As Ghana looks for innovative ways to deal with her many problems, some traders at Odo Rice, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle have also found a more productive way to deal with common thieves in the area. What pertained in the past, by way of punishment to suspected thieves when …
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Mugabe’s “African pride, dignity, audacity unassailable” – Rawlings
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has eulogised the late Robert Mugabe, saying his “African pride, dignity and audacity were unassailable.” “RIP Comrade Mugabe. You lived for the dignity of your fellow black. Your African pride, dignity and audacity were unassailable. “Africa has lost a bold and noble Statesman. My condolences …
Read More »Taxi driver shot dead in Takoradi by suspected robbers
A taxi driver has allegedly been shot dead within the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. He was allegedly shot three times in the chest at Sofokrom by some unknown assailants believed to be armed robbers. His body was then dumped at Dunkwa, near Beposo in the Shama District. A …
Read More »Keep Katanga as all-male hall – Govt to KNUST Council
The government has urged the authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to maintain University (Katanga) Hall as an all-male hall of residence. Education Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh said while the running of the university is the sole preserve of the university’s council, it is …
Read More »Collapsing Sogakope bridge kills 5
At least five persons have died in crashes on the deteriorating Sogakope Bridge that spans the lower part of the Volta River. District Chief Executive (DCE) for South Tongu, Emmanuel Louise Agamah, says the bridge is now a death trap and needs urgent repairs to save lives. “This bridge is …
Read More »Court puts on hold plans by BoG to collapse GN Savings
The Bank of Ghana has been ordered by an Accra High Court to hold on with any plans to hand over GN Savings and Loans Company Limited to a receiver. Justice George Koomson has directed that until the outcome of an application for interlocutory injunction is established the regulator and …
Read More »AFCON U-23 Qualifier: Ghana held 1-1 at home to Algeria
Ghana’s U-23 team, the Black Meteors, were held to a 1-1 draw by their Algerian counterparts in a 2019 CAF U-23 AFCON last round qualifier at the Accra Sports Stadium. Algeria took the lead in the first half through Dorgane Adam before Dauda Mohammed scored a second-half penalty to draw …
Read More »Asante Kotoko CEO Kwame Kyei to contest GFA Presidency
Following the declaration by the chairman of the Normalisation Committee, Dr. Kofi Amoah, that the doors had been opened for all those interested, Asante Kotoko CEO, Kwame Kyei, is said to contest the GFA’s top job. The position of the Ghana FA has been vacant since June 2018 when the-then …
Read More »PDS Not Cleared; Gov’t Will Disclose Report Soon – Deputy Info Minister
Deputy Information Minister Pius Enam Hadzide has denied reports and claims that the PDS scandal has been cleared. According to him, the reports coming out are in bits and pieces and that they do not represent the true reflection of what is being discussed on social media. Speaking on Okay FM’s ‘Ade …
Read More »Five mistakes women make in bed
Women who think their sex life is lacking often assume it’s because they don’t have a perfect body. False. Or, they imagine they are inadequate because they don’t act like a porn star. False again. So, if the problem isn’t their lack of perfection or acting ability, what is keeping …
Read More »Your foolish song caused the death of Robert Mugabe – Criss Waddle jabs Archipalago
From all indications the trolling on Archipalago’s first single dubbed “Megye” is not coming to an end anytime soon. AMG Business boss Criss Waddle after the release of the song has taken to social media to mock Archipalago several times. In a series of post, the “King Kong” hitmaker described …
Read More »The PDS puzzle! Consultant ‘clears’ firm – But govt, MiDA reject report
FTI Consulting, a United States-based consulting firm commissioned by the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) to investigate whether or not Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ltd duly won the contract to manage the assets of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has confirmed that insurance guarantees were, indeed, paid to back the …
Read More »Another Headmaster sacked for ‘sabotaging’ Free SHS
The Headmaster of Donkokrom Senior High School, John Mensah Dzokoto, has been sacked by the Ministry of Education through the Ghana Education Service. The Headmaster was transferred from Klo Agogo Senior High School in the Yilo Krobo Municipality to Donkokrom in the Afram Plains North District of the Eastern Region …
Read More »Outrage as government snubs ‘Conti’ in Katanga reversal letter
There’s anger from former residents of Unity Hall (Conti) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) after a government letter “prevailing” on the authorities of the University to reverse University Hall back to an exclusive male residence conspicuously left them out. Former residents of the hall took …
Read More »Boy, 12, and carpenter arrested for murder of eight-year-old girl
The Volta Regional Police Command has arrested a carpenter, Fofo Amedo Kwame, at Adaklu Sagbele for allegedly murdering an eight-year-old girl at Nyive, in the Ho Municipality. The carpenter after his arrest led the police to pick a 12-year-old boy, he claimed was his accomplice. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), …
Read More »Woman drowns in a reservoir at Anomabo
A 45-year-old woman identified as Maame Adwoa, slipped and fell into a community reservoir when she attempted to fetch water leading to her death at Anomabo on Thursday. Mr Eric Arthur, Central Regional Director of Communications of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), confirmed the tragedy to Ghana News Agency. …
Read More »African leaders pay tribute to Mugabe
African leaders past and present have been paying tribute to Robert Mugabe, whose 37-year-rule in Zimbabwe made him one of the continent’s longest-serving leaders. “A great nationalist” and “symbol of Zimbabwe’s emancipation” is how Nigeria‘s former President Goodluck Jonathan described him: Africa has lost a great nationalist. Robert Mugabe will continue …
Read More »Hurricane Dorian: ‘Hundreds trapped’ on N Carolina island
Hundreds of people may be trapped on a North Carolina island amid rising floodwater after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the state governor has warned. The storm struck the islands popular with holidaymakers days after causing at least 30 deaths in the Bahamas. Roy Cooper warned of storm surges on the …
Read More »Akufo-Addo opens Omnifert Fertiliser factory
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned the OmniFert Fertiliser Factory, a wholly-owned Ghanaian fertiliser manufacturing company. At the commissioning ceremony on Friday, 6 September, 2019, President Akufo-Addo applauded the promoters of this project for the work they have done in establishing a world-class facility, which, when its second phase …
Read More »Ghana music needs a boost – K.K. Fosu
Kaakyire Kwame Fosu, popularly known in the music industry as K.K. Fosu, has asserted that it is high time we modified and pushed highlife music to the world. Asked by Foster Romanus on The Late Nite Celebrity Show about the reception of highlife music being performed in other countries, he …
Read More »Alleged killer of an 8-year-old girl arrested at Ho
A man in his late 30s has been arrested at Adaklu in the Volta region for the alleged murder of an 8-year-old girl, Shine Agyima in the Ho Central Municipality of the Volta region. According to the residents in Nyive where the girl was murdered, the suspect confessed to the …
Read More »Gov’t will cover up Ayawaso West Wuogon violence report- Sam George
The NDC Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George is strongly convinced that the Akufo-Addo government will not release the report by the Emile Short Commission on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. He says government is avoiding to incriminate itself given what he believes is the ‘damning’ nature …
Read More »How the U.S kicked me from the police service because I was a former Ghana Police – Man tells his story
A Ghanaian based in the United States of America has revealed how he lost his chance to serve in the U.S Police force merely because he was a former Ghanaian police officer. Francis Kyeremeh, who was a police personnel and served as the bodyguard of Former Asowkwa MP, Maxwell Kofi …
Read More »NPP will not share NDC’s “corruption honours” with them – Sammi Awuku
The National Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) Sammi Awuku says the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) is frantically searching for a competitor in terms of which party superintends over corruption in order to share that unenviable ‘corruption honours’ with them. According to him, the NPP is miles ahead of …
Read More »Mugabe “legend” of African Liberation struggle – Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the late Robert Mugabe as a “legend of the African Liberation struggle”. The longest-serving Zimbabwean leader died after battling ill-health at a hospital in Singapore on Friday, 6 September 2019. He was ousted in a military coup in November 2017. He was 95. …
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