LATEST UPDATES

South Africa election: ANC wins with reduced majority

South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has been returned to office after winning parliamentary election, but with a reduced majority. The ANC secured 58% of the vote, ahead of the Democratic Alliance (DA) on 21%. The radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), came third with 11%. The ANC, which has been …

Read More »

Radio Gold, XYZ closure unconstitutional – Sosu

Human Rights activist and lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu has described as unconstitutional the National Communications Authority’s closure of Radio Gold and Radio XYZ. The NCA took the two radio stations affiliated to the opposition National Democratic Congress off air on Thursday for defaulting in renewing their licenses But in a …

Read More »

€127m for NVTI projects

Parliament has approved a loan of €127million to overhaul NVTI programmes, Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Technical & Vocational Education & Training, Gifty Twum-Ampofo, has disclosed. Speaking to DAILY GUIDE after touring some technical and vocational institutions in Koforidua, she said part of the loan would be used to …

Read More »

BREAKING NEWS: NCA Shuts Down Pro-NDC Trinity FM and Fact FM in Bogoso

Trinity FM and Fact FM based in Prestea Huni-valley Municipality in the Western Region operated by Western Multimedia Limited has been shutdown by the National Communications Authority. According to the station’s Administrator, Thomas Tetteh he received a call from the Western Region Office of the National Communications Authority (NCA) for …

Read More »

Four illegal miners jailed 16years, fined GHC96k

Four illegal miners have been jailed four years each by the Koforidua Circuit Court ‘B’ Friday for engaging in galamsey in the Atewa Forest Reserve. Additionally, they were fined Ghc24,000 each. The convicts are Kwaku Ampaabeng,32, ,Kwabena Apaw,39, ,Evans Ahenkorah,33, and Yaw Effah Boateng,51,residents of Akim Oda Nkwanta and Akim …

Read More »

Chinese Helena Huang to be declared wanted by the Police

The Northern Regional Police Command has tendered an application before the Tamale High Court to get to the man who stood surety for Helena Huang to locate her. This, according to Regional Crime Officer Supt. Kwabena Otuo Acheampong, is in line with Section 104 of Act 30 of the criminal …

Read More »

Rider kills Cop at Sege

A 36-year-old police officer with the Dawa Police Station met his untimely death when he was knocked down by a commercial motorbike operator, popularly called Okada. The incident occurred at Anyamam, a suburb of Sege in the Ada West District of the Greater Accra Region, on Wednesday. The victim, General …

Read More »

Ghana Armed Forces to fight crime with trained dogs

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) is developing its “Canine” training programme to help curb terrorism and drug trafficking among other forms of crime. Mr Dominic Nitiwul, the Minister of Defense, said this when he commissioned a Transit Accommodation Facility, and a dog breeding kennel at the Ghana Military Police Dog …

Read More »

Nsawam Prisons inmates benefit from Govt’s 1D1F programme

Inmates at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons in the Eastern region have benefited from government’s One District, One Factory (1D1F) programme with the commissioning of Brompton Portfolio Limited’s tissue making factory at the prison camp on Tuesday. Speaking at the commissioning of the factory, the National Coordinator of the 1D1F …

Read More »

JUST IN: Lucy Quist resigns from Normalisation Committee

Madam Lucy Quist, Vice Chairperson for the Normalisation Committee of the Ghana Football Association, has left role with immediate effect. Quist made the announcement via her official facebook account. Quist said her decision to walk away after 8 months was “personal.” Quist, 45, was named among a 4-member committee to …

Read More »

Habeas corpus application for Volta secessionists dismissed

A Ho High Court presided over by Justice Eric Baah on Thursday struck out a habeas corpus application filed by the counsel of eight members of Homeland Study Group Foundation arrested for allegedly plotting to declare parts of the Volta, Oti and Northern regions as an independent state. Mr Emil …

Read More »

Aisha ‘Sister’ jumps bail

The 43-year-old Chinese woman who was arrested by the Tamale Regional Police Command for allegedly possessing large quantities of rosewood illegally appears to have jumped bail. Helen Huang was granted bail by the police last Tuesday after she was arrested with two trucks carrying four containers of rosewood, which has …

Read More »

Slain NDC vigilante’s family goes wild

Family of the slain opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) vigilante, Abdul Wasihu, has expressed dissatisfaction with efforts being made to arrest perpetrators of the heinous crime, describing the police action as “very slack.” A member of the family, Tanko Iddris, said the police in the region have refused to attach …

Read More »

Rosewood Chinese suspect missing

The Chinese woman, Helena Huang, who was arrested in Tamale for transporting trucks of rosewood lumbers and charged with possessing banned forestry products has been declared missing more than 48 hours after she was granted police Inquiry bail. The Northern Regional Police Crime Officer, Supt. Otuo Acheampong who confirmed the …

Read More »

Daffiama-Bussie-Issa NDC chairman killed by gunmen

The Daffiama-Bussie-Issa constituency chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper West Region, Richard Bayiviala Polibong, has been killed by unknown gunmen. The incident happened near Sagu, a village in the Wa municipality at about 9:30 pm on Wednesday when the chairman was returning from a funeral in …

Read More »

NDC chairman shot dead in Upper West region

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) chairman for the Dafiama Bussie Issa Constituency, Mr. Poulabong Bayiilela Rachard aka Chairman Water has been shot dead by unidentified gang. The incident occurred Monday night at Sagu, on the Wa-Tumu Road in the Upper West region, DailyMailGH can confirm. According to close associates, the …

Read More »