The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested the Suame constituency organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Razak Koampa Avoliya. This was after he voluntarily turned himself in to the regional branch of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), who were looking for him to answer for an inflammatory statement he reportedly made about the 2024 elections that went viral on social media. Mr Koampa was seen in the viral video threatening to visit mayhem on supporters of the governing
A Justice of the Supreme Court (SC), sitting as an additional judge of the High Court, Clemence Honyenuga, has debunked allegations by sections of the public that the trial of Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and two others has delayed for six years. According to his Lordship Honyenuga, he received the warrant to hear the case on March 16, 2018 and started the actual hearing in May 2018. Hitherto, he said, some people were making a lot of noise that the case had been delayed for six years. The Judge
A data analyst, Nana Kweku Ofori Atta says government must disclose to Ghanaians the source of funding for a programme dubbed the National Rental Assistance Scheme, which has been officially launched. This, he explained, would enable the citizenry to interrogate the programme and subject it to scrutiny to ascertain its viability and sustainability. Sharing his perspective on the scheme with The Chronicle, Nana Ofori Atta indicated that government’s loud silence on the source or sources of funding
An Accra Circuit Court presided over by Samuel Bright Acquah has remanded three persons – Kwame Aware, 39 and a clearing agent, Emmanuel Nyarko Boafo, 37 and mason, Nurudeen Adams, 32 and a farmer – for robbery, kidnapping and abetment of crime. The accused persons were remanded into police custody on Monday, February 6, 2023 after pleading not guilty to the charges. Mr Acquah has adjourned the case to February 13 for continuation. Brief facts The prosecution, led by ASP Maxwell Oppong,
The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, in July last year, confirmed that the country lost about GH¢27 billion to tax exemptions granted some businesses between 2008 and 2020. This amounts to about GH¢2.2 billion surrendered in tax waivers each year for the 12-year period. The Minister said in Parliament that since 2008, it was only in 2020 that the lost revenue declined to about GH¢1.8 billion. Ken Ofori-Atta gave the confirmation during the second reading of the Tax Exemptions Bill, 2020.
Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang, Ashanti Regional Director of Ghana Health Services has disclosed that out of the 4,055,214 doses administered in the Ashanti region, a total 1,662,443 persons constituting 51.6% of the total population of the region have been fully vaccinated. According to him, the number of persons who received at least one dose recorded 2,363,484 which is about 73.4%. Dr.Tenkorag revealed this at media briefing to update the public on the current situations of the COVID-19 pandemic
Samsung Electronics has offered some security advice on how members of the public may protect their vital information on their headsets to avoid being leaked out. It said many at times people inadvertently lose their privileged information into wrong hand and goes viral to affect the dignity of their lives. This, Samsung hope to address by urging the public to make use of security features built in the phone. These security features are also to help easy tracking of the device, especially when
A bench warrant secured for the arrest of Stephen Okutu Kofi alias Kofi Santoe and Benjamin Djanker aka Asaa, who were accused of engaging in unlawful protection of land at Katamanso, has been revoked. The warrant was revoked by an Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Samuel Bright Acquah, yesterday, after the duo voluntarily presented themselves to the court. They were granted bail in the sum of GH¢100,000.00, with four sureties who are ordinary citizens and residents of the jurisdiction. Stephen
A torrential rainfall which struck the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality in the Ashanti Region over the weekend has displaced over 3,000 pupils, disrupting academic activities. Fast-forward to Monday, the dining hall of the Ejuraman Senior High School (SHS) collapsed onto the students during supper, injuring about forty of them, of whom five were in severely condition and were rushed to the hospital for treatment. The nocturnal development has compelled the students to study in deplorable classroom
The Executive President of the Ghana Baptist Convention (GBC), Reverend Enoch Nii Narh Thompson has unveiled plans by the Church to embark on a nationwide tree planting exercise as part of its 60th Anniversary celebration this year. “The Church has over 1,380 branches in Ghana currently, with each of them planting trees in their local areas throughout the year”. According to him, Ghanaians, especially Christians, have a crucial role to play in restoring and protecting the environment,
Patricia Asiedua, aka Nana Agradaa, and three others are before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly distributing visual recordings of one Prophet Emmanuel Appiah’s genitals, without his consent. Agradaa, founder of Heaven Way Champion Ministry, has been charged with non-consensual sharing of intimate image. The three others have been charged with abatement of crime.Enock Owusu Kissi, Charles Omane, aka One Gig and Kofi Gyasi have pleaded not guilty. They have been admitted to bail in the
We often quote the above phrases in our daily conversations but I guess sometimes we do so without serious stocktaking of our many blessings. Life may sometimes get tough like anywhere in the universe, I agree. But I tell you the COUNTRY GHANA WE HAVE, if we patriotically and painstakingly look deeper, we would soon realize it is quite a charming one. On the other day, I went to a pharmacy to buy an anti-malaria drug to handle our one-and-only “African disease”, malaria. I usually
The Court of Appeal Abuja has dismissed a suit by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) seeking to disqualify Peter Obi as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Delivering Judgement, the President of the Court, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensan dismissed the appeal on the grounds that the appeal lacked merit and APM lacked the legal right to initiate the suit. The appellate court also awarded a cost of N200,000 against APM, in favour of the Labour Party and Peter Obi who are the 2nd and
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is optimistic that nothing would interfere with the successful conduct of the 2023 general elections scheduled for February 25 and March 11. Obasanjo’s comment is coming amid fear that the general elections might be postponed due to the ongoing crisis occasioned by the scarcity of fuel and new naira notes. The former President spoke when he played host to the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) at his Penthouse residence located
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised the Federal Government of Nigeria to extend the February 10 deadline for the validity of three old naira notes if citizens continue to find it difficult to get the redesigned N200, N500 and N1,000 notes. “In light of hardships caused by disruptions to trade and payments due to the shortage of new bank notes available to the public, in spite of measures introduced by the CBN to mitigate the challenges in the banknote swap process, the IMF encourages
Nigeria and the Republic of Niger have signed a bilateral agreement in Abuja for coordination of frequency utilisation along their borders to ensure seamless deployment of services around and within the two countries. The agreement signing ceremony was one of the highlights of the two-day Digital Economy Regional Conference, hosted by the Nigerian government and facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, which ended at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja. Nigeria’s Minister
Mrs. Pamela Djamson-Tettey, Managing Director of Ghana Airports Company Limited, has called for an urgent review of the GH¢5.00 Airport Passenger Service Charge (APSC) per passenger for domestic air travel. She said, the current domestic Airport Passenger Service Charge was fixed at GH¢5 in 2010 and had since not been reviewed. Mrs. Djamson-Tettey made the call when speaking as a panelist at the 4th Aviation Ghana Stakeholders Meeting, held in Accra on the theme: “Post Covid-19 Recovery Process
Ghanaian movie star, Yaw Dabo has apologized to Ghanaians for the “lazy people watch movies for more than an hour,” statement he made in an interview. Dabo received a lot of criticism following his remarks he made to Saddick Adams during an interview. The actor claimed that if someone watches movies for even an hour, they are being lazy. He emphasized discipline as one of the essential requirements for success in life, and spending more than an hour watching a movie that won’t change your
American Disc Jockey, DJ Khaled expressed excited to meet Nigerian singer/songwriter Tems at the just ended Grammy Awards ceremony. The two met on the red carpet at the event held at the Cryto.com arena in Los Angeles on Sunday. DJ Khaled could not hold back on telling Tems how much he admires her and how big of a fan he is of her work. He told her he had spent about 20 minutes talking about her during an interview. “I’m your biggest fan,” DJ Khaled told Tems as he greeted her. “I don’t
Diddy’s team has reacted to a viral tweet which they have labeled as faked and he never wrote anything of the sort dissing Burna Boy. The tweet circulated after Burna Boy’s defeat in the Best Global Music Album category at the Grammy Awards, especially because they won the award together their last time collaborating. Following the ceremony, Diddy took to Instagram amid his messages of love to snipe BurnaBoy. Taking credit for the Afrobeats star’s first and only Grammy win, while
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