NEWS

A 30-year-old female tutor of the Kumasi Girls’ Senior High School, Vida Frema, was on Monday, 29 January 2018, found dead in the room of her police boyfriend at Konongo in the Asante Akyem Central District of the Ashanti Region. According to police in the area, the boyfriend of the deceased, Sergeant Bright Opoku, who is with the Konongo Divisional ...

Social media activist and Journalist with TV3/3FM, Kwakye Afreh-Nuamah has received threats on his life following his open and constant criticism of sanitation minister, Kofi Adda. The competence of Kofi Adda has been a subject of public debate, particularly in the last three months, with questions about why many parts of the country remain in filth despite the existence of ...

More than 67 senior and junior staff of the Central University College have been sacked in what management claims is a general staff retrenchment. The affected staff were fired via text messages and given three-days to vacate their positions, a development that appears to have angered a section of them who have worked with the institution for close to nineteen ...

The first Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei Owusu, has said shooting illegal miners can be an effective way of dealing with the illegal mining menace. The anti-galamsey task force, Operation Vanguard, recently expressed unhappiness about what it said was the courts leniency in dealing with illegal miners brought before them. According to the Commander of the task force, Colonel ...

The Minority in Parliament is demanding the resignation of the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta following CHRAJ’s declaration that several statutory regulations governing issuance of bonds were breached in the issuance of the $2.25 billion bond. The Ministry of Finance last year announced the successful issuance of 15 and 7 years bonds with the coupon rate of 19.5% raising a total ...

A three-member review panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justices William Atuguba, Sophia Adenyira and Jones Dotse have, by a unanimous decision, dismissed an application by the embattled businessman, Alfred Woyome, seeking to stop an earlier rule of the apex court that he should appear before the court to be orally examined by the state. The Application Mr. ...

The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has paid a glowing tribute to the late South African legend, Hugh Masekela, in which he recalls his personal bond with the global music icon who died January 23, 2018, at the age of 78. His decision to attend Masekela’s funeral opened up a wave of criticism in political and governance circles ...

All eyes will be on Parliament on February 13, 2018 as the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) vets the nominee for the position of Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin Amidu. The Chairman of the ACP, Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, told the Daily Graphic on Tuesday that from now to February 6, 2018, the committee would receive memoranda from the public intended to ...

The United States Ambassador to Ghana Robert Jackson has stated that the refugee status granted to the two ex-Guatanamo Bay detainees Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby by the government of Ghana came as a surprise to him. “I did not know until this week that they had been granted a refugee status,” Mr. Jackson told ...

Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia is expected back to the country on Friday after a two-week leave in the United Kingdom on health grounds. According to Bryan Acheampong, Minister of State for National Security, the vice president was doing well when he (minister) paid him a visit in London. Mr Acheampong, who was speaking to Kasapa Fm in Accra, gave ...