The Ghana Police Service has promoted two of its personnel for effecting the arrest of a fellow policeman carrying substances suspected to be Indian hemp, otherwise known as “wee”. The two promoted officers are Inspector Justice Komla Azumah and Lance Coropral Felix Diameh. “The Police Administration has promoted two officers, Inspector Azumah Komla Justice and […]
The Ministry of Education has launched investigations into Monday’s chaos on the campus of Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi. At least 30 students of the school were hospitalised following a clash between irate students and crowd-control police there. The students were protesting against pedestrian knockdowns involving some students and teachers of the school. Rev […]
The Ghana Police Service has admitted that a better approach to tackling the riot at Kumasi Islamic Senior High School in could have been employed. According to the service, a more calculated tactic could have led to a much salient resolution to the chaos and not the development that has been seen in the Ashanti […]
The Inspector-General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare and his team arrived in Kumasi on Monday afternoon for a first-hand assessment of the incident at the Islamic Senior High School at Abrepo, where some students took to the streets and blocked the road to allegedly protest against frequent accidents in front of their school. Some […]
The 2022 Green Ghana Planning Committee has disclosed that a total of 22,671,696 million seedlings have so far been distributed for the 2022 edition of the Green Ghana agenda, which well exceeds that initial 20 million seedling target. The National Chairman of the Green Ghana Planning Committee, Benito Owusu-Bio, who is also the Deputy Minister of Lands […]
A four-member delegation of the Committee of Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Parliament will today begin discussions with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) on the anti-gay bill currently before Parliament. The delegation, led by the Chairman on the committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, left Accra yesterday for London for the talks. The Promotion of Proper Human […]
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has challenged African states to deepen democracy devoid of impunity on the continent. He said that also required strong judicial and investigative systems that would prevent ceding sovereignty in the punishment of crime. The Attorney-General threw the challenge when he addressed a conference on the International […]
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called on all labour unions and civil society at large to be measured in their demands on the government. In the same vein, he has asked the government to ensure equity in its dealings with the labour unions to give assurance to the citizenry. Speaking at a special […]
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed that government is almost done with a process that would ensure new born babies are issued the Ghana card. According to him, work has already commenced to make the new arrangement effective this year with the Ghana Statistical Service providing the Ghana Health Service, 13 thousand tablets to support […]
The Sekondi High Court in the Western Region has sentenced four convicts, including two Chinese, to a 15-year jail term each in hard labour. The four, Chen Hung @Labania, Chen Zhili, Stephen Arthur, and Prince Denis Aidoo, were tried for buying and selling minerals in the country without licence, contrary to sections of the Minerals […]
The Members of Parliament (MPs) sponsoring the bill aimed criminalizing the activities of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) have called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to, as a matter of urgency, invite those who put up a billboard at the Accra end of the motorway promoting the activities of LGBTQI+ […]
The Cape Coast Archdiocese of the Catholic Church has suspended a priest, Rev Father Robert A.K. Oduro for refusing to go on transfer and establishing a personal prayer camp. Rev Father Robert A.K. Oduro had been transferred on January 1, 2022 from St. Paul’s Parish, Assin Jakai to the Archdiocesan Secretariat, Fourth Ridge, Cape Coast, but he […]
