SHOT! The armed robbers and their sophiscated weapons (inset) FOUR ALLEGED highway robbers, including three Fulani men, were killed in a gun battle with the police yesterday evening. The robbers were said to have laid ambush between Anwia Nkwanta and Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, preparing to pounce on hapless travelers. The police detected the […]

BEFORE! One of the logs cut from the tree and AFTER! The remains of the tree back to its original place A BIG tree at Tunsuom Estate, near the Owusu Memorial Hospital, Sunyani, which was brought down by a heavy rainstorm about two weeks ago, has resurrected, throwing the entire city into fear and astonishment. […]

Justice Apau About 98 percent of claimants who were entitled to compensation following the construction of the Tarkwa-Bogoso-Ayamfuri road in the Western Region have been paid, the Commission of Enquiry investigating the payment of judgement debts heard yesterday. Kofi Archer-Kwajan, Chief Valuer at the Ghana Highways Authority (GHA), told Sole-Commissioner Justice Yaw Apau, sitting as […]

Prosper Kweku Bani Government, it has been gathered, is making all frantic efforts to restore the salaries of judges and magistrates a few days to their intended strike action over their pay cuts. A source close to the Judicial Service told DAILY GUIDE that the Chief of Staff, Prosper Kweku Bani, on Saturday called the […]

Joe Osei Owusu Members of the Minority side of Parliament are grumbling over what they believe to be a deliberate ploy by President Mahama and the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, to smuggle certain amended clauses into the country’s Constitution. At a press conference in Accra yesterday, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bekwai and […]

Yingluck Shinawatra When presidents begin to accept the fact that the buck stops with them and therefore take responsibility for both the shortcomings and achievements in governance, they will be more responsible. The buck therefore stops with whoever is in charge of the state. The power to hire and fire goes with the sanctified responsibility […]

Yaw Owusu Addo The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) says the use of the Heritage Fund would be suicidal since it was set up to provide an endowment to support future generations. In a press release issued recently in Accra signed by Yaw Owusu Addo, Chairman, Communications Sub-Committee of PIAC, it kicked against the […]

Togbe Afede XIV addressing the media  World Trade Center Accra (WTCA), a subsidiary of the World Trade Centres Association, a worldwide organization that was established to promote international trade, has held a special press soiree for journalists in Ghana. The evening get-together was organized to enable the center brief journalists on its activities in the […]

The Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana has called for dialogue between its members and the government to find a lasting solution to the challenges importers face. Sampson Awingobit Asaki, Executive Secretary of the Association, said it was important for such a dialogue to be held first before the expiration of the two-week ultimatum issued to importers […]

Richard adjei Mensah Ofori Atta greeting Otumfuo Osei Tutu The World-Meets-In-Ghana Investors Forum and Executive Dinner Ball aimed at offering local investors and business owners a golden opportunity to network with investors across the world comes off on 17th October, 2014 at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. The event is being organised by EON […]

Vice President Amissah-Arthur addressing Annise D. Parker Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has urged oil and gas companies in the United States to invest in various sectors of Ghana’s oil and gas industry. Addressing the Mayor of Houston, Texas, Annise D. Parker in the United States, the Vice President called for closer collaboration with the […]

Blood stains at the residence of Santos. INSET: The deceased and the damaged door A 39-year-old tanker driver has been shot dead by armed robbers at his residence at New York, a suburb of Ashaiman. The deceased, Santos Avordagbe, was said to have been shot several times in stomach by the four armed robbers around […]

First Lady in a farewell handshake with Hajia Amina Salley First Lady Lordina Mahama last Sunday mourned the death of the late Hajia Adiza Salley with the family and well wishers at the family home at Ablenkpe, Accra. Mrs Mahama, joined by the Chief of Staff, Prosper Douglas Bani, who led a high-powered government delegation […]

The delegation at Yoo Naa’s Palace A five member delegation from Omnicane Investments from Mauritius is in the Northern Region on a follow- up visit to conduct assessment on the establishment of a sugar cane plantation and factory at Dipale in Savelugu-Nanton District. The delegation, led by Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Omnicane Group and board member of several sugar-sector […]

Anil Lakhiani Two Indian businessmen accused of evading tax after allegedly smuggling 460 drums of Isopropyl Alcohol valued at GH¢437,000 from the Free Zones Enclave near the Tema Industrial Area, have been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court. The two, Anil Lakhiani and Sundeep Sonu Dhawan, managing directors of Top Industries Limited and XLNC Company […]

Prince Mba President of the Forum for National Equity (FNE), an interest group based in Accra, has applauded the newly elected executives and members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for upholding democratic principles and exhibiting high level of maturity at the party’s recently held National Delegates’ Congress in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale. […]

Madam Agnes Opoku with the baby boy A three-day-old bouncing baby boy that was abandoned close to a quarry site at Kojokrom near Sekondi in the wee hours of last Sunday has been rescued alive. DAILY GUIDE learnt that the baby boy suspected to have been dumped by the mother was found wrapped in a […]

Hope Nyavedzi The Deputy Volta Regional Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is in serious trouble as leaders of the party in the region are allegedly calling for his head. His predicament is fueled by an allegation by a resident of Ho, the regional capital, who calls himself “Humble African,” that Hope Nyavedzi, […]

Paul Afoko The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been accused of pirating policies and programmes whose implementation it has little or no knowledge of. According to the National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko, the NDC has proven that it lacks the capacity to formulate feasible policies and programmes of […]

My younger brother in Primary three, Amartey Paa-Red, returned from school recently with a rather sad face. His terminal report he brought home indicated his failure in Ghanaian language subject. He had already managed to score a number of zeroes and very low marks in Ghanaian language class exercises last term, so I wasn’t surprised. […]