GENERAL NEWS

Speaker of Parliament has ordered the Clerk Office of the House to check temperatures of MPs and visitors in Parliament in the wake of coronavirus scare. Prof. Mike Oquaye also admonished Members of Parliament to avoid handshaking and make good use of hand sanitizers installed at vantage points in Parliament. …

Three Ghanaian citizens, Elikem Kotoko, Stephen Kwabena Attuh and Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese, have petitioned UN Secretary-General António Guterres to remove President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo from the Eminent Group of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates as a Co-Chair. According to the petition, the President is complicit in the resurgence of illegal small-scale …

Some hoodlums have broken into the residence of Joseph Owusu, aka Odenkyem, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere Afram Plains in the Ashanti Region, and made away with over GH¢40,000. The thieves stole the cash from the DCE’s parked vehicle after gaining access into his house at Akyeremade in the …

A Muslim couple in the Ashanti Regional town of Sawaba, is in grief after their four-year-old daughter died on the spot after she was run over by her school bus Wednesday. The incident occurred at approximately 6:30 am when the deceased, Aisha Abdul Aziz and her seven-year-old brother had converged …

Osu Castle, also known as Christiansborg Castle, is a castle located in Osu, Accra, Ghana. Christiansborg Castle was built by Danish colonialists in 1659 on a land obtained from Paramount Chief Okaikoi of the Ga ethnic group. Over the years, the fort was juggled between the Portuguese, Swedish and Danish. …

Some operators of landfill sites in the country are threatening closure due to government’s inability to pay GH¢42million debt owed them. The situation, according to the operators, has put them in the difficult position of not being able to service equipment required to manage the sites, and pay workers as …

The Chief of Wassa Dominase in the Mpohor district of the Western region, Nana Adusa II has called for the arrest of some unscrupulous individuals in the community who have converted the Dominase JHS into a brothel. According to the chief, after making love in the classrooms, the people then …

The Kintampo Municipal Assembly says it will consider mass burial of victims of the recent motor crash if no family member comes to identify their bodies. The Municipal Chief Executive for the Kintampo assembly, Michael Sarkodie Baffoe said the assembly is holding on for some time to allow family members …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is mourning the death of some 30 Ghanaians who perished in a ghastly road accident on Monday on the Kintampo-Tamale highway in the Brong Ahafo region. The 30 people were burnt beyond recognition when the buses they were travelling in – a sprinter and Yutong collided …

The Government of Ghana has said homosexual and their activist will not be allowed to have their conference in Ghana. The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Mamle Morrison, revealed in an interview with CTV on Tuesday, 10 March 2020 that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has rejected …