GENERAL NEWS

Police in the Bunkpurugu District of the North East Region have arrested two persons with an AK 47 rifle and a magazine with two (2) rounds of ammunition. According to a situational report released by the Chief Superintendent Stephen Delapote, an officer in Charge of Operation Conquer Fist Personnel, the …

Fierce fighting erupted on Wednesday in Akropong in the Eastern Region over the performance of a ritual to mark the commencement of the Odwira Festival. The mass brawl, according to reports, took place when the Okuapemhemaa , Nana Afua Nketiaa Obuo II and the Akuapem Asonahene, Nana Kwasi Omenako II …

Government has declared Monday, August 12, a public holiday. This is in respect of Muslims celebration of the festival of sacrifice (‘Eid-ul-Adha’) which falls on Sunday, August 11 worldwide. A statement signed by the Interior Minister Thursday said in view of the fact that August, 11, 2019 falls on a …

Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) has barred its staff from sharing their opinions on social media without first publishing it on the company’s platforms. The directive was contained in a new Social Media Policy, being rolled out by the state-owned media organisation. The roll-out of the policy has sparked uproar …

The chief of Kpargu Yili, Kparigu Lana Abdul Aziz Dokurugu was attacked and nearly killed by six armed men in his palace Wednesday night. The men wielding locally manufactured guns and wearing facemasks stormed the chief’s palace at about 11 pm. Upon their arrival, the suspected armed men met a …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Thursday, 8 August 2019, for a two-day official visit to the Republic of Angola, at the invitation of President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. The visit, the first by a Ghanaian President, is aimed at deepening and strengthening the ties that exist between the …

A 14-year-old boy has lost an eye after a white bat attacked him at Breman Asikuma in the Central region. The victim, after the attack, started experiencing excruciating pains in his right eye. But, according to reports, his parents, instead of taking him to the hospital, sent him to a …

Government has directed the Power Distribution Services (PDS) to provide ECG with a detailed revenue collection and expenditure report on a weekly basis. This comes as the finance ministry begins steps to unfreeze bank accounts of PDS. The financial and intelligence centre last week froze the bank accounts of PDS …

The family of 19-year-old Ruth Abakah, who has been missing in Takoradi since July 29, 2018, has been torn apart as her biological mother has blamed the slow pace of investigations on the grandfather with whom she lived. According to the grandfather, Mr Emmanuel Cobbinah Anzah, his daughter, Ayisah (Ruth’s …

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has dismissed claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that it is deliberately frustrating the Ghana Card registration process in the Volta Region to denationalise residents there. The Head of Corporate Affairs at NIA, ACI Francis Palmdeti said such assertions are unfortunate because statistics from …