The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has admonished the public to continue observing the Covid-19 safety protocols following an upsurge in new cases in the last two weeks. Deputy Director in Charge of Public Health, Dr Michael Rockson Adjei, said the blatant disregard for the protocols was accounting for the rise …
Read More »‘They Can Run But We’ll Get Them’ – COP Kofi Boakye On Jamestown Bullion Van Attack [Video]
The Director-General in charge of Legal and Prosecution for the Ghana Police Service, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye, says they will do everything possible to arrest perpetrators behind the Jamestown bullion van attack that took the life of a young police officer and a trader at James town in Accra. According …
Read More »Kufuor and Akufo-Addo Were Determined To Jail Me – Tsatsu
A former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Mr Tsatsu Tsikata has said former President John Agyekum Kufuor and now President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who was the Attorney General in 2002, were determined to send him to prison at all costs just to demonstrate to …
Read More »Gifty Twum-Ampofo Dropped From List Of Deputy Minister Nominees Penned For Approval
The Appointments Committee of Parliament has struck out the name of a Deputy Minister nominee for Education, Gifty Twum-Ampofo from its report due to unresolved issues over her approval. The house has however approved the nomination of eleven of her colleagues by consensus, based on the recommendation of the Appointments …
Read More »Tension At Adeiso As Okyeman Taskforce Clashes With Sand Winners
There is tension in Adeiso in West Akyem District in the Eastern Region following clashes between sand winners and Okyeman Environmental Taskforce. According to the local Police, they received a distress call that a group of men had allegedly abducted one Osae Kwame at his village called Tank Akuraa near …
Read More »NDC Will Do Better If We Retain Mahama For 2024 – Okoe Vanderpuije
The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South Constituency and former Accra Mayor, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, believes the National Democratic Congress, NDC, stands a better chance at winning the 2024 presidential elections if it retains John Dramani Mahama as flagbearer. In an interview on Citi TV‘s Face to Face with Umaru Sanda Amadu, …
Read More »‘Ghana Is Safe; Go To Other Countries And See What’s Happening’ – Ambrose Dery
The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has vehemently rejected the assertion that the government has lost the fight against crime. He insists the recent incidents of crime in the country does not mean that crime is on the increase. Reports of robbery attacks with the recent being the killing of a …
Read More »Eastern Region Recorded The Second-Highest Numbers Of Teenage Pregnancy
Kwahu Nkwatia Presbyterian Senior High School headmistress, Mrs Cythia Anim, reported the worrying situation in the Eastern part of the country. According to her, most of the girls in JHS and SHS returned to school pregnant, with some donning engagement rings. A report cited on Starfm.com uncovered the alarming increase …
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Read More »Zambia’s First President Kenneth Kaunda Dies
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president and one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism, has died aged 97. Kaunda was admitted to a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, on Monday suffering from pneumonia. His aides said he did not have Covid-19. In the 1950s, …
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