South Africa was stunned when Oscar Pistorius shot dead his model girlfriend A South African judge has ruled that the trial of athlete Oscar Pistorius can be partially televised. Mr Pistorius shot his girlfriend, the model and reality TV star Reeva Steenkamp, more than a year ago, and his murder trial begins next Monday. State […]

Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, Minority leader The Minority leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has described the state of the nation address delivered by President John Mahama as a recycle of his first address. President John Dramani Mahama Tuesday addressed Parliament and the nation on the condition of the republic and outline his agenda for […]

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Monday, joined Senegalese President Macky Sall and his government to raise more than nine trillion CFA Francs at a donor’s conference to support a development plan aimed at doubling that country’s economic growth over the next 10 years. The conference had hoped to raise about […]

DCOP Kofi Boakye, Ashanti Regional Police Commander THE NEWLY posted Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye, has been handed what appears to be his first major “disciplinary reality check”, after three of his men were reported to have subjected one of the cameramen of TV3 Television Network in Kumasi, Victor Opoku, to severe beatings […]

This is the shocking moment Andrew Young was punched by Lewis Gill – Mr Young died of head injuries a day later in hospital This is the shocking moment a pedestrian was killed by a single punch after he got into a row about cycling on the pavement. Andrew Young, 40, became involved in an […]

Users of Apple’s OS X operating system are being warned to take care when browsing online as they wait for a solution to a security flaw. A software update was released last week to owners of iPhones, iPads and iPods to protect users from “an attacker” who may “capture or modify data”. It was later […]

 Grabbed! Augustine Gariba THE MANKRANSO District Magistrate Court in the Ashanti Region presided over by Ms Felicia Anane has remanded Augustine Gariba into prison custody for stealing. Gariba, 20, a casual worker of Glo, a telecommunications company, was arraigned after he was arrested and handed over to the Mankranso District Police Command for stealing two […]

Paul Afoko The Vetting Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is bracing up to determine the fate of one of its National Chairman aspirants, Paul Afoko, sometime this week, as it awaits a report from INTERPOL, DAILY GUIDE has learnt. Mr Afoko’s vetting was suspended following a petition received by the party’s Vetting Committee […]

The controversial cars The Board of Governors at Adisadel College in Cape Coast has disputed allegation by some media houses that the outgoing headmaster of the school, Dr K.K. Graham was presented with four vehicles as his end of service benefits by the college at his recent send-off party. According to the Board, the said […]

President John Dramani Mahama will deliver his second State of the Nation Address today in Parliament amidst speculation that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Minority members would give him ‘baptism of fire’ by way of prolonged heckling. The President, as former MP for Bole/Bamboi in the Northern Region from 1996 to 2008, understands parliamentary heckling […]

Exactly a day short of a year today, President Mahama refused to acknowledge the Election Petition challenge in his State of the Nation Address.  His concerns on that day were “dumso dumso”, water matters, unemployment and security problems.  Now, with the election petition gunned down, the remainder situations are becoming culture.  No solution to the […]

 Some of the mechanics at the new site DAILY GUIDE has gathered that the Tanokrom mechanics who initially refused to relocate from their present site near the Takoradi Jubilee Park in the Western Region, have finally succumbed to pressure. The mechanics were being ejected from the site to pave way for the construction of a […]

NANA KONADU Agyeman-Rawlings NANA KONADU Agyeman-Rawlings will contest for the presidential seat on the ticket of the National Democratic Party (NDP) in the 2016 general elections, reveals a top official of the party. Samuel Appiah, the Ashanti Regional Deputy Chairman of the NDP, stated that the former First Lady and founder of the party, would […]

Suspect Asshaku Adams a.k.a 116, inset weapons in possession A 60-year-old suspected contract killer has been nabbed by the Prampram District Police Command for attempting another assassination in the area. Asshaku Adams aka 116, who has earned the name ‘116’ for himself, boasts of having killed about 116 persons. He was heading towards Miotso, close […]

The University Of Ghana, Legon, has out of courtesy for government, decided to put on hold the collection of tolls at the entry points to the premier institution of higher learning – a courteous gesture. We did not expect anything beneath such courteous conduct anyway: a university of this stature could not have done anything […]

The Ghana Prisons Service has started a programme towards reforming the management of prisoners to conform to international best practices. Towards this end, the Director-General of Prisons has commissioned a transformational task force made up of various experts from a multiplicity of departments in the Service and headed by Rev. CSP. James Tetteh of Prisons […]

 Mawuena Trebarh, Ag. Chief Executive Officer of GIPC Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows to the country last year declined marginally by 19.53 percent to $3.946.41 million compared to almost $4,904.41 million recorded in 2012. A fourth quarter investment report released by the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC), which made this known, said the centre registered […]

members of GOGSPA Oil & gas service providers in the country have sent distress calls to the Petroleum Commission to aid them to tackle the issue of delayed payments by international oil companies (IOCs). According to the service providers, IOCs have deliberately resorted to making late payments of services offered them by local companies with […]