Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Nene Mawumasro XIV and Nana Akufo-Addo  The Chief of Agortime Afegame in the Volta Region, Nene Mawumasro XIV, has assured the presidential aspirant of the opposition NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo, that there would be a change in the voting pattern of his subjects come 2016. The region, described as the world bank of the governing […]

Health checks have been stepped up at airports across West Africa Ivory Coast has banned all passenger flights from three countries hit by Ebola in an attempt to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. It is the only country, after Saudi Arabia, to impose such a ban, amid mounting concern about the outbreak which […]

Johnson Asiedu Nketia The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) must be blamed for the violence which has characterized the ongoing limited voter registration exercise. There have been reports of violence especially in the Ashanti Region, prompting the Regional Police Commander to issue […]

Castro(left) and Asamoah Gyan Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has expressed anger at what he calls “the insensitive commercialisation of Castro’s disappearance” and disclosed he is seeking legal advice on how to stop the practice. It has been five weeks of controversy and unanswered questions since hip-life musician, Castro, was reported missing and feared to […]

Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen (left) and Nana Akufo-Addo at a funeral in Kumasi recently Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, a leading contender in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearership race, has asked the party’s delegates not to vote for what he called ‘a candidate that (only) NPP people want’. Rather, he said, the delegates should select a candidate that […]

Ms Mavis Ama Frimpong and Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye DRAMA UNFOLDED over the weekend when the bodyguards of the Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, and the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Ms Mavis Ama Frimpong, were involved in a scuffle at the Nsawam barrier in the Eastern Region. DAILY GUIDE sources indicated that […]

Politicising drugs has become a passion of many politicians and government appointees. The portentous impact of the occupation on the nation appears to have been lost on us as a people. We are either oblivious to this fact or simply succumbing to our inordinate obsession for political shenanigans, regardless of the cost of this irresponsible […]

Wontumi (behind) with some of the arrested people ASHANTI REGIONAL Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has asserted that he arrested scores of people from the Upper East Region in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, who had intended to register their names in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise last Saturday. […]

THREE PERSONS have been reportedly quarantined at the Nsawam Government Hospital in the Eastern Region after showing signs akin to the dreaded Ebola disease. These bring to four the number of suspected cases in Ghana over the weekend, following the death of a Burkinabe man at the Bawku Presby Hospital in the Upper East Region, […]

I start today’s piece by seeking your opinion on an important matter. I’m billed to visit Anagoland next Friday to attend a childhood friend’s wedding. I wouldn’t want to miss it for anything in the world, but I’m seriously threatened by the Ebola scare in Anagoland. I must, however, hasten to add that my friend […]

Chiefs praying to the ancestors to lead Joe Ghartey on the journey ahead of him as he is preparing to contest in the race The Paramount Chief of Oguaa Traditional Area, Osaberimah Kwesi Atta II, has commended the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Ghartey, for not engaging in politics of insult since he entered […]

The mangled Opel car TWO PEOPLE died instantly, and another one sustained life threatening injuries, when an Opel Salon car they were travelling on was hit by a cargo truck. The Opel car was reportedly coming from Mampong area. Upon reaching the Kofiase junction, it attempted to negotiate a curve but the cargo truck, which […]

Richard Anamoo (Right) and Capt Koranteng at the forum The expansion of the Takoradi Port will position it to meet the demands of operators in the international market. Richard Anamoo, Director-General of the GPHA, disclosed this during an open forum on the Takoradi Port expansion project, which was attended by stakeholders, chiefs and assembly members in some selected communities in the Western Region. He […]

The somersaulted Vehicle Two people narrowly escaped death when a trailer carrying a 40-feet container overturned at Weija Junction in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region on Friday. The trailer, with registration number AS 5622-N, overturned in the process when mechanics had wanted to jerk it and attend to a fault. Eyewitnesses […]