Kenyan Charged For Human Trafficking
Three persons, including a Kenyan businesswoman, are before an Accra Domestic Violence and Gender-Based court for human trafficking. They are George Badu, trader; Fati Mahammud, secretary and Leah...
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Why Ghanaians Can’t Get Enough of Indian Soap Operas
It’s afternoon at a hair salon in Osu – a busy commercial area in Accra – where a group of workers have been shuttling between customers since the morning. As the day winds to end the stylists...
Mason Defiles Girl, 8, In Kiosk
Pius Amedo who allegedly defiled an eight-year-old girl in a kiosk at Community 18 has been put before an Accra Circuit Court. Charged with defilement, Amedo who is into laying of tiles pleaded...
Sexual Harassment, Rape, Defilement and Incest
Sexual harassment, rape, defilement and incest have been on the ascendancy in recent times. Hardly a day passes without some of these heinous crimes being reported in the print media. They are all...
Trader Arrested After Posing As Recruiting Army Commander
A 48-year-old trader has been arrested by the Accra Central District Police for impersonation and defrauding by false pretences. The suspect, Anthony Dzotofe, allegedly collected between GH¢500 and...
My Vote Is For Sale
The highest bidder gets my vote. My vote is for sale and I don't really mind or care what people think or say for I believe I should have a share of the National cake. It's my constitutional rights...
Court Slashes Damages To Be Paid By Ex-Trader Kerviel
A French appeals court has slashed the amount of damages due to be paid by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel to €1m ($1.12m; £860,00). Kerviel had been ordered to pay back the €4.9bn of losses his...
Tear Down the Gandhi Statue [1]
By Kwarteng Francis “It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best” Prof. Mike Oquaye, Former High...
Tear Down The Gandhi Statue 1
“It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best” (Prof. Mike Oquaye, Former High Commissioner to India,...
Driver’s Mate Gets 12 Years Imprisonment Over GHC22
A 19-year old driver’s mate Safianu Yahaya, will spend the next 12 years behind bars for stealing GH¢22 and a mobile phone from a trader A Kumasi Circuit Court presided over Mrs. Mary Nsenkyire...
Woman Stabs Boyfriend To Death
A 23-year-old woman who allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death in the heat of an argument has been provisionally charged with murder before an Accra Magistrate court. Veronica Akua Operebea plea...
Kofi Adoboli Warns On Banking Culture
Kweku Adoboli was a successful young trader for the Swiss Bank UBS based in London when his world fell apart in 2011. In a series of disastrous trades, many hidden from view, he ran up losses...
Activists Slam Nigerian Govt For Prosecuting Man Who Named Dog Buhari
Human rights lawyers and activists have continued to express their concerns over the controversial arrest and prosecution of a man who named his dog “Buhari”. Joachim Chinakwe, a 41-year-old...
Complete Biography & Profile of Theophilus Tagoe, Castro-the Destroyer
Theophilus Tagoe, aka CASTRO who hails from Takoradi, was born in 1982 to Lydia Tagoe, a trader, and Mr Coffie, an accountant at the Takoradi Harbour. He attended Anglican Primary and J. S.S in...
Complete Biography & Profile of Castro,
Theophilus Tagoe (born 1 May 1982), popularly known as Castro or Castro de Destroyer, is a Ghanaian hiplife artist who disappeared on 6 July 2014. Early life and career He was born in Takoradi in the...
60-Year-Old Woman Accused of Selling Roasted Human Flesh
A 60-year-old woman was nearly lynched at the Adabraka Market in Accra yesterday after she was accused of allegedly selling human flesh as meat.
The woman, whose name has been withheld by the police...
41-Year Old Trader Kills Mother over ‘Prophesy’
A 41-year old trader, Isaac Adu has stabbed to death his 73-year old mother with a knife and wounded a brother at Gyinyase because a prophet has prophesized the victims were behind his...
Chicken Safe for Christmas – Agric Ministry
Ministry of Agriculture has sought to calm Ghanaians following growing concerns over the safety of chicken ahead of the yuletide.
The recent outbreak of bird flu in Accra and Tema triggered fears...
E-waste In Ghana: Where Death is the Price of Living Another Day
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of...
Ebola Scare ‘Kills’ Local Bush Meat Business
The current scare of the Ebola virus is gradually affecting the patronage of bush meat in some parts of Accra. The low patronage follows speculations that the deadly Ebola virus may be contracted...