Johannesburg police who witnessed a hijacking and kidnapping in the streets of Kensington on Saturday sped after the vehicle, fired shots at the perpetrators and rescued the two victims. JMPD spokesperson Xolani Fihla said three suspects now out on bail and wanted for hijackings and armed robberies in the Jeppe …
Read More »Tema High Court dismisses Barker-Vormawor’s ‘habeas corpus’ application
The Tema High Court has dismissed a habeas corpus application by Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor who has been charged with treason felony and is currently in police custody. He is expected to reappear at the Ashaiman District Court on February 28, 2022. A habeas corpus is a writ issued by a …
Read More »Ghana takes decisive steps to reduce high rate of road carnage
The Government is taking steps to review road traffic regulations in the country, Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Minister of Transport, has said. “We have commenced a process to review the Road Traffic Act, 2004 (Act 683), and the Road Traffic Regulations, 2012 L.I.2180, to keep up with the changing …
Read More »Australian High Commissioner threatens to jail me in US, UK and Canada for pushing against LGBTQI — Sam George
Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George says the threats on his life for pushing against LGBTQI promotion in the country is unending. He said the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews is one of such persons who has threatened to jail him if he [Sam George] …
Read More »VGMA22: High school boy Yaw Tog wins Hip-Hop Song of the Year
Kumasi-based singer and rapper, Yaw Tog, has emerged winner of the best Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards with his popular song ‘Sore.’ The song which has been a jam for the most parts of 2020 shrugged off competition from Bosom Pyung’s “Ataa …
Read More »Police storm Gowrie Senior High/Technical School, allegedly brutalise female students
A midnight outbreak of campus riot at the Gowrie Senior High/Technical School, a second-cycle institution in the Upper East Region, is reported to have left several female boarding students brutalised by police officers. The police officers, believed to have been dispatched from the Bongo District, where the school is …
Read More »Former British High Commissioner to Ghana jailed
A former UK High Commissioner to Ghana, Craig Murray has been jailed for contempt in the United Kingdom. The 62-year-old was sentenced to eight months in jail for breaching strict rules around identifying witnesses in the Alex Salmond trial. The former Dundee University rector breached a strict court order passed to protect …
Read More »High cost of production killing manufacturing industry – GUTA
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA), Joseph Paddy has shared that it is quite expensive to run a manufacturing business in Ghana. According to him, this high cost of doing business makes it unattractive for Ghanaians to operate manufacturing industries and create …
Read More »Why the price of Nigeria’s Dangote cement is high
The management of Dangote Cement Plc says the increase in the price of cement is due to the Value Added Tax which was included on April 12. Currently, the price of a bag of cement from its factories and plants in Obajana and Gboko is N2,450 and N2,510 at …
Read More »Ghana on high alert over 1,800 Nigeria jailbreakers – GIS
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) says Ghana is on the lookout for over 1,800 jailbreakers in Nigeria. The Comptroller-General of the GIS, Laud O. Affrifah in a statement directed personnel of GIS to be on high-security alert to prevent the criminal escapes from entering Ghana. “Information gathered by the Service …
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