Reports  indicate that Police officers across all the ranks are angry over their unpaid accumulated salary arrears. They say they have not been paid for 9 months. Majority of them especially the junior officers are threatening to abandon their duty post in protest. Citi News sources at the top echelon of the Ghana Police service […]

Police in Kumasi have charged seven people believed to be staff of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) with stealing and conspiracy to steal a baby. The charge follows investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a baby said to have died at birth at the hospital. Ashanti Region Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Tanko […]

Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited is in hot waters for negligently misplacing a 77-year-old retiree’s precious minerals deposited in its custody about 30 years ago. As a result, the bank might be forced to pay $243,901.65 for the alleged conversion of Bernice Ward-Brew’s precious minerals including gold bars, jewelry in silver and gold, antique trade […]

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is presently in Ghana to conclude plans as the face of Ghandour Cosmetics Ltd‘s BO-16 hair care range.She is also using the opportunity to film scenes for her reality TV show - Omotola: The Real Me. On Friday 7th February 2014, Omosexy turned 36 years. After celebrating with her family and Redhot Concepts […]

Government has suspended plans to construct new district hospitals across the country, Health Minister has announced. The government in the 2013 budget announced it was going to build district hospitals nationwide as part of efforts to improve upon health delivery in the country. However, according to sector minister Ms. Sherry Ayittey, her outfit received the directive […]

Adolf Awuku-Bekoe (L) — DV Coalition and • Mrs Dorcas Coker-Appiah — Gender Centre Two gender rights activists have expressed various opinions on the President’s State of the Nation address delivered to Parliament last Tuesday. One of the two, Mrs Dorcas Coker-Appiah, Executive Director of the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre (Gender Centre), […]

President Bashar al-Assad, The crisis in Syria is the biggest threat to regional and global security that the world has witnessed in decades, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Antonio Guterres told Sky News he hoped a UN Security Council resolution on humanitarian aid to Syria, passed unanimously this week, would provide much […]

The athlete is accused of planning the murder of his girlfriend South African investigators have flown to America to ask for help from Apple to retrieve information from the iPhone of paralympian Oscar Pistorius. The three investigators want to access any messages which may have been deleted from the athlete’s iPhone device. The double-amputee runner […]

The latest version of Samsung’s flagship mobile phone will allow users to shop online using only their fingerprint to pay. The Galaxy S5, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, features a fingerprint scanner among a number of new features. Much like with the Apple iPhone 5S, the scanner can be used to […]

Texas on Wednesday became the latest state to have a federal judge strike down its same-sex marriage ban, thanks to a sweeping decision holding that its current prohibition has no “legitimate governmental purpose.” The ruling, by San Antonio-based Judge Orlando Garcia, will not take effect immediately: Its enforcement has been stayed while the case works […]

News broke in Accra on Wednesday that Nigerian actor Jim Iyke was, over the weekend, involved in a ghastly car accident in Accra while cruising in a Chevrolet Camero saloon car belonging to his girlfriend actress Nadia Buari. Entertainment Editor of pacefmonline.com, Eugene Osafo-Nkansah, reported that the accident happened on Saturday around the Kanda Highway […]

Patience Ninson as found in her bed yesterday.INSET: John Ninson wanted by police and the Ninson’s room with the rope used in the murder Residents of Promised Land, near Adjei-Kojo, Tema, were on Tuesday morning panic-stricken when a jealous man was alleged to have strangled his wife to death with a nylon rope for allegedly […]

The suspects leaving the court yesterday Three security operatives have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for possessing narcotic substances without lawful authority. The accused persons are Lance Corporals Isaac Okine, Dennis Maakogor Pwamang of the Bole District Police and Felix Bani, a Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) Officer also stationed at Bole in the […]

Last Tuesday, what passed off arguably as the most ridiculous State of the Nation Address in recent times, was significant for one critical reason: it brought to the fore the need for political parties to patent their manifestoes. Having embarked upon a major anti-Free SHS campaign manifesto to parry the rather potent NPP promise of […]

The masked men A YOUNG MAN believed to be a member of the Neighbourhood Watch Committee of Taabuom near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, met his untimely death while discharging his duty in the wee hours of Wednesday. The deceased, identified as Richard Mensah aka ‘Abeiku,’ was shot dead by the police patrol team that […]

FLASHBACK: Philip Akpeena Assibit and his lawyers ONE of the two suspects in the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) trial, who was detained for failing to meet his bail conditions, has finally been released. Philip Akpeena Assibit is standing trial alongside Abuga Pele, NDC MP for Chiana Paga and former National Coordinator […]

Lt. Colonel Larry Gbevlo-Lartey (rtd) The University of Ghana community is preparing to petition President John Mahama to sack Lt. Colonel Larry Gbevlo-Lartey (rtd) as National Security Coordinator. Members of the University community, parents, friends and alumni of the University of Ghana as well as some Ghanaians – both home and abroad – are signing […]

Victoria Hamah The former Deputy Communications Minister, Victoria Hamah, has in her first public statement, condemned the public humiliation inflicted on the three ladies who allegedly stole panties from the Mr. Price shop at the Accra Mall. The embattled Hamah, who has been ‘out of coverage area’ for some time now, suddenly popped up yesterday, […]

Enoch Adjei. INSET: The knife and the money sack A 22-year-old division two footballer who plays for Rex Football Club, Dansoman, has been arrested by the police for attempting to murder his biological mother for a money-making ritual. The suspect, Enoch Adjei, currently in police custody, allegedly lured his 50-year-old sick mother from Jasikan in […]