The first woman to head the high profile Intelligence Department of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Faustina Agyeiwaa Kodua Andoh-Kwofie has been appointed as the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Graphic Online has learnt. She replaces COP (retired) Isaac Ken Yeboah who retired today. COP Isaac Ken Yeboah […]
The road from the Obetsebi-Lamptey Roundabout to the Central Mosque at Abossey Okai will be temporarily closed to traffic from today to Friday, September 30, this year to enable the contractor to launch metallic beams onto the interchange. The stretch will be closed from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. each day. “This is to enable […]
A security officer at the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has been interdicted for conducting a pre-boarding search on the National Security Minister. In a letter dated September 8, GACL explained that Awudu Basit’s search of Albert Kan-Dapaah at the VVIP Lounge at the Kumasi Airport was embarrassing. The letter signed by the Company’s officer […]
En Huang, the popular illegal mining queen popularly known as Aisha Huang was repatriated in December 2018, the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has clarified. A repatriation order or note was issued to her. She was put on a flight and she exited the Ghanaian jurisdiction, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said in a radio interview […]
Five people, who were said to be engaged in illegal mining were trapped to death on Monday in a pit at Nangruma in the Mamprugu/Moaduri District in the North East Region. They were said to be prospecting for gold in an abandoned pit, an area some Chinese nationals are said to have earlier mined and left it […]
After months of preparatory works, the reconstruction of Appiatse in the Western Region has taken off. A four-member team from the Architectural and Engineering Services Limited (AESL), the consultants for the project, is in Appiatse supervising the reconstruction. The team, made up of consulting architects, civil, structural, electrical and mechanical engineers, is led by a […]
The High Court, Accra, has quashed the decision of the National Communications Authority (NCA) to introduce conditional access for free-to-air (FTA) television. That followed an application filed by the Ghana Independent Broadcasters’ Association (GIBA), which sought to quash NCA’s decision on grounds that the introduction of the conditional access system will block the content of […]
The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has said the docket on the prosecution of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the defunct Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, is almost ready. “I’m happy to say that after painstaking investigations, the docket on that financial crime is almost ready for prosecution to commence,” he said. […]
The Old Vandals Association in North America (OVA-NA), has condemned the University of Ghana authorities for applying a “kangaroo court” process to deal with the recent disturbances on campus between some students of Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah halls. In a communiqué issued by the Old Vandals Association in North America (OVA-NA) at the end of their […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is dealing with 10 cases regarding examination malpractice. According to WAEC, the cases, which span from 2020 through to this year, are part of a total of an initial 13 cases, three of which have been dealt with. The Head of Legal of WAEC, Rev. Victor Brew, said this […]
The Auditor-General has asked the Head of the Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate to recover an outstanding debt of GH₵1,350,252 from the Cocoa Marketing Company. The amount was owed the Directorate between February 2019 and December 2020 for the risk-based inspection and phytosanitary certification of cocoa beans in the Western, Greater Accra and Ashanti […]
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is losing some of its sensitive installations in Accra, including cables used to direct pilots during landing and take-off. This is due to increasing attacks on the authority’s properties in the La Nkwantanang and the La Dadekotopon municipalities. Among the installations are the main signal-receiving station near Madina and […]
