Constable Nicholas Owusu Asante, a police officer who was assigned to guard Miss Rachel Florence Appoh, a Deputy Minister of Gender and Social Protection, has been arrested by the police for withdrawing money from the bank account of the deputy minister without her knowledge. The suspected Constable, who passed out in 2011, was stationed in […]

The Supreme Court presided over by Justice Akamba has dismissed a motion filed by former Zebilla MP John Ndebugre seeking to restrain the Energy Minister from laying a new petroleum agreement before Parliament. Mr. Ndebugre had applied for an interlocutory injunction to restrain Parliament from approving the agreement between the Government of Ghana and AGM Petroleum. Mr. […]

The world’s heaviest woman has lost a staggering 600lbs in the five years since she shot to fame as the ‘Half-Ton Killer’. She made headlines in 2008 after being accused and then found not guilty of murdering her nephew with her own 1,000-pound body, and now Mayra Rosales, 32, has embarked on a grueling journey […]

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is calling for the establishment of a multi-party parliamentary Budget office to check over spending by government. Addressing journalists on the 2014 budget, Senior Economists with the IEA, Dr John Kwakye expressed worry at the manner in which Ghana’s budget deficit rose from 4.8 percent in November 2011 to […]

Ghana striker Dominic Adiyiah has officially terminated his contract with Ukrainian Premier League side Arsenal Kiev after the club was declared bankrupt. In a statement released through his agent Christain Emile, the 2009 Fifa Youth World Cup MVP, will be able to join any club of his choice on a free transfer because of the […]

A drug dealer who has spent the last 14 Christmases in prison has been spared jail by a sympathetic judge so he may spend the festive season with his daughter.  Richard Musgrave, 35, begged Judge Paul Batty not to send him to prison after spending every Christmas in his teenage daughter’s life behind bars for […]

Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, is expected to host the second in a series of Progressive People’s Party (PPP) led anti-corruption demonstrations on Saturday, November 23, 2013. There was poor turnout in the initial demonstration dubbed, ‘Ayefe Notse’ held in Accra last month by the PPP anti-corruption coalition to protest against President John Dramani Mahama’s […]

Two Nigerian nationals who are believed to be exporting cocaine with the help of some Ghanaian collaborators were yesterday dragged before an Accra Circuit Court. The suspects, David Kalu Okoro and Samuel Eloka Okeke, both businessmen, reportedly had the suspected narcotic substance in three bags found their home when police arrived. They were put before […]

The seeming rift between the Effia Constituency chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alidu Mohammed and the Propaganda Secretary of the party, Alhaji Nii Markwei Dawda over the GH₵4,000 ‘Waakye’ brouhaha, turned spiteful last Tuesday when the chairman described the propaganda secretary as a mad person. Speaking on Radio Silver, a radio station in Sekondi, […]