The Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has laughed off claims that Ghana’s president Akufo-Addo garnered a disappointing two votes to lose out on the ECOWAS chairmanship slot to Togo’s Faure Gnassingbè. Social media is awash with rumours that Akufo-Addo lost miserably to his Togolese counterpart, but Ghana’s foreign minister is surprised about the news since “there was no vote” ...

Government has strenuously denied claims by a former Presidential Staffer that the NDC government ordered the purchase of some 43 new vehicles a few days before leaving office at the behest of the new Akufo-Addo government. The previous administration led by former President John Mahama was accused of illegally procuring the aforementioned vehicles for the presidency at a cost of ...

The head pastor of the Calvary Charismatic Church (CCC), Reverend Ransford Obeng, has urged the military to forgive the perpetrators of the murder of the late Captain Maxwell Mahama. According to him, he sympathises with the family of the deceased service man whose death has thrown the whole nation into disbelief and mourning. Speaking to the Ultimate News on the ...

Twelve people have been arrested after the London terror attack which left seven people dead and 48 injured. The arrests in Barking, east London, followed a raid at a flat belonging to one of the three attackers. A van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at 21:58 BST on Saturday. Three men then got out and stabbed people in nearby Borough ...

Former Ghana midfielder Kofi Ntow Gyan has alleged that the sons of legendary Ghanaian striker Abedi ‘Pele’ Ayew are causing division within the Black Stars. According to Gyan, a similar confusion caused by Abedi Pele and Tony Yeboah over captaincy led to the failure of the Black Stars to win the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations. Ghana lost the final ...

Over 1,500 people were injured as panic swept through a crowd of Juventus supporters watching the Champions League final in Turin on Saturday. A fan zone was set up to allow those unable to get to the game in Cardiff to take in the European showpiece as the Bianconeri faced Real Madrid. In contrast to the excitement which filled the ...

The recent lynching, or gruesome mob murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama, who whilst discharging his official duties as the commander of a military group deployed in the Denkyira Obuasi area with the assignment of regulating local small scale mining aka “Galamsey” activities; was tragically set upon, beaten and stoned to death, and partially burnt by a crowd – is very ...

Former president JJ has disclosed he fired his ex-aide Victor Smith because the latter wanted to divert campaign funds from some Nigerians in the United States to the National Democratic Congress ahead of the 2008 elections. Mr Smith, who until recently was Ghana’s High Commissioner to UK and Ireland, was sacked as Rawlings’ secretary on April 9, 2008 via a ...

US comedian and actor Bill Cosby is to go on trial for sexual assault in Pennsylvania later in a case that is expected to last about two weeks. Former University employee Andrea Constand alleges the 79-year-old drugged and molested her in 2004. At least 50 women have accused him of sexual assault, but Mr Cosby only faces charges in Ms ...

A total of 468,053 candidates are expected to sit this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination which begins today. The students who will write about 10 papers including Mathematics, English and Science have been burning the midnight oil in preparation for the week long exercise. Meanwhile, education authorities in the troubled Denkyira Obuasi township of the Central region are still struggling ...