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The Minority in Parliament is accusing government of robbing cocoa farmers in the sale of fertilisers. Addressing a news conference in parliament Wednesday, Minority spokesperson on Agriculture, Eric Opoku said government must revert to the free fertilizer distribution policy implemented by the Mahama administration. “In October 2014, the NDC government under President John Dramani Mahama, established the cocoa stabilization fund ...

The taskforce empowered to search and retrieve missing government vehicles – Asset Retrieval Taskforce – has discovered over 60 vehicles suspected to be part of the missing State vehicles at Nsawam in the Eastern region. The taskforce in an operation Wednesday found the vehicles parked at a yard belonging to one William Baah, who identified himself as an auctioneer. Five ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has been challenged to name opportunists responsible for the National Democratic Congress’ humiliating defeat at the 2016 polls. A former vice-chairman of the opposition NDC Alhaji Sani Mohammed said Rawlings’ “monkey dey work and baboon dey chop” comment is too vague. Former President Rawlings addressing party supporters June 11 at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra ...

A 23yr old man, Yaw Danso has fallen from an uncompleted building whiles he was searching for network for a call in Manso Kumpese in the Ashanti Region. Residents of the area have challenged over the years with the unavailability of mobile network to place calls to their dear ones. This, according to our source who gave his name as ...

The Volta Region is the hub of child trafficking in the country due to the number of children illegally sent on a daily basis to work at the lake, the US Ambassador to Ghana Robert P. Jackson has said. According to him, his 3 days visit to the Volta Region made him realise the ordeal trafficked children go through just ...

A ranking member for the Youth, Sport and Culture committee of Parliament, Hon. Kwabena Mensah Woyome has said government’s initiative to facilitate some pilgrims embark on a trip to Israel and the Vatican City should be based on equity. “If the ministry would want to embark on this exercise, then there is the need [for] equity,” Hon. Woyome told Morning ...

A four-year old girl was burnt to death at Nyankomasi Ahenkro in the Assin South District of the Central region. An eye witness who disclosed this to Adom News said mother of the child, Yaa Agyeiwaa placed a burning candle beside the child in their bedroom and excused herself to watch television at her neighbour’s house. “She went to buy ...

Police prosecutors say they are ready to prosecute 32 out of the 58 suspects arrested in connection with the murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. The prosecutors made the announcement when the suspects appeared at the Accra Central District Court Wednesday morning. According to the police prosecutors, they have firm grounds to prosecute the 32 persons following their investigations so ...

National Women’s Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hajia Joyce Zainab Mahama has admitted the defeat of the party at the 2016 polls is still a big shock to some functionaries of the party. She disclosed on Accra-based Okay Fm however that the cause of the party’s defeat should not only be heaped on the Women’s wing because ...

“A level of human tragedy that we have never seen before.” That’s how Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa described a huge forest fire that has swept through the centre of the country, leaving at least 64 people dead since Saturday. Wildfires are an annual menace in Portugal. More broke out there between 1993 and 2013 than in Spain, France, Italy ...