Traders To Stay Indoors
Traders willing to comply with directive from Manhyia for commercial activities to be halted Traders and residents in the Ashanti regional capital of Kumasi have said they will ensure full compliance...
Day: January 19, 2017
Ghana Deploys Troops To Support Ecowas Mission In The Gambia
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has approved and authorized the deployment of a combat team of 205 Ghanaian soldiers to The Gambia to join the Ecowas force. The Economic Community of West...
Ghana Deploys Troops To Support Ecowas Mission In The Gambia
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has approved and authorized the deployment of a combat team of 205 Ghanaian soldiers to The Gambia to join the Ecowas force. The Economic Community of West...
Providing Homes, Offices For Former Presidents, A Necessity?
I am straining to understand the logic behind and justification for some of the retirement perks given to our former Presidents. I will attempt a fuller critique of the legality, logic, purpose and...
NPP Youth Group Lauds Nana Addo For Baffour Awuah’s Appointment
A group, Patriotic Youth, affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Sunyani West Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region, has commended President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo for the...
Health Minister Nominee To Probe Korle Bu Christmas Bonus Saga
The Minister Nominee for Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has disclosed plans of launching a full scale audit into circumstances that led to the alleged payment of huge sums of money as Christmas bonuses...
(PHOTOS) Asantehemaa Goes Home Today
The late Asantehemaa, Nana Afua Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, shall be put to rest at the Bremang Mausoleum today Thursday, January 19. A burial service shall be conducted for her by the Anglican Church at...
Bank of Ghana To Auction $120 Million To Help Stabilise Cedi
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced plans to release some $120 million onto the market for the first quarter of this year as part of the Central Bank’s plan to help stabilise the cedi. The...
Court Denies Arrest Warrant For Samsung Chief
A court in South Korea has refused a request by prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant for Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong. The judge ruled early on Thursday that there was insufficient reason to arrest...
Mortuary Attendants Exposed In Corrupt Deals At Kibi Hospital
Mortuary attendants at the Kibi Government Hospital in the East Akim Municipality of the Eastern region have been exposed for engaging in fishy deals by management of the facility. The conduct of the...
Commissions of Inquiries Are Not High Courts
An Accra High Court Judge, Mr. Justice Eric Kyei-Baffour has said the setting up of commissions of inquiries have limitations regarding the powers that they wield compared to that of a high court. He...
Girl,6, Burnt After Soaking In Kerosene
Kerosene soaked in a little girl's dress set her ablaze when she got closer to naked fire A 6-year-old girl has been burnt to death after naively soaking herself with kerosene near an open fire....
Asantehemaa Goes Home Today
The final burial rites for the late Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, are scheduled to be held on Thursday, January 19 after days of traditional funeral rites. The rites began on Monday,...
Vice President of Gambia Resigns
Gambia’s Vice President has joined eight cabinet ministers to resign in the face of the political impasse in the country incited by the refusal of President Yahya Jammeh’s to step down. Vice...
Schools Shut For Asantehemaa’s Burial
Schools in Kumasi have been directed to close for Asantehemaa's burial rites The Ghana Education Service in the Ashanti Region has directed that all schools be closed today, Thursday, 19 January, for...
Mahama Government Leaves GH¢23m Hajj Debt
The Hajj Board under the former National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration has left behind a debt of Ghc23 million accrued from organizing last year’s pilgrimage to Mecca. Sources in...
Health Minister Nominee To Probe Korle Bu Christmas Bonus Saga
The Minister Nominee for Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has disclosed plans of launching a full scale audit into circumstances that led to the alleged payment of huge sums of money as Christmas bonuses...
I Never Visited Ramzy In Prison
Okyeame Quophi, who was the manager of ‘Stars of the Future’ runner-up Ramzy Amui has debunked claims by the singer that he never made any effort to visit him while he was in jail. The former...
Ghana Defender Baba Rahman To Travel To Germany Following AFCON Injury
Ghana defender Baba Abdul-Rahman will travel to Germany today (Thursday) to undergo further tests and possible surgery over a knee injury he suffered at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. Ghana...
Isaac Asiama And “Proverbial Frogs”; GFA And “Proverbial Lizards”
There’re two proverbs that has given birth to the title above: “when a frog in front falls in a pit, others take caution”, and “all lizards lie prostrate, who can tell which one of them has...