NEWS

Two Junior High School pupils of Rev. Cobbah Yalley Junior High School at Newsite a suburb in the Effia-Kwesimintsim of the Western Region are in the grips of the Western Regional Police Command for assaulting their headmistress. Municipal Chief Executive for Effia-Kwesiminstim Municipal Assembly (EKMA), Kojo Acquah disclosed this during the assembly’s second ordinary meeting of the second session. Speaking ...

Former Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo has revealed that all the staff at the Audit Service who helped him to investigate former Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo in relation to his supervision of the payment of $1 million to Kroll and Associates for no work done, have been demoted. One of them, he said, has been transferred to the Central Region. Speaking ...

The youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has indicated that its intended demonstration and street protest dubbed, ‘A March for Justice’ scheduled for 6 July 2021 will take place as planned. The group wrote to the Ghana Police Service informing it about the march in a letter on 30 June 2021. The letter, signed by the NDC’s national ...

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Africa has called on the government to cease immersing the military in internal security operations which could be handled by the Police. CHRI believes the deployment of the military for internal security operations is unnecessary and exacerbates infractions and violations against the fundamental human rights of the citizens. A statement issued Wednesday, June 30 ...

Ghana has been hit with another huge judgment debt as the country is set to pay over 70 million dollars to West Africa Gas Limited after a ruling by the London Court of Arbitration. The dispute came after the termination by the Claimant, West Africa Gas Limited of a Gas Sales Agreement dated 9 October 2015 between WAGL and the ...

The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has officially announced this year’s closed season for inshore and artisanal fishers along with the coastal areas of Ghana. The closed season which starts today, Thursday 1st to 31st July for canoe and inshore fishers and 1st July to August 31, 2021, for industrial trawlers was declared by the Minister ...

Nana Yaw Amponsah is set to step down as the CEO of Ghanaian football giant Kumasi Asante Kotoko with immediate effect after he was slapped with a five-year ban by the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA). The decision by the Disciplinary Committee means that the former football agent will not be able to hold his position as ...

The National Peace Council has condemned the killing of an activist Ibrahim Kaaka by some unknown persons at Ejura in the Ashanti region. The Council has in a statement also bemoaned the subsequent killing of two other residents of the Ashanti regional town by security officers who were deployed to the town to de-escalate tensions. The officers were deployed after ...

Government will later today announce a three-member committee to probe the Killings at Ejura in the Ashanti region. It comes after President Akufo-Addo noted in a statement that there will be a public inquiry into the killings. Activist Ibrahim Kaaka was allegedly murdered over his views deemed to be making government unpopular in the area. Two other residents were also ...

The Inspector-General of Police James Oppong-Boanuh has said police officers have the right to use lethal force if they feel their lives are under threat. The IGP told the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Wednesday that situations on the grounds determine the response of the security agencies at any point in time. “Honourable Chair, you and I know that ...