GENERAL NEWS

The Controller and Accountant General Department is reported to be readying to make a payment which will further entrench some irregularities at the Northern Development Authority (NDA) next week. The Department is set to pay some ¢5 million to the NDA in a deal currently at the office of the …

The Lawyers for Arise Ghana demonstrators say they cannot trace the whereabouts of protestors who were arrested on the first day of the march. According to the group of lawyers, the police have refused to give them access to their clients telling them it is an ‘order from above’. The …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ejura Sekyeredumase, Bawa Braimah has accused the police and the municipal Assembly of creating unnecessary tension with an injunction against the organisation of Islamic prayers for victims of killings by security personnel in the community.   Families of Kaaka and others who were killed …

The Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research director at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has praised former President Mahama for being tolerant of divergent views during his tenure. According to Prof. Kwesi Aning, he could vociferously criticise the former President and still sleep soundly after such critiques. …

A former New Patriotic Party(NPP) Parliamentary aspirant for Subin constituency in the Ashanti Region and businessman, Villey Acheampong has been charged with threat of death at the Circuit Court in Accra.   The youth activist has since been remanded after he pleaded not guilty to two charges of “discharging gun …

Police in Bekwai in the Ashanti Region have reportedly gunned down four suspected armed robbers after a five-member gang engaged them in a shoot-out on the Bekwai-Cape Coast highway on Wednesday.   According to eyewitnesses, the police had a tip-off of a robbery incident and upon reaching the scene, the …

A member of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has filed an application for an injunction seeking to prevent newly-elected GJA President, Albert Dwumfuor from being sworn in. In the suit, Justice Lee Adoboe argued that the bribery allegation levelled against Mr Dwumfuor should have been investigated before the elections were …

The National Tenants’ Union, Ghana (NATUG) has condemned the recent demolition exercise carried out on 200 acres of land belonging to the Animal Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Ghana (CSIR) at Frafraha in Accra.   The union said the nature of the exercise is …

A police autopsy report has revealed that the late Victor Kwadwo Owusu, who was allegedly shot and killed on May 18, 2022, by the police during a protest by the youth of Nkoranza in the Bono East Region over the alleged ‘killing’ of Albert Donkor, died of severe head injury …

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said actions taken by the NDC “Arise Ghana Demo” to fight the Police is an obvious attempt by the opposition party to create instability in the country. According to him “There is an obvious attempt to create instability in our country at this time, …