GENERAL NEWS

The Overlord of Mamprugu, the Nayiri, Naa Bohogu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, has applauded the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for seeing to the construction and completion of several projects which had been on the wish list of the chiefs and people of Mamprugu for many years. According …

Education think tank, Africa Education Watch has defended its report on the 2020 WASSCE that revealed massive leakages insisting the report was meant to bring the necessary reforms to the examination body. The think tank has been criticized by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) who say although personal contact …

The highly transmissible strain of COVID-19 which originated from India, Delta variant, has been detected in Ghana.     The Head of the West Africa Centre for Cell Biology and Infectious Pathogens  (WACCBIP) at the University of Ghana, Professor Gordon Awendare, confirmed this on Eyewitness News. He said the variant …

        A businessman in Kumasi, Mr. Kwaku Amoakoh has stated that the city needs someone who was born and bred in Kumasi and knows every corner to be chosen as the next Metropolitan Chief Executive [MCE].   He explained that, the City do not need someone who will …

  A Sekondi High Court, presided over by Justice Dr. Richmond Osei Hwere, has ordered the Member of Parliament for Jomoro Constituency in the Western Region, Dorcas Affo-Toffey, to produce documents to prove that she has renounced her Ivorian citizenship within 10-days. Joshua Emuah Kofie, a resident of Nuba-Mpataba, filed …

Musician-turned-politician Kwame A Plus has taken a swipe at freelance journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni. The ‘jab’ is over the latter’s investigative works against the founder and leader of the Lighthouse Church in Ghana, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills. According to A Plus, Manasseh is a hypocrite for investigating Bishop Heward-Mills against some …

President Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA). This ends months of speculations linking him to one of the most prestigious state owned enterprises in Ghana. His appointment takes effect from July 1. In a letter dated June 17, 2021, …

The Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has cut sod for the construction of an 80-bed Cardiothoracic Centre at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. The Centre will include a Cardiothoracic Training Centre and Conference room, VVIP clinic, 3 operating theatres, an Intensive Care Unit, Executive Clinic, a Dialysis Unit, …

Angry residents of Atwima Kwanwoma in the Ashanti Region have staged a demonstration in the wee hours of Tuesday in protest over stalled construction of their road, which started in 2017. They blocked the major link road compelling motorists to seek alternative routes to their destination. The demonstrators are unhappy …

As part of measures to help increase rice production in the Ejisu constituency of the Ashanti  region, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area who double as deputy minister for Finance,Hon. Dr. John Ampontuah Kumah has presented about 500 bags of fertilisers , Urea and NPK to support various …