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A former Member of Parliament for Tema West constituency Irene Naa Torshie Addo has been nominated as administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF). The Speaker of Parliament Prof. Mike Oquaye announced her nomination in the House Tuesday. The lawyer will be vetted alongside the newly appointed Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo and GetFund administrator. Parliament is yet to set ...

The Upper East Regional Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three persons in connection with the lynching of a 67-year-old woman accused of being a witch. The deceased, Madam Yenboka Kenna, a widow, was killed at the Pelungu market on Monday, May 29, 2017. The Regional Police Commander, COP Vincent Redeemer, told Citi News that the police cannot prove ...

Some guards of Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin have brutally assaulted a driver for exclaiming about the level of destruction caused by galamsey activities in Kibi. One of the guards, Kwame Asiedu, an Assembly member and notorious galamsey operator slapped the driver in the full glare of the public during the World Environment Day celebration at Kibi on Monday. As ...

Host of Accra-based Asempa FM late afternoon political Show, Kojo Asare Baffour Acheampong (KABA) has been admonished to ask relevant questions about the gruesome murder of the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama by residents of Denkyiri-Boase in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region. “Ask relevant questions if you need information from me as the Member of Parliament ...

Fresh revelations suggest there was sufficient intelligence pointing to a pre-meditated attempt to kill the leader of a military detachment stationed in Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central region. According to the host of late afternoon political talk show host Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong (KABA), sources within the military have provided fresh information which goes against the official narrative that the killing ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has described a group of persons who participated in the lynching of a military officer at Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region as uncivilized, cruel and irresponsible people whose behavior must not be tolerated in society. According to the former President who was once a military officer himself, the mob action by the residents must ...

The disaster which occurred at the Kintampo Waterfalls claiming several lives in March this year has been described as an “Act of God”, a report presented to Parliament has revealed. Twenty people mostly students lost their lives while over 21 others also sustained injuries after trees crashed on them following a heavy storm on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Most of ...

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has described as ‘unfortunate’ a comment by the President that the country’s educational curricula are to blame for graduate joblessness. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo told a gathering at the 50th Anniversary of the Association of African Universities in Accra, a university education in the country no longer guarantees a job. He said ...

The anti-illegal mining taskforce has seized and destroyed several mining equipment from some communities in the Ashanti region. The taskforce set up by the Ghana Association of Small Scale Miners stormed some mining communities in Achiase in the Atwima Mponua District in the Ashanti region to clamp down on the activities of illegal miners. Speaking to Ultimate News’ Barima Kwabena ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has accused his party of not being ‘tolerant’. According to him, if the party was tolerant, it would have taken his criticisms in good faith instead of threatening him. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has warned that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to be careful of how it handles ...