Chase Petroleum To Build Court, Library For Kpone Traditional Area

Chase Logistics, as part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives, has cut sod for the construction of a magistrate court facility; and a modern library for the Kpone area in the Greater Accra Region. The project, which is estimated to cost an hundred thousand Ghana cedis, is scheduled to last for six months from the … Read more

Police Impound 409 Motorbikes

A team of police officers from the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Greater Accra Regional Police Command last Monday seized more than four hundred and nine (409) motorbikes for traffic offence. Their offence, the police stated, was crossing the red light at various traffic intersections within Accra metropolis. Some of the motor … Read more

[Photos] Colourful Launch of 80th Ada Asafotufiami Festival

The 80th Asafotufiami Festival was launched at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra on Monday, June19 with a host of dignitaries present. The Asafotufiami Festival of the people of the Ada Traditional Area in the Dangme East District is a rich cultural heritage celebrated annually in the first week of August. This year’s will begin … Read more

80th Ada Asafotufiami Festival Launched

The 2017 edition of Ghana’s biggest festival christened Asafotufiami, held annually in Ada, in the Greater Accra Region was on Monday launched at the La Badi Beach Hotel. This year’s festival which will be the 80th Anniversary of the celebration saw the unveiling of a special logo and a host of activities lined up for … Read more

Achimota School To Reclaim Encroached Lands In 7-Yrs Legal Battle

An Accra High Court has given Achimota Senior High School the authority to reclaim its lands from encroachers. The final judgment in the case is to be given on the 17th of July. Old students of the school headed to court, seeking to stop the work of developers who had encroached on the school’s lands. For … Read more

There’s Reward In Diligence, Hard Work -NSMQ Participants Told

Head of Anaethesia at FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, Dr. Irene Adorkor Wulff, on Thursday mentored Senior High School students at the ongoing National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) competition, at the University of Ghana, Legon. The morning mentorship talk, which is an empowerment session put in place by organizers of the competition, saw the seasoned Consultant … Read more

I Don’t Know Anything About ‘Cleanest City’ Billboard

Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mohammed Adjei Sowah says he has no knowledge about a billboard mounted in Accra with his image and that of the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey. The billboards with the inscription, “Welcome to Accra, the Proposed Cleanest City in Africa,”has been pulled down following a public … Read more

GBC Stores Gutted By Fire

Part of GBC has been gutted by fire Sections of a building at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) at Kanda in Accra was razed by fire on Friday, June 16. The cause of the fire is unknown but believed to have started around 5pm when most workers had closed. The fire burnt the storage facility … Read more

MTN Y’ello Care: Schools In Kwashieman Receive Educational Items

MTN Ghana, as part of its 21 days Y’ello Care Programme, has donated over 200 reading and text books to the Kwashiman Cluster of schools in Accra. The books, which comprises of various subject reading books, novels, dictionaries, among others were to provide the children a variety of areas to read around and help develop … Read more

Hearts of Oak Sacked From Accra Sports Stadium

Hearts of Oak has been denied access to the playing field of the Accra Sports Stadium Ghana Premier League side Hearts of Oak were denied access to the playing field of the Accra Sports Stadium on Tuesday morning due to lack of payment. Scottish trainer, Frank Nuttall, and his charges were left frustrated after they … Read more

AMA Shuts Down Six ‘illegal’ Landfill Sites

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has shut down six illegal landfill sites in the metropolis. The six include a huge site on the Mortuary Road, behind the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) Other landfill sites within the Glefe, Okponglo, Adedenkpo, Tunga and Mallam Market areas have also been closed down. Currently, the Accra Metropolis has … Read more

Ga Chief Murder

Three suspects have been arrested by the Atomic-Kwabenya Police in connection with the murder of Nii Tetteh Sarbah, a development chief at Ardayman, near Amasaman, in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. He was killed on Thursday June 8 by thugs. The suspects were picked on the night of Monday June 12 … Read more

Three Arrested In Connection With Murder of Amasaman ‘Chief’

The Police at Atomic, Kwabenya have arrested three men suspected to be involved in the killing of a development chief at Ardeyman near Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region. The suspects were picked late Monday night at the Richview Hotel near at Kwabenya where they were said to be hiding. An unlicensed pistol and a … Read more

Accra Regional Police Command Begins Investigations Into Chief’s Death

The Accra Regional Police Command has begun investigations into the murder of the late, Nii Tettey Sarbah, a development chief at Amasaman community in the Ga East Municipal Assembly of the Greater Accra Region. The deceased, Nii Tettey Sarbah was found dead in his room which was close to the stool house. The deceased when … Read more

Amasaman ‘Chief’ Murdered Over Land Litigation

A Chief in charge of Development has been murdered at Amasaman community in the Ga East Municipal Assembly of the Greater Accra Region. Nii Tettey Sarbah lay supine on a mat, arms up and a deep and wide cut on his forehead. Two cuts are curved out on his stomach and dried blood is seen … Read more

Chief of Ardayman Killed Over Chieftaincy Dispute

A visit to the stool house Monday revealed four bullet holes on a section of the building There is uneasy calm at Ardayman in Amasaman in the Greater Accra region after some thugs murdered the Development Chief for the area Nii Tettey Sarbah last Thursday dawn over what is suspected to be a feud over … Read more

Ga Chief Murdered; Tension In Ardayman

The murder is suspected to have been carried out over a chieftaincy dispute There is tension at Ardayman, near Amasaman, in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region following the killing of Nii Tetteh Sarbah, a development chief in the area, on Thursday June 8 by thugs. The murder is suspected to have … Read more

Let Us Come Together To Rebuild Accra

Mr Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Odododiodoo, has called on Ga indigenes to hold their hands in brotherly love to rebuild Accra. He said: “I want to urge all of us that in this time the elections are over, we should put politics behind us and go into the Bible … Read more

How Safe Are Tourist Sites In Ghana?

I was happy to meet again Mr Kobby Asmah, the political editor of the Daily Graphic, last Friday, May 26 at the palace of the National Chief Imam at Fadama, in Accra. The last time we met was at Akosombo, almost nine years ago, and he gave me a lift in his car from that … Read more

2nd Image International Supports Citi FM’s COPE Project

2nd Image International on Thursday donated school bags and stationery to support the Citi Opportunity Project on Education (COPE). 2nd Image currently operates as a full-fledged beauty clinic committed to the provision of quality beauty and slimming services as well as training programs in the beauty industry in Ghana. Teachers and students at the Beauty … Read more