A 32-year-old woman, Alberta Nkansah, living at Akroma in the Central Region of Ghana narrates how her husband who does not take care of her and their children yet subjects her to severe beatings. Nkansah told a team from Crime Check Foundation (CCF) during a visit to the farming community …
Read More »36 trafficked persons rescued on Volta lake in 2021
The Oti regional commander of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Charles Domanba has disclosed that some 36 persons including children were rescued from human trafficking activities on the Volta lake last year. He made the disclosure during a stakeholder engagement led by the International Justice Mission (IJM) at Kete-Krachi in …
Read More »Corruption Watch’s Francisca Enchill shortlisted for BBC Komla Dumor Award
Corruption Watch’s Investigative Journalist, Francisca Enchill, has been shortlisted for the 2022 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. The shortlisted Journalists were selected from thousands of applications received by BBC from Journalists living and practicing in the African continent for the 2022 award. In an email on Thursday, March 3, …
Read More »Sam George uses Akufo-Addo’s $1-GHC1 video to question his anxiety over the cedi
Ningo-Prampram Member of Parliament, Sam Nartey George, has critiqued the President by reviving a video of then opposition candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, slamming the then government’s handling of the currency in particular and the economy in general. Akufo-Addo on a campaign platform is heard slating the then government – …
Read More »Transport fares: Savelugu MCE ‘fights’ taxi drivers
The recent fuel hikes have resulted in an increase in transportation fares across the country. On Saturday, February 26, GPRTU announced a 15% increase in transport fares, but some drivers think the rate is too small and are charging up to 20% which is not the agreed rate that the …
Read More »NDC MP Kofi Buah storms out of Police Station after being arrested for wrong-way driving
The Member of Parliament for Ellembele in the Western region Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has reportedly stormed out of the Airport police station after being arrested for driving the wrong way. The former Energy Minister who was driving Toyota Land Cruiser with registration number GR 3533-20 Thursday was arrested at Aviation for …
Read More »Police Chief Inspector and wife die in a ghastly accident at Akuse
The Station Officer at Osiem Police Station in the Eastern Region Chief Inspector James Tey and his wife have died in a ghastly accident at Akuse in the Eastern Region. The incident occurred near the Government Hospital at Akuse where the accident vehicle was found in cannel. According to police …
Read More »Ho: Two basic schools lose roofing in tempest
Two basic schools in the Ho municipality have suffered major roof damage during a rainstorm Wednesday March 3, 2022. Mr Divine Bosson, Ho Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), who went on an assessment tour, found some pupils of the two basic schools, EP Bankoe cluster of schools and the Ho SSNIT …
Read More »Flying debris injured seven students in heavy rainstorm disaster at Kadjebi
Severe rain accompanied by a storm has ripped the roofs and injured seven students of Kadjebi Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P) Central Junior High School (JHS) in the Oti Region on Wednesday. The rainstorm has also ripped the roof of the Roman Catholic (R.C) JHS school block and another private house at …
Read More »Russia-Ukraine war is wake-up call to Africa and African leaders – Duncan-Williams
Founder of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has stated that the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict should be a wake-up call to the African continent and its leaders. According to him, the conflict shows that Africa is on its own even though Africa may think hat it has friends. He thus, …
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