The Keta Police Command is holding a worker of the Keta Municipal Assembly, Geoffrey James Ocloo, and a tanker driver over their involvement in the diversion of a tanker carrying premix fuel meant for fishermen in the Keta municipality. The product was meant for the Nukpesekope Landing Beach Committee (LBC) but was allegedly diverted and […]
The police have initiated investigations into the mysterious death of a policeman who was on duty and reportedly shot himself at a warehouse on Graphic Road in Accra on Wednesday. He is suspected to have shot himself. “In line with our standard operating procedure, the name and further details of the deceased officer have been […]
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has stopped the payment of Board Fees and Inconvenience Allowances following the implementation of a new remuneration regime by the Ministry of Finance. In a statement dated April 25, 2022, the management of COCOBOD said it had observed with worry the continuous discussion of a portion of the […]
Restrained Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, has urged the Supreme Court to set aside its ruling that barred him from performing parliamentary duties. The embattled MP says the majority 5-2 decision was a patent and fundamental error of the law and a breach of portions of Ghana’s constitution. A Supreme Court panel comprising Justices […]
The National Media Commission has directed Onua FM and its presenter, Godsbrain Smart aka Captain Smart, to retract a publication of November 24, 2021, against the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and the person of the Minister, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu. A statement issued by the NMC yesterday said the broadcast had alleged among other things that although […]
Government has agreed to pay the ‘Neutrality Allowance’ to members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), but will change the name since it does not sit well with it. However, the allowance will be paid during the last quarter of 2022. Head of Local Government Services, Dr Nana Ato Arthur told […]
Monday, May 2, 2022, and Tuesday, May 3, 2022, have been declared public holidays. A statement issued by the Ministry of Interior said in view of the fact that May Day (Workers’ Day) 2022 falls on a Sunday (May 1, 2022), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has by Executive Instrument (E.I), in accordance with Section […]
About six thousand students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been forced by the University to defer their courses. This was after KNUST issued a release notifying students who owe more than 70 per cent of school fees by April 7 would be deferred automatically. But the warning did not […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday commiserated with Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the Founder and General Overseer of the Lighthouse Church International on the death of his son. Dr. David Heward-Mills, a Research Physician at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston died in the United States at the age 31 after a short illness. Visiting the […]
The Supreme Court has, in a majority 5-2 decision, ruled that Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, can no longer perform Parliamentary duties. This is until the determination of the substantive case filed against him at the Supreme Court. A Cape Coast High Court in July, 2021 nullified the election of Mr Quayson after it […]
The Ghana Police Service has arrested a Lebanese, Osman Brustani for threatening a shop owner’s life over parking space at Osu. The Police announced this in a Facebook post on Wednesday. According to the post, the suspect is currently in Police custody and will be taken through the due process of the law. The Lebanese […]
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has kick-started an initiative to train 5000 girls from five regions in Information Communication and Technology (ICT). The regions are Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Savannah and Northern Region. The first batch of 1000 girls from various districts in the Bono East Region have already started the training in basic […]
