One of the vehicles involved in the terrible accident Two people reportedly died Monday in an accident at Pokuase involving a cement truck and 11 other vehicles. A number of people also sustained various injuries and were sent to the hospital for treatment. The driver of the cement truck, which was travelling from Accra to … Read more
A middle-aged man, Elliot Kojo Mensah has been reported missing since Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Elliot dark-skinned in complexion and of average height, is a staff of Prudential Bank and resident in Dansoman, a suburb of Accra. All efforts to find him has proven futile. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should kindly contact 0202747043 or … Read more
The year-on-year inflation rate fell to 15.8 per cent in October, down from 17.2 per cent recorded in September, Mr Baah Wadieh, Deputy Government Statistician, said on Wednesday. The monthly change rate for October was 1.4 per cent compared to the 0.2 per cent for September. Mr Wadieh said the non-food group recorded a year-on-year … Read more
Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr. Kweku Agyemang-Mensah, has reiterated government’s readiness to ensure there is hundred percent water coverage in every part of Ghana by the end of 2025. According to the sector minister, government’s vision of achieving 100% water coverage for all by the 2025 is on course, mentioning the injection … Read more
The management of Accra Hearts of Oak has accepted the resignation of the club’s goalkeeper’s trainer, Nassam Yakubu. Yakubu, who also trains Black Stars goalkeepers, tendered his resignation on Thursday November 3. A statement released by the club on Friday, 4 November said: “The Board and Management of Accra Hearts of Oak wish to inform … Read more
A carpenter was on Monday jailed 15 years by an Accra Circuit Court, for robbing a driver and a driver’s mate of an unspecified amount of money. Mohammed Seidu, a resident at Kanda, stabbed Ebenezer Lartey (driver’s mate) in the stomach and right thigh at about 9pm some day in December last year at the … Read more
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has said it is not its responsibility to provide financial assistance to Ghanaian deportees. This follows the deportation of some 54 Ghanaians from the United States of America back home. They arrived at the Kotoka International Airport on Wednesday November 2. The deportees complained that the US authorities did … Read more
Two persons who allegedly attacked a businessman with cutlasses at Rawlings Park and made away with his money, two mobile phones and gold watch have appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra. Tettey Ashong and Isaac Boateng, both unemployed, have been charged with conspiracy to rob and robbery. They have pleaded not guilty to the … Read more
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has launched the maiden Ghana National Household Registry (GNHR) as part of efforts to alleviate poverty in the country. Taking her turn at the Meet The Press series in Accra, sector minister Nana Oye Lithur noted that the registry aims at improving the efficiency of social intervention … Read more
A staircase on the fifth floor of a building under construction in the Ashongman Estates, Gumbo, has collapsed and killed a construction worker. ACP Timothy Yosa Bonga, the Accra Regional Police Commander confirmed the incident to Citi News. ACP Bonga said that when the police first go word of the collapse, a nearby patrol team … Read more
Inaugurating projects in an election year is wrong, Prof Felix Asante, Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) has said. Speaking at a Business Breakfast Meeting on Election Budget Deficit and Its Implication on Macroeconomic Stability organised by Graphic Business and Stanbic Bank in Accra on Tuesday November 1, Prof Asante … Read more
The family of a 28-year-old student of Accra Polytechnic is crying foul over the death of their kin. The deceased, Daniel Lamptey, was discovered unconscious at Kasoa near the newly constructed overhead without a shirt on October 14, 2016 by two women who were friends of his deceased brother. He was rushed to the Amanfrom … Read more
Dr Lawrence Tetteh, a World Renowned Evangelist on Wednesday stated that the December 7 general election is not about strategies, manifestoes, rallies, bill boards and campaigns, because leaders are enthroned by God. He therefore asked Ghanaians “to go to the throne room of God and asked for a leader through prayers”. Dr Tetteh, an Economist … Read more
TV3’s Nina Abena Antwi-Kusi has been adjudged the second runner up in a special UN award for promoting the Sustainable Development Goals through her story on education. Nina faced strong competition from four other journalist who had been shortlisted for the award. The ceremony came off on Monday October 24 in Accra where all the … Read more
Government and its Regulatory Agencies must take into serious consideration the low levels of incomes in the country whenever they are fixing tariffs of utilities, Maritime And Dockworkers’ Union (MDU) has demanded. This was contained in a resolution passed at the 12th Quadrennial Delegates’ Conference of MDU held in Winneba from June 16 to June … Read more
Regular Entertainment Pundit on Pluzz FM, Nana Otu Gyandoh says the management of Vybrant Faya goofed in announcing the death of their artiste to Ghanaians. SMF label in a statement signed by Kelly Nii Lartey Mensah yesterday, October 23, 2016 reported the death of the “Mampi” hitmaker – explaining the cause of his death as … Read more
The essays were submitted by 30 September this year The top 20 entrants of Citi FM’s Write-Away Contest 2016 have been announced on the Traffic Avenue. The contest had children between the ages of 10 and 14 write stories that end with the phrase, “Fortune favours the bold.” The entries were then marked by external … Read more
TV3’s broadcast journalist, Nina Abena Antwi-Kusi, is up against five other Ghanaian journalists for a special UN award for promoting the Sustainable Development Goals through her story on education. Nina and the others were shortlisted from dozens of entries from Ghanaian journalists who were trained and equipped to support the effective implementation of the UN … Read more
The Government of Ghana has performed creditably in the promotion and development of sports in the country, and, therefore, deserves commendation, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Sports, Kwabena Mensah Woyome, has said. According to the Member of Parliament for South Tongu, government would continue to ensure that resources were allocated to the … Read more
Five ex-Multimedia Group sales persons who were involved in financial malfeasance have been convicted by an Accra Circuit court. Solomon Lartey was charged with forgery of documents, alteration of forged documents, abetment of crime and stealing. Justice Yaw Atta Sarpong fined him 80 penalty units or in default he would go to prison for three … Read more