An inquiry panel has submitted a report which says Nigerian armed forces shot and killed anti-police brutality protesters last year. Tens of thousands of Nigerians took to the streets last October calling for the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) police unit to be disbanded. The report, leaked on Monday, has identified 48 casualties after the army opened fire on the demonstrators. ...

Mr Marlon Anipa, the first-ever District Chief Executive for the newly created Guan District in the Oti Region, has been reported dead. He is believed to have died in Hohoe on Tuesday, November 16 as confirmed by sources within the New Patriotic Party. Details of his death are yet to be known. Marlon Anipa was unanimously approved as the first ...

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has accused the leadership of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) of blatantly lying about the 50 per cent benchmark value reduction at the ports. According to GUTA, it is never true that the benchmark value reduction that offers discounts to importers in the country is derailing the government’s agenda for the industrialisation ...

Private legal practitioner and member of the communications team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Gordon Edudzi Tameklo, has stated that for the benefit of hindsight the majority caucus in parliament should retract and render an apology to the people of Keta for the alleged picture of sand winning activities in the area that has resulted in the tidal wave. ...

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has described as falsehood claims by a section of Ghanaians that food prices have skyrocketed in the country. The Minister said statistics compiled by his office do not support such claims. “That is the wrong perception. The statistics that we compiled in this Ministry do not support that,” he said ...

Legal practitioner Justice Abdulai has explained that the families of the nine pupils who died as a result of drowning in Saboba cannot claim they have forgiven the culprit for the case to be abandoned by the court. Lawyer Abdulai said the families could be used as witnesses because the prosecutors may need some information on the victims. The headmaster ...

A political analyst and lecturer at the Cape Coast University in the Central Region has given thumps up for the call for the leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to prevail on the wife of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings to return to the fold of the party. Last week the daughter of the late former ...

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, says it is surprising that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would petition the police over allegations of vote pudding. According to him, the allegations of pudding involved only 6,000 votes, an issue which has been thrashed out by the Supreme Court. The NDC last week petitioned the police to investigate ...

All trainees of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) have been asked by the government to stay at post despite the end of their three-year term. A statement from the NABCo headquarters copied to all module implementation partners, CPTP trainees, MDAs, MMDAs, NABCo staff and the media, said: “Following a high-level stakeholder meeting with the lead NABCo module implementation partners (MIPs) ...

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has denied claims of withdrawal of its five-year partnership with the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). This follows media reports suggesting that the Committee had withdrawn from a five-year partnership aimed at fighting corruption related to disbursement of petroleum revenue with EOCO in the country. A statement issued on Monday, 15 November ...