A 36-year-old farmer of Akyem Bunso, a farming village near Akyem Achiase in the Birim South District in the Eastern Region, is in police grips for butchering his uncle last Friday. Kwasi Aboagye, the suspect, has since been placed in police custody at Achiase to assist in investigations into the murder, while the body of … Read more
International Association for impact Ghana (IAIA) is calling on government to embark on a rapid environmental audit and a Strategic environmental Assessment appraisal to determine mining areas for reclamation, cleanup and those available for further small scale mining operations in the country. According to the president for IAIA, Yaw Amoyaw-Osei, this is one of the … Read more
A 38-year-old second-hand clothes dealer is currently fighting for her life at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra after she was allegedly set on fire by a co-tenant, Godwin Tetteh, at Alajo in Accra. The suspect, a 43-year-old bar attendant, who allegedly set Cindy Aidoo on fire in the wee hours of last Monday in … Read more
Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament Prof. Mike Oquaye has served notice he will deal with the three Members of Parliament who have been fingered in a Visa fraud. The UK High Commission has banned three Ghanaian lawmakers and a former MP from entering the European country over their alleged involvement in visa fraud with their Diplomatic … Read more
Speaker of Parliament Mike Oquaye has said he takes the allegations of visa fraud brought against three sitting MPs and one former legislator “very seriously”. They include: Richard Acheampong, MP for Bia East in the Western Region; Joseph Benhazin Dahah, MP for Asutifi North (Ntotroso) in the Brong Ahafo Region; Johnson Kwaku Adu, MP for … Read more
The Ghana Armed Forces is set to begin recruitment of eligible Ghanaians who wish to join the army for the 2017/2018 calendar year. A statement issued by the GAF Monday said adverts will be placed in the national dailies – Daily Graphic and Ghanaian Times- for details on the recruitment exercise. “The sale of online … Read more
The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), in collaboration with the Latter-Day Saint Charities and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has organised a one-week training programme for maternal and neonatal health care providers in Northern Ghana. Participants, including paediatrician doctors, nurses, midwives, and birth attendants, were drawn from the Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions. The … Read more
Monday April 17, 2017 marked exactly 100 days since Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took over the governance of Ghana from John Mahama, whose governance the former described as incompetent. As expected, the 100-day record of the Akufo-Addo-led government has since Monday been on the chopping board with a mixed assessment. A lecturer at the University … Read more
Some students of the University of Education, Winneba, last Saturday night destroyed property worth millions of cedis belonging to the institution and an event manager. Numbering about 500, the students are said to have damaged the event manager’s entire entertainment equipment and removed some pavement blocks in the school to register their displeasure at a … Read more
Pupils in some gold-rich mining villages and towns in Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region have abandoned school and now engaged in illegal gold mining activities known in local parlance as galamsey, Today investigations have revealed. Aside from this phenomenon, Today gathered that residents in the farming communities of the district were living in panic and fear … Read more
The Madina Police have arrested a manager of a sachet water company who is alleged to belong to a robbery gang that has been attacking some residents of Madina, Accra. The suspect, Edward Kojo Antwi, was arrested when he and a member of the gang allegedly attacked and robbed a family at Madina Estate. Antwi’s … Read more
The Executive Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), Prof. Newman Kusi, has called for an immediate end to political interference in the running of the Central Bank. “Changing of governors of the Central Bank as and when there is a new government is not healthy,” he said. His comments come in the wake … Read more
FOLLOWING a three-week ultimatum given to illegal mining operators, popularly referred to as galamseyers, Today is compelled to revisit this matter in this column. In an interview with Daily Graphic, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. John Peter Amewu, declared that a three-week ultimatum has been given to galamseyers to stop; failure on their part … Read more
The outgoing Governor of the Bank of Ghana has said his decision to resign barely a year at post was purely based on “personal” grounds. Dr Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku is stepping down on April 1, 2017, but an official announcement is yet to be made. Reports are rife that he could be succeeded by a former … Read more
Akrasi Sarpong, a former Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board An Accra high court on March 22, convicted Akrasi Sarpong, a former Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), for contempt. The court, presided over by Justice Charles Edward Ekow Baiden, found the immediate-past boss of the anti-drug agency guilty following his comments … Read more
Alhaji A B A Fuseini, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sagnarigu, has made a strong case for the Government to make adequate resource and logistic allocation to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), and two other national media houses to rejuvenate their roles as strategic agents of national development. The GNA is the nation’s wire … Read more
Government has cleared off GH¢588 million out of the whopping GH¢2.4 billion Ghana legacy debts. The amount is part of the monies owed by the Volta River Authority (VRA) to local banks and its suppliers. The cleared GH¢588m according to Graphic.com report, was paid in three installments of an initial deposit of GH¢250 million and … Read more
To say that Ghana is gripped with lawlessness is an understatement. Indeed, without a doubt, the cancer is a direct result of a failing educational system. The ignorance promoted on national TV and in national newspapers epitomizes the gravity of the situation. For example, a simple question of the difference between honoris causa and earned … Read more
Forty-one police trainees have been dismissed from police training schools for allegedly using fake certificates to get recruited into the Ghana Police Service. Out of the number, 22 trainees were dismissed from the Puwalugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region, 10 from the Kumasi Police Training School in the Ashanti Region, five from … Read more
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has released a final list of 456 journalists who are eligible to vote in the planned March 31, 2017 national elections. The revised list of 456 members is different from the 988 members which was earlier published by the association in the national dailies and on the GJA website on … Read more