Armed Police Personnel have been deployed to Kwahu Praso in the Kwahu West District of the Eastern Region after rampaging youth in the community and its surrounding villages besieged a Mining Company and setting ablaze to equipment worth millions of Ghana cedis. The rampaging youth set fire into two Tata Hitachi excavators, water pumping machines and other mining equipment. Their ...

The parliamentary candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Bawku Central Constituency, Gabiana Agbanwa Bugri, has warned of Ghana possibly recording fresh imported cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) from France whose death toll has passed 13,000. Ghana, in the wake of the strange pandemic, has embargoed movement of persons into the country in the short term. But some ...

The Eastern regional branch of the main opposition NDC has attributed the seeming rapid spread of coronavirus in the region to the activities of the National Identification Authority (NIA). According to the party, the refusal of the NIA to immediately stop the mass registration exercise in the region after the Presidential directive on public gathering has contributed to the spike ...

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said a man of God called David Livingstone prophesied the coronavirus crisis which the world is going through almost four decades ago. “You know, a lot of people predicted this present crisis the world is going through and so many people did not believe him”, the Ghanaian preacher said during his Sunday online sermon watched by ...

A soldier on COVID-19 duty has allegedly shot a policewoman whom he was on duty with at Tema New Town in the Tema Metropolis of the Greater Accra region. The incident happened Thursday morning but it is unclear what might have provoked the action. The policewoman, a lance corporal, is said to have sustained injuries on the lower part of ...

Renowned researcher and President of Academic City University College Prof. Fred McBagonluri says Ghanaian researchers are not being challenged enough. According to him, although government provides resources for the various research organisations in the country, it does not demand accountability from the institutions on what they research into. Professor mcBagonluri who is working with a team to manufacture ventilators locally, ...

Trucks of dry food, mainly rice, have arrived in Kumasi to be distributed to vulnerable communities struggling to feed under the partial lockdown. The food items were handed over to faith-based organizations and the various MMDCEs and DCEs to spearhead the distribution. Speaking in an interview with Ultimate FM’s Isaac Bediako Justice, Deputy Gender Minister Freda Prempeh said the dry ...

A former member of the Bank of Ghana Board, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson, has asserted that Mr John Mahama, as President, provided the needed leadership that conceptualised and established the Bank of Ghana Hospital, and has, thus, asked the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako, to stop denying the former President credit for the health post, ...

The benevolent Assembly Member, Hon. Nana Yaw Donkor Jill of Ahenboboano Electoral Area, a conurbation of the Ahafo Regional Capital – Goaso, under the Asunafo North Constituency has shown true love to his people at this Pernicious hour of Covid 19. The deadly virus which has put the whole world into a total pool of dilemma by killing over 3,000 ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has stated that it will not shield any of its officers found culpable in the death of a civilian who was allegedly beaten to death for breaking the lockdown directives. A police statement indicated that the said officers had spotted the deceased Tweneboah Koduah, aged 33years at Konkori a village near Trede in the Atwima ...