NEWS

News reaching MyNewsGh.com indicate that a journalist with UTV a subsidiary of the Despite Group of Companies, Mavis Animah Yeboah is dead. According to Isaac Justice Bediako who is a close friend of the deceased, she died on Thursday December 27, 2018 morning at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi where she was on admission receiving treatment. Cause of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo terminated the appointment of four Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of state institutions and former Minister of Energy. They are the Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Paul Asare Ansah, the CEO of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport, Alfred Obeng Boateng, the CEO of Ghana Export Promotion Authority, Gifty Klenam, and the CEO ...

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has condemned moves to prevent media personnel from covering the referendum in the proposed Oti region. Local journalists said the police and locals asked them to vacate polling centres or risk being attacked. In a statement, the Volta regional branch of the umbrella body for journalists said: “GJA-Volta however finds the development unfortunate in view ...

The Head of the Andani Royal Family, Yoo-Naa Abukari VII, and the Kampakuya-Naa, Yakubu Abdulai Andani, have indicated their readiness and preparedness to hold the funeral of the late Ya-Naa, Yakubu Andani II, from Friday,  January 4, 2019. This was after the Vo-Naa, Mahamadu Bawa, conveyed the message, on behalf of the Andani Royal family, to the President of the ...

A Ghanaian soldier based in the United Kingdom has sued the military for £150,000 after accusing them of failing to protect him from the British winter. Michael Asiamah, 36, says he suffered from a ‘cold-related’ condition after officers failed to supply him warm clothing during an 18-hour exercise in the freezing wind. According to him, the army exposed him to ...

But for his incessant self-preening and shameless appropriation of the political establishment of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the obsessive enhancement of his morbid acquisitiveness, the awarding of the GH? 100 Million streetlight supplying contract to a company called Imperial World Ventures, reportedly owned by one of the several known wives of Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the NPP’s Member ...

Political parties from all sides of the political divide, former Ministers and DCEs of both the NDC and NPP, as well as the 6 Members of Parliament in the proposed North East Region have joined the Overlord of Mamprugu, Naa Bohigu Abdulai Mahami Sheriga to call for an overwhelming ‘Yes’ vote in the Thursday 27th December, 2018 special referendum. Supported ...

The government has, through the Ministry of Interior, declared Monday, January 7, 2019, as a public holiday. In a statement signed by the Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery, he said the day “has been declared a Public Holiday as “Constitution Day”. The statement further urged the public to observe the day as such throughout the country. Readers would recall that ...

The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Pyne, has fired a salvo at the Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, for criticizing President Akufo-Addo’s media encounter. Samuel Pyne described as unfair the continuous negative criticisms of the government, especially from Sulemana Braimah. “Comments from Sulemana Braimah is not shocking ...

For the past five years, IMANI has been ranked as one of the top 10 most influential think tanks in Africa, according to a report from the policy group. In a year-in-review report outlining their launched initiatives and advocacy efforts, IMANI reported that the research center has “carved a niche in Ghana’s policy environment for putting out objective, independent analysis ...