GENERAL NEWS

The Police in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Capital, have arrested some foreign nationals suspected to be human traffickers. About 20 victims including three young women detained in a house were also rescued during the operation Saturday January 9, 2020. The suspects and the victims numbering about 23 are in the …

Fire has gutted a three-storey building housing several businesses including the Asante Akim Rural Bank at Roman Hill near the Kumasi Central Market in Kumasi. The fire believed to have started at 1 p.m on Monday also burnt down a KIA truck parked in front of the building which houses several …

Melody Millicent Danquah, she was Ghana’s 1st Female Pilot and Squadron Leader. She was the first to fly solo, and first to finish in her class in 1964. She received her Wings qualifying her as a pilot in 1965. Melody Millicent Danquah was born in Larteh Akuapem, on 6 January …

After failing to find accommodation before reopening, hundreds of first-year students from the University of Ghana and their parents are stranded on the school’s campus. As the university student population outnumbers the available rooms and beds, the University of Ghana has been struggling for some time to accommodate its students …

The Member of Parliament for the Keta Constituency, Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey has been attacked once again. Suspected armed robbers, Sunday dawn, attacked the Rootsenaf Gas filling station belonging to the MP at Satsimadza near Agbozume on the Accra-Aflao road. The robbers who inflicted a gunshot wound on the security man …

The Electoral Commission of Ghana, the 1st Respondent in former President John Mahama’s election petition, has averred that “the full results of the 7 December 2020 presidential election” were “known to the Petitioner and that the claims in the petition are contrived, have no legal basis and ought to be dismissed in …

A 40-year-old commercial driver identified as Ernest Kwabena Afrani has allegedly committed suicide in the early hours of Thursday, January 7, 2021, at Gbetsile in the Kpone-Katamanso municipality. Confirming the incident to the Ghana News Agency, Mr. Rahim Yahaya, Assembly Member for the Gbetsile electoral area, revealed that, the deceased …

Public and private basic schools in the Ashanti Region on Saturday, January 9, 2021 benefited from the ongoing mass schools disinfection and fumigation exercise.   The exercise follows the President’s directive for all educational institutions to be fumigated and disinfected before reopening.   Among the schools disinfected and fumigated included …

Ghanaians must not only pray in the search for durable peace, they should work actively towards consolidating peace. The General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, CCG, Dr. Cyril Fayose, made the call while tasking especially political parties and the electoral commission to lead the process by working together …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has said his wife is threatening to sue legal Ablekuma Central MP, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful for harassing him in Parliament. Aside the drama and heated debate in Parliament, the encounter between the two MPs brought some comic relief. Draped in a …