The Keta Divisional Police Command has commenced investigations after the body of a man was discovered floating in the Keta Lagoon at Havedzi in the Keta Municipality. It is unclear whether the death was a homicide or suicide as the Police say they suspected no foul play. Chief Supt Leonard …
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50-Year Old Woman And Mother Of Four kills Herself Over Depression
Information we have picked from Instablog9ja says one Florence Owa, a mother of four reportedly committed suicide in Sapele, Delta State Owa was found dead on Tuesday, January 26, at her home by one of her children. She allegedly died after consuming a substance believed to be Sniper, a deadly …
Read More »Jospong, Hungarian Gov’t sign €50m Waste Water Treatment Plant contract
The Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), has signed a contract worth 50 million Euro with the Hungary government to construct a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) in three regions. The WWTP would be sited at Takoradi in the Western Region, Tamale in the Northern Region and Kumasi in the Ashanti …
Read More »Koku Anyidoho sues NDC’s Dzifa Gunu for defamation, demands GHC10m
Chief Executive Officer of the Atta-Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho has sued a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dzifa Gunu for defamation. He posited that Dzifa Gunu accused him of killing his 8-year-old daughter who died in November last year. He also said Dzifa Gunu stated that he (Anyidoho) made several attempts to …
Read More »Soldiers detain 3 Joy News employees, delete reporting footage
Ghanaian authorities must investigate the recent detention of three Joy News staffers, and hold to account the soldiers who interfered with their reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On January 16, a group of about 30 military officers at the Apamprama forest reserve in Ghana’s southern Ashanti region …
Read More »Achimota forest robber shot dead by Police
One suspected robber has been shot dead along the Achimota forest stretch after he succeeded in attacking and snatching two phones from two pedestrians and ran into the bush. On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at about 9pm, the suspect now deceased armed with knife emerged from the Achimota Forest Reserve …
Read More »Mortuary is not a pleasant place, we don’t have sex with dead bodies — Workers deny claims
Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has debunked reports that mortuary workers often have sex with corpses in the morgue. Richard Kofi Jordan, General Secretary, MOWAG said in Kumasi yesterday that “These are all blatant falsehoods that some people peddle just to tarnish our image. It can never be true.” …
Read More »5 crazy scandals that made Cecilia Marfo unpopular
Prior to the recent development where Cecilia Marfo openly snatched a microphone from Joyce Blessing who was ministering on stage, the prophetess had been in the spotlight for similar treatments said to have been meted out to other personalties. Like a #me-too movement, some of these people have one way or the other recounted …
Read More »Supreme Court dismisses Mahama’s review application on interrogatories
A nine-member review panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Anin Yeboah has dismissed the review application filed by former President John Dramani Mahama. Mr Mahama’s application for review was premised on the court earlier dismissal of a request to have the Electoral Commission served to respond to …
Read More »Kwasi Appiah still owed $105,000 by the state – Spokesperson
Asante Fokuo, the spokesperson for former Black Stars coach, James Kwasi Appiah has appealed to the Minister of Sports-designate Mustapha Yussif to as a matter of urgency settled the debt owed Kwasi Appiah by the government. Speaking in an interview with Peace FM, Asante Fokuo decried the treatment handed the ex-Black Stars defender by the …
Read More »Police to start random vehicle checks to enforce face mask directive
The Police will start random checks of vehicles with multiple persons to ensure compliance with laws on wearing face masks. At a press briefing on Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs, Supt. Sheila Abayie-Buckman said this was the next stage of police enforcement of the coronavirus safety protocols. “For as …
Read More »LIVESTREAMED: Ministry of Information briefing on coronavirus
The Ministry of Information is today, January 28, 2021, organising a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic. Led by Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the ministry intends to provide clarifications on some concerns that have arisen from the re-opening of schools in the midst of the pandemic. The Ministry will also seek …
Read More »Dangote sues ex-girlfriend for $30,000
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has told a U.S. court how his former American girlfriend, who exposed a part of his body via a social media post, is trying to extort $5 million from him. The documents of a civil suit he filed with a pseudonym against the lady identified …
Read More »Taxi driver, teacher found dead in Koforidua
A taxi driver has been found dead at Korle – Nkwata a suburb of New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region. He was found tied with a rope in the plantain farm near Anglican Basic School at Korle -Nkwanta community. A resident assumed that the deceased taxi driver might …
Read More »[PHOTOS]: Another ‘mermaid’ spotted in Ghana
As Ghanaians are coming to terms with the presence of the African Mermaid, Sister Derby, another has popped up. Sister Derby has, for time immemorial, disclosed her alter ego as a mermaid, taking her obsession as far as posing in water while donning a mermaid costume. Hajia 4 Reall Mermaid …
Read More »Two arrested in Fomena bullion van gun attack, ringleader killed
A suspected highway robber was gunned down during a shoot out in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday morning, the police has said in a briefing. The special operation at a guest house on the Spintex road at about 11:30 am led to the death of Blessing Stephen 38, a notorious …
Read More »Sarkodie and Stonebwoy will be my deputies if I am made Creative Arts Minister – Shatta Wale
Ghanaians should probably brace themselves for one of the biggest alliances yet after the Great Alliance of the 1996 elections, because celebrated Dancehall musician Shatta Wale is ready to appoint Sarkodie and Stonebwoy as deputies if he is appointed Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts. Shatta Wale, known in private life as Charles Nii Armah …
Read More »Police made me stand in the sun for five hours for not wearing face mask – 90-year-old man
A 90-year-old man, Opanin Kwamena Nsonowaa of Ashire in the Twifo Atti-Morkwa district of the Central Region has allegedly been ordered by police officers to stand in the fiery Sun for about five agonizing hours for failing to wear a nose mask. Recounting his ordeal, he said on Monday 25th …
Read More »South African military ends hijab ban
South Africa’s military has changed its religious dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear hijabs with their military uniform, according to a rights organisation that had challenged the policy in court. The Legal Resources Centre said the changes followed discussions with the South Africa National Defence Force (SANDF). The …
Read More »LIVESTREAMING: 2020 Election Petition hearing
The Apex Court is expected to commence the substantive hearing of the 2020 election petition today, January 28, 2020. The court was supposed to sit on the substantive case on January 26 but former president John Dramani Mahama had not filed his witness statements though they were due on January 21. Mr. …
Read More »Ghana ranked 9th African country with largest Chinese debt
Ghana has been ranked as one of the countries on the African continent that is heavily indebted to Asian superpower, China. China over the past few years has established itself as one of the world’s economic superpowers and as such the Asian country has become one of the biggest lenders …
Read More »Drop all charges for COVID tests for Ghanaians – MoH to labs
The Health Ministry has directed public laboratories in the country to drop all charges for Ghanaians who walk in for COVID-19 tests. A circular by the ministry to labs, however, noted charges for foreigners should still be in place. “The Ministry has decided that public COVID-19 testing laboratories providing walk-in …
Read More »I never said workers will receive 12.5% salary increase – Adutwum
Minister for Education-designate, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has issued a disclaimer against news making rounds that he said that there will be an increment in salaries of workers including teachers. The Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, in a Facebook post, stated that he never granted any such interview and has …
Read More »2 goat thieves nabbed as residents set their car ablaze
Angry residents of Bepoase, Community near Agona in the Afigya Sekyere South District of the Ashanti Region have attacked two notorious thieves for stealing 5 goats and 1 sheep in the community. A Toyota Corolla vehicle with the registration number BA- 2356-14 used by the thieves for their operations has …
Read More »Why Zanetor, Kimathi Rawlings are trending after J.J Rawlings’s funeral
A picture of Kimathi Rawlings and his elderly sister Dr. Zanetor taken at a sombre Black Stars Square during the State funeral of their father, former President Jerry John Rawlings, has illuminated social media platforms, bringing out the humour in some persons and subsequently eliciting laughter from some social media users. …
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