A 40-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fire that broke out in the basement of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Sunday. The suspect was captured by surveillance cameras of a hospitality establishment in the area. According to police spokesperson Colonel Andrè Traut, the man was spotted …
Read More »IGP Dampare takes over issue of police assault on Media General journalist
The Inspector-General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has taken over the issue to do with an assault on Connect FM’s morning show Producer, Eric Nana Gyetuah. Nana Gyetua was on Thursday manhandled by police in the Western Region. He was accused by the officers of unlawfully taking photographs of …
Read More »Gabby Otchere-Darko calls out Audit Service over silence on GH¢12 billion stolen cash
A leading member of the New Patriotic Party, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, is calling out the Ghana Audit Service to respond to claims that an amount of GH¢12 billion has been stolen by the incumbent government. In 2021, the Auditor General’s report for 2020 showed that a whopping GH¢20 billion had …
Read More »Owners vacate shops to brood over losses after fire disaster
Owners of shops in the story building that was gutted by fire at Adum in Kumasi on Friday evening have vacated the shops and are brooding over their losses. When the Ghana News Agency visited the scene on Monday morning the three shops on the ground floor, which were badly …
Read More »GES retrieves vehicles seized over judgment debt
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said it has retrieved its vehicles which were sieved over judgment debt. The official Vehicles of the Eastern Regional Director Education and the Regional Accountant of Ghana Education Service as well as that of the Birim South District Director of Education were seized to …
Read More »‘The foolishness is happening at where you are sitting’ – A Plus to Allotey Jacobs over E-Levy
Musician and activist, Kwame Asare Obeng (A Plus) has condemned some comments by Allotey Jacobs in which the former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress described critics of the Electronic Levy as ‘foolish’. A Plus said that such comments rather complicate the work of government and that should not be entertained. …
Read More »Chinese man, skidder driver fined GH¢1,200 each over reckless carting of log at Ejisu
A Magistrate Court at Effiduase in the Ashanti Region has convicted two persons in connection with the dangerous transportation of a timber log in the Ejisu town. The owner of the Histon Wood Processing Company, a Chinese National only known as Sunny, and the driver of the skidder which transported …
Read More »Yammin ‘audits’ Koku Anyidoho over Wontumi’s 100 cement bags for Asomdwe park
The former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration Joseph Yammin has charged the former Deputy General Secretary of the NDC Koku Anyidoho to account for the 100 bags of cement he received from Chairman Wontumi, Ashanti Regional Chairman of NPP to maintain the Asomdwe park …
Read More »Ex-Ugandan soldier abandons eight children over unpaid gratuity
A disgruntled retired Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier has abandoned his children. Mr Zaidi Bafonza,54, number RA/ 118292, who retired in 1992 from UPDF a month ago, abandoned his eight children in a makeshift house in Bukolooto trading centre in Kayunga District on claims that he had failed to …
Read More »UTAG strike: UCC likely to shutdown over 21-day rule
University-of-Cape-Coast The University of Cape Coast (UCC) is likely to shut down next week after 21 days of non-academic activity due to the industrial action by the UniversityTeachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). This is in accordance with the Acts and Statutes governing the University, which states that the governing council …
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