GENERAL NEWS

First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has eulogized the Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, for her selfless leadership and wise counsels, which have reinforced the image of the chieftaincy institution. She said the Asantehemaa’s strong advocacy role for the empowerment of women and children and generosity had been greatly demonstrated in …

A seventy-year-old man on Thursday, February 17 night ended his life by jumping into a well that serves as a source of drinking water at Kurantumi in the Abuakwa municipality of the Eastern Region. According to an eyewitness report, the late Kojo Owusu believed to be a pensioner committed suicide …

Brother to the late President of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, Samuel Atta Mills, has revealed that the family is aware of the cause of his death. His comment comes after four members of the Majority in Parliament led by Majority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, filed a Private Member’s motion …

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia asked Ghanaians to carry their normal passports whenever they are travelling outside the country as government undertakes steps to actualize an e-passport regime. While stressing the importance of government’s digitization efforts and its centrality to among other things, improving financial accessibility, the VP promised to …

A District Judge of the United States Federal court in Chicago, Illinois, Thomas M. Durkin, has dismissed an appeal filed by Birim Group against Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom and 18 others. In US Federal court ruling available to GhanaWeb, Judge Durkin stated, “having reviewed the parties’ submissions, the Court finds …

Fire has gutted a storey building at new Biakoyeden in the Obuasi Municipality. The property which is owned by a chinese national got torched this morning. The cause of inferno on Thursday dawn is yet to be established. However several unquantifiable properties have been destroyed. Source: 3news.com

The Tema High Court has dismissed a habeas corpus application by Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor who has been charged with treason felony and is currently in police custody. He is expected to reappear at the Ashaiman District Court on February 28, 2022. A habeas corpus is a writ issued by a …

The Ministry of Roads and Highways is to remodel tollbooths in the country to serve as police posts, emergency centres, and towing service centres,and other ancillary services. The facilities, which will offer other ancillary services, will be incorporated into the Ministry’s programme to dualise the major highways in the country. …

The Ejura Traditional Council in the Ashanti Region has declared war on Fulani nomads destroying farms lands in the area. These nomadic herdsmen according to the traditional council have also resorted to terrorizing farmers and residents with guns. The Chief of Ejura Barima Osei Hwedie II in an exclusive interview …

A provision shop owner and a seamstress have escaped death by the whiskers in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region after a tipper truck fully loaded with sand veered off the road and ran into their shops, destroying parts of the shops in the process. The incident occurred …