Some residents of Sumbrungu, a suburb of the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region on Monday embarked on a demonstration to protest a planned relocation of a regional airport to a neigbouring community at Sherigu. They carried placards with the inscriptions,”’Mr. Minister why relocate airport”, “Don’t disorganise our proposed airport”, “It was there before ...

A police patrol team on Sunday dawn allegedly shot and killed a police officer who was escorting an ‘OA’ passenger bus to the Northern region. Identified as Lance Corporal Robert Kumi Ackah of the Tamale Rapid Deployment Force, he was said to have been mistaken to be an armed robber by his colleagues and killed ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested three armed robbers said to have been robbing and terrorising residents of Aputuogya and its surroundings areas in the Bosomtwe District. The three, Muhammed Sulley, Abubakar Siddick Awudu and Ibrahim Issah had in their possession, a container full of acid, a locally manufactured pistol, two live cartridges, ten ...

The world of convertible laptops just got its thinnest yet. Asus unveiled the Zenbook Flip S on Monday in a large-scale launch event, a day ahead of the larger Computex technology show in Taipei. The Zenbook Flip S is 10.9mm thin. In comparison, competitors like the HP Spectre x360 come in at 13.8mm, and the ...

General Manuel Antonio Noriega, former military leader of Panama, has died aged 83, officials have announced. Noriega recently underwent an operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain surgery. Noriega had been a key US ally but was forcibly removed when American troops invaded in 1989 and was later jailed in the US on drugs and ...

The Ghana Armed Forces have commenced investigations into the murder of one of its personnel deployed Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. The solider, Captain Maxwell Mahama is reported to have been lynched and burnt by some youth at Diaso, a small town in the area who mistook him for an armed robber. The incident, which happened on ...

Somali militants have stoned a man to death after an Islamic court convicted him of adultery. Dayow Mohamed Hassan, 44, was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabab fighters. He was convicted of being in an adulterous relationship with a woman and impregnating her, despite having two wives, an official said. Al-Shabab ...

Commercial drivers within Ablekuma Manhyia, Oduma and Nsakina in the Greater Accra Region, on Monday took to the streets to protest against the bad nature of their roads. Some of the drivers in the course of the protest blocked the main road linking those areas claiming that it had been in a deplorable state for ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, believes the controversy surrounding the $2.25 billion dollar bond may impede the planned issue of a 15-year bond to clear energy sector debts. Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Adongo said the apparent secrecy surrounding that $2.25 billion bond had eroded investor confidence. “The biggest challenge ...

Ghana and Mali have pledged to work towards strengthening the ties of cooperation that exist between them, after the Presidents of the two countries expressed satisfaction with the current state of that relationship. In a joint communiqué issued at the end of a day’s working visit to Mali by President Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 28th May, ...

The Judicial Committee of the University of Ghana chapter of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana, (GRASAG), on Monday gave its verdict on petitions challenging the results of the April 26 GRASAG-UG executive election. The committee ruled that, the declaration of results made by the Electoral Commission on Saturday, April 29, 2017, be upheld to ...

The first batch of Muslims embarking on this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, will leave Ghana on August 10, 2017. The National Hajj Board has said a total of six flights will fly directly from the Northern Regional capital, Tamale, to Saudi Arabia. The board has also started publishing the names of Muslims who ...

The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) is beginning a nationwide towing programme next month to ensure that all vehicles that breakdown on highways are cleared off the roads. To enjoy this service, drivers will be required to pay a road safety fee ranging between GHC 10 and GHC 100 in addition to their road worthy ...