The Office of Former President John Dramani Mahama has dismissed recent reports captured in the Daily Guide newspaper that he is making certain demands before jibing with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In its Wednesday, April 7 edition, the newspaper reported that the former president is demanding the return of a bauxite …
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Belfast: Rioting ‘was worst seen in Northern Ireland in years’
IMAGE COPYRIGHTCHARLES MCQUILLANimage captionThe gates of one of Belfast’s so-called peace walls were prised open before being set alight Rioting in Belfast on Wednesday night was on a scale not seen in Northern Ireland for years, police have said. During several hours of violence, police officers were attacked, petrol bombs …
Read More »Body of Kasoa ‘ritual murder’ victim released for burial
The body of Ishmael Mensah who was allegedly murdered by some teenagers in Kasoa has been released to his family for burial. The body was released after Police completed post-mortem on it. The family has been unhappy with the delay in releasing the body since it contravenes their Islamic values. …
Read More »Obiri Boahen ‘clashes’ with Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu over ethnocentric comments against Akans
Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has chided Majority leader in parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu for saying that it will be unwise for the NPP to choose an Akan as a flagbearer to replace President Akufo-Addo in election 2024. Nana Obiri Boahen who disagrees with Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu stated that delegates look beyond ethnicity when …
Read More »Ahafo: Heavy downpour displaces 70 residents at Dwenase
A downpour on Wednesday displaced 70 residents of Dwenase, a farming community in the Tano North Municipality of the Ahafo Region. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) learnt the rains, which accompanied a heavy storm, set in around 1930 hours, lasted for about 30 minutes and razed to the ground about …
Read More »Excavator operator killed in gun attack at mining site
One person was killed when two unidentified men raided a mining site at Attabrakoso, a community near Jacobu in the Ashanti Region. 30-year-old Richard Arthur, an excavator operator with Tolla Mining Company died when he sustained multiple gunshot wounds during the Tuesday dawn attack. The robbers also shot a …
Read More »GHS worried as farmers use mosquito nets for farm fencing
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced plans to hand out insecticide-treated bed nets from May 18, this year, with at least 275, 967 households in the Upper East Region expected to be covered. The Upper East Regional Health Directorate made this known during a multi-stakeholder meeting it convened on …
Read More »Goat thief lynched at Nsawam
The Nsawam Police in the Akwapim South District of the Eastern Region is investigating a case involving a suspected goat thief, whose beating allegedly resulted in his death. Police Sergeant Francis Gomado, Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, said the police received information about the incident on April 3 and …
Read More »School children without classrooms left stranded
The projects were completed almost a year ago, but the pupils and students are yet to benefit from them, as they have been denied access to the classrooms. The situation is being blamed on the inability of officials to take over the school blocks from the contractor due to the …
Read More »Jubilee House, Kotoka, other state infrastructure on earthquake fault lines – NADMO Boss reveals
It has been revealed that some important state assets are on earthquake fault lines. The Jubilee House, Kotoka International Airport, the Akosombo Dam, among others have been found to be sited on fault lines and could suffer massive damages should earthquake strike in the country. This was disclosed by …
Read More »Learn from Agyekum Kufuor and openly declare support for Bawumia – Akufo-Addo told
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been admonished to take a cue from former President John Agyekum Kufuor by openly declaring support for Vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said to have picked interest in contesting New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearership for the next general elections “President Akufo-Addo should learn from Kufuor. He has to …
Read More »Emotional moment as classmates mourn 10-year-old murdered at Kasoa
The classmates, who eulogised Ishmael Mensah Abdallah for his calmness and generosity, said they were yet to come to terms with his sudden death. They recalled being in his company last Thursday before the Easter break, saying that had sharply brought to them fond memories of him. Interviews The Class …
Read More »Mahama Wants Ibrahim Bauxite Back
It is turning out that one of the main reasons why former President John Dramani Mahama does not appear to ‘gel’ with President Akufo-Addo and his administration is because of the bauxite concession that the NPP government took from the NDC leader’s brother, Ibrahim Mahama, in 2017. There are unconfirmed …
Read More »Policeman allegedly steals 10 bodies at Gomoa Fawomaye cemetery
A Police officer, Supt. Robert Cobby stationed with the Sefwi Asawinso Police Command has been accused of allegedly exhuming and running away with the remains of over 10 persons who died untimely from accidents at Gomoa Fawomaye Cemetery in the Central Region. The Chief of Gomoa Fawomaye, Nana Okofo Kwakye …
Read More »PHOTOS: Man beheads his grandmother and takes her head to the police station
A man in his early 20s reportedly chopped off his grandmother’s head, placed the severed head in a plastic bag, and took it to Kisumu Central Police Station in Kenya. The man shocked police officers when he arrived at the station with the bag and asked the officers to open …
Read More »Watch Highlights: Asante Kotoko move to third after big win against Bechem United
Asante Kotoko increased their chances of winning the Ghana Premier League title by beating Bechem United on Wednesday 4-0 to climb to third on the table. The Porcupine Warriors after a slow start to the league season have managed to pick up after a change in managers. Currently coached by …
Read More »Rapist cut off my hand when I refused to strip – Ugandan girl tells court
A 16-year-old senior two student in Uganda’s Bududa District has told court that she was waylaid and attacked by a machete-wielding man who left her crying in pain after cutting off her hand when she refused to strip in a botched rape. The girl whose identity we cannot reveal …
Read More »V/R: Boy, Two Months dumped in an uncompleted building at Akatsi
The Akatsi South police Command and the Assembly member for the lower Fiato Electoral Area in the Akatsi South constituency of the Volta Region are desperately searching for the mum of a baby who was found dumped. The little boy, only about 2 months old, was discovered in an …
Read More »Cape Coast, Ghana, to host 2021 IBSA Goalball African Championships
The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Goalball has announced that Cape Coast, Ghana, will stage the 2021 African Championships from 6-10 December. Since the first edition of the competition in 2016, it has been staged once in Algeria and twice in Egypt. This year will therefore be the first …
Read More »Political Black Sheep ‘Razak Kojo Poku’ Stabbing Akufo-Addo’s Support to Indigenous Companies
The Ghana Private Lotto Operators Association(GLOA) has appealed to the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led government to call the acting Director-General of the National Lottery Authority to order on his plot to collapse the indigenous private licensed companies. Dr Ato Conduah Esq. addressing the media at a press conference …
Read More »It’s absurd to get PhD in four months – Ransford Gyampo
Prof Ransford Edward Yaw Gyampo, a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana has said it is an absurdity for any individual to acquire a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Master and a Bachelor’s Degree in four months. He said anybody who will make such an assumption is making such …
Read More »Fetish Priest leaks nude videos of woman who wants Akufo-Addo, Okuapehene, others dead
A fetish priest has allegedly leaked nude videos of a woman who visited his shrine to kill persons behind the enstoolment of the new Okuapehene. The videos captured the woman – Attaa Magali chanting to kill President Akufo-Addo, Okuapemhene Oseadeyo Kwasi Akufo II, Victor Newman a presidential staffer now deceased, …
Read More »Mahama – Mosquito, Haruna – Zanetor and other potential NDC 2024 pairings
The race for the 2024 presidential flagbearership position looks far away but political jostling has started in the two main political parties, the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, and the main opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC. With respect to the NPP, recent friction has been generated especially over the …
Read More »Somanya: Woman murdered in a Guest House
A young woman has been murdered in cold blood in the room of Janeli Guest House in Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region. “The Director of the Guest House David Teye Annor, 63, reported at the Somanya Police station that on April 6, 2021, that, on …
Read More »VIDEO: How Fetish priestess behind Kasoa Ritual Killing arrested
A fetish priestess has been arrested in connection with the killing of the 10-year-old boy by two teenagers at Kasoa. The fetish priestess was arrested at Amanase, near Suhum in the Eastern Region following police intelligence. According to reports, her docket has been sent to the CID Head Quarters …
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