The Foase Police Command is investigating the death of a 25-year-old lady at Dida in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region. Reports indicate that, on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Sabina Badu left her grandmother’s room and retired to bed in her room. Her grandmother, Akosua Ako did not find her the next day […] The post 25-year-old woman dies
The #FixTheCountry protest scheduled for May 9 will still come off in a new format with remote demonstrations from individuals, according to its conveners. Persons sympathetic to their cause have also been urged to wear black throughout tomorrow. The movement started last weekend and has been mainly online with thousands of Ghanaians voicing their frustrations […] The post #FixTheCountry
Five suspected armed robbers who double as land guards have been arrested in the Eastern Region by police officers of the National Operation Department. They are Phillip Kwadwo Larbi, aged 42, Abass Baah, aged 36, Edward Kwafo, aged 35, Sergeant Isaac Asare, a soldier in the Ghana Airforce believed to be a supplier of arms […] The post E/R: Police
A new Bill which seeks to merge the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), the Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL), and the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) into a single university has received Presidential Assent. The government commenced processes to merge the institutions into a fully-fledged university of communication studies in 2019, leading to the […] The post President
The President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Affail Monney, has been sued to stop him from holding himself as an officer of the association. The plaintiff, Caroline Boateng, also wants the court to order the creation of an Interim Management Committee, according to her lawsuit. She maintains that Affail Monney’s tenure ended in November 2020. […] The post GJA president Affail Monney
The President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Affail Monney, has been sued to stop him from holding himself as an officer of the association. The plaintiff, Caroline Boateng, also wants the court to order the creation of an Interim Management Committee, according to her lawsuit. She maintains that Affail Monney’s tenure ended in November 2020. […] The post GJA
Mr. Anthony Akoto Ampaw, Lead Counsel of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition, has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to review election results collation processes. “I believe that the EC itself and other stakeholders need a closer review of the actual processes and procedures that they took in arriving at […] The post EC
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has urged organizers of #FixTheCountry campaign to codify their strategy to enhance their protest. According to him, a well-strategized approach will earn them better results and make their impact permanent regardless of how long the campaign remains relevant. “I will urge them to put down […] The post Map
Brigitte Dzogbenuku, the 2020 presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party, has taken a dig at the Methodist Church and its role in preventing Muslim students in Wesley Girls’ High School from fasting during Ramadan. Speaking on The Big Issue on Citi TV/FM, Mrs. Dzogbenuku, an alum of Wesley Girls’ High School, suggested that the […] The post Brigitte
The Concerned Voters Movement (CVM), a socio-Political organisation, has urged Ghanaians to be patient with President Nana Akufo-Addo as he is determined to fix all the socio-economic problems that he inherited from the John Mahama administration. A statement signed by Razak Kojo Opoku, the founder and President of CVM, said majority of the problems that […] The post Akufo-Addo’s
The Ketu District Council of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has called on the Government to improve salaries and working conditions of teachers. Mr. Mickson Kwame Akpavor, the Chairman of the Council, said salaries and working conditions of teachers did not match the efforts and commitment they put in to educate the future […] The post Teachers call for improved
The Electoral Commission (EC) has appealed to its Election 2020 Field Operatives to exercise patience as the Commission works acidulously to pay their allowances. Dr. Bossman Eric Asare, the Deputy Chairman of the EC, in charge of Corporate Services, who made the appeal in Accra, said the Commission regretted the delay in effecting the payment […] The post Allowance
The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, on Friday, provided detailed workings on how a technology it developed to clean polluted rivers work to the Ministry of Lands and National Resources. Professor Richard Kwasi Amankwah, the Vice Chancellor of UMaT, who performed the PowerPoint Presentation at the Ministry, in Accra, said the technology comprised […] The post UMaT
Conveners of social media campaign, #FixTheCountry are unhappy with the Supreme Court’s decision to set June 8, 2021, as the date to hear their appeal seeking to have an injunction stopping their planned demonstration on May 9 overturned. According to the group, the date creates a lot of inconveniences looking at the exigency of the matter. […] The post #FixTheCountry
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has urged the government to be forthright with the #FixTheCountry protestors demanding better governance. Speaking on The Big Issue, Mr. Ablakwa criticised the manner in which police secured an injunction to stop a planned protest on May 9. The Ghana Police Service secured an injunction […] The post Government
The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has bemoaned the high cost of running for political office in Ghana saying, it remains the biggest obstacle to the fight against corruption. The situation, he said is a threat to Ghana’s democracy and exacerbating the plights of the ordinary Ghanaian. He […] The post Monetisation
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have appealed to corporate bodies and individual well-wishers to support the operations of the 37 Military Hospital. This is because it is a major hospital that serves thousands of military personnel, their families and the general populace. Vice Admiral Seth Amoama, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), made the appeal […] The post Ghana
IMANI Africa President Franklin Cudjoe has questioned the supposed silence of notable critics of the Mahama administration amid the ongoing “#FixTheCountry” campaign against the Akufo-Addo administration. “My disappointment is that I did not see some of those leading activists join this particular call,” he said on The Big Issue. Among the notable movements against the […] The post #FixTheCountry:
20 self-styled National Security operatives have been remanded awaiting trial for their alleged involvement in illegal mining in the Eastern Region. The suspects were arrested in the Atewa Forest by the youth of Akyem Akenteng in the West Akyem municipality. The purported operatives were transferred from Koforidua to Accra for further interrogations. Investigations conducted by […] The post 20
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