The Ghana Chapter of World Youth Opportunity (WYO), a youth-focused non-profit organization, has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) and sports supplies to the Ayawaso Central Education Directorate in Accra to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and physical education activities. The items, which include cartons of sanitisers, facemasks, jerseys and footballs according to the […] The post WYO
An altercation occurred between the Minority members of the Health Committee of Parliament and soldiers on guard duties at the uncompleted 500-bed Military Hospital at Afari in the Ashanti Region last Monday during a familiarisation visit to the project site. The soldiers said they were not under instructions to allow the MPs to inspect the […] The post Soldiers
The Ranking Member on the Health Committee of Parliament, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh says a private member’s motion on the state of abandoned hospital projects in the country would be filed when Parliament resumes from recess in October 2021. The Members of the Minority caucus on the Health Committee in pursuit of parliamentary oversight for the […] The post We’ll
The Centre for Social Justice, CSJ, has presented a copy of a recent study it conducted to the Special Prosecutor, titled ‘A 20-Year Review of Judgment Debt Payments in Ghana: Impact, Causes and Remedies’. The group made the presentation when they paid a courtesy call on the new Special Prosecutor, Mr. Kissi Agyebeng at his […] The post CSJ
Felix Ansah, a taxi driver, who allegedly confessed to killing many people for ritual purposes, including burying a pregnant woman at Ashaiman, has been granted GH¢60,000.00 bail with two sureties by an Accra Circuit Court. The court presided over by Mrs. Rosemond Baah Torsu, ordered Ansah to report to the police on Tuesdays every fortnight. […] The post Taxi
Government has held an engagement with the media aimed at sensitizing journalists on Ghana’s newly drafted National Security Strategy (NSS). The engagement is the first of three sessions put together by the National Security Ministry and the Ministry of Information in taking broad-based inputs from relevant stakeholders, the media inclusive, on the implementation of the […] The post Government
The Minister for National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, has urged journalists to be circumspect in their reportage regarding issues of national security. According to him, matters of security must not be sensationalized by media practitioners. Speaking at the opening ceremony of a day’s sensitization workshop for the media on the country’s National Security Strategy, Kan […] The post Stop
The Lands Commission has said it will fully implement the Land Act 2020 and its provisions. The Act prescribes a minimum five-year jail term and a maximum 15-year sentence for persons acting as land guards. Those who engage the services of same in Ghana also fall foul of the law. The activities of land guards […] The post Land guards to serve 5 to 15 years in jail
The Lands Commission has said it will fully implement the Land Act 2020 and its provisions. The Act prescribes a minimum five-year jail term and a maximum 15-year sentence for persons acting as land guards. Those who engage the services of same in Ghana also fall foul of the law. The activities of land guards […] The post Land guards to serve 5-15 years in jail –
Gunmen have kidnapped an Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (Rtd), in the Ajah area of Lagos State. The retired Air Vice Marshal was said to have been picked up by masked men who shot sporadically and bundled him into a standby boat and sped off from the site where he was supervising work in the […] The post Gunmen kidnap retired Air Vice Marshal in Lagos appeared first on
A Chief of Staff in the Kufuor administration, Kwadwo Mpianim, is not entirely against the Akufo-Addo administration’s decision to purchase a new presidential jet as long as the payment terms are prudent. “It will depend on the terms. For example, if you are going to take about GHS 20 billion from your coffers to buy […] The post Nothing wrong
A member of the Justice Koomson Committee that probed the Ejura disturbances, Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, has chided the family of the late Ibrahim Mohammed, popularly known as Kaaka, following its criticism of the committee’s report. Mr. Antwi-Danso on Eyewitness News indicated that the family had no right to criticize the committee’s work. “They do not […] The post Kaaka’s
The death toll from the two attacks in Kaura and Zango Kataf Local Government areas of Kaduna State has risen to 45. This follows the recovery of three more dead bodies by security operatives in Madamai and Kacecere villages of Kaura and Zangon Kataf Local Government Areas. The Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and […] The post Nigeria: Death toll in Kaduna attack
Algeria will on Wednesday begin producing Chinese-developed Sinovac vaccines for its own use and export to other African countries. The production will be done in partnership with China and state pharmaceutical products company Saidal. The country plans to produce one million doses in October, two million in November and three million in December. The goal […] The post Algeria
A member of the committee that probed the Ejura disturbances, Professor Vladimir Antwi Danso, has advised the family of the late Ibrahim Mohammed, alias Kaaka, to provide any information they have about his death to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. According to him, the criminal aspects of Kaaka’s death were […] The post Volunteer
A number of civilians have been killed by a Nigerian air strike targeting suspected jihadists near Lake Chad, which straddles north-east Nigeria and three neighbouring countries. The incident comes less than two weeks after another air strike on a village that killed civilians in Nigeria’s north-east, where the military is fighting an Islamist insurgency. Details […] The post Nigerian
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