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The Bureau of Public Safety (BPS) has described roads in Ghana as the dangerous place to be in a new report dubbed Ghana Public Safety and Crime Report (BPS Watch). According to the report, transportation-related incidents accounted for the majority of deaths and injuries in Ghana. The report revealed that over 900 casualties were recorded in 2019 representing 45% of ...

A United States(US) court has given some details of how a Ghanaian-American surgeon based in Florida, Dr Moses deGraft-Johnson, splashed some of the over $26 million dollars he got illegally from the United States government and medical insurers. In a 58-count indictment by a federal court, Dr deGraft-Johnson is alleged to have falsified records in order to receive money from ...

Speaker of Parliament Prof Aaron Michael Oquaye has urged journalists in Ghana to help the nation develop politics based on principles as it prepares for general elections this year and thereafter. He identified a lack of knowledge as a cause of conflict in elections and called for a thorough knowledge of laws of elections and applying them with professionalism to ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has challenged the Akufo-Addo government to account for all the excavators that have been seized in the fight against illegal mining so far. According to Communications officer of the party Sammy Gyamfi, government in its own 2020 budget stated that about 900 excavators have been confiscated so far and not 500 as is being ...

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A US-based Ghanaian surgeon, Dr Moses deGragt-Johnson has been indicted after allegedly falsifying $26m in claims from private health insurers and the US government. The Ghanaian born surgeon who is facing 58 counts of indictment has been accused of performing unnecessary procedures on patients, billing health care companies millions for surgeries he never performed and “poaching” patients at local hospitals. ...

Plane maker, Airbus has recorded a net loss € 1.36 billion in the 2019 financial year after paying record fines to the US, UK and France in a Deferred Prosecution Agreement over how it paid bribes to secure mouthwatering deals in 20 countries including Ghana. The loss according to dw.com, loss comes a year after the company reported a whopping ...

Abume and Kokonte-Kpedzi both fishing Communities near the Akosombo Hydro Electric Dam area in the Asuoguaman District of the Eastern Region have been sleeping in darkness for a year after a bloody clash between the two communities over electricity in February 2019. The bloody clash between the two Communities was triggered by the disconnection of Kpedzi community from power supply ...

A last-gasp Kofi Kordzi’s goal ensured Hearts of Oak defeat Bechem United 3-2 in Week 10 of the ongoing Ghana Premier League at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday. Hearts of Oak coach Edward Odoom retained the same starting line-up that held Aduana Stars to a goalless draw in Dormaa last week. The team was however boosted by the return ...

Bryan Acheampong has described the recommendation by the Emile Short Commission that he should be reprimanded by the state over the Ayawaso byelection violence as bogus. According to him, there was no testimony or evidence at the commission hearing that links him directly to the chaos that shocked the nation during the election to replace the deceased MP Emmanuel Agyarko. ...