NEWS

Founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga has had his house flooded after heavy rains in Accra on Monday. Parked cars at his residence in West Legon are stuck as frantic efforts are being put into draining the floods. The intermittent rains have also resulted in floods in some areas of the country’s capital city. Adabraka, ...

There is chaos at Manya Kpongunor in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern region over mass disconnection exercise by Power Distribution Services (PDS). Irate youth in the community reportedly chased out staff of PDS who were in the community to carry out mass disconnection exercise though they were accompanied by few armed police personnel. Reports indicate that the ...

THE MANAGEMENT of Ghana Education Service (GES) has condemned recent physical attacks on teachers in the country. George Somuah Bosompem, 57-year-old tutor of Asiakwa Salvation Army Basic School in the Abuakwa South Municipality of the Eastern Region, was recently attacked and killed by some youth. GES in a statement signed by its Head of Public Relations, Cassandra Twum Ampofo, vowed ...

Ghana’s Tourism and Creative Arts Minister, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, has blamed her outfit and CharterHouse, organisers of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) for the chaos that erupted at the 20th anniversary of the event. Chaos broke out at the music fiesta after Shatta Wale stormed the stage while Stonebwoy was receiving his award for emerging the Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of ...

Two persons are reported dead as some parts of Accra got flooded after an hour of heavy rains on Monday morning, Accra FM’s Nana Amoako Gyampa has reported. Areas like Okponglo Legon, Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange, Avenor, Alajo and some parts of Kaneshie got flooded. The two bodies were found at Adabraka, a flood-prone area in the capital. At the ...

Contrary to what has been widely known and accepted as a standard measure and expected period of commencement and completion of structural projects particularly dams, it has emerged that some dams currently being constructed under government’s One Village One Dam policy are being started and completed in less than one week. This is according to residents of some communities in ...

The Master of Ceremony (MC) for last Saturday’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA), Kwami Sefa Kayi has revealed that he was scared to the marrow when violence broke out between supporters of Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale at the event. According to him, anything could have happened considering how tensed the environment was and the display of a gun by one ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has swiftly responded to a ‘sharp-teethed’ attack from former Deputy Information Minister Felix Ofosu Kwakye, describing him as a ‘little greedy neck.’ The ex-President, who coined the phrase ‘babies with sharp teeth,’ was prompted into action after the former deputy minister under the previous Mahama administration told him to conduct himself like an elderly person. ...

PRESIDENT Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reaffirmed the resolve of the government to ensure fairness and equity in the develop- ment of the newly created North East Region. Instead of concentrating all regional institutions in the capital, he has assured the people of the region that the institutions would be sited across to enable all districts taste the much desired ...

A civil society organization, Save the Nation for Future Leaders has given the Inspector General of Police and the police service a 21-day ultimatum to clarify circumstances under which a suspect was arrested and released in connection with murder of investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale. Hussein-Suale was shot and killed in cold blood by some unknown assailants at Madina on Wednesday, ...