There is a seeming division currently rocking the National Executive Committee of the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) ahead of the association’s 11th National Terminal Congress and elections. The Association in a statement dated April 24, 2022, and signed by its National President, Emmanuel Brimpong Akosa announced the opening of …
Read More »Missing Lands Commission staff: TAs slept in Dr Aggrey’s house with kids only – TA tells court
A former Teaching Assistant (TA) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Isaac Ofei Asiamah in his testimony, has contradicted claims by Dr Wilberforce Aggrey, a senior lecturer who has been accused of kidnapping his wife, Rhodaline Darko that, he slept at home on the night of …
Read More »2 Dead In Tricycle Accident At Wuraso
The information available to DGN Online indicates that two people have met their untimely death in an accident involving a tricycle, commonly called Aboboyaa at Kumawu-Wuraso in the Ashanti Region. The deceased together with other farmers were on board the Aboboyaa coming from their farm when the incident occurred. Loaded with farm …
Read More »ECG task force storms Parliament to disconnect power over debt
A task force of the Electricity Company of Ghana is currently in parliament awaiting departure of the Speaker to embark on a disconnection exercise over indebtedness of the lawmaking chamber. It is unclear the exact amount Parliament owes the power distribution company. On March 14, ECG disconnected power to Terminal …
Read More »Two Ghanaians among four murdered in London
It has emerged that two Ghanaians were among the recent stabbing incident in South-East London that led to the murder of four persons. The deceased are 45-year-old Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo who lived in Kennington and her daughter, Samantha Drummonds, 27, who lived in Forest Hill. The other two are Denton Burke, …
Read More »Accra City Response Team Pass Out
The Interior Minister has urged officers of the Greater Accra City Response Team (CRT) to work hard and be disciplined in the discharge of their duties. Mr. Ambrose Dery, who represented President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, made the call at the passing out ceremony of the first batch of the …
Read More »50 years ago today, Kwame Nkrumah died
The Ghanaian Times newspaper report of Friday, April 28, 1972, had the bold headlines “Kwame Nkrumah is dead, State Burial for him,” and “The man, Nkrumah,” announcing the death of Ghana’s first president. Looking at 50 years since that announcement was made, GhanaWeb brings back a photo of that newspaper page that detailed …
Read More »Captain Smart in fresh trouble as NMC directs him to apologise to Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
The loud, outspoken host of Onua FM’s Onua Maakye, Captain Smart, has found himself in trouble again, but this time with the National Media Commission (NMC). In a report by graphic.com.gh, the NMC has directed the broadcaster and his mother station, Onua FM, to retract a publication they made, against …
Read More »Poor record keeping contributed to some prisoners spending 10 years on remand – US report
The U.S. Department of State’s 2021 Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices has observed that lengthy pretrial detention has become a serious problem in the country. According to the report, 12 percent of 1, 595 prisoners in September were in pretrial status. It highlighted that, “the government kept prisoners …
Read More »Elon Musk could have simply paid off Ghana’s debt – Sam George on Twitter sale
The April 25 agreement for the sale of social media platform, Twitter, to Tesla founder, Elon Musk, continues to elicit reactions across the world. Samuel Nartey George, Ningo-Prampram Member of Parliament, will not be left out as he used the same platform to express his views on the impending sale, …
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