Two Chinese nationals who have defied a directive to stop mining illegally in forest reserves and water bodies have been arrested at Asankragua in the Western Region of Ghana. They were arrested on Tuesday together with their Ghanaian collaborators. They had returned to the forest to mine illegally disregarding the ministerial and presidential directives for all illegal […]
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, does not approve salaries and benefits for the Executive and, by extension, for the First Lady and wife of the Vice-President, the Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said. He has, therefore, described as misleading, information making the rounds that President Akufo-Addo had given approval for Mrs […]
A woman who claims to have witnessed the Ejura attack on social media activist Macho Kaaka on June 27, has opened up in a media interview. She claims she saw Mohammed Baba Iddi, a brother of Kaaka attacking, the late Kaaka on the night of the incident. Speaking to the media in Ejura, she said […]
Forty one lecturers of Ghana’s two oldest public universities and a new entrant dominate the list of top 50 lecturers in Ghana. In its latest monitoring work, the World Scientist and University Rankings 2021 ranked the lecturers for their research work and impact of their various universities. The University of Ghana has 25 lecturers in […]
Students of the University Hall, popularly called Katanga, and their counterparts of Unity Hall (Conti) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in the early hours of Sunday, clashed at the vetting of candidates for the Students Representative Council (SRC) elections. The clash, which was characterised by the throwing of chairs and […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has granted a presidential pardon to former National Coordinator of the defunct Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA), Mr Abuga Pele on health grounds. Pele was released on July 1, 2021 Graphic Online gathers. He was serving a six-year jail term for causing financial loss to the state. However, he was […]
The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court has dismissed an application by Power Distribution Services (PDS) challenging the cancellation of its operation licences following the termination of a concession agreement for it to manage the assets of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Last year, PDS dragged the government to the High Court with […]
The Wa Central MP, Abdul-Rashid Pelpuo, has demanded an apology from the military over the brutality meted to some of his constituents on Thursday. Speaking to JoyNews, Mr Pelpuo said he expects the military also to take up the medical bills and compensate the victims for the “dehumanising” activity they were subjected to. He stressed […]
The Zongo Development Fund has commissioned projects that will impact the lives of Zongo people in terms of increase in school enrollment, improvement in sanitation, healthcare and promotion of security. The exercise which covered the Central, Western, Western North, Eastern, Volta and Oti regions was led by the Chief Executive Officer of the Fund, Dr […]
A week-long massive clean-up exercise has commenced at the Onion market and scrapyard area at the Agbogbloshie Market in Accra to bring sanity to the area and secure the land for future development. This follows the relocation of most of the traders in onion and scrap dealers from the area to a new site at […]
The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it has achieved 84.44 percent (15,581,283) of its enrolment target as of June 28, 2021. That, it said exceeded its target of 80 percent of the population aged 15 years and above. The Executive Secretary of the NIA, Prof Ken Attafuah said this at the meet the press series […]
Government has banned trucks loaded with onions, from off-loading goods at the Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, with immediate effect. The Greater Accra Region Minister, Henry Quartey, who gave the directive on Monday, explained that it is part of measures to ensure that traders comply with the July 1, relocation deadline. Onion sellers and cattle rearers […]
