GENERAL NEWS

A Ford Explorer vehicle with registration number AS 6836 12 caught fire afternoon on the Tema-Accra highway, Monday. According to eyewitnesses, there were loud sparks from underneath the vehicle after the driver had negotiated a U-turn. “We just saw sparks which developed into a wildfire, we started shouting to draw …

Businessman Ibrahim Mahama has sued maverick politician Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi for defamation. The popular businessman is among other things demanding a GHC5 million compensation for the damages caused him by the Ashanti regional chair of the ruling party. It suit comes after Chairman accused the …

The Appeals Court has thrown out an appeal against Nii Odartey Lamptey filed by his ex-wife Gloria Appiah. Gloria Appiah’s petition to the Appeals Court to be given Odartey Lamptey’s seven-bedroom East Legon mansion as part of her alimony was thrown out. In June 2017, the Accra High Court Justice Cecilia Don-Chebe …

A 29-year-old Mason has drowned in Densu River at Teacher Mante in the Eastern Region. According to Abraham Afatsawo a foreman at Koans Estate at Panpanso near Teacher Mante the deceased Yaw Kunorvi who was one of his workers, went to Panpanso stretch of River Densu to wash, after the …

Seven (7) month old aborted foetus has been dumped in a school in Koforidua in the Eastern Region. The foetus was found swarmed by termites at Betom Methodist School in the New Juaben South Municipality. It is presumed that it was dumped at dawn by the perpetrator. According to the …

Four more people have died of COVID-19, taking Ghana’s death toll to 139, according to the latest update by the Ghana Health Service on Sunday. According to the GHS, 270 new cases were recorded, taking the total caseload to 24, 518. Meanwhile, recoveries have shot up to 20, 187 with …

President Nana Akufo-Addo was on Sunday, July 12, 2020, seen in a live Facebook stream interacting with some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) via social media platform Zoom. The live recording, done by Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin showed the president looking robust and in good …

Residents of Yendi in the Northern Region have kicked out the Divisional Police Commander for the area for allegedly disrespecting the Overlord of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Abukari Mahama II. A former Presiding Member of the Yendi Municipal Assembly, Abu Zolge told Citi News that Yaa-Naa had directed that the Police Commander, …

A rather bizarre incident happened at Kaneshie Market, Sunday, when a young man attempted to commit suicide on the overpass. Footage of the act which has been in circulation since Sunday morning captures the unidentified man holding on to what appears to be a metal which forms part of the …

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday began registering eligible voters in Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country but there were setbacks at some of the schools. The two-day special exercise was targeted at final year students and those in form-two gold track who were 18 or more but could …