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A delegation of Chiefs and Queen mothers of Ngleshi Alata Traditional Council on Thursday paid a courtesy call on the President of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI to officially inform him of the demise of Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V, the Paramount Chief of Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area and to introduce the acting ...

The Member of Parliament for Zabzugu constituency Alhassan Umar and a former District Chief Executive, Issifu Laabandoo, escaped with minor injuries a gory road accident. The two, including the driver, were traveling to Zabzugu from Tamale to attend a funeral when the vehicle spurt a tyre. The driver lost control after the tyre explosion forcing the vehicle to veer off ...

Former Roads and Highways Minister, Inusah Fuseini has dismissed claims that the former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency, (GYEEDA) Abuga Pele was a mere victim of circumstances after his 6-year sentence by an Accra High Court. Mr Abuga Pele was on Friday February 23, jailed for willfully causing financial loss to the state, ...

Researchers have collected over 50,000 empty cartridges in the Atiwa Forest Reserve in the Eastern region after trekking for 316 hours covering 262 kilometers of the Forest reserve. The Atiwa Range Forest Reserve measuring 23,663 is part of an ecosystem known as the Upper Guinea Forest. It is classified as a Global Significant Biodiversity Area but the forest is under ...

Embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Goodwill International Ghana (GIG) had his woes deepened yesterday when then the trial judge, Justice Afia Serwa Asare-Botwe , directed that his assets be attached to recover the money he fraudulently received The Accra High Court, therefore, ordered the state to recover any assets of Asibit, equivalent to the sum of $1,948,626.65 which he ...

Former President J.J. Rawlings has renewed his membership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). The founder of the NDC registered at the PWD branch of the Korle Klottey constituency Friday, February 24. Mr. Rawlings who has on many occasions fallen out with his party is said to have quickly dashed out of the premises after grabbing his party card. ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Friday, 23rd February, 2018, for a 10-day visit to Togo, the United States of America, and Germany. Whilst in Togo, President Akufo-Addo will resume the mediation efforts he is making in the dialogue, begun on 19th February 2018, with representatives of the Government of President Faure Gnassingbé, the ...

The Economic and Organized Crimes Office (EOCO) says it has concluded investigations into the controversial Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), ICT infrastructure scandal which dominated the headlines last year. The scandal involves the procurement of ICT infrastructure for the Trust at a monstrous cost of $72 million, a price tag that was well over the initial amount estimated ...

President Akufo-Addo has entreated Ghana’s first Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu to guard against using his office to settle personal scores. According to him, the Special Prosecutor’s office is a non-partisan one with the relevant professional capability to lead the fight against corruption and hold public officials past and present accountable for their stewardship of public finances. President Akufo-Addo made this ...

A teacher, who lashed one of his students for allegedly keeping what was considered bushy hair, is to face disciplinary action for his conduct that left the second-year student with bruises over his body. The Cape Coast Metropolitan Directorate of the Ghana Education Service has asked authorities of the Cape Coast Technical Institute to submit an official report on the ...