Following its efforts in getting actress Rosemond Alade Brown, aka Akuapem Poloo, incarcerated for child abuse, Child Rights International says it will now turn its attention on the parents of street children who allow their children to roam and beg for alms on the street. According to the non-governmental organisation, the court ruling had encouraged it to pursue more child ...

Convicted actress Rosemond Brown popularly known as Akuapem Poloo will serve 60 days of her 90-day prison term if she behaves well in jail, PRO of the Prisons Service has said. Akuapem Poloo was last Friday handed a custodial sentence after she pleaded guilty for three charges including publishing of obsene materials involving her seven-year-old. However, her lawyer has since ...

The European Super League was created “to save football”, says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez. Real are one of the 12 European clubs who have signed up to the breakaway league and intend to establish a new midweek competition. Perez said the move had been made because young people are “no longer interested in football” because of “a lot of ...

The European Super League (ESL) is a “disgraceful, self-serving” plan and a “spit in the face of football lovers”, says Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin. He also said players who play for teams involved in the closed league would be “banned from the World Cup and Euros”. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who have ...

The Chief of the Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Seth Amoama, has inaugurated a fully furnished 72-bed Sailors’ Transit Quarters at the Western Naval Command in Takoradi. The project was designed to temporally cater for the accommodation needs of both senior and junior ratings drafted to the Western Naval Command. At the ceremony, Vice Admiral Amoama assured personnel of the Ghana ...

Ghina’s Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining on Monday cancelled an agreement to buy the Bibiani gold mine in Ghana, saying it had not received timely information from the seller about the termination of the mining lease. Australia-based Resolute Mining agreed to sell Bibiani to Chifeng Jilong for around $105 million in December, apparently extending a flurry of Chinese M&A in the ...

South African emergency workers have evacuated three 17-storey residential buildings overlooking Cape Town as a huge fire burns along Table Mountain. The blaze spread quickly after breaking out on Sunday morning near a memorial to politician Cecil Rhodes. A restaurant was destroyed. The University of Cape Town’s historic library was also badly damaged. About 250 firefighters have been battling the ...

Some stalwarts of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have called on the leadership of the party to revert to its core values and principles of participatory approach in dealing with issues. They said any attempt by the NDC to deviate from its core values and principles of probity, accountability and participatory democracy could keep the party out of political power ...

Fire has gutted parts of the Mankessim Market destroying several properties. Information gathered by EIB News’ Yaw Boagyan indicates that the fire started from a cold store at Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. The fire destroyed over 20 containers including over five other cold stores in the process. The Director of Veronica Enterprise, Rebecca Baah, narrating ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has served notice that no one will be spared in President Akufo-Addo’s quest to ensure all river bodies and forests are not destroyed by irresponsible mining. Speaking at Daboase waterworks treatment plant of the Ghana Water Company in the Western Region, Mr. Jinapor said the government’s renewed spirit against irresponsible ...