GENERAL NEWS

The advent of social media and other new media platforms has created an avenue for people who hitherto, would not get a chance on traditional media platforms to air their views and speak against what they view to be the ills of society. Social media has given a voice to …

Kennedy Agyapong, the flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party and owner of Net 2 TV, has disclosed why he took the station’s flagship program ‘The Seat’ off the air. Addressing supporters of the party in Kumasi, Kennedy Agyapong said he took the decision to scrap the program after the host, Kwaku Annan attacked …

A key reason for Jerry John Rawlings’ popularity was his sensitivity towards the poor and identification with the predicaments of the less privileged. Rawlings’ claim to fame was that having endured hardship in childhood, he more than understood the plights of the poor and was always ready to help in whatever …

Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, one of the conveners of #FixTheCountry Movement, has chastised Prof Steve Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, for claiming that the only option to fix Ghana’s economic mess is for the central bank to install a currency board. Describing the 79-year-old Professor as …

In Ghana, most people use a certain woven bag to pack their belongings whenever they are traveling. For some of us, it is the best and appropriate bag to contain all your stuff. “ Ghana Must Go” bag is also popular in Nigerian.However, when you come to Ghana, it is …

Campaigners are hoping to have the new Kumasi International Airport renamed in honour of Baffour Osei Akoto, the brain behind the National Liberation Movement (NLM). The Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, who is the latest to …

The Western Regional Police Command is investigating the District Chief Executive of Ellembelle, Kwasi Bonzoh, his personal assistant and one other over some missing excavators which were used by illegal miners in Nkroful. In a statement issued by the Police Service and signed by the Head of Public Affairs at …

Favour Kamasah, a 30-year-old farmer together with her one-year-old son, Kofi Semenyo, were killed by lightning at Ahlepedo-Dukpome in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta Region. Assemblyman for the area, Wemegah Eli, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the deceased, Favour, and son, died on the spot during …

Like Edna Ferber once said about nicknames, “Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike,” and that may well have been the inspiration behind why those who gave that alias to the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, did so. As he shared …

Some 28 districts in seven regions are expected to be directly affected by the ongoing Bagre Dam spillage. The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in a statement outlined the five Northern Regions, the Northern parts of the Oti Region and the Afram Plains of the Eastern Region in this regard. …