GENERAL NEWS

Today marks exactly five years when the Founder of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr. Mensa Otabil advised the ex-president of Ghana and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, to change his ways and attitude. According to him, Mahama will only win the 2016 …

Kayayei, also known in English as Head Potters, have lauded the government’s plan to build a 600-bed hostel facility for them. A woman who described herself as a pioneer of Kayayei, Hajia Adiza, has said the news of the hostel was greeted with spontaneous joy from the head potters. She …

No-one has got married in a village in Kano state, Nigeria, in the past four months after its chief imposed a wedding tax. Ado Sa’id, the chief of Kera village in north-west Nigeria, wants grooms to pay 137,000 naira ($377, £294). This is instead of the current custom of the …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North Constituency, Mrs Freda Akosua Prempeh, has condemned the abuse of a six-year-old boy at Manhea in the Ga West Municipal District in the Greater Accra region. According to the legislator, the act was simply an act of wizardry because there are other …

SEND GHANA has appealed to government to make provisions for the release of social protection funds as it presents the 2020 Budget statement and Economic Policy on November 13 to prevent undue delays. Addressing the media at a press conference in Accra, the Deputy Country Director of SEND GHANA, Mr. …

The chief executive officer of a private nursing school in kumasi of the Ashanti region, Afia Kobi Nursing school at Nhyieso, Owusu King has been arrested by the Manhyia Police command for physically assaulting an OTEC FM Reporter. The reporter, Oheneba Kwaku Atta (Apossor) was physically assaulted; equipment seized by …

The Executive Chairman of McDan group, who is also the Gugba Naa of Tamale, Dr Daniel Mckorley has donated cash and assorted gifts worth Gh¢50 000 to the Mion Lana towards the celebration of the Damba festival. Present at the brief but impressive ceremony to make the presentation was Mr …

A housewife, Fatima Ishaq, on Wednesday sued her husband, Hassan Haruna, before a Sharia Court in Kaduna after the man was accused of raping an underage child. The petitioner who lives with her estranged husband within Kaduna metropolis, through her counsel, M.S. Abdullahi, told the court that she cannot continue …

Some aggrieved customers of collapsed financial institutions in Ghana who are yet to retrieve their funds have threatened to destabilize the country even if part of their funds are paid. They are demanding full payment of their locked-up funds. Anything short of that, they note, will leave them with no …

Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has stated that the government has failed to properly account for oil revenue generated since it came to power. Speaking on the 2020 Budget Statement and Economic Policy that was presented to Parliament Wednesday, he stated that the Finance Minister only presented figures on oil …