Five persons are severely injured and receiving Treatment at Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital after a GMC private car collided with a Toyota Hiace bus transporting food items from Accra to Ajumako Mando Senior High School in the Central Region. The accident occured at Gomoa Okyereko on the Kasoa Cape-Coast …
Read More »Umaro Embalo elected new ECOWAS chair
Guinea Bissau President Umaro Embalo has been elected new chair of the ECOWAS for the next one year. He was elected at Sunday’s Summit [3 July 2022] to succeed Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, who held the position for almost two years. Gambia’s Omar Alieu Touray was also introduced as the …
Read More »Galamsey pit kills man at Nweneso No1
A 35-year-old man, Kwame Antwi, has died after a galamsey pit caved on him at Nweneso No1 in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti region. The deceased also known as Romeo had gone to mine on Sunday, July 3, 2022. The pit, however, collapsed on him in the process, …
Read More »The body of a woman mistakenly buried during a mass burial exhumed after a court order
Environmental officials in the Kwahu West Municipality of the Eastern Region have exhumed the corpse of a woman they mistakenly buried during a mass burial exercise. The body was mistakenly buried along with some other bodies at the Nkawkaw-Trafford cemetery in January, this year. However, the family displeased by the …
Read More »We were forced to go to IMF – Gabby Otchere-Darko
New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has said that the government was compelled to seek a bailout at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to him, the government was left with no choice as policies it proposed, including the E-Levy that could possibly have brought practical solutions to the country’s …
Read More »Stranded Hajj pilgrims demand refund
Some Muslim pilgrims have expressed disappointment towards the Hajj Board after they were abandoned at the Hajj village for hours. According to them, they were expected to travel to Mecca but the board has intentionally removed their names to the final list of travellers while their passports are also being …
Read More »One dead, six arrested after clash over land at Adum Afrancho
At least six people have been arrested following a clash over land and chieftaincy dispute at Adum Afrancho near Atwima Kwanwoma in the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred on the morning of Sunday, July 3, 2022, at about 7:00am when two factions met on a family land where a struggle …
Read More »IMF loan won’t save Ghana’s economy – Renowned US economist
A renowned international economist at the Johns Hopkins University in the USA, Professor Steve Hanke, has stated Ghana’s decision to enter an economic programme with the IMF will not salvage the economy. He predicts that a financial bailout from the Bretton Woods Institution is likely to fail just like the …
Read More »VIDEO: The famous Kumasi vigilante whose death rocked Asanteman
He was the biblical Sampson of his days, his story, a mixture of bravery and notoriety. A defender of the poor and vulnerable and model figure for citizen vigilantism in Kumasi, specifically Buokrom. Owing to his much-touted strength and bravery which made him an ‘area champion’ in Kumasi in the …
Read More »Dampare orders arrest of truck driver for insecure loading
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has ordered the arrest and prosecution of a driver for insecure loading. According to Police investigators who are set to arraign the suspect before the court on Monday, July 4, 2022, the driver whose name is given as Mumuni Ibrahim was …
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