The Criminal Division of the Accra High court has ordered the release of the Achimota student who shot and killed his girlfriend last year. According to the presiding judge, Justice Kofi Dorgu, the trial of the accused exceeded the six months period as stipulated in the Juvenile Act. The court has therefore ordered that the judgment by the Juvenile court ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) will institute a probe into circumstances that led to the headmaster of Vakpo Senior High School and the accountant allegedly charging unapproved fees under the free Senior High School (SHS) programme. A parent whose ward is a student at Vakpo SHS revealed that her child was asked by the headmaster to pay GHS50 covering water ...

MANCHESTER UNITED star Anthony Martial was involved in a row with Jose Mourinho after the Red Devils’ recent 2-0 defeat to Tottenham, according to reports. Manchester United were beaten by Tottenham last month with Spurs easing to victory courtesy of Christian Eriksen’s first-half strike and Phil Jones’ own-goal. Martial cut a frustrated figure throughout that match, with the France international ...

President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa has urged the Special Prosecutor nominee, Martin Amidu, to turn up the heat on the Office of Government Machinery and assess the expenses incurred by the agencies under the office in recent years. “…If we are looking at the office of the government machinery for instance in the last 12 years, you would ...

Government is likely to release the seized heavy mining equipment belonging to Exton Cubic Company Ltd, this week, a source from the Attorney General’s department has disclosed The equipment were impounded at Nyinahin, in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti region, under the instruction of Ashanti regional minister, Simon Osei Mensah. The decision to release the equipment to Exton ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has warned all heads of senior high schools (SHS) in the country not to charge unapproved fees under the Free SHS policy. According to the president, there are a handful of reactionary elements who are determined to undermine the Free SHS policy, but gave the assurance that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government would make ...

Late dancehall musician Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, aka Ebony Reigns will be buried in Accra on Saturday, March 17. The family announced the date at a heavily attended one-week observation held Sunday at the St. Martin De Porres School at Dansoman in Accra. The week observation saw ministers of state and other political figures, ministers of the gospel, and bigwigs in the ...

Acting principal of the Ankaful Psychiatric Nurses’ Training College, Simon Dorgedon, is being accused of misappropriating a little over GH¢8,000 belonging to the school. Mr Dorgedon, according to some anonymous staff of the school, paid himself an amount of GH¢943.20 on February 14 as allowance for marking the end of first-semester examination scripts of trainees. It emerged, however, that Mr ...

Majority Leader in Parliament and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has said suspended NPP National Executives, Messrs Paul Afoko, Kwabena Agyepong and Sammy Crabbe; Chairman, Secretary, Vice Chair respectively, didn’t like the candidature of President Nana Akufo Addo, then as NPP flagbearer. Mr. Kyei Mensah Bonsu singled out Mr Paul Afoko, particularly, out of the “trio”, as ...

CHRIS SUTTON has warned Romelu Lukaku that he needs to start scoring for Manchester United against the big boys. After an electric start to life at Old Trafford, the goals have slowed down over the past few months for Lukaku at Manchester United. All but one of his 12 Premier League strikes have been scored against teams in the bottom ...