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The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) will soon begin piloting a new regulatory regime for ridesharing commercial activities such as Uber and Taxify. The new regulations will provide distinct DVLA identification for the digital transport operators, faster registration and twice a year renewal of road worthiness of the Vehicles. …

Jacob Quashie Okai, a 40 year old man was on Thursday shot dead by an unknown assailant at Ntoaso near  Adoagyiri in the Eastern Region. Briefing the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Police Superintendent Mrs Marian Osei-Owusu said the incident occurred at about 1000 hours in the morning after the deceased had …

Philip Hammond has told the BBC he intends to resign as chancellor if Boris Johnson becomes the UK’s next PM. He said a no-deal Brexit, something Mr Johnson has left open as an option, was “not something I could ever sign up to”. Asked if he thought he would be …

Married men who are being denied sex by their wives have been advised to report them to the police. The Central Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), Mr George Appiah-Sakyi, explained that “denying your spouse sex amounted to emotional abuse”. “If your wife wears jeans to sleep …

Traditional leaders and the clergy must speak out against the government over the violation of the rights of Mr Gregory Afoko, who, together with a second suspect, is being tried by the state for the murder of the governing New Patriotic Party’s Upper East Regional Chairman Adam Mahama in 2015.Mr …

Former First Lady, Lordina Dramani Mahama has been awarded a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in Business Law/International Business Law from the De Montfort University in the United Kingdom. Graphic Online (www.graphic.com.gh) gathers that the former First Lady was a long-distance student at the Leicester-based university. She already holds a …

There is tension at the office of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region as marauding supporters of a failed parliamentary aspirant, Mr Mubarick Masawudu, went on the rampage. In their dozens, the supporters marched to the regional office of the party in the evening of Friday, 19 …

The consumption of concoctions made from a mixture of ‘TomTom’ toffees crushed into energy drinks is the emerging trend of drug abuse among students, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has said. Mr Gorden Akurugu, Volta/Oti Regional Director of the Authority said the phenomenon was widespread among teenagers in the …

The so-called democratic political party has bared its undemocratic teeth to one of its own. Walking majestically to the Asawase Constituency office of the NDC, Masawudu Mubarak, clothed in innocence, asked to be sold the nomination forms of the party to enable him to contest in the parliamentary primaries of …

A 47-year-old man has under a strange circumstance, stabbed his six-year-old son to death at Diabene, a farming community within the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. Kwaku Aaba, a local gin distiller, allegedly used a sharp machete to slash the boy’s neck from the back without any provocation whatsoever, …

Former Presidential Staffer and a member of the National Democratic Congress NDC Communication Team, Hon. Alhaji Halidu Haruna has submitted his nomination forms to contest for NDC parliamentary primaries at the Ablekuma Central Constituency in the Greater Accra Region slated for August this year. Alhaji Halidu and his supporters stormed …

Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South Constituency, Hon. Dr. Alfred Okoe Vandapuiye will vie for his second in parliament on the ticket of NDC come 2020 when given the nod by the Constituency Executives of the party. The former metropolitan chief of the nation’s capital Tsentse as he is affectionately …

Ghana’s Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Kaiser Amidu is homeward bound to rejoin his political comrades in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in frontline politics, Ghanacrusader.com can report authoritatively. The anti-corruption crusader, who accepted President Akufo-Addo’s appointment to serve as head of the novel Office of Special Prosecutor last year, …

A group calling itself, Patriotic Youth Alliance has called for the removal of the Ashanti Regional New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly, known as Chairman Wontumi as the party chairman in the region. According to the group, Chairman Wontumi is preventing some prospective aspiring parliamentary candidates for …

The Methodist Church Ghana has disassociated itself from what it perceives as an impending compromise on homosexuality by the British Methodist Conference in 2020. According to the Church, the attempt by the British conference to sample votes on homosexuality contradicts the bible. At a press conference today, the Presiding Bishop, …

The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has announced the interception of an ambulance conveying 10 cartons of 225 milligrams of Tramadol in the Apapa area of Lagos State. It said the Hyundai ambulance, with number plate, LND 605 XW, was intercepted with the drugs while the driver …

The anti-insurgency military operations in the North-east have suffered a setback with the attacks on troops in Borno and Yobe States in which a total of two officers and 26 soldiers were killed. An army commander, of the rank of Colonel and 20 soldiers were reportedly killed in an ambush …

Suspected armed bandits attacked some villages in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State on Wednesday night and killed more than 20 persons. A source in the LG said the assailants, armed with sophisticated weapons stormed the villages at night and started shooting indiscriminately. He said, “More than twenty villagers …

There was palpable anxiety at the Lagos Airport on Friday when an unknown man carrying a bag climbed the fuselage of the aircraft. The aircraft which had passengers on board was parked at the apron preparatory for taxing through the taxiway into the runway for take-off. Apparently beaten security on …

Thousands of graduating students of the University of Education, Winneba, have been left stranded on the campus as their graduation appears to be in limbo. The situation is due to the delay by government in reconstituting the University’s Governing Council which has the mandate to superintend the graduation ceremony. The …

The Ekumfi Pineapple and Fruit Juices Company which is part of the government’s One District-One Factory programme is near completion, the Secretariat has said in a statement.On Friday, 19 July 2019, the National Coordinator for the One District-One Factory Programme, Gifty Ohene-Konadu, inspected the project, which is located at Ekumfi …

The 87 Hyundai Gallopers which were left to rot at the Institute of Local Government Studies some 18 years ago, has finally been auctioned. The vehicles were ordered in the year 2000 by the government of then-President Jerry John Rawlings, at the cost of $30,000 each. But after almost two decades, …

Youth and Sports minister, Isaac Kwame Asiamah, will next week appear before Parliament to answer questions relating to Ghana’s poor performance at the AFCON 2019. Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, announced Friday that Mr Asiamah will be in the House either Tuesday or Wednesday, to deliver a statement on …

The presentation of the mid-year budget review by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has been postponed to Monday, 29 July 2019.This was announced by Deputy Majority Leader Sarah Adwoa Safo during the presentation of the business statement for next week on the floor of parliament on Friday.The mid-year review of the …

Businessman and Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong is advocating that business owners boycott loans from Ghanaian banks over the seeming high interest rates. He believes goods sold by Nigerians and other nationals in Ghana appear to be cheaper because they contract loans with less interest …