GENERAL NEWS

The Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development (MLGDRD) is impressed with operations at both the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP) and the Mudor Faecal Treatment Plant, formerly Lavender Hill, all in the Greater Accra Region. The sector Minister, Honourable Dan Kwaku Botwe, made the observation after a …

Residents of Dawhenya have threatened to fight military and police personnel for destroying property on their lands. According to the residents who spoke on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem Friday, the service personnel had been pestering them since 2016 but they managed to stop them. However, in the second week of …

Some residents in the Damongo municipality of the Savannah Region have been left displaced after being hit by a rainstorm. The West Gonja Municipal Director for National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Adam Bavug in an interview with Class FM’s Zion Abdul-Rauf said more than 20 houses including schools in the …

Fire has razed a mechanic shop at Awoshie Mangoase in Accra. The fire, which caught the community’s attention around 5:15am on Friday, spread to a nearby church and a chop bar behind the mechanic shop. The chop bar was also burnt to the ground. The fire service got to the …

The Police administration through the Welfare Department is embarking on sensitization workshops to address retirement challenges police officers encounter after exiting the service. Many police officers retire poorly due to improper pension plans resulting in depression, drunkenness, and in some cases suicide. To address these challenges, the Police administration through …

Manasseh Azure Awuni, an investigative journalist, has indicated that it has become difficult for him to listen to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo these days. According to him, the President has become the epitome of hopelessness in the country and many Ghanaians who reposed confidence in him ahead of the 2016 general …

Evelyn Keelson, the Chief State Attorney, has stated that William Ato Essien, the founder of the defunct Capital Bank as well as Dr. Tetteh Nettey, a businessman dishonestly took GH¢130 million from Capital Bank to set up another bank. According to her in a Joy News reportage, the bank in …

Over 120 corpses have been exhumed and reburied by their families at Pramso in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti region over road construction in the area. This follows a request by the contractor constructing the lake road, Kofi Job construction, for the portion of the cemetery land to expand …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has on Thursday signed into law the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy) Bill. The move by the President 48 hours after a one-sided Majority MPs in Parliament approved the Bill, allows for the implementation of the levy. Parliament passed the bill on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at …

Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, has acknowledged the tremendous help he received from the father of the current Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in his resolve to go into private practice as a lawyer. According to him, after three years as a District Magistrate which he did not find …