The grandparents who allegedly compelled their 11-year-old granddaughter to sit in a basin of hot water as punishment for bedwetting have been remanded in police custody by the Accra Circuit Court. Christina Torkonu, 50, a fish monger, and James Agbamavo, 65, an electrician, were arrested on January 8, 2012 by the Kpeshie office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service. After the facts of the case had been presented by Assistant Superintendent ... Read More
President John Dramani Mahama has made 12 appointments for ministerial positions and in accordance with Article 78 of the Constitution, on Friday furnished Parliament with the names of the nominees for vettings. They include Mr Seth Terpker, an immediate past deputy Finance minister for the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Hannah Tetteh , MP for Awutu Senya West and former Minister for Trade and Industry for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mr Akwasi Oppong Fosu for the Ministry ... Read More
The death is reported of Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Blood-Dzraku (Rtd), a former Director of the Armed Forces Public Relations Directorate. A statement signed by Lieutenant Colonel E. Aggrey-Quashie of the Public Relations Directorate of the Ghana Armed Forces, said Lt. Col. Blood-Dzraku, 63, died on December 23, 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital after a short illness. The late Lt. Col. Blood-Dzraku was a Director of the Armed Forces Public Relations from 1998 to 2000. Burial and funeral ... Read More
Award winning highlife musician Daniel Amakye Dede has denied media reports that he deliberately refused to perform at the National Democratic Congress? (NDC) victory party held at the Trade Fair Centre at La in Accra on Monday, January 7. According to him, although he was informed by one Fred Darko that the organizers of the NDC victory jam wanted him to perform for the party supporters, ?I told them that because of the death of my beloved uncle I am in my hometown holding meetings with my ... Read More
The Chairperson of the Convention People?s Party (CPP) Samia Yaaba Nkrumah has urged all CPP faithful to help present to Ghanaians a well organized party within 6 months. After a poor performance during the 2012 elections, the Presidential Candidate of the party, Dr. Abu Sakara in an interview with Citi News attributed the party?s poor showing to the performance of the Samia-led-leadership and called for a change. The Chairperson, Ms Nkrumah in a statement posted on her Facebook wall ... Read More
The Tema Development Corporation (TDC) has donated hockey equipment valued at GH¢10,850 to two hockey clubs in Tema - the Tema Youth Hockey Club and the Tema Manhean Hockey Club. The presentation was part of activities climaxing the corporation?s 60th anniversary programme. Items presented to the clubs included 50 pieces of hockey sticks, goal-keeping gloves, helmets, boots, shin and chest guards. Making the donation, the Board Chairman of TDC, Mr. Emmanuel Oko Adjetey, said the ... Read More
Interest rates on long term funds could be declining in coming months. That?s if the almost 17 percent of governments? offer to investors who participated in Thursday?s bond issue is anything to go by. Treasury bills are currently hovering round 23 percent while return on long-dated instruments such as the five year bond is pegged at 26 percent. Usually the return often gives an indication of government?s preparedness to borrow from the market. This also eventually influences the ... Read More
Recycling hundred per cent of the metal obtained from ore can reduce environmental load to one three-hundredth the load created by mining, Mrs Ama Ampoma Andoh, Member for Juaben, said on Friday. Mrs Andoh who said this in a statement read on the floor of Parliament noted that around 10 tons of ore are needed to make a gold ring that weights 10 grams, but only 0.037 tons are needed if the gold from cell phones is recycled. She said e-waste in Ghana is growing about 20 per cent each year due ... Read More
Chidinma Adaobi Williams is one of the talented up-and-coming musicians who have been discovered by Vodafone Ghana. She partook of the Season Two of Vodafone icons, Ghana?s biggest prize in music reality show held last year, with her group called Vibes, emerging the first runner up in the competition. The beautiful hardworking songstress is also a student of the Ghana Technology University in Accra, but she is determined to make it in the music industry. The Vodafone icon star, the ... Read More
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