The owner of the collapsed Melcom shop building at Achimota on Wednesday has turned himself in to Bureau of National Investigations (BNI). Nana Kwesi Boadu reported himself to the national investigative body Friday morning after the authorities indicated he was wanted for questioning. Deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa confirmed this to Joy News. He said the suspect had a lot of questions to answer and that he would not be surprised if Nana Boadu is detained for a long ... Read More
The Council of Elders of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has debunked the perception that although it?s presidential candidate, Dr Abu Sakara Forster is a good material, the political party on whose ticket he is seeking the election is weak. ?The National Council of Elders would like to affirm that the CPP can never be said to be weak; safe in the minds of those who have refused to see the realities?. George A. Garbrah, the Council?s secretary asserted at a press conference in Accra, ... Read More
The election of the President of the Western Regional House of Chiefs, his vice and five other members to represent the House at the National House of Chiefs was yesterday put on hold following two suits of injunction filed at the Supreme Court in Accra and the High Court here against two of their members. In the first suit,the Omanhene of Eastern Nzema,Awulae Amihere Kpanyili 11, has filed an order for interlocutory injunction against Mr Joseph Ackah,who, he claimed styled himself as ... Read More
ATHLETES have began pouring in for the 17th edition of the Ghana Universities Sports Association (GUSA) inter university cross country on-going at the athletics oval of the University of Ghana Legon. The route mainly on the campus of the host University will have athletes running through the principal streets of Legon campus. Sponsored by Promasidor Ghana Limited, producers of Cowbell Milk, this year?s event has all seven public universities including University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ... Read More
President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday visited former Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama on his sick bed at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. The former Vice President was rushed to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital last Saturday? not long after he had been discharged from the same hospital. Alhaji Aliu Mahama is currently receiving care at the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital but family members say he is in a stable condition. President John Mahama received a barrage of criticisms ... Read More
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has appealed to the leadership of the political parties to demonstrate genuine commitment to peace through tolerance, integrity and fair play. He said the parties should not hesitate to publicly condemn deviant acts by their supporters. Otumfuo Osei Tutu made the appeal when he received the presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to his Manhyia Palace, in Kumasi on ... Read More
Four out of the six parliamentary candidates contesting Sunyani East Constituency seat on Thursday pledged their commitment to promote and maintain peace despite their political differences to ensure peaceful Election 2012. They are Mr Kwasi Ameyaw Cheremeh 46, a lawyer and incumbent New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament, Mr Philip Awuah 59, National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Sampson Sampana Alanyina 38, People?s National Convention and Mrs Vivian Tetteh, Progressive Peoples ... Read More
The police administration has promoted General Constable Nester Aneateba to the rank of a full Corporal. This is in compliance to a directive by President John Mahama. The president issued the directive following what was described as the ?display of exemplary bravado? by Nester Aneateba ?in rescuing 14 victims trapped after the collapse of the Achimota Melcom Building in Accra.? The 27 year old who was part of the police personnel deployed for the rescue mission entered the wreckage of ... Read More
A total of GH¢700,098.54 is to be retrieved from 62 local contractors who have failed to execute contracts awarded to them by the government. The contractors were given mobilization fund about eight years ago to construct 4,720 affordable houses at Kpone, Borteyman, Asokore Mampong, Koforidua and Temale but have not began the project The contract was awarded to them, during the New Patriotic Party regime, led by the former President John Agyekum Kuffour but till now some have not even ... Read More
Corporal punishment is prevalent in schools and homes in Ghana despite legal and administrative measures to discourage the practice. Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Head of Research and Advocacy Division of the Department of Children who made this known said it is the most used form of punishment. He was speaking at a forum for teachers, parents, community heads and pupils on Wednesday at Abutia-Tegbleve, a farming community in Ho Municipality. Mr Kyei-Gyamfi based his assertion on a ... Read More
The Accra District Court has placed interlocutory injunction on three buildings suspected to have being built without permit and belonging to Nana Kwesi Boadu, owner of the building housing Achimota branch of Melcom Shopping Mall. This was contained in a letter signed by Mr Richard Adigbli, Court Registrar, and Ali Baba Bature, the Magistrate. The buildings, which the court believe were of poor quality building materials is accommodating Achimota branches of Fidelity Bank, Standard ... Read More
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