GENERAL NEWS

Over 300 students of Oppong Memorial Senior High School at Kokofu in Ashanti Region have been displaced as fire ravaged the school’s boy’s dormitory on Thursday. There were no casualties, students were in class at the time of the blaze which, however, destroyed education materials and other property. The cause …

Tragedy hit a family when four children of the family were burnt to death at Bonche, a farming community near Portor in the Kintampo municipality in the Bono East Region, yesterday. The deceased are Freda Stephen, seven; Nyanne Nabada, four; Nabada Uwumboryakii, three, and Faith Stephen, nine months. How it …

Parliament has given the final approval to increase passport application fees. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration noted that Passport fees for booklets with 32 pages will now cost GHS100 while fees for the newly introduced booklets with 48 pages will cost GHS150 effective February …

A gang of armed robbers has reportedly seized and fled with a KIA truck, loaded with 220 bags of cocoa, on the Bogoso-Tarkwa-Nsuaem road. The truck, with registration number AS 8864 – 19, was carrying the cocoa to the Takoradi Port. The incident happened at about 0200 hours on January …

Musician and satirist A Plus is mad at Barclays Bank, accusing the financial institution which is changing its name to Absa of trying to “take advantage” of budding artiste Bosom P-Yung. A Plus’s fury was triggered after he sighted a video of actor Kwadwo Nkansah (Liwin) performing Bosom P-Yung’s monster …

Monica Amekoafia, the winner of the first edition of the Miss Ghana contest in 1957 while representing the Trans-Volta Togoland. She was contestant Number 9. It was from her number that people from the Volta Region are called Number 9. Background Monica Amekoafia was born on 30th June 1934 to Augustus Amekoafia …

The Office of the Special Prosecutor mandated “to investigate and prosecute cases of alleged corruption under the Public Procurement Act 203 Act 63 and other corruption-related offences implicating public officers, political office holders and their accomplices in the public sector” was conspicuously missing from the speech of President Nana Addo …

The prosecution yesterday called its first witness in the trial of the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, and a Communications Officer of the party, Anthony Kwaku Boahen. The first Prosecution Witness, Benjamin Osei Ampofo Adjei, a broadcast journalist with Accra-based Adom FM being led …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked diplomats in Ghana to help his government fight and win the war on corruption. Addressing members of the Diplomatic Corps at this year’s Diplomatic New year Greeting Ceremony at the Peduase Lodge in the Eastern region, the President urged the envoys to expose …

An Accra High Court has thrown out an application by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to search the phone records of the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi. The court has also denied the police access to Mr Gyamfi’s Facebook …