The Electoral Commission will from tomorrow [Wednesday], undertake a field study into the viability of the creation of more Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs). The study is line with government’s proposal for the government‘s plans to carve out four more regions from the existing ten. President Akufo-Addo last week inaugurated a nine-member Commission of ...

The Wenchi Municipal Security Council (MUSEC), has closed down a gas filling station in the municipality. CAD Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) filling station, was allegedly shut down for non-compliant to safety regulations and exposing residents to danger. This follows persistent complaints and petitions from residents to the effect that the gas station did not have ...

With two years remaining on his current tenure as President of the Ghana football association, Kwesi Nyantakyi does not enjoy the overwhelming support from within the association that he has been used to in the past. At an extraordinary congress held in Tamale in 2015, Nyantakyi was reelected for a third term unopposed after several ...

Robert Mugabe would have rejected the role of World Health Organization goodwill envoy had he been formally asked, his spokesman said on Tuesday, days after state media cheered the Zimbabwean president’s appointment. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus named Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador on Wednesday at a conference in Uruguay that both men were attending. ...

An Accra High Court has set October 31 to rule on an injunction application seeking to stop the government and the Millennium Development Authority (MIDA), from going ahead with processes to give the Electricity Company Ghana (ECG) out on concession. The court set the date after lawyers for both the applicants and defendants, argued their ...

A chance meeting between two childhood friends helped one begin a journey back from drug addiction after many years living on the street. It was early October and Wanja Mwaura, 32, was on her way to the market in Lower Kabaete, not far from Nairobi, when she heard someone shout out her name. She looked ...

Police in the Eastern Region have arrested two suspects –  17-year-old Owusu William and Yeboah Emmanuel – who were among a gang of armed robbers that tried to rob a faulty Kumasi-bound trailer at Omenako, a town in the Suhum Municipality. There had been a heated gun battle between the police and the group of suspected ...

While London’s sewers can get clogged with fatbergs made up of grease and diapers, it seems Switzerland’s waste system is flecked with silver and gold. Researchers last year detected 3 tonnes of silver and 43 kg of gold in effluent and sludge from waste water treatment plants – amounting to around 3 million Swiss francs ...

While London’s sewers can get clogged with fatbergs made up of grease and diapers, it seems Switzerland’s waste system is flecked with silver and gold. Researchers last year detected 3 tonnes of silver and 43 kg of gold in effluent and sludge from waste water treatment plants – amounting to around 3 million Swiss francs ...

There was a heated gun battle between the police and a group of suspected armed robbers in the Eastern Region at dawn on Tuesday. The incident occurred after the robbery gang tried robbing a faulty Kumasi-bound trailer at Omenako, a town in the Suhum Municipality. Two suspects – 17 year old Owusu William, and Yeboah ...

Microsoft Corp said it will drop a lawsuit against the U.S. government after the Department of Justice (DOJ) changed data request rules on alerting internet users about agencies accessing their information. The new policy limits the use of secrecy orders and calls for such orders to be issued for defined periods, Microsoft Chief Legal Officer ...

A self-styled doctor who was arrested at the Family Community Hospital at Hohoe in the Volta Region, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. The convict, Fortune Kamasah, was sentenced on two counts of practicing without authority, and receiving payment for the practice of medicine without authority. Fortune Kamasah had earlier in 2013 been ...

Parliamentary proceedings for the third week of the third meeting of this parliamentary session, begun last Tuesday [October 17, 2017] with the invocation of Standing Order 14(2) which states “Whenever the House is informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the First Deputy Speaker shall perform the duties ...

President Akufo-Addo has said he is amazed that his recent tweet in pidgin to musician Shatta Wale, went viral on social media. According to him, the reach and virility of his post proves how smartphones are promoting communication in recent times. “I’m amazed that the smartphone that you and I have in our hands today, ...

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service,  is accusing Telcos of not cooperating with them in their attempt to address mobile money fraud. This follows an internal inquiry by the CID which revealed that, some staff of telecommunication companies are complicit in the act. Telco staff are reported to, without authorization, access the database ...

Investigations by the Medical and Dental Council (MDC) have led to the arrest of 20 quack doctors across the country since January, 2016. Ten of such fake doctors were busted in Accra, two at Tema, two in the Volta Region, two in the Eastern Region, one in the Brong Ahafo Region and three in the ...

Sanity has been restored to the Seventh Day Adventist High School in Koforidua after the headmistress yielded to pressure from parents to accommodate their wards in boarding house. Some aggrieved parents spent weeks on the school premises demanding their wards are admitted into the boarding house. These parents from Savlugu, Takoradi, Konongo, Swedru, Akim Oda ...

The Center for Democratic Development (CDD), has expressed disappointment at the sentence handed against 13 members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)-affiliated Delta Force Vigilante group, found to have manhandled the Ashanti Regional Coordinator earlier this year. According to the Center, the GH¢1,800 per head fine imposed as sentence on each of the accused persons, was a ...

Bastie Samir has stated that, he is willing to give Braimah Kamoko a rematch, after their “Make of Break” bout on October 21 at the Bukom Boxing Emporium. Samir won their much-awaited clash via a 7th round knockout to spark celebrations among his fans, and lefe fans of Bukom Banku stunned. On Monday, Banku said ...