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Chiefs in the Ashanti Region who have had their lands invaded by illegal miners will be summoned by the Asantehene for questioning and possible sanctions. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II says chiefs should not sit aloof while illegal mining activities ravage arable farmlands and water bodies. He says the failure of some …

A 61-year-old retired computer programmer, who slapped the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, in traffic, after threatening to kill him, has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court.   Nii Odoi Kwao II a.k.a. Robert Koomson was granted bail in the sum of GH₵50,000 with three sureties who …

A video circulating on social media shows how a ‘Trotro’ (commercial vehicle) driver and his mate (conductor) severely assaulted a police officer in uniform in Cape Coast. The video captured the police officer being dragged on the ground by the driver and his mate and given severe beatings. A situational …

US President Joe Biden has announced billions of dollars in new funding for Africa at a summit of dozens of the continent’s heads of state. “The United States is all in on Africa’s future,” President Biden told the 49 African leaders attending the Washington DC summit. It is the first …

As part of strategies to prevent accidents, especially during the festive season and beyond, the Police have introduced an initiative to check the insecure loading of vehicles across the country. The initiative, dubbed Operation PAILES (Police Anti-Insecure Loading Enforcement Strategy) is aimed at ensuring that cargo carting trucks do not …

Over 50 shops at the Abossey Okai Spare parts market have shut down their operations due to default in paying their loans. Some of the owners of the shops blamed the situation on the high cost of doing business in the country, as a result of high inflation and volatilities …

The Ghana cedi has in less than five hours today, December 14, 2022, gained 5.6% value against the US dollar, resulting in a cumulative gain of approximately 33.6% in the month of December alone. $1 is now trading at an average rate of ¢10.70 with a market range spanning GH¢10.70 …

A former deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has said the current general secretary of the largest opposition party in Ghana, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has outlived his usefulness. Nketiah is hoping to unseat the incumbent national chairman Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo in the upcoming delegates’ congress of …

Fire on Sunday destroyed some rooms at the Kpando Aloyi Police rented quarters in the Volta Region. A police situational report revealed that all the belongings of the personnel completely got burnt in the process. The Ghana National Fire Service personnel managed to prevent the fire from spreading to other …

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), the Tertiary Education Workers Union (TEWU) and the two other university worker unions that declared a strike on Monday, October 17, 2022, have resolved to call off the strike after reaching an agreement with their employer. The unions, which include the University Teachers …