Tag Archives: GHANA

There is a possibility that the Electoral Commission (EC) will be sued by one of the political parties ahead of the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections, Mawuse Domenu, Head of Research at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has said. His comments follow the numerous concerns against the …

The 2020-2021 season of Ghana’s top-flight is scheduled to start on November 13, 2020. This follows the decision of the government of Ghana to give the green light for the resumption of contact sports on October 30, 2020. Football has been halted for over six months in Ghana since the …

Ghana might be the largest producer of gold in Africa, but as available information shows, the country very likely is not getting its fair share of money from gold exports. The activities of the Dubai-based gold trader and refiner, Kaloti Jewellery Group was being looked into by US investigators – …

Three police officers are facing interdiction, whiles three other persons have been arraigned before a court on offenses of conspiring to commit crime and defrauding by false pretenses. The officers have been charged over their involvement with Owen Kwame Frimpong, a 46-year-old Shipping Consultant, and Evans Owuraku Amofa, 39, who …

The death toll in two separate crashes in Ghana has risen to 23 in the last 24 hours. Officials said that three more persons have now been confirmed dead after a truck crashed into two passenger buses on Tuesday — bringing the toll to 17. Twenty-one others who got injured …

The Chairman of Ghana Beach Soccer, Yaw Ampofo Ankrah has boldly predicted that any administration to take Beach soccer in Ghana seriously, will create jobs, offer opportunities and establish a completely new industry in the country.   He was responding to media commentary surrounding the manifesto promise of Ghana’s NDC …

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene looks at the fraught relationship between Ghana and Nigeria, which underlies the current tensions over the closure of some Nigerian-owned shops in Ghana. We see them as too loud, and abrasive and chaotic and we believe they think …

The Ghana Drunkards Association has expressed disappointment in some members who turned a fatal accident into a beer party on the Tema Motorway. The collision between a Ghana brewery delivery van and some cars occurred on the Tema Motorway Thursday morning. One person was confirmed dead with another responding to …

A research paper by the Ghana Psychological Association has shown that nearly three in 10 police officers in urban Ghana report having had thoughts about taking their own lives during the previous 12 months. Also, ongoing research indicates that some displaced staff and survivors of the recent banking sector clean-up …

The assumption by many Ghanaians that there are no more or very few new HIV/AIDS infections in the country is far from the truth. This is because information from the Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) has indicated that, 20,068 new infections were recorded across the country, with 13,616 HIV/AIDS related deaths …