Barely three weeks after government halted the implementation of the controversial mandatory towing levy, Senior Minister; Yaw Osafo Maafo, is set to meet the various towing companies in Accra. The meeting which is aimed at deliberating on the way forward on how to remove broken down vehicles on the road has been slated for September ...

A Nigerian businesswoman has appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra for allegedly transporting four girls from Nigeria to Ghana to engage in prostitution. Blessing Atia, the suspect, is said to have collected the victims’ panties, pubic and armpit hair and threatened them that if they refused to work for her they would go mad. ...

The Customs division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has disclosed of plans to redeploy staff to the Tema Port to facilitate the clearing process there. The Customs, on Monday, September 4, 2017 reduced its staff stationed at the Long Room of the Tema Port following the start of the paperless clearing system. This was ...

Kwesi Appiah has made five changes to the team that drew 1-1 with Congo on Friday for Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier in Brazzaville. With captain Asamoah Gyan and Andre Ayew ruled out of the game with injury and Jordan Ayew suffering a stomach ache, Appiah has handed starts to Thomas Agyepong, Afriyie Acquah and Richmond Boakye Yiadom. ...

Government has been urged to consider extending its much hyped free Senior High School (SHS) policy to private second cycle institutions in the country. The Executive Director of Ghana National Education Campaign (GNEC), Veronica Djiagu, said the move will enable students in such institutions to also benefit from the policy. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast ...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been awarded 100,000 euros (£92K) in damages after a French magazine printed topless pictures of the Duchess. The French court ruled the images, taken as the royal couple holidayed in Provence five years ago, were an invasion of their privacy. The judge awarded the royal couple 50,000 euros ...

Representatives of the Abudu and Andani Royals in Dagbon have agreed to resume peace talks at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi where the three eminent Kings Mediation Committee led by the Otumfour Asantehene Osei Tutu II is handling the Dagbon chieftaincy impasse. There was a boycott of the mediation committee’s sittings following a misunderstanding over ...

Is he the one? As women, we come to a point in life, where we want to stop messing around and learn how to find true love. This may also be the perfect time to set some goals for your love life, stop hanging aroung guys who are you using you (even if you’re using them back!) and ...

The National Democratic Congress Minority in Parliament has accused the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, of contravening best practice by approving a credit facility of GHc10,459,500 from the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB). The credit facility in question was granted to the McDan Shipping Company. According to the Minority, the failings here stem from the failure of ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority in Parliament, has accused the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, of contravening best practice by approving a credit facility of GHc10,459,500 from the Agricultural Development Bank (adb). The credit facility in question was granted to the MacDan Shipping Company. According to the Minority, the failings stem from the failure of ...

Sixty-four (64) illegal miners have been apprehended and arrested by government’s anti-galamsey task force, Operation Vanguard. The latest arrest brings to 294 the number of illegal miners arrested so far. The arrests were made in Western, Ashanti and Eastern Regions, the operational areas of the task-force. The team which is led by the Minister for  ...

The judge at the Kumasi Circuit Court presiding over the case of the 13 members of the pro-New Patriotic Party vigilante group, Delta Force, Mary Nsenkyire, has expressed dissatisfaction with the prosecution’s delay in the case. She made the comment after the prosecutor, ACP Okyere Darko, asked the court for adjournment, stating that they were still ...

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Organizer for the Tema West Constituency, Emmanuel Arhin Young, has said some members of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) are plotting to make the government and the party unpopular in that area. Mr. Arhin Young made the assertion at a press conference held on Monday to protest against the demolishing ...

Pressure group OccupyGhana has donated assorted medical supplies to the Sierra Leone High Commission in Ghana to aid in the ongoing relief efforts following the catastrophic mudslides in Regent near the country’s capital, Freetown. The items comprised 16 cartons of all types of intravenous fluids, 400 pieces of intravenous sets, 400 pieces of different intravenous ...

Subscribers and merchants of the mobile money service  have been advised not to share their pins with other people. Mrs. Cynthia Lumour, Corporate Executive of MTN issued this advice to users of the mobile money service. She said the hike in the number of mobile money fraud cases could be attributed to the inability of ...

Subscribers and merchants of the mobile money service  have been advised not to share their pins with other people. Mrs. Cynthia Lumour, Corporate Executive of MTN issued this advice to users of the mobile money service. She said the hike in the number of mobile money fraud cases could be attributed to the inability of ...

A new website for the Basic Education Certificate Examination self-placement process has been set up by the Ghana Education Service. The original website for the self-placement, www.myjhsresult.net, now contains a link that directs users to the new website, www.cssps.gov.gh. This development follows the reports of challenges encountered by BECE candidates who have been trying, since September 1, to secure their placement ...

The Ghana Education Service has again extended the deadline for Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates to secure their places at Senior High Schools across the country. The deadline is now midnight on Thursday, September 7, 2017. A statement signed by the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of pre-Tertiary Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, ...

The Ghana National Union of Technical Students (GNUTS) has declared a nationwide boycott of lectures in all technical universities and polytechnics to protest government’s failure to constitute governing councils for the various Technical Universities. The union is now resigned to what it called government’s disinterest in their welfare. “It is obvious that, government is not interested in the ...

The Winners’ Chapel International branch in Ghana has graduated 2,155 youth who were equipped by the church with employable skills. The training programme had individuals acquiring skills in fashion design, craft and cosmetology, engineering, graphic designing, web designing, agric production and export. Others were also trained in decoration and event management, soap and cake making, ...