Fifi Kwetey  Government can’t continue sinking all its tax resources into paying salaries, Minister of State in charge of allied financial institutions, Fifi Kwetey, has told XYZ News. Mr Kwetey argues that continuing to sink about 70 percent of tax revenue into paying wages of about 650,000 public workers, robs other sectors of the economy […]

Twenty-seven prostitutes, including students of the Takoradi Polytechnic who were rounded up in a police swoop on Monday have been granted bail by a Circuit Court. They were granted a GH¢13,500.00 bail with one surety each to reappear on April 30, 2014. The Police arrested the prostitutes at different locations in Takoradi and have charged […]

Sherry Aryittey, Minister of Health The Ghana Medical Association has kicked against moves by government, to have district assemblies across the country pay the salaries of medical doctors. According to the Association, the move cannot be sustained. The doctors are currently paid by central government. Health Minister, Sherry Ayittey says doctors working in the various […]

Today, Friday April 4 is the 22nd day after Francis Agyare, the man who was jailed 14 years without trial, was awarded compensation by the state for wrongful imprisonment. And in accordance with the state proceedings Act, Act 555, a certificate of judgement will be presented to him following the 21 days mandate which he […]

The men attacked the photojournalist while she was on assignment A court in India has sentenced three men to hang, under a new law which carries the death penalty for those convicted of multiple sexual assaults. The men were convicted of raping a photojournalist in Mumbai last year. But they were also among five men […]

Vybz Kartel Jamaican dancehall and reggae star Vybz Kartel has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams. Following his conviction last month, Kartel received the harshest sentence of any of his co-defendants: he will serve 35 years in jail before he will be eligible for parole. The sentencing […]

Collins Dauda When a government appointee at the level of a minister stands apart from the rest of the pack through an unusual action, positive in nature and far-reaching in scope, he deserves a plaudit, uninhibited. Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, was in the news yesterday following his swift pulling […]

FLASHBACK: Kwasi Addai Odike with sheep presented to Asantehemaa Court for using Antoa to curse KMA Mayor The embattled former flagbearer of the United Front Party (UFP), Kwasi Addai, aka Odike, is in hot waters as he has allegedly been summoned to appear at the Asantehemaa’s palace in Kumasi, before the close of today. The ultimatum […]

The AK-47-Weilding land guards before they were arrested Six notorious land guards suspected to be part of a gang that had been terrorizing residents of Amasaman and its environs with pump action guns and other deadly weapons, have finally been arrested by the Amasaman Police near Accra. Police received several complaints of suspects’ activities, including […]

Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, yesterday failed to give details to the media of a case before the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague  in which Government was asked to pay an amount of $12 million to Balkan Energy Company (BEC) for abrogating the disputed Osagyefo Barge […]

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Health inspecting some wards at KATH. INSET: A baby lying on the floor Newborn babies and their mothers sleep on the floor at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi due to congestion at the medical facility. This came to light when members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health […]

DSP Mawunyegah Tehoda Evans Mensah, the host of Newsnight programme on Joy Fm – an Accra-based private radio station – yesterday appeared before an Accra Humans Rights Court to tender a tape on an interview he conducted with DCOP Rose Atinga-Bio, the Director-General in-charge of Administration of the Ghana Police Service. Mensah was subpoenaed to […]

Johnson Kombian  ASP Abdulai Mumuni, former District Police Commander at Bunkprugu Yunyoo yesterday told an Accra Fast Track High Court that it was Johnson Kombian – the suspected armed robber serving a five-year jail term at Ankaful Maximum Security Prison for breaking jail – who killed his two colleagues and wounded another. The witness told […]

Isaac Ashai Odamtten, Tema Mayor THE TEMA Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has banned the celebration of the famous Adom FM’s carnival dubbed TemaFest within its metropolis. TemaFest is an outdoor event organised by the Multimedia Group on December 26 for thousands of fans and music enthusiasts. TemaFest is an all-day event which is usually characterised by […]

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, may be among the richest people on the planet but (at least so far) they’ve stayed away from buying mega yachts, desert islands and other trappings of the ultra rich. According to a Facebook filing this week, Zuckerberg pulled the trigger on some 60 […]

Dr. Kofi Wampah, Governor BoG Risks to Ghana’s inflation continue to remain high and these are driven mainly by periodic increases in fuel and utility prices, currency depreciation and supply-demand gaps in the general economy, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has disclosed. Dr. Kofi Wampah, Governor of the Central Bank, who made this known at […]

Rashid Pelpuo Minister of State in charge of Private Sector Development, Alhaji Rashid Pelpuo says the current challenges facing Government in its management of the country’s economy present the best time and opportunity for entrepreneurs to make money for themselves. Speaking at the British Council Hall in Accra during the launch of an entrepreneurial training […]

Elizabeth Ofosu- Adjare Ghana will earn $8.3 billion from the tourism sector by 2027 on the back of an estimated 4.3 million international tourists, Elizabeth Ofosu- Adjare, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Art, has said. She said in 2012 the tourism sector raked in $1.7 billion from 993,600 international tourists, providing employment for 359,000 […]

Imagine8 staff launching the awards Image8 Company Limited, in partnership with the Ministry of Trade and Industry, has launched the first edition of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Ghana Awards 2013 in Accra. It is an innovative event to reward the most imaginative and successful initiative from small and medium sized enterprises, private-public partnerships. […]