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Staff of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have hit the streets to register their displeasure over encroachment on the facility’s land. The staff, mainly nurses, poured on the streets in their uniforms and red bands with placards to ward off private developers on their land. The inscriptions on some of the placards read: “Mr. President, stop the encroachment,” “Mr. President use Executive ...

A Police officer with the Central Police Station in Kumasi in the Ashanti region has shot and killed himself . According to Ultimate FM’s Issac Bediako Justice who visited the crime scene Wednesday, residents said a gunshot was heard from the room of the deceased officer, Ebenezer Kofi Okyere, in the morning attracting neighbors to his room. The police officer ...

Two persons have been arrested by a joint team of Police and Forestry Commission rangers over illegal lumbering of economic trees in the Atiwa Forest Reserve. The patrol team of the Forestry Commission detected the two suspects smuggling the harvested beams from the forest. Wireless message was sent to the Officer in Charge of the Anyinam Range of the Atiwa ...

A marauding army of bedbugs have invaded Keta Senior High School in the Volta Region in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region yet school authorities and the Regional Education Directorate are unconcerned as students wallow in pain and agony. The mass of tough insects are reported to have devastated students of the school making life uncomfortable. The development has ...

A group of Concerned LLB Graduates has triggered moves to place ice on the upcoming entrance examination and interview session of the Ghana School of Law. The Supreme Court has ruled the examination and interview session are unconstitutional hence the General Legal Council (GLC) must take steps to rectify it. The LLB graduates are scheduled to write the exams July ...

A former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, is pleading for clemency from his successors over his inability to inform them about a planted spy camera at the office after leaving post. An audio-visual recorder planted behind a Coat of Arms plaque in the office was detected by officials of the national security. Alhaji Fuseini has confessed ...

Aggrieved staff of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital will hit the street today to press home their demand for encroachment on their lands by private developers to be stopped. They have already suspended OPD and other non-emergency services, leaving patients and their relatives stranded. Today’s protest may lead to the shutdown of the facility, despite a planned visit by the Health Minister. ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye has categorically stated that Ghana will not consider changing laws that makes the practice of homosexuality illegal. The Speaker made the comments when Human Rights group, Amnesty International paid a courtesy call on him at Parliament on Tuesday. Amnesty International has been angling for Ghana – one of the countries in Africa that ...

The flag bearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC) has rejected claims he sacked some individuals in the party for accepting roles in previous governments. His comments follow accusations by the Chairman of the PNC, Bernard Mornah, who has condemned him for accepting the role of Ambassador-at-large under the current New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to him: “He [Bernard Mornah] ...

A former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, is pleading for clemency from his successors over his inability to inform them about a planted spy camera at the office after leaving post. An audio-visual recorder planted behind a Coat of Arms plaque in the office was detected by officials of the national security. Alhaji Fuseini has confessed ...