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The €12.9M renovated Adomi Bridge at at Atimpoku which links the Eastern and Volta Regions may soon become a death trap following an unhealthy habit of people making away with bolts and nuts that have been used to brace the bridge. The bridge was in December 2015 reopened to the public after being closed for 22 months for some major ...

Controversial Musician and supporter of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Asare Obeng otherwise known as A-Plus says he is unfazed by a threat from the Director General of the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Mr. Kwame Owusu to drag him before the court. Mr Owusu at a press conference on Tuesday claimed the musician is embarking on a deliberate ...

Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas says he is not elated after FIFA handed a lifetime ban to former Ghana Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi who was implicated in a bribery sting operation. The undercover investigation masterminded by Anas and his Tiger Eye PI company and was published in a documentary titled Number12. Number12 filmed Nyantakyi taking $65,000 (£48,000) from an ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has challenged the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to provide evidence of any serious investigations they have carried out since the release of Number 12, an investigation into corrupt practices within Ghana football by Anas Aremeyaw Anas. The party, through its national organizer, Kofi Adams, has issued a release that seeks to question the commitment of ...

The Supreme Court has overturned the High Court decision leading to the removal of Professor Mawutor Avoke as Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba. According to the unanimous ruling, the High Court in Winneba failed to take evidence from the parties in the case before granting judgment. The court also stated that the High Court breached the rule ...

A 30-year-old woman, Patience Pomaa is battling for her life at the Berekum Holy Family Hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region after she was set ablaze by her deceased brother’s fiancée, Charity Konama. Pomaa’s late brother had a child with Konama and the two were engaged in a misunderstanding over who was to keep custody of the one-and-half-year-old child. The ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to, as a matter of urgency, clear his name with regards to the Number 12 undercover documentary by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas which exposed massive corruption in Ghana football. A statement by the NDC said “FIFA’s decision to ban Mr. Nyantakyi after months of rigorous investigations ...

Residents in Tema in the Greater Accra region say they now live in fear following multiple robbery attacks. There have been four daylight armed robbery incidents recorded in less than a week. They say the robbery attacks on them are surprising because the area is usually under constant police patrol. A source in the area told this paper that a ...

The Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, James Klutse Avedzi, has described plans for a $1.5 billion facility to be contracted for the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) as “ridiculous”. The facility is to be used for educational infrastructural development. The request for the facility was captured in the business statement of the House on Tuesday. “[Tuesday] morning, there was a ...

Government is fighting back criticisms that it poorly handled the impasse at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The government in the wake of the violent riots at the University by students dissolved the governing council of the school, replacing it with an interim council, with a three months mandate to return the school to normalcy. The ...