Two registered input suppliers under the government’s flagship project Planting for Food and Jobs have been blacklisted for attempting to smuggle fertilizer to neighbouring Burkina Faso. The two companies are; Intercontinental Agro Group and Dematar Ghana Company. Security officials at the Paga border in the Upper East Region arrested the articulated trucks carrying the fertilizer […]
By: Concerned Students A final year student of the Wa Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has attempted suicide because he was unable to repay a an amount of 300 Ghana Cedis he borrowed from a female student. Kofi Bless was found in his room lying unconscious and was rushed to the UDS […]
Veteran musician, Akosua Agyapong and her family were forced to leave their home Tuesday evening over death threats. According to Akosua Agyapong, around 2:30 pm, her house help alerted her about an inscription on her wall at Kasoa Tuba which read “I will kill Akosua Agyapong; she will die this evening.” The distraught musician said […]
The mother of an 11-year-old girl (name withheld) who was repetitively defiled by her father since she was eight years old, has threatened to kill her daughter if her father is jailed for the crime since she (the mother) says she has no means of taking care of the little girl. The victim’s father was […]
The government has announced plans to commence registration of both new and used mobile phones in the country in a bid to reduce cyber-crime and related illegal activities. According to Communication Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, a proposal to that effect has been presented to cabinet for approval by end of the year. Speaking to Class News, […]
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) says it is starting a regularisation process to document all non-Ghanaians in July. This has become necessary following series of criminal activities which the Service says have been mostly linked to undocumented foreign nationals. PRO for the Service, Supt. Michael Amoako Attah, disclosed on ‘The Pulse’ on JoyNews TV that […]
Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has stressed that it would not be prudent for Ghana to ban plastic materials at this time. He cautioned against the wholesale banning of plastics, explaining that government believes that the wholesale ban will not be in the interest of the nation. The Minister […]
A third stream of income has been outdoored by the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation (KCF) to solicit for funds towards its ‘Project 100’ initiative, a social intervention aimed at saving pre-term babies. Christened ‘Spin for a Cause’, contributors of the new fundraising initiative would be required to buy a scratch card from a cedi to GHȼ50, […]
A Kumasi circuit court presided over by Madam Mary Nsenkyire, has sentenced a 22-year-old carpenter to six years imprisonment after he was convicted on charges of conspiracy to steal, unlawful entry and defrauding by false pretences. Akwasi Amponsah, the convict who resides at Bomso in Kumasi, is said to have conspired with two others only […]
The Auditor-General has uncovered more questionable payments at the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), including monies paid to furnish the private home of a former Deputy Executive Secretary. A review of the GEPA’s payroll records revealed that on July 11, 2017, a total of GH¢54,340.00 was wrongly paid to Mr Eric Twum Amoako, a former […]
Embattled Chief Executive Officer of defunct gold trading firm, Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah has allegedly won his appeal case in Dubai, according to his unofficial Public Relations Officer (PRO) Stanley Kodia. The victory against Royal Horizon Diamond according KOD, as the PRO is popularly known was achieved today, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. According to him, […]
National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party, (NPP) Sammi Awuku has visited the three students of St. Augustine’s College who are representing the school in the ongoing National Science and Maths Quiz Competition. Himself an old student, the hardworking NPP National Organiser visited the students with the sole aim of pepping and motivating them […]
