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Pollster, Ben Ephson has averred that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has always had problems when it comes to the selection of a new flagbearer for the party. His comment follows the recent battle on who succeeds President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the 2024 elections as vice president, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia …

27-year-old Vera Eshun, an orphan and also a former level 300 student of the Mampong Midwifery Training College has narrated how she became physically challenged.  Speaking to Crime Check Ghana, Vera explained that, she deferred her course to seek medical attention to an ailment, avascular necrosis. According to the orphan, …

A nurse at the Ho Municipal Hospital has been receiving praises online after a story emerged about how she insisted against the express instructions of a Physician Assistant to administer a drug to a patient in a way she knew was not a standard procedure. Gloria Atiayao’s story flooded social …

Black Stars coach Charles Akonnor seems to have done the image of the team little favours with his final squad for the all-important Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against South Africa and Sao Tome. The final list of players for the tournament was announced on Thursday, March 18, 2021 with …

47-year-old Richard Nyarko was sentenced to thirty-five years imprisonment in 1997 by a Circuit Court in Somanya for robbery after he aided a policeman to snatch a saloon car. Nyarko, who had appealed his sentence severally but failed, fortunately had it reduced by ten years by the Court of Appeal …

The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) has described as out of law, a directive by the National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA) to banks against doing business with unlicensed pre-tertiary schools. In a piece of earlier advice to the banks, NaSIA said: “We are by this letter entreating all …

Eskom said it would cancel load-shedding as of noon on Friday as generation units returned to service and helped to restore available capacity. Eskom said in an update that teams had successfully returned to service a generation unit each at the Duvha, Medupi, Kendal, Kriel and Kusile power stations. “A further …

Nigeria is ranked in the world as the country with the most jobless people. Bloomberg did the ranking of the countries worldwide with the highest unemployment rate. Nigeria has a population of about 200 million people. The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the underemployment rate saw a decrease from …

Disciplinary steps have already been taken against the inmate who recorded himself allegedly having s. – £- .x with a female prison warder in an office at a prison in KwaZulu-Natal. And while the warden has already been suspended, more officials could find themselves in trouble over the incident at …

A beleaguered father has called out one of Ghana’s elite secondary schools, Achimota over what he describes as ‘gross human right violation’ after the institution allegedly refused his ward admission. Raswad Menkrabea while sharing his ordeal on Facebook alleged that authorities of Achimota School rejected his dreadlocked son with claims …

  Tanzania has a new president in the person of Samia Suluhu Hassan, who two days ago was vice president of the East African country. She has made history becoming the first female president of the United Republic of Tanzania. Suluhu was, this morning, sworn in by the Chief Justice …

US and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska. Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries “to attack China”, while the US said China had “arrived intent on grandstanding”. Relations between the two superpowers are …

Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia will announce the 2021 Housing and Population Census (PHC) today, Friday, March 19, when he launches the 100-day count down to the Census. The Census Night is the reference date for census enumeration and all questions asked during the enumeration would relate to that night. It also …

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Atta has said there is already plans for Ashanti Region to get a fair share of Akufo-Addo’s government road projects. He maintains that the government will make road infrastructure a front-burner issue in the Ashanti Region. “I want to assure the people …

The Police in the Bono East region have started investigations to unravel circumstances leading to the killing of a top Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ali Ahmed Maikano. The deceased was reportedly travelling to his home in Prang from Kajegu, where he was a guest speaker for an event but was shot …

The Supreme Court has scheduled March 30, 2021, to deliver its ruling on the review application filed by lawyers for the people of SALL following the apex court’s decision to quash an earlier ruling by the Ho High Court on the election of John Peter Amewu as MP-elect. Tsatsu Tsikata, …

A young man has shocked social media with an unbelievable display of strength after using his teeth to peel coconut husks. Coconut husks are usually too hard to peel off so the tool used is machete. In the video, the gentleman simply set his teeth on the coconut and used …

A Tamale High Court has sentenced a 32-year-old system administrator to eight (8) years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing GH¢159,300 from the coffers of his former employer, the Buuwulonso One Stop Rural Bank at Damongo in the Savannah Region. Cephas Agbodo, who had moved on to Borimanga Rural Bank …

Aduana Stars defender, Farouk Adams who has been accused in the hit–and–run incident which claimed the life of Police Officer Amos Mattey has been granted a bail of Ghc60,000 by the Berekum Circuit Court, with four sureties. Adams was charged on four counts of Careless and inconsiderate driving and negligently causing …

62-year-old widow Abena Asanewa who lives in Obuasi Amankyem in the Ashanti Region has her grandchildren abandoned in her care by their father after they lost their sight. The poor widow told crimecheckghana that she is in debt after borrowing money from her neighbours to get them medical care at …

A Chinese rosewood company located at Yipala near Damongo capital of the Savannah Region has finally been closed down by the Chiefs, Assemblyman and people of the electoral area. The company which used to be called BrivyWelss but now known as Zagos New Style Company Limited are dealers in rosewood …

On Wednesday evening she had the task of announcing to Tanzanians that President John Magufuli had died and now Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan is due to take his place as the country’s head of state. First elected as Magufuli’s running mate in 2015, she was re-elected last year along with …

Ghanaian actress, Ahuofe Patri, seems to have finally agreed to marry her colleague and good friend, Kalybos, after rejecting him for many years. In a new post on Instagram, Kalybos, dazed by a photo Ahuofe shared, begged her to marry him. She first laughed over the proposal and then agreed …

The minority in parliament has served notice of a possible rejection of President Akufo-Addo’s 2021 budget over what it terms deceptive reporting of the 2020 deficit figures. According to the caucus, the budget statement sought to blame COVID-19 for what it calls the abysmal performance of the economy in the …

First-year Senior High School (SHS) students Thursday reported to school to begin the 2021/22 academic year. A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the St Thomas Aquinas SHS and Accra High School saw the ‘freshers’ going through the registration process. Mr Paul K. Amoasi Baidoo, the Headmaster of …