The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyabeng, has declared that he will go after election officials who tempered with results in the presidential and parliamentary polls. According to him, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is cloned with powers to prosecute presiding and returning officers who forge election results. Speaking to Nana Aba Anamoah on Starr Chat […]
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Kwaku Afriyie says it was time the nation severely punished individuals who fill wetlands or Ramsar sites and erect structures on them. The phenomenon, he said, resulted in flooding and other negative social repercussions and called on the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, which […]
Former Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Koku Anyidoho who served during President J.E.A. Mills’ era has justified why Ghana needs to procure a new and bigger aircraft for presidential travels. He acknowledged that the current Falcon for presidential travels has occupancy challenges apart from the issue of stopping to refuel when on long […]
The Ministry of Education is streamlining the food supply chain architecture of senior high schools (SHSs) to ensure effective handling of the food needs of the schools. In line with that, the ministry is building a database, which will include an automated system that enables the ministry to identify any potential shortages. The Minister of […]
The Acting Director-General of the Ghana Police Service’s Public Affairs Directorate has disclosed that a bank worker has been arrested in connection with a recent bank robbery. ACP Kwesi Ofori told the host of Newsfile on the JoyNews channel on Saturday that an arrest was effected “yesterday [Friday] in Accra, involving a bank worker not […]
Forget Do or Die! The issues are much bigger than that. Why has ex-President Mahama turned his supposed Thank You Tour into a subversive mission of the democracy we have built since 1992? Pay attention to what he has been saying on the tour. “The elections were clearly rigged.” “There was overstuffing of ballot papers […]
The Ghana Police Service has served notice it will arrest and bring to book, a group of irate youth who embarked on an unlawful demonstration and vandalised the Police Divisional Headquarters building and VRA office in Tamale on Saturday. The youth were protesting against the assault of some residents by policemen during a recent anti-power […]
The Accra commercial railway system is set to bounce back to life by the end of next month, the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL) has disclosed. For about two years now, moves to resuscitate railway infrastructure in the national capital had stalled, raising questions about the commitment of the authorities to revive the city’s rail […]
The Ghana Police Service has arrested three persons in connection with the alleged kidnapping of the 28-year-old pregnant woman, Josephine Mensah, who allegedly went missing in Takoradi on September 16 only to resurface five days later around Axim in the Western Region. In a statement dated Thursday, September 23, 2021, the Police said the victim, Josephine, […]
The 42-year-old-man who was busted with 656 ATM cards connected to nine banks operating in Ghana and Nigeria has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court. Bachir Musa Aminou, has been slapped with two counts of electronic trafficking and stealing, reports Graphic Online’s Justice Agbenorsi who was in the courtroom when Aminou was arraigned. He […]
The Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary Art has appointed Ms Valentina Mintah to its board. Ms Mintah is internationally recognised for her expertise in trade facilitation and customs modernisation. She is the founder and former CEO of West Blue Consulting, which successfully developed and delivered national single window platforms for Ghana and Nigeria, significantly improving trade […]
The country’s population has reached 30.8 million, according to a preliminary report from the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). The Chief Census Officer and Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, who announced this yesterday, said there had been an annual intercensal growth rate of 2.1 per cent, […]
