The Methodist Church of Ghana has rejected a directive by the Ghana Education Service to allow Muslim students at the Wesley Girls’ Senior High School to fast during Ramadan. The GES directive followed a decision by the Headmistress of Wesley Girls’ High School not to allow Muslim students at the school to fast in the ongoing Ramadan.  The development sparked ...

Fuel prices at the pumps have been reduced by 8 pesewas per litre effective Wednesday, May 5, 2021. This means that the recent 17 pesewas per litre increase announced by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has been reduced to 9 pesewas per litre. It takes effect from Wednesday, May 5, 2021. This was made known in a communique issued on ...

Pressure group OccupyGhana has faulted government’s approach to torch equipment seized at illegal mining sites, saying the method is a brazen illegality that should cease forthwith. Again, the group says the failure of the security agencies to bring persons arrested for indulging in illegal mining (galamsey) to face the law undermines the whole exercise of fighting the menace. Describing government’s ...

A former deputy Information Minister Pius Hadzide has urged Ghanaians to be measured in their expectations and also appreciate the limitation of government. The comments come in the wake of the #FIXTHECOUNTRYNOW social media protest which has been trending on Twitter for the past three days. The protest mainly led by the youth is drawing attention to the lack of ...

Players of the Ghana national rugby team have refuted allegations made against the association’s President, Herbert Mensah and called on him to continue as president of the Ghana Rugby Football Union in the wake of a petition for his removal from office. A group calling itself Ghana Rugby Union Players Association (GRUPA) sent a petition to the Ghana Rugby board, ...

The Wenchi High Court has slapped both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) with cost charges amounting to GHS 1,500.00. This was after the court at its sitting on Thursday granted the petitioner’s application for direction but declined the petitioner’s motion to amend his suit, including changing the title and adding other reliefs. Both the NDC ...

The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Freddy Blay, has asked the rank and file of the party to desist from projecting anybody who wishes to contest the presidential slot for the 2024 general election. He explained that such an attitude would divide the attention of the President in focusing on the NPP’s development agenda that would ...

After 90 years of brisk trading and other commercial activities at the Takoradi central market popularly called as Market circle, the market will be shut down effective Monday, May 3, 2012, Mayor for the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly Abdul Issah Mumin has directed. This directive was given during a stakeholder’s engagement with the leadership of the traders at Takoradi. There has ...

The Police in the Central region Thursday dawn arrested over 340 suspected Criminals at Kasoa and its environs. Those arrested included both women and men who were suspected to be criminals and prostitutes operating in the area. Police retrieved substance suspected to be marijuana, weapons and over 200 motorbikes. The swoop was carried at Kasoa Millenium City, Kasoa, Awutu Breku, ...

The Zulu royal family in South Africa has announced the death of its monarch Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu just a month after she became regent. Queen Mantfombi, 65, became interim leader of the country’s largest ethnic group last month after the death of her husband, King Goodwill Zwelithini. The queen’s prime minister said her death had taken the family by surprise ...