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The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has arrested over 100 customers of Menzgold who stormed the house of the company’s Chief Executive Nana Appiah Mensah, NAM1. The Head of Operations at the Accra Regional Police Command, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kwesi Ofori, briefing the media said the customers did not inform the police of the exercise. Explaining reasons for ...

The Ghana-Togo Solidarity Movement says if the political situation in neighbouring Togo is not tackled by ECOWAS, instability in that country will spread to other West African countries including Ghana. Addressing the media Wednesday, Bernard Mornah who is the convenor of the movement believes the fragile economy of Ghana will be affected negatively. He said, “as long as Togo is ...

The literacy level of Ghanaians is nothing to write home about as Ghana has been ranked among the worse countries on education worldwide, Ghanaian educationist, Professor Stephen Adei has said. According to him, Ghana can only redeem itself from this ‘shame’ by improving the quality of education at the basic school levels. Citing the 2018 World Development Report to buttress ...

Some Menzgold customers have stormed the East Legon home of the CEO of the company Nana Appiah Mensah popularly known as NAM 1. The irate customers who went to the premises in buses are demanding the payment of their locked up investment. It comes after NAM 1 boasted on social media that about 200 customers have so far been paid ...

The Founder and General Overseer of Alive Chapel International, Prophet Elisha Salifu Amoako has descended on Prophet Dr. Kofi Oduro over what he says is the latter’s ‘disrespectful’ utterances. Prophet Oduro who is the leader and founder of the Alabaster International Ministries, sharing his sentiments on the 31st December prophecies, has described Ghanaian prophets as jokers and their prophecies ‘foolish’. ...

Ghanaian politician, Prof. Albert Adu Boahen, might have failed in his bid to wrestle power from then-leader Jerry John Rawlings in the 1992 Ghanaian presidential election while representing the main opposition New Patriotic Party. But as an academic and historian who researched deeply and shed light on Africa and West Africa’s contribution to civilization, Boahen’s legacy is enduring. Boahen was ...

Sam Okudzeto, a Member of the Council of State, has urged President Nana Akufo-Addo to revisit the recommendations made by the Constitution Review Commission. Speaking on the Point Blank segment on Eyewitness News, Mr. Okudzeto said Ghanaians, in general, should be more interested in the outcome of the commission’s work stressing that “we need to bring that document back and ...

Four officials of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and another person have been arrested by the Ghana Police Service for engaging in a number of malpractices in the mass registration exercise in the Ashanti Region. A statement issued by the NIA said the arrests, which occurred between 3rd and 6th January 2020, were the result of a collaboration between the ...

A Ukrainian Boeing-737 with more than 170 people from seven countries on board has crashed in Iran. Iran’s Red Crescent said there was no chance of finding survivors. Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv crashed just after taking off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran at 06:12 local time (02:42 GMT). Ukraine’s embassy in Tehran said ...

About twenty-three (23) persons are seriously injured in multiple accidents on the Nsawam stretch of the Accra to Kumasi Highways. The near-fatal multiple vehicle collision involved three Vehicles – a Sprinter Bus, Hyundai10 and a Toyota Corolla occurred Tuesday, January 7, 2020. All the injured victims including drivers of the vehicles were rushed to Nsawam Government Hospital but those in ...