The High Court at Adenta presided over by Justice Fred Kwasi Awuah has dismissed yet another writ filed by Empire Builders Limited, which sought to take possession of acres of land belonging to Top Kings Enterprise, a Ghanaian’-owned registered real estate company. Lawyers of Empire Builders, also a real estate developer, (plaintiff) wanted the court to restrain the defendant (Top ...

Child Online Africa (COA) has described as “regrettable” attempts by some private enterprises to commercialise and profile a young child named Oswald, ostensibly for profit and other peculiar gains. COA said these attempts are against some provisions within domestic laws as well as in the United Nations Convention On the Rights of the Child General Comment No.25 Section 42 which ...

Motivational Speaker and Development advocates, Charles Sam, has died. The media practitioner who worked with the EIB Network at some point in time is reported to have died on Friday at the Nyaho Hospital after suffering from kidney complications. Family sources say Mr Sam has been unwell for some time now. The motivational speaker whose clever way with words inspired ...

An anti-gay bill titled the Promotion of Proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian family values, 2021 which seeks to criminalize LGBTQI+ activities in the country is expected to be laid in Parliament later today, Monday, 2 August 2021. The private members’ bill is being championed by eight members of parliament, namely; Sam George (MP, Ningo-Prampram) Della Sowah (MP, Kpando) Emmanuel ...

The Ashanti regional branch of Bread Bakers Association have increased the prices of bread by 20%, effective Sunday, August 1, 2021. The bakers explain the increment was prompted by the soaring prices of ingredients used for products such as flour, sugar, nut milk, margarine among others. Announcing the 20% price increment at a news conference in Kumasi over the weekend, ...

A judgment entered Friday in a defamation case at a circuit court in Bolgatanga against some natives of Talensi, a district in the Upper East Region, is heading for an appeals court. The defendants― Albert Naa, Augustine Mmi-Oni Guure, Bismarck Zumah, Charles Boazor and Samuel Sapark― announced the impending action in a post-judgment engagement with the press. They look determined ...

Kwasi Afrifa, the lawyer who has accused the Chief Justice of bribery has been hit with nine charges ofr misconduct by the General Legal Council. The GLC in a statement said the lawyer failed to provide evidence to back his claims against the Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah when offered the opportunity to. “That you, having been informed of an ...

A total of 27,561 candidates representing fifty-six percent(56%) of candidates in Eastern region who wrote the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) failed. Statistical analysis of the performance of the candidates commissioned by the Eastern Regional Directorate of Ghana Education Service (GES) indicates that only 21,655 candidates out of total 49,216 candidates who wrote the exams passed by securing aggregate ...

The provisional Trade Balance for first half of the year (January to June) recorded a surplus of US$837.5 million (1.2% of GDP), lower than the surplus of US$1,005.5 million (1.5% of GDP) recorded in the corresponding period of last year, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said. The lower trade balance was attributed to higher imports demand which outweighed export earnings, ...

The Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has approved two more Covid-19 vaccines for use in Ghana. The approval will allow Modena (Spikevax) and Pfizer-BioNtech (Comirnaty) to be imported and distributed in the country. The two new vaccines will bring the total number of vaccines in Ghana to five (5) including Sputnik V, CovishieidTM, Covid-19 Vaccine Jassen, Moderna (Spikevax), and Pfizer-BioNtech ...