Ghana’s Transport Minister Dzifa Attivor has resigned voluntarily over the GHS3.6 million bus branding scandal. She tendered her resignation on Tuesday December 22, 2015. She conveyed her resignation to the President through the Chief of Staff Julius Debrah.Her personal assistant Egypt Kudoto told the media on Wednesday that Mrs Attivor resigned upon sober reflection. Mr […]
The Ashanti Regional Criminal and Investigations Department of the Ghana police Service has commenced investigations into the death of an inmate who is alleged to have been poisoned resulting in his death at Kumasi central prisons. Police Investigations reveals that the inmate (Name withheld ) was poison by his close relatives through food to cover
The ‘Mansa’ crooner’ Bisa Kdei has promised his numerous fans across the country to deliver stimulating performance on December 25, in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.He called on Ghanaians to join him to part, as they send 2015 away. ‘On December 25, at True Vine Hotel, I am coming with fire to Kumasi,I am expecting
The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo has said although suspending the party’s national chairman and general secretary Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyepong respectively was “regrettable”, it is about time the Elephant family moved on.The Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition has suspended some of its national executives including its second vice chairman Sammy Crabbe over
A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, , Dr Luisa Hannah Bissiw has bemoaned the unhygienic state of the Kumasi Abattoir, noting that conditions if not immediately improved could pose danger to the lives of unsuspecting consumers of meat prepared at the facility. The Minister who was worried at the sorry state of the facility
About 300 Ghanaians arrested and incarcerated by Libyan authorities for various offences are to be deported back to Ghana contrary to earlier reports they are to be sentenced to death by close of Monday December 21, 2015. The detainees according to reports have been in prison in a Libyan town called Pejora for the past
President John Mahama has directed his ministers to desist from embarking on non-essential travels.A statement signed by the Chief-of-Staff said those trips are having “serious impact” on the state.“It is needless to emphasise the serious impact the current frequent travels abroad by Ministers and public officials are having on Government finances”.The statement also directed ministers
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been banned from football for eight years by FIFA’s Independent Ethics Committee.The committee said in a statement that Blatter’s assertion that there had been an oral agreement between him and Platini over a £1.35m payment was not convincing.As a result, it was determined that he had breached the rules
Nana Akufo-Addo on Saturday, December 19, introduced the New Patriotic Party’s 2016 National Campaign Team to the National Delegates’ Conference, the highest decision making body of the party.The team comprises of an intelligent, inclusive mix of experience, energy, youth, gender and heads of various important structures of the NPP.Below the National Advisory Committee of the
The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme Manager at Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection, Dzigbordi Kofi Agbekpornu, has remarked that 144,980 people in 188 districts across the country have benefitted from the programme. ‘The LEAP programme now has 144,980 beneficiary households, individual accounts we have 579,920 individuals on the programme. The programme is
