GENERAL NEWS

Former Bono East Regional Minister and former MP Atebubu Amantin, Mr Kofi Amoakohene, has urged authorities at Mpraeso Senior High School in the Eastern Region to bring to justice the driver of a school vehicle who used the vehicle to transport wood. This was after a video of the vehicle …

A total of 13 persons including four soldiers and an immigration officer have been arrested at Konongo in the Ashanti Region for allegedly engaging in unauthorised opera­tions at Mantin in the Bosome-Fre­ho District of the Ashanti Region. They were arrested by National Security Operatives with the assis­tance of the Konongo …

President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that he is an Nkrumahist at heart and that originally he belonged to the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), the party birthed by Ghana’s first president Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. “I grew up as an Nkrumahist, I still am an Nkrumahist,” Mahama said in an …

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has restated his desire to go to jail if he is found guilty of contempt. The MP was dragged to court by secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi, alias Victor Kusi Boateng. The plaintiff told …

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (ACSIS), Paul Coonley Boateng, has questioned the recent statement made by Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that a coup is not a solution to Africa’s problems. Boateng explained that the President should have been bold enough …

Chief weather forecaster at the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), Felicity Ahafianyo has disclosed that the agency is unable to check the quality of air within the environment because the required equipment is unavailable at the moment. The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) exists to provide efficient and reliable meteorological information by …

Tension is brewing in some parts of the North East Region as youth hit the streets to protest attempts by the military to arrest the newly enskinned Bawku Naaba by the Nayiri. In the Nalerigu and Walewale communities, the youth burnt lorry tyres amidst chanting of war songs to drum …

The Director of Communication for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr Richard Ahiagbah has said that but for Covid-19, Ghana’s economy will still be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. He said the NPP administration knows how to bring back the economy. “We will bring it back for …

Ghanaian football legend Abedi Ayew Pele along with his family, visited the family of the late Christian Atsu to offer condolences following the passing of the 31-year-old player. The whole of Ghana as well as football lovers and sympathisers are mourning the death of Atsu whose mortal remains was transported …

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck southern Turkey, weeks after a deadly quake devastated the region. Turkey’s disaster and emergency agency Afad said the tremor occurred at 20.04 local time (17.04 GMT). Witnesses told the Reuters news agency there had been further damage to buildings in Antakya. A 7.8-magnitude struck …