GENERAL NEWS

Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has congratulated the newly-appointed Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr, M.Afr. Bishop Baawobr who was the Catholic Bishop of the Wa Diocese, has been elevated to Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church of Ghana by Pope Francis. In a Facebook post, Vice-President Bawumia …

A lightning incident that occurred in Ho late Monday afternoon has killed one person and left two other persons injured. The deceased has been identified as Emmanuel Torli, 17, who sold coconut on a pavement opposite the office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Volta regional capital. …

The brother of a late Ghanaian lawyer, Richard Badombie who was shot dead by suspected armed robbers on the Bole-Bamboi highway in the Savannah Region has given a full account of how his brother was murdered. Michael Badombue, who was in the same vehicle when his brother was shot dead …

A total of 500 trained life guards passed out yesterday at the Eastern Naval Base in Tema New Town. The trained life guards, drawn from about nine regions in the country, comprised both males and females, and they will be deployed to save lives on Ghana’s water bodies in the …

Three persons have been washed away by flood at Kwaprow a suburb of Cape Coast in the Central Region after heavy rains on Friday evening. The deceased include two old women and a Security Officer working with the University of Cape Coast. Information gathered by Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan revealed …

The government of Ghana has announced the renovation of some tourist sites across the country. “We have embarked on a product improvement plan, in which several tourists sites in the country are currently undergoing site renovations”, the Presidency announced in a tweet on Monday, 30 2022. The tourist sites currently …

The government has given more than 400 acres of state lands, including a section of the military barracks in Kumasi, to the Asantehene. The Fourth Estate has sighted a directive to public institutions to that effect. It is signed by the Chief Director of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, Mrs. …

Police in the Effiduase District of the Ashanti Region has arrested a 27-year-old armed robbery suspect who fled after being shot during an operation. Darlington Worchie plastered the wound on his right shoulder and same at his back, suspected to have been done following the gunshot wound he suffered while …

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the Effutu constituency, Hon. Alexander Kwabena Afenyo-Markin, has been trolled on social media. This was after a picture of him clad in freemason apparel surfaced online Sunday, May 29, 2022. Years before this development, Mr. Afenyo-Markin, who is also the Deputy …

After a turbulent period between the Ghana Police Service and the Nyames, the body of late Lance Corporal Stephen Kwaku Nyame has been released to the family for burial. It would be recalled that in March 2022, the Police Administration informed the public of an intelligence-led raid conducted near Ashaiman …