Former Minority Chief Whip in Parliament and Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase Constituency, Hon Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed has described the change in the Minority Leadership in Parliament in which he was affected as a coup d’etat”. Muntaka thinks the manner and procedure in which the party leadership carried out …
Read More »Energy Ministry staff slapped with 100 counts for allegedly stealing over GHc287K from ADB staff
A Secretary at the Ministry of Energy, Regina Abanga has been arraigned at the Circuit Court in Accra and slapped with 116 counts of stealing totalling GHc287,775.47. Abanga, 44, is said to have manipulated Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and succeeded in stealing the said sim belonging …
Read More »Ghana profits from Niger’s airspace closure – Analysis
The closure of the airspace of Niger by the military regime has led to a surge in the number of flights using Ghana’s airspace to get to various destinations. AviationGhana’s analysis of live flight feed on Flightradar24 since the closure of the Nigerien airspace on August 6, 2023, shows mainly …
Read More »See the unassuming pillar that separates Ghana from Cote d’Ivoire
Every country has a border; a point where the country ends and leads into another. While some of these are very defined, there are others that are not quite clearly evident. Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire recently had to seek legal redress on the maritime boundary between the two, from where …
Read More »Police officers caught red-handed extorting money from residents
Some Nigerian Police operatives have been caught red-handed extorting money from residents of Osun state. In a video making rounds, the Speaker of Osun State Assembly Adewale Egbedun making his way past the area observed the illegality of the security personnel. Displeased by the policemen actions, he immediately came to …
Read More »Meet Yahaya Subaru: The first Ghanaian to drive from Ghana to Sweden in 2007
Yahaya Alpha Suberu, a filmmaker and University Lecturer at the Ghana campus of New York University, achieved a remarkable feat in 2007 by becoming the first Ghanaian to undertake a road trip from Ghana to Sweden. The idea to travel from Ghana to Sweden was born during Alpha’s first visit …
Read More »I’d have died a foolish death – Mama Kali recalls receiving GH¢10 from Agya Koo for NPP campaign
Actress Mama Kali who was one of the showbiz personalities to have campaigned rigorously for the then-opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has recounted receiving a meager amount from colleague Agya Koo for a well-executed campaign that brought the party to power in 2016. Reiterating that she received GH¢10 from Agya …
Read More »‘May God be the judge’ – Rev. Boakye’s widow to step daughters for omitting her from biography
Reverend Mrs Anthony Boakye (Yaa Asantewaa), the estranged wife of the founder and leader of Resurrection New Generation Church, Reverend Anthony Kwadwo Boakye, has expressed disappointment about the biography read at her late husband’s funeral. For a biography that was silent about her marriage to the late pastor at his …
Read More »How 13-year-old boy saved a bus with 50 pupils from crashing at Bawjiasie
In a remarkable display of courage and quick thinking, a 13-year-old puil from Carefield School Complex in Bawjiase, near Kasoa, Central Region, has become a local hero after saving around fifty students from a potentially disastrous bus accident. Augustine Nii Odoi Laryea, a class 6 pupil, acted swiftly to prevent …
Read More »At least 27 people found dead in desert after expulsion from Tunisia: Libya
At least 27 people from sub-Saharan Africa have died in recent days after being expelled from Tunisia towards the Libya border and abandoned in the desert in relentless heat, according to Libyan authorities. Libyan border guards found the bodies “in the desert [in] a vast area to the south of …
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