The Marine Police and personnel from the Air Force Military will soon join the Operation Vanguard Taskforce in the Eastern region to help clamp down on about 3,500 defiant illegal miners engaging in alluvia mining on the Birim River. The illegal miners popularly known as Chanfai are still working on the Apapam to Akyem Fosu stretch of the Birim River ...

A local governance expert, Issaka Amon Kotei, has kicked against the creation of new administrative regions in Ghana. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has established the Regional Reorganisation and Development Ministry to carve out new regions within the next four years. About six regions are likely to be created out of the Western, Volta, Northern and Brong Ahafo regions. ...

The deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has challenged Victor Smith to be bold and file a petition against former President JJ Rawlings. The former Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom said in a recent interview that it would be unfair for the leadership of the NDC to discipline former Attorney General Martin Amidu ...

With a year to the start of 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations tournament, Ghana, are in danger of losing the enviable rights of hosting the continent. Ghana face being stripped off after the Vice Chairperson for the country’s Women’s League Board admitted the West Africans are unprepared. There has been no clear path for Ghana after winning the bid ...

The writing was on the wall for the collapsed Capital Bank as far back as at least 2014, according to memo sighted and published by the Insight Newspaper in January 2015, which went under the radar at the time. The Insight Newspaper obtained information indicating that the Capital Bank, then First Capital Plus Bank, was on the verge of collapse ...

Self-acclaimed Dancehall King, Charles Nii Armah, aka Shatta Wale, has stirred controversy on social media after a white substance, suspected to be cocaine, was captured in his car during a live video. In one of his videos, the tough-talking artiste appears to have been taken by surprise after the camera fell on a white substance placed in his car. Although ...

Real Madrid expect today the final word by the Spanish Football Federation on the appeal lodged by the club on the five match ban on star player, Cristiano Ronaldo. Coach Zinedine Zidane gave the hint Tuesday during a preview of the second leg of the SuperCup between the club and Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday night. Ronaldo and ...

An emerging youth movement of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region christened, Integrity Against Corruption (I.A.C) has condemned recent attacks on the party founder, Former President, Jerry John Rawlings for speaking about the state of the party. The former President at the recent Ada Asafotsufiame was said to have criticized the perceived corruption that has engulfed ...

Three female suicide bombers have carried out an attack that has killed at least 27 people in north-eastern Nigeria, officials say. Dozens were injured when the women blew themselves up outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno state – a stronghold of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. There has been an upsurge in violence in the city in ...

Tweet The President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu has announced that testing for HIV is now compulsory in that country. According to Mr. Lungu, testing, counselling and treatment for HIV which used to be voluntary, are now a must for every citizen as the country struggles to address the high prevalence rate in Zambia. Zambia’s National HIV Council revealed that the ...