Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who is also the Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology (KNUST) said consulting broadly and incorporating the views of all stakeholders in the …
Read More »2 soldiers ‘unjustifiably’ force journalist to weed Michel Camp for one hour
Two military officers at Michel Camp military base in the Greater Accra region have allegedly abused a journalist whose assistance they had sought in resolving a misunderstanding between two trotro drivers. Mr James Harry Obeng claims he was handed a cutlass and unjustifiably made to weed a bushy area within …
Read More »Ghana Must End The 21st Century As A Value Added Economy – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed satisfaction in the operations of the titles manufacturing company in the Western Region saying their presence has tremendously enhance job creation in the area largely the country. He was addressing a gathering in Shama during a brief sod-cutting ceremony for the second phase …
Read More »Too poor to afford surgery, leaves 11-month baby with persisting swollen head
Financial challenges have compelled a young couple at Abuoso in Techiman in the Bono East Region, to abandon treatment of their baby with obstructive hydrocephalus at the hospital and resorted to herbal medicine. The 11-month-old baby was diagnosed with the condition at the Holy Family Hospital in Techiman, and was …
Read More »JUST IN: SHS 1 student of Kumasi Academy c*ught in a new S*X VIDEO
Last year was a particularly good one for people who have interest in leaked adult videos as a number of them popped up online. This year looks promising as we are continuing from where we left off as another ‘atopa video has hit social media. And it is very disturbing …
Read More »Bank of Ghana records GHS793m loss in 2018
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) last year recorded a loss of GHS793 million resulting from its operations, the bank’s 2018 Annual Report, has shown. The figure represents a more than 50 percent drop from the GHS1.6 billion the bank made in 2017 when the troubles from the banking sector were …
Read More »Not even angels can stop cocoa smuggling in Ghana – Former Minister
Former Western Regional Minister, Dr Kwaku Afriyie says not even angels can clamp down on the smuggling of cocoa beans from Ghana to neighbouring countries. To Dr Afriyie, who himself is a cocoa farmer in Ghana and a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), though the smuggling canker …
Read More »25 customers of Menzgold dead, others gone insane – Coalition of aggrieved customers
Chairman of the Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold, Mr. Timothy Binob, has disclosed on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that 25 of their members have lost their lives as a result of their inability to retrieve their locked up cash. Speaking to Kwabena Agyapong on Frontline on Friday, the chair of …
Read More »Teachers express worry over implementation of Student Information System
Some teachers have expressed worry over the limited information made available to them on the new Student Information System(SIS) proposed by government. The teachers lament that very little information on the project is known to them despite the fact that they remain key stakeholders in the implementation of the SIS …
Read More »Scores of customers of defunct Menzgold have amassed at the premises of the Accra Circuit Court in anticipation of the trial of the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Nana Appiah Mensah, alias NAM1. NAM1 is said to have defrauded 16,000 people of GH¢1.68billion on the name of investing their …
Read More »Ghanaian women explain why they cheat on their partners
A group of women on Twitter have revealed anonymously why they cheat on their partners. A Twitter user with handle @zubaidah_x did a poll where she wanted to find out from the ladies if they were cheating on their partners. 40% of the women said no, 11% said yes with …
Read More »Extend gas to areas with mineral deposits – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) to ensure that gas transmission is extended to parts of the country with significant mineral deposits. He said when that was done, it would help develop the country’s mining sector and enhance its transformational agenda through …
Read More »Cuba to train 40 Zongo medical students yearly
The Government of Cuba has accepted to train 40 brilliant but needy medical students a year from Zongo, inner city and other deprived communities in Ghana. This follows a proposal by Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to the Government of Cuba to extend the special arrangement between the two countries …
Read More »Second-year SHS students to remain on double-track
The government has announced that second-year senior high school (SHS) students will remain on the double-track system when the next academic year begins in September this year. The announcement follows the delay in the execution of the additional projects being embarked on by schools operating the double-track system in the …
Read More »Akufo-Addo launches Community Mining programme
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, 25 July 2019, launched the Community Mining Programme at Wassa Akropong in the Western Region.The Community Mining Programme is aimed at formalising mining in selected communities across the country.With, at least, one community mine expected to be set up in each of the …
Read More »VIDEO+PHOTOS: Mum arrested for tying up her daughter because she refused to sweep
A mother has been arrested by the vigilante group in her area for tying up her daughter because she refused to sweep. Facebook user Somto Okafor said he heard a child crying in a house in Awka, Anambra state. Upon investigation, he found a girl tied up with a rope. …
Read More »Tema Oil Refinery chokes on huge debts, officials plot cover up
While indications are clear that West Africa’s first refinery, the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is in a deep debt hole burden, officials employed to turn things around have rather resorted to a denial syndrome. The company lost a staggering GHS186 million in the first four months of operations this year. …
Read More »SEC to revoke licences of more investment banks
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will soon shut down some investment firms operating in the country after it completes an ongoing forensic audit of some 21 investment companies, the Deputy Director-General of SEC has disclosed. According to Paul Ababio, who refused to give further information on these firms, SEC …
Read More »WAEC withholds WASSCE results of 26,434 students
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld the entire results of some 26,434 candidates pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractice detected during and after the conduct of the examination. The Council in a statement signed by Mrs. Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Head of Public Affairs for …
Read More »GUTA threatens civil disobedience if gov’t fails to enforce retail trade laws
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is planning a mammoth demonstration against government in three months, if it fails to enforce laws governing retail trade. President of the Association, Dr Joseph Obeng, at a press conference held at the Central Business District (Opera Square) said, if government does not …
Read More »NMC ruling on ‘Militia in the Heart of the Nation’ confusing – MFWA
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) says the National Media Commission’s ruling on the government’s dispute with Joy News over the airing of a documentary which exposed the existence of a militia group at the Christiansborg Castle in Osu is confusing. The NMC ruled that the Joy News documentary …
Read More »The ‘Bleak House’ in Ghana; Judges departing from Justice and Law to satisfy a transient MAN
I didn’t see this coming, but I am able to bring my mind into agreement with Charles Dickens when he wrote in chapter 1 of his book the ‘Bleak House’ which deeply criticised the court of chancery as ‘This court of chancery…which gives to monied might the means abundantly of …
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