Three women have appeared before a court accused of gang raping a pastor who went round to their home to demand money they owed him. Western Commonage Magistrates Court in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, heard how the holy man was grabbed and forced onto a bed and then stripped. The three women Sandra Ncube, 21, Riamuhetsi Mlauzi, ...

The Electoral Commission may soon have a lawsuit on its hand if its embattled Director of Finance, Dr. Joseph Kwaku Asamoah, is not reinstated following the directive to proceed on leave after the loss of some GHc480,000 from the EC’s Staff Endowment Fund. A letter to, dated July 13, 2017, from Dr. Asamoah’s lawyers to the EC Chairperson ...

The Abeka district court has adjourned its judgment in the case where a Lebanese supervisor, Jihad Chaaban is facing trial for assaulting an employee. Evelyn Boakye. The court’s decision follows an announcement by lawyers for the accused person that the two parties had reached a settlement in the case. According to the magistrate, the adjournment ...

The Abeka district court has adjourned its judgment in the case where a Lebanese supervisor, Jihad Chaaban is facing trial for assaulting an employee, Evelyn Boakye. The court’s decision follows an announcement by lawyers for the accused person that the two parties had reached a settlement in the case. According to the magistrate, the adjournment ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has referred a petition calling on him to invoke Article 146(3) of the Constitution to impeach the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei to the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo. This is according to a statement from the Presidency. The statement said the petition was initially undated and unsigned but ...

Priority will be given to foreign engineers on key government projects because of the inability of local engineers execute projects to the required qualitative standards, the Minister of Works and Housing, Samuel Atta-Akyea has said. The Minister had some harsh words for local engineers as he intimated that they were preoccupied with making money, as ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei is scheduled to appear before Parliament later today [Wednesday]. She is expected to account for money collected from journalists as accreditation fees and how that has been spent. The question that has dragged her to the house stands in the name of the MP for Subin ...

The Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has been drawn to take part in the Rugby Afrique Men’s Sevens Tournament that will take place in Kampala Uganda on the 6th and 7th of October 2017. This tournament serves as the qualifier for the Sevens Rugby World Cup 2018, the Commonwealth Games, and the World Series repechage ...

Traders, passengers and drivers who ply the Koforidua-Mamfe Aburi to Accra road daily face possible danger as half of a section of the road has been eroded by heavy rain fall. The eroded section is located after the sharp curve before a police barrier between Tinkon and Nyamebekyere in the Eastern Region. The downpour, which ...

The Manhyia Divisional Police Command has arrested three persons suspected to have been involved in the shooting of Osman Abdul Karim during 2017’s Eid-Ul-Fitr festivities. 17-year-old Osman Abdul Karim was shot in the head at Bonjour, an eatery and playground in Kumasi on June 27. The suspects fired shots from locally manufactured pistols at celebrants. ...

A cross section of stakeholders of Voltic (GH) Limited (Voltic) including its suppliers, customers, and business partners welcomed Mr. François Gazania, the new Managing Director of the country’s premium bottled water company, Voltic, at a ceremony held recently to receive him. At the same ceremony, Mr. Philip Redman who has led company for the past ...

The National Communications Backbone Company (NCBC), a subsidiary of Vodafone, has paid 30% of its debt to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). Officials of the GRA confirmed this to Citi Business News. “The National Communications Backbone Company raised issues concerning the tax audit that was conducted and in conformity with the tax law, they were required ...

Monitoring and Evaluation Minister, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei has disclosed that his outfit will by October this year give an account of the performances of the various ministries towards achieving set targets. According to him, the ministries have already submitted reports detailing their key priority areas to be assessed on. Ghana’s Ministry of Monitoring and ...

The Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Mohammed Murtala Ibrahim has described the National Democratic Congress(NDC) as having lost focus and in total disarray thus resorting to unnecessary press conferences. According to him, instead of the NDC being a responsible opposition constructively criticizing the government and proffering alternatives, they organize press ...

Nana Akufo-Addo is being set up to be embarrassed by some faceless persons who clandestinely introduced some clauses into the special prosecutor’s Bill to limit the prosecutor from investigating certain kinds of corruption and also removing corruption from the jurisdiction of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO). This is the assertion of former Attorney ...

The BigJulyGetAway leisure trip is living up to expectations as patrons say they have been treated to a thrilling ride so far. As the maiden edition of the BigJulyGetAway enters day three today [Wednesday], the team will be embarking on a full day excursion of some interesting scenic places on the Mauritius Island. The 38 ...

The Africa Cup of Nations will not suffer in quality after its expansion to 24 teams, says a top Confederation of African Football (Caf) official. Amaju Pinnick believes the African game can only benefit, even if the tournament may suffer early on. “At the beginning, you will see some problems but later it will start ...

Wildfires in south-eastern France have forced the evacuation of 10,000 people overnight, officials say. Hundreds of firefighters have been deployed to battle the fires near Bormes-les-Mimoses, in the country’s Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. France earlier asked its EU neighbours for more help fighting the fires. Some 4,000 hectares (15.4 sq miles) of land have burned along ...

An experimental therapy has held back one man’s HIV infection for 10 months, doctors have reported. He was one of 18 people in a small trial testing injections of “broadly neutralising antibodies” – the natural weapons of the immune system. They delayed the resurgence of the virus in other participants by around two weeks. The ...