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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. …

Dr. John Kwakye, Director of Research, Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has advised the government to impose more taxes on companies that are making huge profits in the country. According to him, other countries are implementing similar policies to rebuild their economies after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking …

The Rent Control Department has declared that some landlords’ decision to quote their rent in dollars or any other foreign currency is illegal. Such practices, according to the Department, are illegal in Ghana. Emmanuel Kporsu, Public Relations Officer for the Department, stated that they are currently collaborating with the Ghana …

Portions of the private residence of Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has been gutted by fire. The incident of Friday, September 2, 2022 occurred around 11:30am at the facility located at Adjiringanor, a suburb of Accra. In a video widely circulated on social media, a plume of …

The Auditor General’s report for 2021 captured three persons as having received in excess of GHC1.1 million as salaries on the books of the ministry of finance while their records as employees of the ministry could not be traced. In Ghana’s accountability history, this recurrent event by its notoriety has …

    After the 1992 Presidential election the New Partotic Party decided not to contest the Parliamentary election because of several infractions in the Presidential Election which challenged the intergrity of the election. The New Patrotic Party commissioned a group of lawyers led by the President, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo …

The Ghana Medical Association and the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health have confirmed reports that over 1,000 junior doctors have been rendered jobless after they completed their housemanship. The affected doctors are reportedly now unemployed because the Ministry of Finance has not given the financial clearance for them to be given …