About a thousand members of a city response team are expected to be deployed to the Central Business District and other key areas of Accra to enforce the sanitation by-laws under the Operation Clean Your Frontage program from next week. The policy was rolled out in February 2022 with the aim of making it obligatory […] The post Taskforce to
Promasidor Ghana Limited has donated 14 boxes of assorted Cowbell products to the Easter Orphan Project. The presentation was made by Obeng Ephraim Twumasi, a Marketing Representative of Promasidor Ghana Limited on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Belinda Mahama, a Sales Representative of Citi FM, received the items on behalf of the Citi FM Foundation. The […] The post Promasidor
One thousand personnel from the Ghana Police Service have been deployed to provide security for this year’s Kwahu Easter and Paragliding Festival, which begins tomorrow, April 14, 2022. The personnel have been drawn from the National Headquarters, Greater Accra Regional Command, and the Ashanti Regional Police Command to assist their colleagues in the Eastern Region […] The post 1,000
The Ghana Police Service has arrested a man believed to be a Lebanese, who allegedly threatened to kill a businessman during a heated argument in Accra. A statement from the Police Service said the suspect, Osman Brustani, is in police custody “and will be taken through the due process of the law.” Mr. Brustani was […] The post Police arrest man
The Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, restrained James Gyakye Quayson from holding himself as the Member of Parliament for the Assin North constituency in the Central Region until the final determination of an election petition filed against him. This decision was taken in a petition brought before the Supreme […] The post Supreme
Data from the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) shows that Ghana’s revenue from oil production saw an increase in its revenue, recording $783.33 million in the year ending 2021. This represents a 17.5 percent increase in revenue from the $666.39 million recorded in 2020. Chairman of PIAC, Prof Kwame Adom-Frimpong, while presenting the 2021 […] The post Ghana
A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, says the government is on track to collapse the Dumasi Tent Camp and relocate all displaced Appiate residents from the camp to the Future Global Resources Company’s temporary resettlement site by May 1st, 2022. Speaking during an inspection of roofing at the temporary site and […] The post Displaced
The Asokwa District Court has remanded into police custody, a 25-year-old commercial bus driver who is alleged to have stabbed a KMA security guard to death at the Kejetia bus terminal on Saturday. The court has also remanded the driver’s mate, 19-year-old Festus Adu Gyamfi, as he has been charged with abetment of murder. The […] The post Driver and
As the Sub-Saharan African economy struggles to recover from the 2020 recession induced by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the region now faces new economic growth challenges, compounded by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The World Bank’s latest Africa’s Pulse, a biannual analysis of the near-term regional macroeconomic outlook, estimates growth at 3.6 percent in 2022, […] The post World
An attack on residents of Zacholi in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region has left nine men dead and several others wounded. Some properties were also set ablaze in the attack. According to reports, the attack came after allegations that some armed robbers had attacked and killed a Konkomba man on Tuesday, April 11, […] The post Assailants descend
The lawyer for the plaintiff in the Assin North MP case, Frank Davies, has welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to restrain James Gyakye Quayson from holding himself as the MP for Assin North. Speaking to the press after the Supreme Court decision on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Mr. Davies said the decision also counted as […] The post ‘We
Significant increases in the prices associated with food, transport and housing have pushed the national year-on-year inflation for March 2022 to 19.4 percent. This is according to the latest data from the Ghana Statistical Service. The rate is a 3.7 percentage points higher than the 15.7 percent recorded in February 2022. The rise in the […] The post Hike
The Animal Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has called on the government to help get rid of encroachers on their over 1,000 acres of land. While its efforts to evict these encroachers have proven futile, the institute believes the government’s assistance will be of great benefit since the institute’s […] The post Encroachers
The Animal Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has called on the government to help get rid of encroachers on their over 1,000 acres of land. While its efforts to evict these encroachers have proven futile, the institute believes the government’s assistance will be of great benefit since the institute’s […] The post ‘Encroachers
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahene Aidoo says his outfit will soon introduce irrigation facilities to cocoa farms nationwide to address the impact of climate change on cocoa farms. Expressing COCOBOD’s commitment to irrigate all cocoa farms during a two-day tour of replanted cocoa farms in the Sefwi area, […] The post Procurement
A member of James Gyakye Quayson’s legal team, Baba Jamal, says his side disagrees with the latest ruling of the Supreme Court on the Assin North Constituency election petition. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, restrained Mr. Quayson from representing the people of Assin North until the final determination of a pending substantive […] The post ‘We
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame, is satisfied with the Supreme Court’s ruling restricting James Gyakye Quayson from holding himself as the Member of Parliament for the Assin North Constituency. Speaking after the ruling, Mr. Dame said “the ruling is an affirmation of law establishing principles by the Supreme Court.” Touching on […] The post ‘Supreme
The New Patriotic Party’s Volta Regional Recourse group has called on President Akufo-Addo to consider reshuffling his ministers who they say are becoming complacent and seen to be acting with impunity in some situations. The advisory group, which is made up of known senior members of the Patriotic Party in the Volta Region, says the […] The post Reshuffle
Five persons accused of taking part in the rioting that took place at Essiama District Police headquarters in the Ellembele District of the Western Region, have been remanded into police custody. The five are said to have joined a group of people to attack the police station following the shooting to death of a resident […] The post Five remanded over chaos
The Supreme Court has restrained James Gyakye Quayson from holding himself as the Member of Parliament for the Assin North constituency. Mr. Quayson was restrained in a ruling delivered by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. This decision was taken in a petition brought before the Supreme Court by Michael Ankomah-Nimfa, a resident of […] The post Supreme
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