Police in the Upper West Region are on a manhunt for a suspected COVID-19 patient who is 15 years old and have escaped from a quarantine centre in Nandom. The boy, Titus Maabang after falling sick on Saturday May 2, 2020, was admitted at the St. Theresa Hospital in Nandom, where he was subsequently diagnosed […]
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Airbus scandal: British Actor Philip Middlemiss wanted in Ghana
There are reports in some UK newspapers that a popular British actor is being sought for questioning in Ghana in connection with the Airbus bribery scandal. According to the Daily Mail and The Sun, Philip Middlemiss, 55, is wanted by the Ghana Police for his role in the £5 million Airbus bribery scandal. He is […]
NCA Case: Verdict isn’t witch-hunting- Prof Gyampo
The law on Causing Financial Loss to the State, according to those who initiated it, was never meant to be used against offenders. This is because it could retard initiative and render people overly cautious in not taking financial risk, regardless of how pious their intentions may be. However, in the NCA case, it is […]
Man falls from window of prostitute he patronized at Asokwa; 11 prostitutes arrested following his death
The Asokwa Police Command at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have arrested eleven (11) commercial sex workers following the death of a male client. BestNewsGH.com sources report that the male client died after falling from one of the windows of the Anidaso Hotel base of the sex workers, after an altercation with one of the […]
COVID-19: President Akufo-addo commends Military for exemplary fight; commissions housing apartments
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 12th May, 2020, commissioned the ‘New Douala Barracks’ at Burma Camp in Accra, whose construction commenced in 2017, as part of the Barracks Regeneration Project. It will be recalled that upon his assumption of office, and in the Asempa Budget, President Akufo-Addo announced the […]
NCA $4 million saga: Baffoe-Bonnie, William Tevie and one other jailed 16 years
Three former members of the board of the National Communications Authority (NCA) have been given prison sentences of a total of 16 years for their roles in the “clandestine” purchase of cybersecurity equipment worth over $4 million. A former board chair of the NCA, Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie was sentenced to six years imprisonment. William Tetteh Tevie, […]
Auditor-General found guilty of contempt by High Court in Osafo Maafo US$1 million Kroll saga
An Accra High Court has today, Tuesday May 12, 2020 found the Auditor-General, Daniel Domelovo, guilty of contempt in the Osafo Maafo US$1 million Kroll saga. BestNewsGH.com reports the Court, presided over by Justice Afia Asare Botwe as holding that the reason given by Mr Domelovo that he was busy finishing up an audit report […]
COVID-19: Ghana’s case count now 5,127
Ghana’s COVID-19 case count is now 5,127, from 4,700 previously. The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Aboagye who made the announcement a while ago, said 427 new cases were recorded. According to Dr. Aboagye, 277 of the new cases were recorded on May 9, 160 on May 10 and the rest […]
‘’Forgive my wife, her boyfriend cast a spell on her to kill me’’-Man who was almost killed pleads
The husband of a 27-year-old woman who connived with her lover to murder him at Pameng in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region says he has long forgiven his wife. According to 55-year-old Cudjoe Gator, they have lived happily since 2007 until the wife’s lover came into the picture. Narrating what happened, he said […]
Bawumia’s ECG Mobile App is a life saver-Lawyer Sambian details his experience
Legal Practitioner and Politician, Mr. Sulley Sambian has described the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Mobile App which was launched by the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in February this year as a life saver. Lawyer Sambian who is also Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the North East Region has […]
John Mahama splashed by Airbus corruption affair
Relatives of the former president are implicated in an investigation into the corruption scandal that has shaken European aeronautics giant Airbus. The revelations come at a bad time for John Dramani Mahama, who is taking a fresh run at the presidency this year. One could hardly have imagined a more unlikely setting for a revelation […]
New voters register will be compiled under strict adherence to all COVID-19 safety protocols
The Electoral Commission (EC) has indicated that the upcoming compilation of a new voters register will be done under strict compliance with all the safety protocols pertaining to the COVID-19 Pandemic. A statement issued by the Commission on Monday, 11 May 2020 signed by Mrs. Sylvia Annoh, the Director of Public Affairs and sighted by […]