GENERAL NEWS

Below  are the major news headlines captured on the frontpages of the various news papers in Ghana today,Monday, August 14, 2023.   The Daily Searchlight         Supreme Newspaper         The National Voice       The Ghanaian Observer     Business Weekly     …

The legal team of the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has written to the Multimedia Group demanding an unqualified apology for making “false statements” alleging $5 million and GH¢48 million were found in her Prudential Bank accounts. Madam Dapaah’s lawyers said despite the Office of …

Pupils of Tokuroano RC Basic School in the Krachi East municipality of the Oti Region carry homemade chairs and tables to school to learn due to lack of furniture at the learning facility. Some of the students are compelled to sit on the bare floor to study during learning hours, …

Managing Director (MD) of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Mr Jerry Kofi Hinson, has resigned from office on health grounds. Mr Hinson submitted his resignation letter to the board of director of the refinery on Friday 11 August 2023. Jerry Kofi Hinson, a former Executive Director of Minecom, who was …

About 4,000 Ecuadorian soldiers and police have been involved in a dawn operation to move a notorious gang leader to a maximum security jail. Jose Adolfo Macias, known as “Fito” is accused of sending death threats to Ecuador’s murdered presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio. The anti-corruption campaigner was shot three times …

One more body has been recovered in the Golinga Dam in the Tolon District of the Northern region after a canoe carrying seven people capsized. The seven residents of Galinkpegu were returning from their farms on the western part of the Golinga Dam when the disaster occurred. Three bodies were …

The Ghana Education Service(GES) says the process for school selection into Senior High Schools for candidates in the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will commence on Wednesday, August 23. In a statement signed by the Head of Public Relations, Cassandra Twum Ampofo on Friday, August 11, 2023, the GES …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that one day the University of Ghana will be renamed after Joseph Boakye (JB) Danquah who was a Ghanaian politician, scholar, lawyer, and statesman in pre- and post-colonial Ghana. President Akufo-Addo underscored the roles that JB Danquah played in establishing the University. Akufo-Addo …

Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should elect a presidential candidate who is marketable enough to represent the party in the 2024 general election. According to the NPP flagbearer hopeful, if the party is not ready to go into opposition, then …

The Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has rejected claims by the Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), to the effect that he was part of Bank of Ghana’s board when it commenced processes for the construction of its new head office building. According to him, …