Communications Professor and founder of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Kwame Kakari, says the BBC’s sex for grades documentary does not fit to be called a journalistic piece. According to him, the method employed by the BBC in producing the documentary cannot be used by them [BBC] in other parts of the world including the UK, Europe and the ...
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Shave your Rasta hair or be fined – Gomoa Dewurampong chief warns youth
The Odikro of Gomoa Dewurampong in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region Nana Koako Mensah V, has warned the youth of the town who have rasta hair do to cut it off. According to him, failure to heed to his order will attract severe sanctions. “I become sad anytime I see the young men locking their hair while ...
Read More »‘Coup plotters’ charged with treason
The suspects who are facing trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Akufo-Addo led- government by attacking the presidency have been charged with treason in a Kaneshie Magistrate court. The charge, according to EIB court correspondent Murtala Mohammed was revealed in court today. The suspects include a senior military officer Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli and a civilian employee of the ...
Read More »E/R: Kwabeng SHTS students dine, study under trees and canopies
Inadequate infrastructure at Kwabeng Anglican Senior High Technical School in the Atewa West District of the Eastern region has forced students to study and dine under trees and canopies while boarding students perch in very congested dormitories. Kwabeng Anglican Senior High Technical School established in 1984 by the Koforidua Diocese of the Anglican Church was absorbed into the public education ...
Read More »60 buildings demolished at Ablekuma to clear way for rail line construction
More than 100 residents of Ablekuma, a suburb of Afienya in the Ningo-Prampram district, have been rendered homeless as their buildings have been demolished to pave the way for ongoing railway project in the area. At least 30 of the about 60 buildings earmarked for demolition were pulled down Tuesday by the Works Department of the Ningo Prampram District Assembly ...
Read More »RE: UN sacked Professor Adei for objecting to LGBTQ – Foh-Amoaning
A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has said claims he was sacked from the United Nations (UN) because he was questioning activities of the intergovernmental organization that had to do with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) rights, are untrue. Lawyer Moses Foh-Amoaning while making a submission on the controversial ...
Read More »Ato Essien, three others charged over Capital bank collapse
Founder of collapsed Capital Bank Ato Essien has been hit with 26 charges by government over his role in the fall of the bank. The outspoken businessman was charged alongside three others at the High Court on Wednesday. The others include Fitzgerald Odonkor, Tetteh Nettey and Kate Quartey-Papafio who were all executives of the bank. Portions of the write said: ...
Read More »Vandals threaten to stage ‘intellectual walk’ over UG accommodation challenges
Students of the University of Ghana’s Commonwealth Hall have threatened to embark on an intellectual walk should government fail to take action on their demands on issues of accommodation in the university. Addressing the press on the perennial accommodation challenges facing the University, the JCR President of the hall, Prince Lumor acknowledged the Vice-Chancellor and the Government of Ghana’s response ...
Read More »Three jailed 24 years for stealing AK47 rifle
Three persons have been jailed eight (8) years each for Stealing an AK47 rifle from a Police Officer at Asesewa in the Eastern Region and selling it for Ghc1,000 The convicts – Kofi Osakonor, 24, a farmer, Isaac Agyemang, 19, masonry apprentice and Sarkodie Solomon, 20, an apprentice in Barbering, all pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to Commit crime ...
Read More »I’m so happy; best news ever – Victim happy over Gyampo, Butakor ‘sex for grades’ ordeal
A victim of sexual harassment, Ms Gloria Adona, has described the BBC’s undercover documentary which captured two University of Ghana lecturers, Prof Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, allegedly sexually harassing a female reporter who posed as a student, as the “best news” she has heard ever. Ms Adona was speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show on Tuesday, 8 ...
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