The police have arrested an Odikro of Gyabenkrom and two others for destroying more than 33,000 mature rubber trees on a plantation belonging to the Ghana Rubber Estate Limited (GREL) in the Ahanta West Municipality in the Western Region. The destruction is estimated to cost the company €95,000, equivalent to GH¢1.14 million. Police sources said […]
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STEM education will eliminate ‘chew and pour’ among SHS students – Dr Kwame Amankrah
The Ashanti Regional Director of Education has opined that the introduction of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in Ghana’s education system could eliminate the ‘chew and pour’ phenomenon among students. Dr William Kwame Amankrah said STEM sought to expose students to practical ways of solving problems, thereby, moving students away from memorising their […]
Akufo-Addo resurrects Nkrumah- Renovated memorial parks open
The stature of Kwame Nkrumah as an iconic Ghanaian and African personality came alive with the inauguration of a refurbished and modernised edifice that serves as his memorial. The monumental project to give the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park a complete makeover befitting the country’s first Republican President has seen the holy grounds which hold the […]
Court gives Ato Essien another lifeline
The Accra High Court has given another lifeline to the convicted Founder of the Capital Bank, William Ato Essien by extending the payment of GH¢20million restitution to the state to July 27, 2023. The GH¢20 million represents the first tranche of a total of 60 million expected to be paid to the state. The court, […]
Fire officer jailed two days for beating court bailiff
The Accra High Court has sentenced a Fire Service Officer, Emmanuel Ayitah Quansah, to two days imprisonment for beating a court bailiff. Ayitah was found guilty of contempt of court for beating the bailiff who wanted to serve him with documents in a civil case. The court presided over by Justice Sarah Aryee, held that […]
Protect, invest in public media – Alban Bagbin
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has extolled the importance of the media in nation-building and called on all stakeholders, especially the state, to support them. He stated that no institution, including Parliament, could succeed without the role of the media. The Speaker insisted that media institutions were a priority that every President […]
Beyond Martyrs’ Day…Address human rights abuses – Rev. Opuni Frimpong tells lawyers
The immediate past General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev. Dr Kwabena Opuni Frimpong, has called on the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) to go beyond the mere commemoration of Martyrs’ Day to talk about the human rights abuses in the system. He said after 40 years of the celebration of the unfortunate killing […]
Sammi Awuku donates educational materials to BECE candidates in all Public and Private Schools in Akuapem North
The Director-General of the National Lottery Authority and a son of Akuapeman, Mr. Sammi Awuku has brought relief to parents, guardians and pupils in the Akuapem North Municipality. The kind-hearted public servant and Politician has donated educational materials to all public and private schools in the Municipality to be distributed to Basic Education Certificate Examination […]
Police give chase to killers
The Police Administration has mounted a manhunt for four suspected robbers behind the killing of a policeman at Ablekuma in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region. The alleged robbers killed the policeman yesterday in broad daylight. The policeman, who a source at the Ghana Police Service named as Lance Corporal Calystus Amoah, […]
Taxes on sanitary pads unfair – Speaker of Parliament asserts
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has expressed strong abhorrence at the imposition of taxes on sanitary pads in the country. He described the passage of laws by Parliament to impose the tax on sanitary pads as “unconscionable and a cardinal sin.” “This House should not have allowed it at all; you know the impact […]
Court summons Alex Segbefia, others to testify in Ato Forson’s trial
The High Court in Accra has summoned three witnesses in the trial in which former Deputy Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, and two others have been accused of causing financial loss of €2.37 million to the state in a deal to purchase 200 ambulances. That followed an application by counsel for Forson, Dr […]
Charles Bissue arrested by OSP after he turned himself in
Charles Bissue arrested by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) after he turned himself in on Wednesday. At 11:45 am on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, Mr Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue, a former Secretary to the dissolved Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) turned himself in to the OSP. He was immediately placed under […]