A Kumasi District Court, presided over by Mr. Alfred Kwabena Asiedu, has halted moves by a businessman to eject his own cousins from a property at the Adum in Kumasi. Joseph Collinwood Williams, was also slapped with GHȼ5,000.00 in costs. He had gone to court, claiming that the defendants were squatters and illegally sitting in a property, which belonged to [...] The post Businessman attempts to eject cousins from own home appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been discharged from a South African hospital where he has spent the last three weeks receiving treatment, his family says. The 84-year-old Nobel laureate, a key figure in the fight against apartheid, admitted himself to a hospital in Cape Town last month to bring a recurring infection under control, according to a statement from his family. [...] The post Desmond Tutu discharged from hospital appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

A new public bus service, the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system which aims at providing efficient transport for residents of Accra, within specific time schedules, it set to roll out. The new concept set to take off at the end of the month is a government initiative that is also designed for people to park their private vehicles and join [...] The post LET’S ALLOW THE RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM TO WORK appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

The repatriation of Somali refugees from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya fails to meet international standards for voluntary return, a Human Rights Watch report has found. The organisation says many of those returning to Somalia are motivated by fear of being forced out. Tens of thousands of refugees have been making the journey back home after years in the [...] The post Kenyan refugee repatriation unlawful appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

An explosion on a tourist boat off the Indonesian island of Bali has killed two people and injured at least 14 others, police say. An Austrian woman was one of the dead, according to police, while the identity of the second victim, also a foreign woman, was still unclear. A short circuit near the fuel tank may have been the [...] The post Deadly blast on Bali tourist boat appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

Forestry officers have been accused of taking bribes from loggers and shedding their responsibility to combat illegal lumbering. According to  the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), a study had revealed that bribery of the officers had become pervasive, thereby hampering the country’s fight against deforestation. According to the research, institutional arrangements set up by the forestry Commission, of the Ghana Police [...] The post Forestry officials accused of taking bribes appeared first on

An unidentified man believed to be in his 30s was electrocuted while stealing high-tension cables on the School of Biomedical Sciences campus of the University for Development Studies in Tamale. According to the police, the deceased is part of a syndicate which has been stealing electricity cables on the UDS campus and other parts of the region. The Public Relations [...] The post Cable thief electrocuted at UDS appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

A 35-year-old woman is in the grips of the police for allegedly stealing GH¢10,000 from a shop at Tudu in Accra. Ekua Sarponmaa, a beautician, was said to have stolen the money from the bag of the shop owner when she entered it to buy cloth on Wednesday. The Accra Regional Police Public Affairs Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), [...] The post Beautician steals GH¢10,000 from shop appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has stated that it is under no pressure to yield to the demands of workers calling for extra allowances. Although the commission said it shared in the plight of agitating workers who had been demanding for improved remunerations, it said its hands were “tied” and it could do little about their requests. The [...] The post FWSC: We won’t yield to demands appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.