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The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has said claims that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is training militias at Asutsuare for the 2020 polls are false. Ghana’s former leader John Mahama during a meeting with the leadership of journalists revealed vigilantes are being trained to destabilize next year’s elections. He said his main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has evidence ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, October 15, dismissed an application by a former Director-General of the Social Security and National insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ernest Thompson, praying the court to seek special leave to appeal against a decision of the Court of Appeal in the SSNIT OBS case. Thompson went to the Apex Court with the application after the Court of ...

Some communities in Upper and Lower Manya Krobo municipalities of the Eastern region have been terribly affected by the recently incessant downpour. Residents predominantly peasant farmers in Takorase and Osonson have been cut off as a result of overflowing Prekumase River which has flooded and washed away portions of the road to Sekesua in the Upper Manya Krobo District . ...

Four children have been killed by a speeding driver at Egya No. 2, a suburb of Anomabo, a community along the Cape-Coast-Accra Highway. One other child, according to eyewitnesses is in a critical condition at the Saltpond Hospital. The children were on their way home from school on Tuesday afternoon when the accident occurred as they crossed the road. The ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has emphasized that the future of Ghana is very dependent on her ability to get its youth who are currently in school to secure Mastery in Science and Technology. The President made the observation when he addressed winners of the 2019 edition of the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) from St. Augustine’s College, Cape Coast, at ...

The Eastern Regional Police Command has arrested the Chief Executive Officer of Commonwealth Beauty Pageant, a fetish Priest and one other for assault on a contestant of the pageant. The suspects allegedly assaulted 24-year-old Nana Ama Essien, a third runner up of the Commonwealth beauty pageant over a missing Ghc500 . The suspects – Yawo Sofahu alias Togbe Shito (Fetish ...

Scores of people have been confirmed dead after four days of flooding in the Upper East region. Dozens more have also been injured in the floods. According to A1 radio’s Samuel Mbura, the areas affected include Kasina Nankana East and South, Builsa South, Bawku, Garu Timpane among others. He added a lot of the residents are fleeing the area to ...

Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, the Chairman of Groupe Nduom, has expressed shock at the demonstration organised by customers of Gold Coast Fund Management over their funds. The bunisess mogul said it was surprising the demonstrators attacked his personality when the company has taken steps to repay customers to the tune of over GHc200 million. In a post on Facebook, Dr. ...

Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has questioned the intelligence of Head of JoyNews’ Political Desk and host of PM Express, Evans Mensah over comments the latter made on the Free SHS policy. Evans Mensah, whilst interrogating Asiedu Nketia asked if former president John Dramani Mahama, has plans to scrap the Free SHS programme if ...

If we want to make a difference in the world, we need to create both the internal and external conditions that will support us in making the biggest impact. The African youth hence must have a resolution: say I will not complain about anything I’m not proactively doing something to change it. The fact is, the world itself, has own ...