A family of five, including the father, mother, three children and a family friend have reportedly died in a mysterious circumstance at Aiyepe Road, in Sagamu Area of Ogun State. The incident occurred late Wednesday night. The family had just moved into the property belonging to them and were said to have died the very first […]
Category: Local
Call off the strike and return to the classroom immediately-NLC orders teachers
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has asked striking teachers to call off their ongoing strike. It follows a mediation meeting with the teacher unions, Ghana Education Service, Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in the employment industry. The National Association of Graduate Teachers, the Ghana National Association of Teachers, and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, […]
Ignore your leadership and go to work – GES board chair to teachers
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Education Service, Michael Nsowa, has described the striking teacher unions as ungrateful . Speaking to Empire FM Tuesday the GES Council chair questioned why the teachetrs are striking even though most of them have been paid. “I don’t understand this strike action by the teachers, this is a debt […]
“It’s sad” corruption fighting back at Domelevo, Amidu – Danish Amb.
The Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Mrs Tove Degnbol, has expressed worry about the attacks on the reputation of the country’s Auditor-General Daniel Demelevo and Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu. Speaking at the inaugural Ghana Integrity Awards ceremony organised by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) on Monday, 9 December 2019, Mrs Degnbol said: “It is particularly sad […]
Major Boakye Gyan discloses why Rawlings unnecessarily ‘attacks’ Mahama
Major (Rtd.) Osahene Boakye Gyan has revealed why former Military leader and founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), President Jerry John Rawlings, used to criticise the late John Evans Atta-Mills and Ex-President John Dramani Mahama ‘without any justifiable reason’. He told Neat FM’s Adakabre Frimpong Manso that he [Boakye Gyan] had advised the former […]
Energy sector debts: GRIDCo staff begin ‘sit-down’ strike today
The staff of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) have announced that they will go ahead with the sit-down strike they threatened, beginning today, Wednesday, December 11, 2019. GRIDCo staff have said they are resorting to the strike “following non-response by GRIDCo Management and the institutions petitioned.” The staff had originally threatened to strike on December […]
Police arrest two imposters for making false SSNIT claims to steal from a widow
Two persons who allegedly posed as beneficiaries of a Social Security and National Insurance Trust ( SSNIT) contributor are in the grips of the Tesano Divisional Police Command for forging documents and impersonation. The suspects, Yaw Agyepong Britwum and Afia Asante, were arrested by the Tesano Police after a tip-off from officials of Achimota branch […]
Pastor Kelvin Kobiri resigns over alleged Multi Million Cedi scam
Head Pastor of the Zoe Outreach Embassy Church, Kelvin Kwesi Kobiri has resigned as the Head Pastor after luring church members to invest in his EL Real Estates and Tikowre Capital businesses. According to information available, he influenced his congregation to invest huge sums of monies in his businesses way back 2017 and has since refused to pay them […]
Kasoa: Court remands police officers over civilian murder at drinking spot
The Kasoa Ofaakor Magistrate Court presided over by Her Honour Afua Owusuaa Appiah has remanded into police custody, Corporal Samuel Boamah and Lance Corporal Issifu Tahiru over their involvement in the killing of a 21-year-old boy at a drinking spot at Kasoa. The pleas of the suspects, who appeared before court on Monday, 9th December […]
Fire kills 5-year-old boy in Ashanti Region
A five-year-old boy perished when he got trapped in an inferno that gutted a nine-bedroom apartment last Saturday night at Ahwiaa Over-Seas, in the Kwabre-East District of Ashanti Region. The deceased whose name was only given as Bernard, was in the room with his 12-year-old sister when the fire started, but could not escape with […]
Joy FM, Asempa FM vs NCA: Court of Appeal adjourns injunction hearing to stop shut down of stations
The Court of Appeal on Monday indefinitely adjourned the hearing of an injunction application seeking to stop the National Communications Authority (NCA) from shutting down two multimedia stations, Joy FM and Adom FM. The application which is to stop the NCA from carrying out threats to shut down the two stations comes ahead of an […]
Boakye-Gyan lied, he didn’t rescue me from prison – Rawlings fumes
Former President J.J Rawlings appears to be rewriting what history says about him being rescued by Major Boakye Gyan from the jaws of death as he awaited his mutiny trial in 1979. The retired Flight Lieutenant insists that contrary to the conventional accounts, both written and oral, Major Gyan did not lead soldiers to rescue […]












