Six persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of the 21-year-old soldier, Private Imoro Sherrif, in Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region on Saturday, March 4, 2023. The arrests followed an intelligence-led, week-long police operation. Those arrested separately at their various hideouts include two persons who are believed to have stabbed the soldier […]
Parliament has passed the National Pensions (Amendment) Bill, 2021. The object of the bill is to exclude the Police Service, the Immigration Service, the Prisons Service, the security and intelligence agencies and the Ghana National Fire Service from the unification pensions. The bill seeks to amend the National Pensions Act, 2008 (Act 766) to exclude […]
The Minerals Commission is to install tracking devices on 4,000 excavators and earthmoving equipment as part of measures to clamp down on illegal mining activities. Currently, 75 excavators have been affixed with tracking devices and their activities being monitored from a control room at the commission. The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu […]
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, has told Parliament that the use of the Ghana Card as the sole identification document for continuous voters’ registration will guarantee the credibility and integrity of the country’s voter register and aid elections as a whole. For the part of the Executive Secretary of the National […]
Two people said to have stolen US$1,600 from a forex bureau at the Accra Mall on Monday have been put on the police wanted list. The two suspects, according to the victim, entered the forex bureau under the pretext of changing money. They however reportedly stole the US$1600 from the counter of the bureau on […]
About 85 police officers have petitioned the Police Council over delays in their promotions. The petitioners are seeking “academic promotion” due to their attainment of higher academic degrees after being granted study leave by the Police Administration. In a petition signed by their lawyer, Ayikoi Otoo, the police officers said all attempts to impress on […]
The Computer School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) has facilitated the placement of 492,437 students, representing 91 per cent of 538,399 candidates who qualified as of yesterday morning. They were placed in their Senior High Schools (SHS) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) schools of choice. This is an improvement against the 372,721 […]
A US billionaire financier who helped pioneer the debt-fuelled corporate acquisition known as a leveraged buyout has been found dead, his family says. In a statement, Thomas H Lee’s family said they were “extremely saddened” by the 78-year-old’s death. The New York Post reports that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Manhattan […]
The Accra High Court has ordered that a former CEO of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, will be tried in absentia. Attionu, who is on trial for allegedly causing financial loss of GH¢90 million to the state during her tenure as the CEO of MASLOC between 2013 and January 2017, has […]
Parliament has invited the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) to brief the Committee of the Whole on a new Constitutional Instrument (C.I.) ahead of Election 2024. The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin has directed that the Chairperson herself, Jean Mensah should appear for the briefing. According to the Speaker, the EC must […]
“Excellence”, “dedication,” “hard work”, “principled”, “commitment,” “integrity” and “fairness” were some of the words on the lips of those who gathered in the newsroom of the Daily Graphic last Friday to bid farewell to the Editor of Graphic, Vincent Kobina Asmah, professionally known as Kobby Asmah. Mr Asmah officially retires on February 28, this year, […]
The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMA) has advised that people allergic to dust should wear nose masks following a surge in dry and dusty atmospheric conditions in Ghana. Ghana has been experiencing variations in intensity of the dry and dusty conditions over the past weeks. The GMA in a third harmattan advisory statement on Monday, February […]
