The Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 71-year-old man to six years imprisonment for pouring acid on his son and his eight-year-old granddaughter. The convict, Michael Kwame Martins, pleaded guilty to the charge of causing harm and was sentenced on his own plea by the court, presided over by Mrs Marian Affoh.

The Deputy Minister of Transport, Mr Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover, has asked public transport institutions to uphold good work culture built on integrity to promote a strong transport sector in the country. He said the culture of maintenance, avoidance of pilfering, management stock-taking and ensuring the safety of buses on the road should be non-negotiable for transport institutions.

Fiscal policy think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has backed government’s decision to cap revenue allocations to statutory funds at 25 per cent of tax revenue, but fears gains from that “bold step” would be neutralised by counter-moves to commence the implementation of expenditure-laden campaign promises this year. Ahead of the government’s budget reading in March, the IFS had advocated for urgent measures to address the excessive rigidity associated with Ghana’s

The Ga Traditional Council has served notice that it will deal drastically with any individual or group of persons who will flout its directive on the ban on drumming and noise making this year.

Men's top seed Tomas Setodji has already decided how he will spend the $3,000 cash prize if he wins the 2017 McDan West African Open Championship. The confident Togolese says he came to Ghana to win the competition and will leave no stone unturned in his bid to win the 2017 McDan Open Championsip because he will use the money to fund his career as a budding tennis prospect.

There will be a whopping GH¢50,000 cash prize at stake for the winner when bitter rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante clash for the [email protected]/*

The Executive Chairman of Zoomlion Limited, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for pledging to make “Accra the cleanest city in Africa in the next four years”. He said the President’s commitment fed into the company’s vision of championing clean, green and healthy communities.

The National Police Service will hire 10,000 officers who will be bonded for 10 years. Interested Kenyans aged between 18 and 28 are required to fill an application form ahead of the recruitment on May 11.

Reverend E.D. Nikoi, the president of the Netball Association of Ghana (NAG) says lack of funds has seriously affected the progress of the sport in the country despite the promise it holds to make inroads at the international level. According to Reverend Nikoi, who has headed the sport for over two decades, the national team has not been able to participate in international competitions because the association is not able to raise funds for that purpose and the support from government,

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Queenmothers in the Upper West Region have described the “Planting for food and jobs” policy of the government as laudable but discriminatory against women. The queenmothers observed that the at least five hectares or 12 acres of land that an individual should have before benefiting from the policy was highly discriminatory against women, particularly women from Northern Ghana who do not own land.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has taken issues with the Bank of Ghana for its failure to capture a transaction involving the export of more than 40,000 tonnes of bauxite by the Ghana Export Company Limited in its audited accounts for 2015. The committee, chaired by Mr James Klutse Avedzi, consequently directed the central bank to furnish the PAC with the report today as it began sittings to scrutinise the audited accounts of some state institutions for the 2015

Kumasi Asante Kotoko skipper, Amos Frimpong, has thrown down the gauntlet saying his teammates are ready to fight till their last breath to ensure they deliver victory to the fans when they host Aduana Stars at the Baba Yara Stadium today. The Porcupine Warriors have been without a win in their last five games and skipper Frimpong admits the task of breaking that jinx seem daunting although they are ready to put their best foot forward to reverse the trend.

Donald Trump has indicated he will scrap plans to find cash for his border wall in this week's spending bill. The president's close adviser, Kellyanne Conway, said funding for the wall would be left out of a budget measure that must pass by Friday. Building the wall, paid for by Mexico, was a key campaign promise.

Tanzania has expelled the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the country, the foreign ministry has said in a statement. It blamed Awa Dabo, a Gambian national, for the "deteriorating performance" of her office, driven by what it called her "strained relations" with staff.

Some nurses who have constituted themselves into a pressure group called the Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses in Ghana have threatened to march to the seat of government in the coming days if the Health and Finance ministries fail to give them financial clearance to be posted to the various health institutions. The nurses, numbering more than 100, last Monday night picketed at the Ministry of Health to press home their demand for job

The District Governor (DG) of Rotary International District 9102, Mr Sam Worentetu, has urged government to make the youth appreciate the value of time as it leads to the increase of revenue and income in the country.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram, Mr Sam George, has said the bank accounts on which Ibrahim Mahama had issued cheques to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) were not closed, as claimed by the authority. According to him, the accounts might have been dormant.

Minister of the Interior  Ambrose Dery has hinted of the possibility of legislative reforms and policy review to reduce the duration of custodial sentencing. “We need to reduce the time people stay in prison,” he said, adding that something also needed to be done about pre-trial detention.

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