GENERAL NEWS

As announced by the Welfare Sub-Committee of the Apeate Disaster Relief Committee, thirteen deceased persons have been identified by their families on 04/02/22. “No other report has been received on any missing bodies,” a statement signed by Dr. Isaac Dasmani, Committee Chairman, said. The statement added, “We extend our condolences …

A first year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology University (KNUST) is feared dead after a private vehicle run into a number of students at Ayeduase close to the KNUST campus. According to eyewitnesses, the speeding vehicle skidded-off the road, crashed into some structures and run into …

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has launched the e-Travel Card to facilitate the cashless disbursement of travel allowance and other payments for local and foreign trips of public officials. Dr Bawumia speaking at the launch in Accra on Friday, 4 February 2022 said since independence, public officials are provided cash …

Fire officers have for the past two hours been making frantic efforts to put out a fire that has gutted some grocery shops at Adum in the Central Business District of the Ashanti Region. “Fire officers are struggling to douse the flame. The heavy vehicular traffic in the area is …

Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana, has not been friendly with Sulemana Braimah and ‘The Fourth Estate’ team especially over an investigation into the Lighthouse Chapel International. In the wake of that exposé, the Board Chairman of the Ghana Airport Company Limited, GACL, spent the entire editorial segment of his …

Dr. Richard Fiadomor, President of the Chamber of Local Government (ChaLog), has indicated that the powers of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as enshrined in the Constitution gives him the power to sack the Mayor of Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly and not to suspend him. Speaking on JoyNews’ ‘The Pulse’ programme on …

The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has resolved to go after tax offenders. He says government’s efforts at widening the tax net and consequently prosecuting its development agenda are being frustrated by some big oil companies in the country. “This year, the Finance Minister and I …

The official Vehicles of the Eastern Regional Director Education and the Regional Accountant of Ghana Education Service as well as that of the Birim South District Director of Education have been impounded by a bailiff to defray a judgement debt of Ghc3,471,240.72 awarded against the service by the Koforidua High …

A private legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw, has described women who cheat on their husbands as witches and murderers. According to him, no woman has the right to cheat or be unfaithful to their partners. Speaking on Angel FM’s Anopa Bofo Morning show on Friday, Maurice Ampaw stated that women who cheat on their …

Fire outbreak has caused extensive destruction to 200 hectares of rice farm at Agege, a farming community in the Kintampo North Municipality of the Bono East Region. Mr. Tikuni Alhassan, the Assemblyman for Tahiru Akura Electoral, and the farm’s owner told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) personnel of the fire …