Paul Afoko Businessman and leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko, has suddenly become talk of the town following a decision by his party’s Vetting Committee to withhold his vetting for some reasons. Our reporter, Charles Takyi-Boadu, caught up with him at his private office in Accra to know the inside-out of […]

The Academic Board of the University of Ghana, the second highest decision making body of the university has directed management to take legal action against the National Security Coordinator Rtd Colonel Larry Gbevlo-Lartey and his team for unlawfully demolishing a toll booth and security post on the university premises. Heavily armed police men were said […]

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams says Ghanaians are fast losing respect for the elderly. According to him, the age-old Ghanaian culture of deferring to elders even when a child is right and the elder is wrong appears to have disappeared. “…You haven’t done anything and you just get up, just because you don’t agree […]

Nigeria’s central bank governor Lamido Sanusi has been suspended by the president for “financial recklessness and misconduct”. Mr Sanusi caused shockwaves in Nigeria when he alleged that $20bn (£12bn) in oil revenue had gone missing. Nigeria’s state oil firm has denied failing to account for the money, saying the claim was “unsubstantiated”. Mr Sanusi is […]

The 2012 flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Hassan Ayariga, was last Wednesday hauled to the Nima Police Station for allegedly threatening David Apasera, the national treasurer of the party. The PNC treasurer was demanding an amount of GH¢1.3 million being party campaign funds, to be accounted for by the former flagbearer. DAILY GUIDE […]

Ebere a m’asem no bae se Akwaboa  na w’awuo no Nea obenom nsa no, orenom, Na nea oresu nso, oresu Nea obesre nso, oresre ‘ Amma saa nka ennye …M’asan  aba. (When word broke out that Akwaboa had died; Those who would drink, drank; Those who would lament, cried; And those who would mock, laughed; […]

A SUSPECTED murderer belonging to a terror armed robbery group in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, who escaped while being transported in a van, has been re-arrested. Prince Adu-Gyamfi, 22, went into hiding on October 28, 2013, after absconding while being transferred from the KMA Circuit Court on the Happer road, to police cell in […]

Paul Afoko Businessman and leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko, has suddenly become talk of the town following a decision by his party’s Vetting Committee to withhold his vetting for some reasons. Our reporter, Charles Takyi-Boadu, caught up with him at his private office in Accra to know the inside-out of […]

Dan Kwaku Botwe and Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe  The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Okere in the Eastern Region, Dan Kwaku Botwe, has challenged Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe to be bold and quit the NPP if he so wishes. He said recent utterances in the media by Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe were not only in gross […]

Hajia Fati Amadu All five persons, including Hajia Fati Amadu, who were earlier disqualified from contesting for various national executive positions in the upcoming delegates’ conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have been reinstated. Hajia Fati Amadu (aka Aliga), Philomena Serwaa Akoto Sam, and Fred Amankwah Sarfo, have been cleared to contest for the […]

Philip Akpeena Assibit, the Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill International Ghana (GIG), who is standing trial in the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Authority (GYEEDA) scandal, has been remanded into prison custody, having failed to meet his bail conditions. Mr. Assibit was facing trial alongside the former National Coordinator of GYEEDA, Abuga Pele, for […]

Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has responded to the recent outburst of Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a party stalwart, describing his claims as flawed. This was after he had questioned the composition of the party’s national vetting committee. A statement issued by Acting Director of Communication of the party, Perry Curtis Okudzeto, pointed […]

Wise politicians won’t rebuke President John Mahama. They would rather be appreciative of everything associated with his government and difficult-to-identify achievements. These remarks, uttered by the President, paraphrased though, suggest that those who castigate the President for the shortcomings of his administration are what the antonym of “wise” is. To describe, in a democracy, those […]

A cocoa porter, Mohammed Sulemana, who is believed to be in his early 30s and works at the Takoradi Port, was yesterday beheaded by a moving train at a spot near the level crossing at the Takoradi Habour main gate around 6:00am. Eyewitnesses’ accounts said that Sulemana was hit by the train while he was […]

Prof. Ohene Adjei, KATH Boss A 45 year old man has died after he was turned away from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, (KATH) following an ongoing strike action by medical staff there. Nathaniel Ayamga, who resides at Aburaso in Kumasi, was rushed to the Hospital by his brother after he complained of severe body […]

Confirmed DCE (in white) with Gushiegu DCE (in black) The President’s nominee for District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kumbungu in the Northern Region, Alhaji Iddi Manzah Mahama, was finally on Wednesday endorsed by members of the assembly. It was gathered that the former government appointees were not in support of the nominee and as such, […]

The burnt body of Kwabena Fordjour TWO MEN, including a sexagenarian, have died after fire broke out in a 11-bedroom house at Akaporiso in Obuasi, Ashanti Region, on Saturday. The blaze, which started around 7:00 am, was said to have engulfed one of the rooms that was being occupied by Opanin Yaw Sekyere, 64, and […]

ASP Effia Tengey BAIL HAS been treated and discussed on various media and public dialogue platforms but still remains an area of most interest to the public. Issues on bail trigger and provoke questions in any police/public educational discourse, even when the topic is far from bail. Since it has become an important area worth […]

STRIKING NURSES at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi have sternly cautioned Kwaku Boahen, the Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser of the ruling NDC, not to extend his usual propaganda to their doorstep. Sounding the warning, the Vice President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, Jones Afriyie Anto, lambasted the NDC youth […]