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At least three people were killed and dozens injured on Monday when an Assemblies of God Church mini bus carrying passengers from Wa to Techiman spurt a tyre and crashed into a nearby bush at Maluwe near Tinga in the Bole District of the Northern region. The bus had more than 20 people aboard when the accident at the outskirt ...

Some customers of UT and Capital Banks in Koforidua and other parts of the Eastern region have besieged the premises of the banks threatening to withdraw all their deposits due to the takeover by GCB Bank. This comes after the Bank of Ghana approved the takeover of Capital Bank and UT Bank by the GCB Bank Ltd. A statement by ...

Shock waves went through the spines of Sunyani residents when information went round that some mad men had been mysteriously killed over the weekend. The initial information put the figures differently thereby making the residents suspect that ‘sakawa’ (blood money) boys might have hit the city with ritual murders. However, DAILY GUIDE’s checks at the municipal police office indicated that ...

Ghana’s former president Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has in an address in Nigeria called for a paradigm shift in the fight against corruption to ensure that it does not create undue hardship on the people. Mr. Rawlings, speaking with particular reference to Nigeria, said corruption had eaten so deep into the fabric of society that the quest to clean ...

Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Martin Amidu has responded to allegations that he was on the payroll and being ‘remote controlled by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). In a statement, Mr Amidu described the allegation as lies, explaining that he vowed to late President Prof John Evans Atta Mills that he would ensure that the government ...

The Bank of Ghana has approved the takeover of Capital Bank and UT Bank by the GCB Bank Ltd. A statement by the Central Bank stated that it has “approved the Purchase and Assumption transaction with GCB Bank Ltd that transfers all deposits and selected assets of UT Bank Ltd and Capital Bank Ltd to GCB Bank Ltd.” The statement ...

Prof Joshua Alabi, a leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said the party is in a “difficult stage.” He was speaking in the wake of rapid escalation of tension within the party. The seeming deepening of the cracks within the NDC was triggered by a strongly worded letter addressed to the NDC founder JJ Rawlings by the ...

Former President John Mahama has confessed it is not easy to lose an election, but has urged Kenyans to protect the peace ahead of the declaration of the official results. “It is not easy to lose an election [because] it can be very disappointing,” Mahama told the Kenyan media. Mahama is part of international observers in the Eastern African country ...

The National Service Secretariat is pushing for every graduate to undergo six-months military training after completing a one-year national service. Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul revealed, the National Service Secretariat had written to his office to allow the military training meant to instill discipline in the youth. The National Service Act of 1980, Act 426, which established the NSS, states in ...

Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Solomon Nkansah says inasmuch as some NDC members dislike and do not agree with their party founder, John Jerry Rawlings, on some of his utterances, he is very instrumental in the party. According to him, their ‘no nonsense leader’ must be tolerated by all if indeed the NDC wants to regain power ...