Author Archives: larryehu

C/R: Fake soldiers arrested for assaulting residents

Two men who posed as soldiers are in the grips of the Kasoa Divisional Police Command after assaulting and threatening residents in Gomoa Ojobi in the Central region. The two suspects are part of five persons held by the police in Kasoa for unleashing terror on residents as a result of a land dispute in the area. Speaking in an ...

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Akufo-Addo sacks 13,000 public sector workers

In what is been described as reenactment of the dismissal of some 568 selected public servants by their forebear government of Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia, President Akufo-Addo has in the last five months sacked a staggering 13,000 public sector workers. The dismissed public servants, most of who were hired during the eight year rule of the National Democratic Congress ...

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President vows to improve teacher dev’t for quality education

President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed government’s commitment to enhancing the professional development of teachers in the country. This he said would be done through the Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL), which seeks to transform the delivery of pre-service teacher education and improve the quality of teacher education and learning through all colleges of education in the country. He made ...

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Boko Haram beheads four displaced people hunting in Borno state

Boko Haram militants have beheaded four internally displaced people in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday ( 20 May), local media reported. The victims were decapitated as they were hunting outside the Dalori camp in Maiduguri, capital of restive Borno state, the Premium Times reported. The victims were part of a 12-men-strong hunting group. Six of them managed to return to the ...

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Rev. Prof Martey should form a political party – Allotey Jacobs

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bernard Allotey Jacobs has accused the immediate past moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Very Rev Professor Emmanuel Martey of not living as a clergy man. According to him, his utterances make him appear more of a politician than a religious leader and would therefore advise him ...

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I’ll return to football when corruption stops – Tony Yeboah

Former Ghana international Anthony Yeboah says he has no immediate plans to return to football administration after being frustrated out of football a few years ago due to alleged underhand dealings by referees whom he accused of undermining his team’s effort in the second-tier league. The 50-year-old legend, who scored 29 goals in 59 matches for Ghana between 1985 and ...

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Manchester Arena attack: 22 dead and 59 hurt

Twenty-two people, including children, have been killed and 59 injured in a suspected suicide attack at Manchester Arena. The blast happened at 22:35 BST on Monday at the end of a concert by the US singer Ariana Grande. Greater Manchester Police said the lone male attacker, who died in the blast, was carrying an improvised explosive device which he detonated. ...

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DKB wins best comedian award in USA

The maiden edition of the Ghana Entertainment Awards USA was held on Saturday, May 20, 2017 at the Florence Gould Hall Theatre in New York where many deserving winners were honoured on the night. One of such deserving winner was the King of GH Comedy, DKB. In a very keenly contested category, DKB walked away with the top prize as ...

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Government to invest 30% only in ‘One-District One-Factory’ – Alan Kyeremanten

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyeremanten, has disclosed that, the government is willing to invest not more than 30 percent equity, if required, in any of the proposed “One District One Factory” projects. According to the Trade and Industry Minister, investing only 30 percent equity in its flagship policy initiative, is to ensure that the “One District One ...

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