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 […]
A stripling of 23-years-old has been spending the last 20 years in isolation in the Nkwanta south District of the Oti region, because of a medical condition. Basty Abass passes urine, defecates, eats and sleeps in a room locked and heavily secured with a padlock so that he would not get the opportunity to walk […]
The body of a suspected stowaway that fell from a plane and landed in a London garden hit the ground so hard it dented paving slabs and fake grass. The man narrowly missed a tenant of the house in his 20s who was asleep while sunbathing on the astro-turf, according to a neighbour. Police were […]
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged practising lawyers in the country to uphold the tenets of the profession and eschew practises that bring the profession into disrepute. The President was concerned that the conduct of some lawyers who resort to defending cases no matter how bizarre is fast eroding the gains made by […]
OneGhana Movement has expressed utter shock and horror at the harrowing ordeal narrated by two journalists – Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri and Emmanuel Britwum, both of ModernGhana, an online news outlet – by officers of the National Security outfit. In a statement issued in Accra and signed by Emily Kanyir Nyuur, executive secretary, OneGhana Movement condemned […]
