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The family of the 28-year-old man who allegedly murdered his father at Okorase near Koforidua has told the Police the suspect has had long battle with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality. Although schizophrenia is not ...

Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that some 22 ministers under the erstwhile Mahama administration were taking double salaries. The information indicates that the ministers, who were Members of Parliament (MPs), were drawing salaries as MPs and at the same time receiving their monthly salaries as ministers, contrary to the law. Some of the ministers involved are said to have agreed ...

There is likely to be a showdown at the campus of the Wa Polytechnic as the embattled Rector has vowed to return to the campus in defiance of workers protests and an interdiction order. On Monday aggrieved staff of the Polytechnic chased out Professor Emmanuel Marfo Owusu after mounting road blocks to impound his car and prevent him from accessing ...

The Minister for Information, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will easily win the 2020 presidential elections if former President John Dramani Mahama leads the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party again. According to the Information Minister, the NPP will emerge victorious even though the former President has been touting himself as a competent leader. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid was ...

Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has lashed out at Parliament for rushing to ratify the defense cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US. “The speed to ratify the agreement on the last day of sitting and at a time when the vast majority of Ghanaians were realising probably for the first time that we have such agreements, was not right,” OccupyGhana said ...

NDC’s Felix Kwakye-Ofosu has fired back at Deputy Information Minister, Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei, for her recent social media “attack” on ex-President John Dramani Mahama, calling on NDC supporters to ignore the “blockheaded” minister. The Deputy Information Minister, in a Facebook post, severely criticized the former president for describing the Akufo-Addo led administration as “super incompetent” because it has failed ...

Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, is creating problems for the Akufo-Addo-led government, Professor Emmanuel Marfo-Owusu, Rector of Wa Polytechnic has said. According to him, Dr Opoku Prempeh takes arbitrary decisions without considering laid-down procedures. The rector noted that although President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is implementing good policies such as the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme, the ...

Social Security and National Insurance Trust, (SSNIT), says it is considering another round of “naming and shaming” of employers that fail to pay contributions of their workers. According to SSNIT, this is part of several measures to help improve compliance and ensure that workers have secured future. “We will publish names of recalcitrant employers in the paper just to compel ...

A Kumasi High Court has ordered the Ashanti regional Police and Regional minister to release seized equipment belonging to Exton Cubic. The equipment belonging to Exton Cubic were seized in August 2017 on the orders of the regional minister because the company was allegedly prospecting for bauxite without a permit. Ultimate FM’s Isaac Bediako who was in court reports that ...

Two accused persons involved in the Kwabenya cell break have been sentenced by the Accra Circuit Court for 66 months after pleading guilty. Kofi Darko was sentenced to 32 months for conspiracy and escape from lawful custody and Emmanuel Kotey also had 34 months for the same crime. The Case Twelve suspects are standing trial for allegedly attacking the Kwabenya ...