GENERAL NEWS

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed former Minister of Information in the erstwhile President John Kufuor administration, Mrs. Oboshie Sai-Cofie, as his advisor on media and strategic communications. Her appointment, according to Asaase News’ Jubilee House sources, signals the seriousness the President attaches to the government’s media relations and …

The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Dan Botwe has downplayed calls for the relocation of Ghana’s capital from Accra. According to him, adequate measures are being instituted by the government to ensure the effective administration of the city. He told journalists at the Regional Ministers and Chief Directors …

The Headmaster of the Queen of Peace RC JHS was found hanging dead on a mango tree behind his home at Wiawso, a suburb of Techiman in the Bono East Region. The said incident has thrown the school in a state of shock as both teaching and learning has since …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ejisu, John Ampontuah Kumah has promised to bring his expertise to bear if approved as the Deputy Minister of Finance. Mr. Kumah was one of the 39 persons nominated by the President, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, to serve as deputy ministers in his second term. …

State prosecutors in the case in which a former Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Mr Ernest Thompson and four others are standing trial for causing financial loss to the state have filed new charge against the accused persons. This latest charge follows a Supreme Court …

Weed, snakes, and other reptiles have taken over most of the warehouses constructed by the government under the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives (MSDI). Residents in the respective districts where the facilities are located have appealed to the government to commission the warehouses so they could be used for the …

Harriet Kafui Hiatsi, the 25-year-old lady, who was allegedly killed in Ho by her boyfriend in March 2021 has been laid to rest. The funeral and burial ceremony was held on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. It was a solemn atmosphere as mourners, particularly her peers could not hold back their …

The Human Rights Court 1 Division of the High Court has adjourned to April 30, the case involving one of the Rastafarian boys, Oheneba Nkrabea, who was denied admission to Achimota School over his dreadlocks. At a hearing on Thursday, April 22, 2021, it emerged that Achimota School had still …

There was a moving scene in Mpatasie, a suburb of Berekum in the Bono Region, last Saturday, after a 50-year-old teacher hacked his pal, a money lender, and fled. Foster Amankona, a teacher at St Monica’s Basic School in Berekum, who is popularly known as Tee Taller, committed the gruesome …

TWO BOYS reportedly drowned In one of the Sakumo Lagoon feeder streams at Adjei-Kojo in the Tema West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region Wednesday, information available to DGN Online indicates. They were said to have gone to the stream with one other boy to harvest leaves for their rabbit …