A Cape Coast High Court has sentenced a 28 year-old sprinter bus driver to a fine of GH¢600.00 for careless and inconsiderate driving, negligently causing harm and driving without license. The convict, Prosper Agbadzi pleaded guilty to all the charges and will serve two months prison term in default. Police Chief Inspector Samuel Tupeng, who […]

SEND-Ghana has begun the processes to collate citizens’ inputs towards the preparation of the 2018 national budget. In this vein, the Upper West Region held its Regional Citizens’ Inputs Forum where stakeholders made inputs in various areas including education, health and social protection. On education, the participants expressed the hope that the 2018 budget would […]

Madam Diana Attaa Kusiwaa, the Nkoranza South Municipal Chief Executive, has called on Junior High School graduates to avoid unhealthy lifestyles as they await their results. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Madam Kusiwaa said there is the need to avoid joining bad peers who could ruin their future. She said the free […]

Nestle Ghana limited has held a public forum at Jumapo in the New Juaben Municipality to educate mothers and caregivers on the importance of nutrition especially breakfast to the growth and development of children. The programme dubbed ‘Nido Nutrition Day’ was organized in collaboration with the School Health Education Programme (SHEP) under the Ghana Education […]

Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface, the Minister of Inner-City and Zongo Development, has said the Zongo Community Development Fund would be used to support education and other critical needs of the Zongo communities. Alhaji Boniface was speaking during stakeholders’ forum on Monday as part of a nationwide stakeholder consultation to explain the essence of the fund […]

Before EU NAVFOR’s German P-3C Orion Maritime Patrol Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA) and its detachment of 85 personnel depart their current base in Djibouti to fly home to Germany later this week, Force Commander, Rear Admiral Rafael Fernández-Pintado Muñoz-Rojas, took to opportunity to meet the crew to thank them for their outstanding support. The German detachment […]

Mr Kwesi Johnson, Child Labour and Trafficking (CLaT) Co-coordinator at Friends of the Nation (FoN), has stressed the need for institutions and agencies working for the elimination of CLaT in the country to be strengthened. He said weaknesses in such institutions must be addressed while coordination among them should also be promoted in order to […]

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is owed a total of GHc 100 million in unpaid water bills by some public institutions in the Ashanti Region. These include metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies, schools and other institutions. Mr. Maxwell Addo Boateng, the Ashanti South Regional Manager, made this known to the Regional Minister, Mr. Simon […]

According to Daily Mail, Tehran has proof the U.S. directly supports ISIS and Washington is behind most of the terrorist acts in the world. This was announced by Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mostafa Izadi. Besides, Izadi stressed that the U.S. used this support as an instrument of “proxy […]

Environmental NGO, Alliance for Environmental Intervention (AfEI), has launched a tree planting project to assist restore the vegetative cover of mined areas. Mr. Bonaventure Kwame Takpah, Executive Director of AfEI, said this was being done in partnership with the Forestry Commission, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centre for Environmental Research and Policy Analysis. Dubbed […]

The South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) is calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a halt to atrocities being committed in the world’s youngest nation while calling on the international community to speak as one for a peaceful resolution to the conflict tearing their country apart. “People who grew up as refugees have […]

International partners have made financial pledges in support of humanitarian response efforts in the drought-hit Horn of Africa after a visit to Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. A delegation led by the African Union and the United Nations concluded a five-day visit to the Horn of Africa in Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday, after visiting drought-affected communities […]

          The brutal mauling of a police officer by some soldiers of the Uaddarra Barracks, in the Adum central district of Kumasi, the Asante regional capital, must not go unpunished (See “Kumasi Soldiers Brutally Assault Police Officer” Starrfmonline.com / Modernghana.com 6/6/17). Such dispiritingly uncivilized and undisciplined behavior among the ranks of […]

Highlighting the importance of cooperation among countries to overcome the violence and discrimination faced by persons with albinism, a United Nations rights expert has urged African nations to fully implement a regional action plan on ending attacks on persons with albinism. “The plan sets out clearly what States can do – for example educating the […]

Fifty-seven years after independence and three months to go, Nigeria would celebrate its first Nigerian Army University (NAU). Located in Biu local government area of Borno state, NAU is the first conventional, but uniquely specialized military university ever established in Nigeria by any of the arms of the Nigerian Military. Appropriately named the Nigerian Army […]

Following the untimely death of Maxwell Adam Mahama of the Ghana Army through mob action and his burial by the state, majority of people in the entire nation who learned about how the young man died are sad. All those with conscience would continue to ask why a group of people from Ghana known worldwide […]

Osabarima Kwasi Atta II, the Omanhen of Oguaa Traditional Area, has called for the support of Ghanaians, particularly the media, to promote the ideals of the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) and “Emancipation Day”. This, he indicated, was essential to preserve the nation’s cultural heritage and project Africa’s unique cultural values and norms to attract […]

The Nkyinkyim Installation, a visual art exhibition by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, would open in Cape Coast on June 17 on the theme: “In Memoriam: Portraits of the Middle Passage in Situ”. A collection of 1,300 contemporised Nsiso heads, cast in concrete, would be showcased at the Cape Coast and Elmina Castles until September 16, 2017. The […]

A police constable attached to the Tema Regional Police Rapid Deployment Force was on Monday evening shot and killed by two unknown assailants near Michel Camp. Constable Micheal Kporyi, who was in his late 20s met his untimely death whiles on  duty in the area. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Joseph Benefo Darkwah, Tema Regional […]

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) is ranked the most corrupt institution in the Kumasi metropolis, according a survey report by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) Consortium. The survey to assess citizens’ knowledge, perceptions and actual experiences of corruption was conducted between April and May 2016. Over 85.9 per cent of respondents in the […]