A 92-year-old RAF veteran has become Britain’s oldest paedophile to be caught by online vigilantes after trying to meet an 11-year-old girl for sex. Ivor Gifford, of Abertillery, South Wales, faces jail after learning how to use internet chatrooms to meet young girls for sex. He was trapped by The Hunted One, a group aiming ...

The Paramount Chief of the Assin Owirenkyi Traditional Area, and a member of the national house of chiefs, Nana Prah Agyensaim plans to propose to members of th National the need to use their good offices to help win the fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey. Nana Prah believes this proposal will directly ...

Nigel Quashie (Ghana – England – Scotland) Quashie was born in the London Borough of Southwark to a Ghanaian father and an English mother. He was married for ten years to Joanna, with whom he had a daughter and a son, who died shortly after birth in 1999. After a divorce and his move to ...

The Tarkwa Circuit court has remanded into prison custody, four young men who allegedly attempted to offer a car they hired in Accra for sale in Tarkwa. The four, Samuel Nana Kwakye, 38, Mahmud Abdulai, alias Baba Kankani, 38, Joseph Osei, alias Joe, 36 and Godfrey Kojo Kwakye, alias Biggy, 42 who were charged with ...

The Ministry of Finance has issued guidelines for the validation of suspended workers on government payroll. A statement issued by Mr Patrick Nomo, the Chief Director, Ministry of Finance, recounted that the Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta on February 10, requested the Controller and Accountant General (CAGD) to inform all public servants on the Government ...

Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has assured the people of the East Mamprusi District that government would work to get investors to establish a cement factory in the district. He said the factory would exploit the limestone deposits at Gbandaa, a community in the district, to produce cement as part of the government’s One ...

WaterAid Ghana(WAG) has signed a GHC 2.5million  agreement with the Bongo and Kassena Nankana West district assemblies in the Upper East Region to improve Maternal, Newborn and child health-care under its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene  for Public Health Project(WASH4PH). The agreement seeks the commitment of all parties to work efficiently to improve access to water ...

The Minister for Aviation, Cecilia Dapaah has disclosed that government will construct an airstrip in the Bolgatanga municipality of the Upper East Region within its first term to create an enabling environment for business activities and tourism. She said, as part of government’s efforts to open up the country to local businesses, the construction of an ...

American actress and model, Margaret Denise Quigley, professionally known as Maggie Q, is currently in Kenya to raise awareness for elephant conservation. Maggie Q, who currently stars in ABC’s political drama Designated Survivor, is known for starring in the action films Mission: Impossible III and Live Free or Die Hard and also played the title ...

Apple is refusing to compensate a woman whose Beats headphones exploded in her face, claiming the batteries were at fault. Earlier this year, the anonymous woman says she was asleep on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne when she was awakened by an explosion and heat searing her face. The sparking headphones burned her face ...

Hundreds of protesters, most of them men, have marched in the South African capital, Pretoria, over rising levels of violence against women and children. One of the organisers, Kholofelo Masha, said men had to take collective responsibility for the increase in beatings, sex attacks and killings. South Africa has one of the highest rates of ...

Bayern Munich captain Philipp Lahm was given an emotional ovation as he waved farewell to the German club before his final career appearance. Germany’s 2014 World Cup-winning captain, 33, was presented with a number of mementos before Saturday’s home win against Freiburg. Lahm played his 517th and final game for the Bundesliga champions. Midfielder Xabi ...

A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 girls, who were part of a huge group kidnapped from their school in 2014, are in the care of security services in the capital, Abuja. Their parents travelled by bus through the night to meet ...

Authorities of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have rusticated twenty-two students for their involvement in the clashes between Atlantic (ATL) and Oguaa Halls during a hall week celebration. Most of the rusticated students who are executives of ATL and organizers of the hall week celebration. Whereas some were suspended for two semesters, others are ...

A suspected fake doctor who demanded sex as payment for terminating the pregnancy of a woman has been arrested at Chorkor Lantey Maami, near Bukom, in Accra. The man, identified as Godwin Dadzawa, 41, is said to have sexually abused the woman and extorted money from her. The suspect, who claims to be a graduate ...

The Ministry of Health has said it is ready to appear before the law court to defend its decision to transfer the Director of the Ridge hospital, Dr Thomas Anaba. Mr. Anaba has threatened to sue the ministry for what he claims is an unlawful transfer by the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu. Speaking to ...

Former National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention, Abu Ramadan now member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has defended his reasons for leaving his former party. He argued that it was a right decision ecause the PNC’s electoral fortunes had dwindled drastically over the years. Mr. Ramadan announced his defection to the ...