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Trained and tasked to tackle tricky trading and traffic to tidy up our town, AMA taskforce top shots have totally turned into treacherous tyrants and tin gods, terrorising traders, taking tips, toying with and turning the whole thing into a tangle of thievery and turpitude. Tiger can tell in truth this time that things are not tidy. Time the top ...

Appiah Stadium, an avowed loyalist of ex-President John Mahama has criticized his god father for exchanging pleasantries with controversial Prophet, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah whom he describes as a charlatan. According to him, the ex-President made a very big mistake shaking hands with the man of God who has consistently prophesied doom including death about him, adding that this show ...

A Mini Benz bus carrying passengers has somersaulted at the Okponglo section of the Accra-Madina highway. According to eyewitnesses, the vehicle with registration number GW 5295-12 was heading from the Madina end of the road to Accra but failed brake while approaching the traffic light. No other vehicle was involved in the incident. Emergency workers have arrived at the scene ...

The leadership of the Nigerian Traders Association in Ghana has accused the leadership of GUTA of pursuing Nigerian traders in market centres for political gains. According to the leader of the Nigerian traders in Ghana, Chief Emeka Nnaji, some members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) are seeking political office in the ensuing year and so need to ...

The 6th edition of Tech in Ghana, the leading conference bringing together Ghana’s tech ecosystem for global knowledge sharing, valuable networking, and to showcase innovation has ended in Accra. The two-day event, which was held at the Accra Digital Centre (ADC), was organised by AB2020 and supported by the Ministry of Communications, the British High Commission Ghana and GIZ. It ...

The Ho Regional Commander of Prison, Deputy Director of Prison (DPP) Mr Andrews Dzokoto, is calling for an upward review of the feeding rates for adult prisoners because the GHc1.80 feeding rate is “woefully inadequate.” He said this, which means provision of non-nutritious meals, together with the “already harsh” conditions at the cells had reduced the resistance of the inmates ...

The Head of European Studies of the University of Ghana (UG), Prof Ransford Gyampo, has waded into the ongoing debate over the suspension of the 17 December 2019 referendum. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a televised address to the nation on Sunday, 1 December 2019, called off the referendum citing the lack of a broad national consensus among key ...

The President of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has said the overall benefits of amending Article 55(3) of the 1992 constitution was going to be enormous to Ghana’s local governance system. The Overlord of Akyem Abuakwa explained the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives( MMDCEs ) was a “glorious opportunity to ensure greater ...

The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ on Monday launched the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Week (ACT). This year’s celebrations will take place between the 2nd and 9th of December 2019 and the theme is “NACAP: Mobilizing National Efforts and Resources to Combat Corruption, Five Years on”, bringing together stakeholders from government, public and private sectors, academia, media, civil ...

Ghanaians have been urged to buy locally grown rice this Christmas, on other festive occasions and for everyday consumption in order to give greater impetus to the agriculture sector. Apart from saving Ghana millions of foreign exchange, increased patronage of locally grown rice would bolster production efforts, lead to increased investments, impact positively on the local economies of rice-growing areas ...