The government will on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, launch an anti-terrorism campaign with the announcement of a toll-free number to enable the public to report suspicious activities within their communities as the country seeks to ward off threats of extremists within the sub-region. The number, 999 will connect to the …
Read More »Drivers to march naked over rising cost of fuel
The Concerned Drivers Association of Ghana is threatening to march naked on the streets of the national capital to express its anger at the government over the ever-increasing prices of fuel. The drivers intend to block major roads during that demonstration. The group’s National Public Relations Officer, Mr David Agboado, …
Read More »Ghetto boys and thieves have taken over Dixcove – Chief laments
The Paramount Chief of Upper Dixcove, Obrempong Hima Dekyi XIV, has expressed worry about how the town has now become a haven of thieves and ghetto boys. “If you get to Dixcove Hospital, the Doctors and Nurses there are only working out of passion to save lives since they have …
Read More »Agradaa goes berserk over membership fee
Fetish priestess turned evangelist, Nana Agradaa who now calls herself Evangelist Patricia, has descended on people asking why she is taking GH¢300 for membership in her church. According to the self-acclaimed evangelist in a viral video circulated on social media, people judging her for taking money for membership in her …
Read More »Butcher stabs colleague to death over earpiece
A 23-year-old butcher, Baba Ibrahim, is in the grips of the Kanashie police for allegedly murdering his colleague over an earpiece. According to a report by the Ghanaian Times Newspaper, the suspect is said to have stabbed his 23-year-old colleague, Alhassan Zakari, with a broken bottle when a scuffle ensued …
Read More »Nigeria suspends Accountant-General detained over US$200m fraud
Nigeria’s embattled Accountant-General has been suspended indefinitely amid a corruption allegation leveled against him by the country’s anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ahmed Idris’s suspension according to government was to allow for proper investigation of the claims. He was arrested after being linked to fraud, money …
Read More »Nigeria’s EFCC arrests, grills ex-Speaker, Patricia Etteh over alleged fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh. Etteh is being grilled by EFCC’s special duties unit for her alleged involvement in a solar power electrification scam in Akwa Ibom State worth N240 million. The former speaker was said …
Read More »SAD VIDEO: 22-year-old woman dragged on the floor by a driver over GH¢80 MoMo
A Yango driver believed to be in his 30s is in the grips of the police after he was arrested for dragging a passenger in front of her house after the two got into a disagreement over a change of GH¢80. The victim, Sheila Taasha Osei-Boahene, a 22-year-old nursing …
Read More »Ashantigold demoted to Division Two over match-fixing
Ashantigold SC have been demoted from the Ghana Premier League to the Division Two League after being found guilty of Match Manipulation in their 2020/21 Ghana Premier League Matchday 34 game against Inter Allies FC. According to the Ghana Football Association, the decision will take effect from the 2022/2023 Ghana …
Read More »Ghana in crisis, nothing to show for over US$3.5bn borrowed – Mahama pokes government
Former President John Dramani Mahama has poked the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government accusing it of running the country into a crisis. He added in an interview with Ugandan channel, NBS TV, that Ghana was running into debt and government had nothing to show for its wanton borrowing. “It’s been around six years so …
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