The North Tongu has condemned moves by members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) to secede a portion of Ghana and become the ‘Western Togoland’. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa described the secession move as an insult to the history of Ghana and urged people in the demarcated area not to support the balkanisation move led by octogenarian Kwame Kudzordjie. The ...

The Auditor-General, Mr. Daniel Yaw Domelevo, has discovered $ 3.4b in unpaid penalties relating to the Petroleum Holding Fund. The latest report on the management of petroleum funds for the year ending December 2017, found that a total amount of US$220m was outstanding. Of the total amount, US$219 million represents amounts due from the Ghana National Gas Company Limited for ...

A submarine loaded with more than 2,000kg (4,409lb) of cocaine has been seized in Spain, police sources say. They say two people were held after the vessel ran aground off Galicia’s coast in the north-west. A third person fled. They all are said to be from Ecuador. Spanish media report that the submarine was from Colombia and police are trying ...

The Central Police Command in the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi has commenced investigations into the missing sidearm of the police bodyguard of Railway minister Joe Ghartey. The minister and his bodyguard filed a complaint at Adum police station over the stolen weapon which was loaded with 10 rounds ammunition. The minister and his bodyguard were in Ashanti region for official ...

Rafael Nadal rounded off his unbeaten record in the 2019 Davis Cup to seal Spain’s sixth title and a 2-0 win over Canada with a 6-4 7-6 victory over Denis Shapovalov in Madrid. The world number one, who won all eight of his rubbers he played this week, handed his country their first Davis Cup title since 2011 in style. ...

After a 12-year delay, work has resumed on the Sofoline-Abuakwa Interchange project. This follows the release of funding by government. It is the second time in a year government has released funds for the project which is 9-years behind schedule. The amount released is less than 40 per cent of the $32 million certificates raised by contractors. Nhyira News sources ...

A youth group has called on the President of National House of Chiefs Togbe Afede to resign the post following the confusion that has afflicted the house over the upcoming referendum. According to the group, the President of the House acted arbitrarily by canvassing for a ‘no vote’ without the approval of the House. “In the light of these, Togbe ...

Before President John Evans Atta-Mills died, his Vice-President, John Dramani Mahama, had written his resignation letter, The Ghana Report can exclusively reveal. His decision to resign as Ghana’s Vice-President was as a result of endless frustration he suffered at the hands of some presidential staffers and ministers of state in the President Mills administration. Mahama was routinely treated with disrespect ...

The office of Egypt’s last major independent media outlet has been raided by plainclothes security officers, its editors say. On Facebook, Mada Masr said laptops and phones were confiscated and three staff members briefly arrested. Despite being blocked in Egypt since 2017, the website is accessible in the country via virtual private networks. The authorities have not commented. There has ...

Ghana has had a rich history in especially the way it relates to foreigners. One of such is the ‘smooth’ relationship with Jimmy Moxon (Roland James Moxon), who became Nana Kofi Onyaase and played a very instrumental role in Ghanaian chieftaincy. Jimmy Moxon was a colonial civil servant who moved to the Gold Coast (Ghana) during World War II. Born ...