The Narcotics Control Commission has hinted that 47 per cent of female between the ages of 15 to 65 are engaging in drug abuse. The world commemorate International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking on June 26, annually. Theme for this year’s celebration is ‘’People first: stop stigma and discrimination, strengthen prevention”. But […]
The country has registered 3,200 asylum seekers from Burkina Faso, the Ghana Refugee Board (GRB) has said. The asylum seekers who are in the two Upper regions are part of about 8,000 asylum seekers being hosted in the country. The Executive Secretary of GRB, Tetteh Padi, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, said the […]
The Electoral Commission has disclosed that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate for the recent Kumawu by-election, Kwasi Amankwaa is not a registered voter in the constituency and yet he filed and contested the by-election. Mr. Kwasi Amankwaa, according to the EC, is a registered voter in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in Greater Accra […]
Videos and pictures of the Kumasi mansion of renowned Kumawood actor and comedian, Kofi Adu widely known as Agya Koo has gone viral getting social media talking about its magnificence. Agya Koo who celebrated his 54th birthday on May 25 has been a favourite comic actor over the years. Graphic Online brings you a flashback […]
The Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by Ghana Telecommunications Company against a $16 million judgment by the Swedru High Court in a land dispute with Ogyeedom Obranu Kwasi Atta IV, Chief of Gomoa Afransie, in 2017. In 2020, the Court of Appeal in Cape Coast affirmed the High Court judgment. But in a short […]
The Presiding Bishop of Perez Chapel International, Benjamin Ohene Aboagye, on Sunday, June 4, declared a one-week fast with prayers for all members across the globe over the Nogokpo controversy involving the Church. Representing Archbishop Charles Agyinasare, the founder of the Church, who is on an international mission, he announced the stance of the Church’s […]
The growing numbers of child beggars on the streets of Accra and other major cities in the country could be minimised if the public desists from giving them alms. The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Lariba Zuweira Abudu has therefore appealed to the public, especially residents of cities to restrain from giving cash […]
The Government has through the Ministry of Finance promised to immediately clear all five outstanding coupons owed pensioner bondholders. Government has also agreed to pay all outstanding principals in two weeks. The decisions follow a meeting Friday between officials of the Ministry of Finance and leadership of the Pensioner Bondholders’ Forum. The parties have scheduled […]
The World Bank has called for transparency and accountability in government’s School Feeding Programme. It warned that it may be forced to cut financial support to the School Feeding Programme if government fails to implement reforms that address full transparency and accountability. In an interview on the Business Edition of PM Express on Thursday, the World Bank […]
The Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Mr. Sammi Awuku has given the strongest indication yet, that he is fully and unapologetically committed to the development of Okuapeman and its youth. Mr. Awuku who is a son of the area says he is resolute in his conviction that all the communities in Okuapeman must […]
Special investigations conducted by the Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority (LUSPA) into the recent collapse of buildings have revealed that lack of enforcement of the LUSPA laws by the assemblies is the major cause of the disasters. Consequently, the authority has taken note of the lapses on the side of the assemblies and has […]
Eighty-six illegal miners who entered the underground of Obuasi Mine of Anglogold Ashanti in Ghana have been arrested by the police. They were all picked up when they exited the underground through one of the main shafts of the mining company into the waiting arms of the police and security personnel of the biggest gold […]
