Somalia has issued a ban on Christmas celebrations in the Muslim-majority country after the Southeast Asian sultanate of Brunei announced a similar prohibition earlier this month with the threat of five years in jail.Sheikh Mohamed Khayrow, director general of Somalia’s religious affairs ministry, said on Tuesday that Christmas and New Year celebrations threatened the country’s […]
The Attorney General has been directed to retrieve an amount of GHC1.9 million considered as excess payment to Smarttys Productions in the raging controversy over the rebranding of 116 government buses.The Chief of Staff Julius Debrah gave the directive after studying the report of the AG’s probe into the scandal.The development comes a day after
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
Culled from: www.reunionblackfamily.com The City of Brussels has cancelled plans to hold an homage to King Leopold II on Thursday evening in front of the statue of the former Belgian king. Protest against the event was at the heart of the decision to cancel, due to the dubious role the king played in the colonial
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
