GENERAL NEWS

The president of the republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was heckled at a global entertainment event,  2022 Global Citizen Festival stage at the Black Star Square in Accra.     H.E. Nana Addo finished his keynote address amidst jeering from the crowd. He spoke about the …

The Police say the chief arrested in connection with the murder of a prospective student nurse at Mankessim is still alive and in their custody. They described as false some media reports suggesting that the suspect has died. “The chief and his accomplice who were remanded into police custody by …

Speaker of Parliament, Rt Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has withdrawn his membership from the Ghana Bar Association (GBA). Mr Bagbin said the conduct of the renowned lawyers association is problematic and people are worried about its position on matters of national interest. The Speaker of Parliament made this revelation …

Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Schools refer to “aspects of the educational process involving, in addition to general education, the study of technologies and related sciences, and the acquisition of practical skills, attic,udes, understanding, and knowledge relating to occupants in various sectors of economic and social life. Currently, Ghana …

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ghana’s Long-Term Local- and Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to ‘CC’, from ‘CCC’. Fitch typically does not assign Outlooks to issuers with a rating of ‘CCC’ or below. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this rating action commentary.       …

The Wa Landlords (Tindambas) have threatened to initiate moves for the removal of the Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih and the Wa Municipal Chief Executive, Alhaji Issahaku Tahiru Moomen, if they don’t up their game in the ongoing kidnappings and killings in Wa. Spokesperson for the Wa …

Over 30 residents of Abeadze Kwekrom in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region have been poisoned after eating a contaminated fresh fish sold to them by a stranger.   The residents according to reports after consuming the fish had upset in their stomach which resorted to incessant defecation.   …

There is chaos on the campus of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) as final year students hold lecturers hostage. According to reports, the aggrieved students have blocked all access routes to the school over discrepancies in their examination results. They claim the results as posted on the university’s notice …

Lawyer and #FixTheCountry convenor Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor has said that the General Legal Council (GLC) – a regulator of legal education in Ghana – is incompetent and has to be disbanded and the Ghana School of Law(Makola) closed down. His call is in reaction to news of the leakage of …

A former host of ‘The Seat Show’ on NET2 TV, Justice Kwaku Annan has explained how a comment he made was misconstrued as an insult directed at Vice President, which incident eventually cost him his job. He explained in a promo of a yet-to-be-aired interview on the KSM show that …