The Akim Oda Divisional Police Command has arrested two foreign nationals and a sub-chief for allegedly engaging in illegal mining at Akyem Oda in the Birim Central Municipality. The 3, a Ghanaian sub-chief and two Yemenites who were picked up by the police at the mining site were sent to …
Read More »Eastern Region: Injunction Application Against NDC’s Executives Dismissed
A Koforidua High Court has dismissed the application for an interlocutory injunction filed by the former Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the new regional executives of the party. The NDC’s former Eastern Regional Chairman, John Owusu Amankrah prayed the court to injunct the regional executives …
Read More »I Will Vote In NDC Primaries, Asiedu Nketiah Can’t Stop Me – Koku Anyidoho
Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho says the party’s National Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah cannot stop him from voting in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary primaries of the party. According to the founder of Atta Mills Institute, “Today is the 6th of May technically …
Read More »Video: 7 Construction Workers Injured As Church Building Collapses On Them At Old Bortianor
Seven construction workers have been injured after a church building collapsed on them at Old Bortianor in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. The entire three-storey auditorium of the Word In Action Church collapsed Tuesday morning while construction work was ongoing. According to some eyewitnesses, seven persons …
Read More »FDA Cautions Public About A Recalled Drug In Nigeria
Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has warned the public about the recall of all batches of Polyfort Suspension in Nigeria. A statement issued by the Authority on Tuesday, said the recall is due to negative results from a series of ongoing stability tests. The said drug is used for …
Read More »Those Who Destroyed Ghana Did Not Have Dual Citizenship – US-based Medical Doctor Argues
A Ghanaian US-based Medical Doctor, Dr. Arthur Kennedy says there is no problem with people living in the diaspora seeking to participate in the affairs of their home country. He said the phenomenon is an ancient practice, citing as an example that leaders who have plunged Ghana into economic distress …
Read More »Ekweremadu: ‘I’m Scared, Can’t Return To Nigeria’ – Victim Begs For Stay In UK
David Nwamini, the would-be kidney donor in the organ trafficking case that sent Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, to jail, has said he wants to remain and work in the UK, as “they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria”. His impact statement was read in court, at the …
Read More »I Don’t Have Nine Wives But ……….. – 80-Year-Old Former Education Minister Denies Claims
A former Member of Parliament for Assin South and former Minister of Education, Professor Dominic Fobih, has denied claims that he has recently married for the ninth time. Videos of the colourful marriage ceremony of the 80-year old former Member of Parliament for Assin South went viral on …
Read More »GHANASCO Headmaster Reinstated After Interdiction Over ‘Toilet Cubicles’
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has reinstated the interdicted headmaster of Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) with immediate effect. Doughlas Haruna was interdicted after a video surfaced on social media showing some students of the school using toilet cubicles allegedly as dormitories. The GES in a statement issued dated April …
Read More »Malawi Court Orders Public Schools To Allow Dreadlocks
A high court in Malawi has ordered education authorities to admit learners with dreadlocks in public schools across the country. The court, sitting in the eastern city of Zomba, was ruling on a petition brought by two Rastafarian children who were refused admission to public schools in 2016 and …
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