The Inspector General of Police, Christian Tetteh Yohuno, and a team of top security officers have engaged chiefs, opinion leaders and community stakeholders at Gbiniyiri in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District in the Savannah Region as part of efforts to restore peace and stability in the area. Communal clashes over land ownership in the area left six […]
The tension in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District has forced hundreds of residents, particularly women and children, to flee their homes for safety. Communities that once bustled with life along the Sawla–Bole highway have been deserted. On a journey through the area on Monday, villages such as Seiyiri and Nasoyiri near Sawla, and Bodi, Kakiase, Gbogdaa, and […]
President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in its efforts to withhold billions of dollars from foreign aid organisations and lift an injunction that is forcing it to keep making payments. The U.S. Department of Justice, in an emergency filing, with the 6-3 conservative majority court noted that a 2-1 panel […]
National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has rejected calls for a state of emergency in the fight against illegal mining. He warns that such a move could plunge Ghana into chaos and erode democratic rule. Speaking on Channel One TV on Tuesday, August 26, Mr. Nketiah admitted that galamsey remains […]
Two former Chief Justices of the Republic, Justice Sophia Akuffo (Rtd), and Justice Anin Yeboah (Rtd), together with other legal luminaries and jurists, have appeared before the five-member Article 146 committee established by President John Dramani Mahama, to testify in support of the sitting Chief Justice, Justice Gertrude Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, sources close to the […]
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has recovered over 100 stolen luxury vehicles shipped under dubious means from foreign countries into Ghana. The anti-graft body is investigating about 300 cases of suspected stolen vehicles in collaboration with Interpol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Speaking in an […]
The police anti-galamsey task force has intensified operations in the illegal mining areas, making several arrests in the Ashanti and Western regions in separate exercises over the weekend. The Special Anti-Galamsey Task Force based at Manso Adubia in the Ashanti Region, last Saturday extended its daily operations to Juaso, a suburb of the Asante Akim […]
An official tour of West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) centres in Accra today, August 25, by the Head of the National Office for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Dr. Rosemond Wilson has uncovered a case of alleged examination malpractice. An invigilator was caught with a mobile phone containing examination questions at Forces […]
Police in the Eastern South Region have arrested 10 individuals and seized nine firearms in a series of targeted operations in Akwatia, as part of heightened security measures ahead of the upcoming by-election. The Police Command confirmed that the weapons recovered include eight pump-action shotguns and one locally manufactured single-barreled gun. Police say the operations […]
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of “doing everything it can” to prevent a meeting with Vladimir Putin to try to end the war. US President Donald Trump has sought to bring the two leaders together, but he said on Friday, “that’s like oil and vinegar… they don’t get along too well”. Russian Foreign […]
The entire US-Mexico border wall will be painted black to make it hotter and harder to climb, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said, crediting the idea to President Donald Trump. While domestic detentions and deportations have been the primary focus of the current immigration crackdown, Trump’s policy bill passed earlier this summer, also allocated […]
The District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) is unable to publish a release schedule because it does not generate funds by itself, the Administrator of the fund, Michael Harry Yamson, has said. He explained that the fund derived its resources solely from statutory transfers made by the government, calculated as a constitutionally prescribed percentage of national […]
