Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah Immediate past Youth and Sports minister Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah returned home from Brazil on Thursday night full of remorse. The Minister, who was stripped off his post while on duty in Brazil, still stood by his word of rendering account on every penny spent at the World Cup. He expressed a sincere apology for […]

Parliament of Ghana An Amount of $48.1 million has been approved by Parliament for the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL). It is meant for the provision of water to some parts of Accra under a proposed Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GSWP), which has attracted an overall grant of $150 million from […]

One of the arrested women, named as Hafsat Usman Bako, is said to be the widow of a Boko Haram fighter Three women have been arrested in Nigeria for recruiting female members for the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, the country’s military says. The women are said to have targeted widows and young girls, promising […]

Bull Dog After having spent a couple of weeks in police custody, Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, popularly known in the showbiz fraternity as Bulldog, is gone back behind bars. The C.E.O. of Bullhaus Entertainment is set to embark on a project dubbed ‘Behind the Bars Project’ to help inmates in diverse ways. ‘He unveiled this for […]

President John Mahama Enter sanitary pad politics. Ghanaians yesterday woke up to a stunning news story about how government intends earmarking a portion of an education enhancement loan for the provision of sanitary pads for schoolgirls. The NDC government has doubtlessly provided for Ghanaians an interesting means of measuring how wrongly or rightly they manage […]

Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen  Two leading members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday filed their nominations to contest in the flagebearership race of the party. They are Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen popularly known as ‘Alan Cash’ and the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Mampong, Michael Addai-Nimo. Long before he arrived at the national headquarters […]

GAOLED! Jacob Kuli and the victim THE ASHAIMAN Circuit Court has sentenced to jail the 25-year-old man who dipped the hands of his eight-year-old daughter into boiled water, alleging that the girl had stolen fish from soup. Jacob Kuli, a truck pusher and resident of Valco Flat, an Ashaiman suburb in the Greater Accra Region, […]

Edmund Kyei  and President John Mahama THE NEW Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Director for Asokwa Constituency, Edmund Kyei, has stressed on the need for Ghanaians to vote out President Mahama and the NDC administration in 2016. The outspoken NPP communicator stated that due to poor management, the NDC government had plunged the country into severe […]

Rockson Dogbegah Current procedures in Ghana’s construction industry appear not to be properly streamlined, which has led to all manner of construction activities. As part of efforts to forestall the collapse of high-rise buildings and subsequent casualties, the BUSAC Built Environment Steering Committee has advocated the establishment of a regulatory authority. Rockson Dogbegah, Chairman of […]

James Bradbury (left) in a chat with a member of the Chamber James Bradbury, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of James Bradbury Property Services, has urged government to put the appropriate measures in place to address the housing problems in the country. According to him, the high cost of renting or owning a house was worrisome. […]

Emmanuel Ikazoboh At the just-ended Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated held at its headquarters in Lomé, Emmanuel Ikazoboh, an accountant with 35 years experience, was appointed as the Group’s new Chairman. Mr. Ikazoboh has played roles in international business management and corporate advisory capacities in both the private and public sectors and […]

Kofi Yamoah, GSE Boss The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) in 2013 delivered a sterling performance to be the second best stock market in Africa after Malawi both in local currency and dollar terms. The GES Composite Index, which measures the performance of the entire market, went up by 78.81 per cent, which is obviously one […]

A cross section of the aggrieved drivers Scores of commuters at the Sekondi ‘Tro-tro’ station yesterday became stranded, as the commercial drivers embarked on a sit-down strike in protest against the refusal of the city’s authorities to rehabilitate their deplorable lorry park. According to them, the Sekondi station in Takoradi becomes messy whenever it rains. […]

Irate taxi drivers with their gallons at the filling station The shortage of fuel that has hit the entire country in the past few weeks seems to have worsened in the Brong-Ahafo Region, especially in the regional capital Sunyani, as hundreds of people sleep at filling stations in search of the essential commodity. In Sunyani, […]

The parked Gallopers The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it is initiating a court process to collect about GH¢6.1 million as tax on the GH¢8.3 million given to Africa Automobile Limited (AAL) as judgement debt in 2010. Acting Assistant Commissioner in charge of Policy and Programmes, Edward Gyamerah, who appeared before the Commission of Enquiry investigating […]

Dr. Osei Akoto The Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday vehemently opposed the approval of $156 million loan from the World Bank’s International Development Agency for expansion of secondary school facilities and eventually dissented in approving the loan amidst very abrasive exchanges on the flow of Parliament after the Majority used its numerical advantage to […]

Hon Isaac Asiamah  The Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on Parliament as a body to institute a parliamentary committee of enquiry to look into the allegations of misappropriation of taxpayers’ money to sponsor the national team, Black Stars to participate in the ongoing World Cup which ended on very disgraceful note. Addressing a […]

‘Spirit-Child’ Paul Apowida  After years of escaping from the cruel tradition of killing “spirit children” in the Sirigu Traditional Area in the Kassena-Nankana West District, Paul Apowida (believed to be a ‘spirit child’) based in the United Kingdom, has decided to tell his story. Paul Apowida was among some babies whose birth some decades ago, […]

Victor Aniete Solomon and Michael Udoh (left) Two Nigerians have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly kidnapping an eight- year-old boy. The accused, Victor Anietie Solomon Sunday, 21, private security man and Michael Udoh 14, mobile phone seller, are said to have agreed and acted together with a common purpose to kidnap and […]