GENERAL NEWS

Messaging service WhatsApp will stop working on millions of phones in the next few months, as the company withdraws support from older devices. From February 1, any iPhone running iOS 8 will no longer be supported (and users are already unable to create or verify their accounts on these devices). On the …

Staff of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) have announced a sit-down strike beginning Wednesday, December 10, until further notice. The sit down strike would be followed by a picket at the GRIDCo Head Office at a date to be announced later by the Staff Group Leadership, the Senior Staff Association of …

The setting is parliament where there is a vetting of Justice Gertrude Torkonoo, a nominee for Ghana’s Supreme court. And one thing you are not likely to expect is a question on entertainment. But a self-confessed fan of highlife artiste Kofi Kinaata and Effia MP Mr. Joseph Cudjoe put in …

Award winning freelance journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has fired Special Prosecutor Martin A.B.K Amidu for what he says is a lack of seriousness on his part. In an Accra FM interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Manasseh said that while they may be merit in Amidu’s case against Bawku MP Mahama Ayariga, …

Road contractors who are owed over GHC500,000 by the government are fuming over what they say is government’s refusal to pay them despite claims by President Akufo-Addo. According to the contractors, the pressure on them has heightened after President Akufo-Addo claimed he has paid all contractors during his recent tour …

Some commuters and street hawkers along the N1 highway at the Dzorwulu junction faced an ill fate Tuesday morning when a truck loaded with cement blocks rammed into them. The accident which involves about four cars has rendered dozens injured while one street hawker is feared dead. According to eyewitnesses, …

The woes of businessman Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the man who has been ordered to pay back the GH¢51 million he illegally received from the state, are far from over, as the Attorney-General’s (A-G’s) Department has found fresh evidence of fraud against him. Investigators at the A-G’s Department found that …

One of the architects of the June 4 Uprising Major [Retired] Osahene Boakye Gyan has come out with some shocking revelations about former President Jerry John Rawlings, 40 years after the 1979 coup d’état. The coup arose out of a combination of corruption, bad governance, frustration among the general public …

Former President J.J Rawlings appears to be rewriting what history says about him being rescued by Major Boakye Gyan from the jaws of death as he awaited his mutiny trial in 1979. The retired Flight Lieutenant insists that contrary to the conventional accounts, both written and oral, Major Gyan did …

At least 50 buckets and bonnets of tricycles belonging to defunct Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), have been burnt by fire at the Wa Public Works Department (PWD) yard, Monday. The fire is believed to have started around midday and allegedly from a garden set up close to the wall …