GENERAL NEWS

The Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) is readying itself to facilitate the successful exit and seamless transition of the first batch of beneficiaries into permanent employment. It said already, 11,000 personnel had transitioned into their chosen future careers since deployment and were doing well. Addressing day two of the results fair …

Commercial High Court presided over by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, has issued an arrest warrant directed at the Inspector General of Police (IGP), the National Security and the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), to arrest social media commentator, Kelvin Taylor. He’s to be presented in Court to answer why he …

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG)in the Eastern Region has retrieved about GH₡949,000.00 from detected illegal connections in the Region last year. The amount represents penalties and surcharges slapped on customers who were caught using electricity illegally in the year 2019. Speaking to the media in Koforidua yesterday, the Acting …

The United States of America has lifted visa restrictions imposed on Ghana in February 2019. According to the US, the decision to lift the restrictions imposed on Ghana follows the establishment of a mutually agreed process for the identification, validating and issuance of travel documentation to Ghanaian citizens under final …

The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) says it is taking appropriate steps to exert some control on the operations of commercial (passenger and freight) road transport organisations so as to help fight road accidents effectively. Confirming that the death toll in last Tuesday’s road accident on the Cape Coast – …

A commercial motorcycle rider locally known as ‘okada rider’ in the Shai Osudoku District is fighting for life having lost both arms in a horrific motorbike accident. The victim suffered fractured arms hence both reportedly amputated. “He is still struggling with his life but both hands cut off. Okada riders …

Today marks exactly one year after the killing of journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale who used to work with Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s Tiger Eye PI. Ahmed was shot dead by unknown assailants who were riding on a motorbike whilst the journalist was in a moving car in his neighbourhood six-months after the …

A late night fire has consumed two halls at Accra Academy, displacing more than 100 students. The fire started around 7:00 p.m. at Alema and Halm Addo halls, at a time the students were attending prep in their classrooms, one of the school’s private security officials who blocked access to …

Mr Bestway Zottor, the Director of Radio Tongu in the Volta Region, was on Wednesday arrested for his alleged role in promoting the agenda of the Homeland Study Group Foundation, a secessionist group in the Region. Radio Tongu is a community radio station based at Sogakope in the South Tongu …

Lawyers for Michael Nyinaku, a former Managing Director of Beige Bank, who is being held for stealing and money laundering, have filed a motion for bail at an Accra Circuit Court. The lawyers led by Mr Thaddeus Sory proceeded to the Circuit Court to have their bail application heard after …