Delta Force Now Attractive Than Ever
The case against the 8 members of the Delta Force has been dropped A member of pro-New Patriotic Party vigilante group, Delta Force has suggested the arrest of some of its members is a blessing in...
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Twitter User Numbers Overtaken By China’s Sina Weibo
There are now more people using Sina Weibo, the Chinese micro-blogging platform, than there are using Twitter. According to the Chinese company’s first quarter results, it has 340 million active...
US Embassy To Travellers
Contrary to the perception that the US makes it difficult for Ghanaians who wish to travel to that country to do so, the US Embassy in Ghana has stated that Ghanaians are welcome but should use the...
Bolga Chieftaincy Factions Urged To Give Peace A Chance
The Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari, has appealed to the two factions involved in the Bolgatanga chieftaincy dispute to give peace a chance because no development can take place in the...
Newly Refurbished Ridge Hospital Opened To the Public
The newly refurbished Ridge Hospital also referred to as the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, has formally opened its doors to the general public. A ceremony was held Wednesday to commemorate the...
Chelsea Manning Freed From Military Prison
US soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military files to Wikileaks. A US Army spokesperson...
Arrest Me Over Bribery Allegations – Yamoah Ponkoh Dares Critics
Maverick politician and former Municipal Chief Executive of Ejisu Juaben Yamoah Ponkoh has dared anyone who believes he committed a crime by paying Gh¢300,000 bribe to assembly members in his bid to...
First-Ever Female MCE For Ga East Municipal Assembly
The Ga East Municipal Assembly (GEMA) has confirmed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s appointee, Madam Janet Tulasi Mensah, as its new Municipal Chief Executive (MCE). Forty-nine-year-old...
Minority’s Petition To US SEC On $2.25bn Bond Needless – Economist Suggests
Senior economics lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Osei Assibey has indicated that the Minority’s petition to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over the US$2.25 billion bond issue is...
Pro-Con Analysis On Dr. Spio-Garbrah’s Presidential Ambitions
Prompt: Dr. Spio-Garbrah is no nino to the public terrain. He has run for the presidency before and has been in the public imaginary for the longest time. This may be his last stab at glory or risk...
Listen To Nana Addo, Stop Begging – EU Tells Immigration Service
Ghanaian public officials are fond of quoting Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist to literally beg for more aid, anytime donor agencies give money or items to help facilitate their operations. This was...
Gov’t Unfazed By Minority’s Petition Over $2.25bn Bond – Kwaku Kwarteng
Government says it is not perturbed about the minority’s petition to the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States to investigate its $2.25 billion bond issued this year. It said the...
Lawyer Dartey Incurs Wrath of NDC MP Over Bugri Naabu
The Member of Parliament (MP), for Buem constituency Mr Daniel Kwesi Ashiamah, has expressed disappointment in lawyer Nkrabeah Effah Dartey for stating that the call for the arrest of Bugri Naabu...
Gov’t Charges New GRA Board To Be Committed In Reaching Revenue Targets
A Deputy Finance Minister, Kwaku Kwarteng, has charged the new board of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to be focused on revenue mobilization. The nine-member board was inaugurated by the Deputy...
Court Frees 8 Delta Force Members
A Kumasi Circuit Court has struck out a case in which eight members of the Vigilante group, Delta Force, affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) were being tried for aiding the escape...
Delta Force 8 Freed For Lack of Evidence
The eight accused members of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group Delta Force have been discharged by the Kumasi Circuit Court Two due to lack of evidence. Judge Patricia Amponsah freed the...
Galamsey Queen Heavily Sponsored NDC Campaigns
A former house help to Chinese illegal mining kingpin is accusing his former boss heavily funding electioneering activities of the then ruling National Democratic Congress in the Ashanti Region and...
We’ve Been Chasing ECG Bills For Two Years – US Embassy
The United States embassy in Ghana has been pursuing the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for two years to secure and pay bills for power consumed within the period. The Embassy has said though it...
Kyei Baffour Was Rejected Because He Refused To Pay ‘bribes’
The President’s nominee for the Asante Akim Central Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) and a local governance expert, Mr. George Kyei Baffour might have failed to bribe Assembly members for...
Rawlings and I Don’t Talk
Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the UK, Mr Victor Smith has said he does not talk to former President Jerry John Rawlings. He described his relationship with his former boss as “not the...