Lawyers for Former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen Opuni, have indicated that they will be calling eight (8) witnesses to testify on behalf of the ex-COCOBOD boss. Dr. Opuni, together with a private businessman, Seidu Agongo and the businessman’s Agricult Ghana Limited, are standing trial …
Read More »All Set At Manhyia Palace As It Prepares To Get Really Very Busy This Weekend
All is set at the stool of the Asante Hene Otumfour Osei Tutu II as Manhyia Palace will be extremely busy this weekend sparkling from today. As His Majesty Otumfour Osei Tutu II prepares to launch his highly anticipated Otumfour Osei Tutu II Gold coin, organisation started as early as …
Read More »GIS Deports 54 Nigerians
A total of 54 Nigeriens have been arrested and repatriated by the Bono East Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS). The Bono East Regional Commander of GIS, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration (ACI), Francis Annor explained that they were made up of 52 males and two females. ACI Annor …
Read More »Two Kidnappers Arrested At Oda
The Akyem Oda District Police Command in Eastern Region has arrested two suspects for conspiring to sell a 16-year-old boy for GHC800,000. The suspects are Kwaku Asare, 24, and Kwame Asante, 28. The arrest was made through collaboration between Police and an informant (name withheld) after the latter picked intelligence …
Read More »Armed Robber Exposed By Fake Defecation
A suspected armed robber has been exposed after he faked defecating in a bush at Kwahu Afram Plains in the Eastern Region. Suspect Tafa James has since been arrested and kept in police custody. According to reports, General Sergeant Bawa Issifu in charge of the Counter-Terrorism Unit personnel …
Read More »Cop Crushed To Death At Akwadum Checkpoint
A Police Constable, Christ Quarshie who was performing his duty at the Akwadum Police Checkpoint on the Suhum-Koforidua road in the Eastern Region has been knocked down by an over speeding vehicle in the early hours of Friday. The accident reportedly occurred around about 12.10 am when a driver, John …
Read More »ECG Installs Mobile Substation At New Bortiano
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has installed a mobile substation at New Bortiano in Accra to curb the erratic interruptions in the supply of electricity to the area and its environs. The station which would be completed next week is expected to avert challenges such as low voltage and …
Read More »Businesses Not On GHANEPS Risk Sanctions
Frank Mante THE ACTING Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Frank Mante has cautioned business entities to ensure they enrol onto the Ghana Electronic Procurement System (GHANEPS) as soon as possible or risk sanctions. The PPA, he intimated, was embarking on stakeholder engagements as well as …
Read More »Woman Kills Boy, 6, For Stealing Fish From Soup
Amanfrom District Police Command has arrested the 37 year old woman, identified as Madina Agyei for allegedly killing her brother’s son. The sad incident occurred at Amanfom Official Town in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. Information gathered indicated that 6 year old boy was accused by …
Read More »GRIDCo Repairs Fallen Towers
THE DAMAGED towers of GRIDCo which caused the recent intermittent power cuts in the Ashanti Region, have been repaired. A team of top technicians had to work day and night to repair the three pylons. As a result of the repairs, the collapsed 330kV Aboadze-Kumasi Transmission Lines at Bogoso, which …
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