Fuel Prices Up 11%
Fuel prices across various outlets in the country have increased between three and 11 per cent, the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-GH) has indicated. This follows a review of fuel prices...
Day: October 17, 2016
Address Emerging Trend of ‘vote Selling’- GII Coalition
The Ghana Integrity Initiative Coalition has expressed its worry that the emerging trend of ‘Vote Selling’, if not addressed, could erode the moral and ethical fibre of the society. The...
EC Acted Negligently
Presidential hopeful and flag bearer of the Independent People’s Party, Mr. Kofi Akpaloo is accusing the Electoral Commission of not doing their work diligently well resulting in his...
Eight Convicted of Child Sex Offences In Northern England
Eight men were found guilty on Monday of waging what prosecutors called an "utterly abhorrent" campaign of sexual violence and intimidation against young girls in the Rotherham area of northern...
Serena Williams Out of WTA Finals After Shoulder Injury
Serena Williams will not take part in the WTA Finals in late October due to a shoulder injury, meaning she is skipping the elite year-end event for the second straight season. The 22-time grand slam...
NPP’s Move To Police Poll ‘dangerous’
The Northern regional branch of the New Patriotic Party’s intention to deploy "strong men" to police ballot boxes on voting day in the region is worrying, the West African Network for Peacebuilding...
Government Hasn’t Overspent – Mahama
The Government of Ghana has resisted the temptation to spend beyond its budget for this election year, President John Dramani Mahama has said. Speaking at the Holy Ghost Temple of the International...
Hitler House In Austria ‘to Be Demolished’
The Austrian government is looking to pass a law to allow it to tear down Hitler's birthplace The house where Adolf Hitler was born is set to be demolished to stop it becoming a focal point for...
NDC Endorses Illegal Land Grabbing
A group calling itself Coalition of La Youth Association (COLA) has attacked the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for its failure to sustain and consolidate the gains made by...
Video: I Don’t Strive For Fame
Socialite Hajia 4 Real says it is not her aim to be famous but that people are just attracted to the things she does thus putting her in the limelight. Born Mona Faiz Montrage, Hajia 4 Real, who...
5 Ex-Multimedia Staff Convicted, 2 To Return To Court On November 9
Five ex-Multimedia Group sales persons who were involved in financial malfeasance have been convicted by an Accra Circuit court. Solomon Lartey was charged with forgery of documents, alteration of...
PPP Launch Online Petition Over Nduom’s Disqualification
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has launched an online petition to collect one million signatures from Ghanaians to compel the Electoral Commission to reinstate the party’s Flagbearer, Dr...
PPP To Drop Suit Against EC
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has said it is prepared to drop the court application seeking to restrain the Electoral Commission (EC) from proceeding with balloting for positioning of...
100 Aspiring MPs Contest 23 Seats In Central Region
Hundred Members of Parliament (MPs) have filed their nomination to contest the 23 constituency seats in the Central Region. Mrs. Philomena Adusei, Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, who...
Three Held Over Shooting
Police have charged three men in the fatal shooting of Trinity Gay, the daughter of US track athlete Tyson Gay. Trinity Gay, 15, died after being shot in the neck amid an exchange of gunfire between...
Emulate Nestls Business of Re-Using Waste Water
The Friday October 14, 2016 edition of The Chronicle carried a story with the caption, “Nestlé Ghana re-uses 30% of its Treated Waste Water”. According to the story, the Tema factory of Nestlé...
NPP Won’t Put Money In Your Pockets
General Secretary of the governing NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketia has chastised the opposition NPP for deceiving Ghanaians with freebies when they are voted into power. According to him the Nana Addo led...
One Region, One Incubator Panacea For Youth Unemployment In Ghana
The political campaign season is here with us again. An apparent struggle to determine who controls the states resources and who determines who gets what, when and how for the next 4 years of...
We Will Go Back To Court; Outraged DKM Customers Vow
Some outraged customers of DKM Microfinance Limited have threatened to go to court over the amounts of money given them. Some of the customers said they have been given paltry sums not close to what...
Rawlings Dares Henry Lartey To Subject Himself To A Juju Test
Some people – who are not in the opposition parties – paid the flag bearer of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) to “vilify me” in connection with the $5m gift controversy involving...