Award-winning investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas will in the month of August release a 10-minute video on illegal child beggars on the streets of Ghana. The project in collaboration with OAfrica under the #KidsOurFuture campaign, is aimed at highlighting child trafficking in the alms begging business and some of the abuses such children are subjected to. “Further studies and investigations ...

Medical doctors in the country have threatened to strike if government does not meet it’s demands. Following a National Executive Council meeting on July 27, the association has outlined a number of issues it wants to be addressed before August 6, failing which, an escalating strike will begin. The GMA in a statement has recommended that “non-core expenditures [National Health ...

The Financial Forensics Unit (FFU) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested 12 suspects in the biggest ever cybercrime burst in recent history. A circuit court last Friday remanded 11 out of the 12 suspects into police custody to reappear on August 9, 2018, as investigations continue. Friday evening, another suspect was arrested, bringing ...

Residents of Essaman in Sekondi in the Western region are yet to come to terms over the alleged killing of a three-day old baby by his parents. Felicia  Dzimah and Erasmus Dzimah, according to a co-tenant, murdered the toddler with a hammer Saturday. The co-tenant told Empire FM’s Emmanuel Ohene Gyan that the baby was subsequently buried by the father ...

The management of Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) says it has arrested of an unscrupulous syndicate who attempted to attack its infrastructure last week. The Bank achieved this with the successful collaboration with the Ghana Police Service (GPS) who helped with their expertise in the area of cyber attack to cause the arrest of the syndicate. “UMB wishes to state that due to the significant infrastructural ...

The Illinois Service Federal (ISF) Bank is now officially called GN Bank. President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom outdooring the new name in an uplifting ceremony at the Bank’s Head Office on the South Side of Chicago said GN Bank is here to stay. “As chairman of the board, I commit to you – GN Bank ...

The District Chief Executive for Mamprugu Moigduri in the Northern Region, Abu Adams, has threatened to cause the removal of all police officers in the area over tensions that continue to mount in a village called Kubogu, following the release of a suspect who ambushed and opened fire on a man and his four little boys. The suspect, Amadu Ibrahim, ...

Divorce-seeking husband of embattled former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has exposed his wife over her purchase of thousands of dollars worth of properties in South Africa after NDC under former President John Mahama lost power, MyNewsGH.com can report. The former Minister has been fingered by the Auditor-General in a series of illegal investments, one ...

The Ministry of Energy is to conduct engineering survey to determine how to supply off-grid electricity to some communities in the Abirem Constituency. This has become necessary because of the difficulty in connecting them to the national grid. The Sector Minister, Boakye Agyarko, announced this when answering a question on the floor of Parliament on Thursday. The Member of Parliament ...

Matilda Amissah-Arthur, wife of late former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, gave an emotional and unusual tribute to her late husband during a state funeral service in Accra on Friday. The widow also used the opportunity to take on critics of Amissah-Arthur when he was alive describing them as “hypocrites.” “Did people really know my husband? The lies, the accusations, the ...