Nana Akufo-Addo The 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration has proven that they are unable to govern the country. He listed the depreciation of the cedi and the mismanagement of the economy as clear indications that the NDC has run out of ideas. […]

Former Finance Minister, Dr. Anthony Akoto-Osei says government must consider suspending portions of the single spine pay policy (SSPP) as its full implementation cannot be sustained. The policy takes about 70 percent of public spending; a situation, experts say could crush the economy if not checked. At the Graphic-Fidelity Economic Dialogue held at the Alisa […]

A friend of Oscar Pistorius has told his murder trial that the athlete “had a big love” for guns. Darren Fresco said that he had been with him on two occasions when a gun had been fired in public. Mr Pistorius had once accidentally fired a gun in a restaurant but made him take the […]

Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby Policy Analyst, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby says civil society organsations should take up the responsibility of holding leaders of the country accountable rather than just blabbing. According to the Chief Policy Analyst of Ghana Institute of Public Policy Options (GIPPO), local think tanks have now joined politicians in “talking plenty and doing nothing”. […]

Controversial hiplife musician A-Plus and songstress Mzbel have both paid glowing tribute to late hiplife musician Araz who was shot dead, Monday. The lifeless body of the musician, born Nii Ayittey Noryatse, who until his death was the Chief of Joma, a village near Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region, was found in his room about […]

Freddie Blay with Kingston Kissi and Peter Wiafe Peprah The aspiring First Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hon Freddie Blay, yesterday assured constituency executives of the party and others who thronged his base in Accra that he is in the race to change the electoral fortunes of the party and help the […]

IGP Mohammed Alhassan Corporal Bernard Frimpong, the policeman who allegedly opened fire in the banking hall of the Derby Avenue branch of CAL Bank, injuring three persons last Saturday, has been arrested by the police. Information gathered by DAILY GUIDE   yesterday indicated that suspect Frimpong had been detained pending investigations by the Accra Regional […]

Three robbers were yesterday handed a ninety-year jail term by an Accra Circuit Court. In separate judgments, the court, presided over by Mr. Francis Obiri, sentenced Danso Dominic, a driver, and Zakari Usman, aka Zak, scrap dealer, to 30 years’ jail term each while Muttah Sajarr, 24, the only survivor in a two-man robbery syndicate, […]

DSP Mawunyegah Tehoda, the beleaguered police officer dismissed for her alleged complicity in the swapping of 120 kilograms of cocaine, yesterday said she knew nothing about the storeroom where the cocaine – which was supposed to be used as evidence against Nana Ama Martin, a cocaine suspect – was kept by the police. She told […]

Akwasi Oppong-Fosu, Minister of Local Gov’t The Founder and First Director of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Nana Opoku-Ampomah, has asked President John Mahama to called the La Kwantanan-Madina Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Franklin Anku and his workers who are harassing innocent people, to order. According to the former IPS proprietor, the behaviour […]

The ferry site and the adomi bridge site The Adomi Bridge at Atimpoku in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region has been officially shut down to pave way for repair works. According to the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA), the repair works was estimated at €13 million and expected to be completed in two years. […]

If you are a leader, remember that discontentment will scatter your followers. “To be content” means “to be satisfied, gratified, appeased and delighted” with something. It also means “to be thrilled, tickled, bewitched, captivated, charmed and enraptured” with what you have. Contentment is a product of the heart and not a product of one’s circumstances. […]

Power outages have become unfortunate features of the country, visiting painful fallouts on businesses and the economy as a whole. With increased taxes already pushing such businesses to the precipice, the now daily breaks in electricity supply are but unwelcome developments. Businessmen and women are scratching their heads for solutions to the challenges posed by […]

Gabriel Barimma The woes of the dismissed DCE for Ahafo Ano South in the Ashanti Region, Gabriel Barimma, also known as ‘Tweeaaa DCE,’ are not yet over as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) members in the district are calling for his blood. The NDC faithful said since the DCE had misconducted himself and suffered dismissal, […]

A scene of the fire with some crew men Tragedy struck a family of five at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region after a mother and four of her children were burnt to death in an early morning fire that gutted their home yesterday. Akua Afriyie, a 51-year-old seamstress together with her son, Victor Serebour, 26, her […]

Two notorious robbers who allegedly snatched a taxi with registration number GW 5457-13 in broad daylight, and attracted the wrath of the people – who subjected them to severe beating and stripped them naked – have been arrested by the police at Awutu Breku in the Central Region. The robbers, Desmond Appiah and Yaw Yeboah, […]

The two deceased Mustapha Abdul Rashid (left) and Mohammed Nasir (right) Two persons have been killed in two closely related incidents at Sagnerigu and Aboabo, in the Tamale Metropolis. In the first incident, one Mohammed Nasir was shot on Saturday at close range by some mask-wearing assailants at Sagnarigu while on his way to visit […]

Richard Buabaassah with his items after he was arrested.  RICHARD KAFFUI Buabaassah, alias Gbanigba, a self-styled spiritualist, has been arrested by the Emef Mataheko police in Accra for defrauding a man in the sum of GH¢1,000 under the pretext of conjuring an amount of GH¢10,000 for him. The culprit, a 35-year-old security man attached to […]

President Blaise Compaore joins a woman on a farm President Blaise Compaore has proved beyond contradictions that the drawbacks of aridity can be reversed. Today, Burkina Faso, a country located north of Ghana, is source of important lessons for the rest of Africa that agriculture, regardless of weather conditions, can be used to alter the […]