Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey – NPP National Chairman The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Thursday set ground rules for its upcoming National Delegates’ Congress slated for the Tamale Sports Stadium on Saturday April 12, 2014, outlawing camping of delegates and inducement in the form of bribery. The three-page document, which among other things, spells out the […]

Kwabena Adjei Agyepong addressing the media Aspiring General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Adjei Agyepong, has expressed concern about vicious campaigns being waged against him by some contestants and their agents in the run-up to next week’s National Delegates’ Congress of the party. Chief among them was the issue of what he […]

Kwasi Addai Odike The 2012 flagbearer of the United Front Party (UFP), Kwasi Addai aka ‘Odike’ will visit the Antoa Nyamaa River in the Ashanti Region on Monday. The politician is expected to visit the place to perform traditional rites to recant a curse he invoked on the Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly […]

Mohammed Armed and Emmanuel Ahiagbede THE TWO armed robbers who were arrested by the Tema police for allegedly robbing two people after cashing various sums of money from banks, have been sentenced to imprisonment term of 30 years each with hard labour by a Tema Circuit Court. Mohammed Armed, 30, motor mechanic who resides at Dome […]

Sherry Aryittey, Minister of Health The Ebola outbreak in some West African countries, though not yet an epidemic, is scary, requiring both a multi-institutional and national approach, if we are to hold it at bay. Medical authorities at the highest level such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), are busy trying, as it were, to […]

Bishop Daniel Obinim The trial of Bishop Daniel Obinim, founder of Godsway International Ministry and his two associate pastors – Kingsley Baah and Kofi Akwetey – at an Accra High Court, was on Thursday adjourned to April 29, 2014. This was due to the absence of his counsel, Samuel Atta Akyea, Member of Parliament for […]

Joseph Clottey and Richard Osei Adjei Fresh charges have been preferred against Lance Corporals Joseph Clottey and Richard Osei Adjei, the policemen facing trial for allegedly robbing one Muktari Adamu of his $55,000. The security operatives and two others – Femi El-Alawa, aka Beggie and Dr. Asante – now at large – are facing two counts […]

Joyce Blessing Tonight, all roads lead to Tamale Sport Stadium, where a select string of nominated artistes for this year’s edition of Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) will be rocking music lovers and their teeming fans in and around Tamale to a grand jam. The Tamale concert is absolutely free and expected to attract thousands […]

Members of Alabaster Box in a pose with BBC World Focus on Africa anchor, Sophie Ikenya Ghana’s award-winning and leading gospel acapella music quartet, Alabaster Box, made a surprising appearance on the world-acclaimed ‘BBC Focus on Africa’ on BBC World TV. The group was the first ever gospel and the first Ghanaian group to have […]

Black Stars trainer Kwasi Appiah says his doors are open to former national team captain, John Mensah and all Ghanaian footballers. He said he would invite every Ghanaian footballer who is playing active soccer across the globe from January to May this year. “John Mensah will be invited to the Black Stars if he plays […]

Ottmar responding to questions from Tony Baffoe Kotoko head trainer Mas Ud-Didi Dramani, has described coaches and football administrators’ meeting with German legendary coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, was a great privilege. Some of the country’s coaches and football administrators had a fruitful interaction with the double Champions League winner in Accra yesterday. And according to coach […]

Alhaji Abdul Karim Grusah BANKROLLER of King Faisal FC, Alhaji Abdul Karim Grusah, has registered his protest against Black Stars players traveling to Brazil with their wives for the 2014 World Cup. There have been suggestions that wives of the Stars players should be allowed to travel to Brazil with their husbands. Those who are […]

Rosemond Nyampong, Fennec Okyere, Samuel Denis Ayibah and Quist Defore On a hot sunny morning of November 21, 2013, Ghanaians woke up to the chilling murder of 32-year-old Stannic Bank staff, Rosemond Nyampong in her private residence at Baatsona, a suburb between Accra and Tema. Her lifeless body—dressed in her work clothes—was lying prone in a […]

The terrible traffic situation at Kwame Nkrumah Circle The on-going Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange project which is being jointly financed with credit from the Brazilian Government and the Ghana Government has become a great source of worry for most motorists plying that road. Although the project would finally be completed in 2016 as scheduled, pedestrians, […]

Taking it cool in a hammock The cool afternoon Caribbean Sea breeze wafted over my body as I was daydreaming in the hammock tied between two coconut trees in the front beach lodge of my host during my recent visit to the twin-island State of Antigua and Barbuda in the West Indies. “I hope you […]

Rosemond Nyampong, Fennec Okyere, Samuel Denis Ayibah and Quist Defore On a hot sunny morning of November 21, 2013, Ghanaians woke up to the chilling murder of 32-year-old Stannic Bank staff, Rosemond Nyampong in her private residence at Baatsona, a suburb between Accra and Tema. Her lifeless body—dressed in her work clothes—was lying prone in […]

The decision by the Market Queen, Madam Kate Korkor, to make traders contribute GH¢5.00 each to buy certain items and sacrifice to the gods of the Suhum market has backfired. The money was to be used to buy a cow, sheep, a goat and bottles of Schnapps for the pacification ceremony. Madam Comfort Odi, one of […]

Alhaji Limuna Mohammed Muniru Relative calm has returned to Bombilla and Bogni in the East Mamprusi District of the Northern region after Thursday’s reprisal attacks that led to the death of Sakuaka Dinja, 32. Four persons, according to Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), ASP Ebenezer Tetteh sustained gunshot wounds and are currently receiving medical […]

Divers preparing to go into the vessel to pump water out JIOE Complex Ghana Limited, a company in Tema that was contracted by management of MV Madanfo, a Ghanaian fishing vessel, to salvage the vessel that sank at the Tema Port has commenced work. Diving to ascertain the hooking point and condition of the underwater […]