Two children are feared dead in a flood as result of last night’s downpour which lasted for at least 3 hours in Kumasi in the Ashanti regional capital. A 9-year old boy and a girl and an 8year old girl (Zainab Nasiru-Deen) staying at sawaba and Ayigya Zongo respectively fell into an overflowing gutter in […]
Ghana’s Deputy Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has called on the International Criminals Court (ICC) to be fair in it’s handling of prosecutions. Dr. Ayine asked the ICC to end the selective prosecution of Black African leaders. Speaking at the first International forum of the ICC at the Ghana Institute of Management
A Kumasi Circuit Court Presided over Mrs. Vivian Ellen Amoah has remanded 8 suspected into prison custody for allegedly robbing and diverting GH¢ 300,000 worth of sesame seeds belonging to a multinational company. Alhassan Napari 34, Kofi Asabre, 27, Yakubu Adam 31, Iddrisu Abdulai 34, Innusah Ibrahim 37, Yahaya Ibrahim 29 and Karim Awaya are
Residents of Aboabo, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have abandoned the designated public toilet and resorted to open defecation where dredging machines are kept. Lives and properties were lost in 2015 during a heavy down pour in Asawase, Aboabo No 1, 2 and Dagomba line. In its quest to curb choked gutters
By Kwesi E. Baako It was a good show. It was! But we only got so much because the artist stood us up and did not give us the interview he so courteously said he would. That said… I set off for the Irving Plaza in Manhattan, New York where the ‘Go Higher Concert’
19 patients across the country with heart -related diseases including a foreigner, have benefited from free cardiac surgery at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region. The free open heart surgery was conducted by USA- based Cadioster International, with a mission of helping Ghana to develop their cardiac surgery programmes and cardiology
President John Mahama has said the brochure gaffe was avoidable. According to him, the Chief of Staff is making efforts to ensure the incident of having a mistake-riddled brochure for celebrating Ghana’s Independence Day anniversary does not happen again. The Acting Director of the Information Services Department, Francis Arthur, was fired for the gaffe. He
Ghana’s president John Dramani Mahama has condemned the terrorists’ attacks on Ivory Coast and Turkey, describing the acts as “despicable and unconscionable.” The extremists vented their anger on the West African and European nations at the Grand Bassam beach resort and the Kizilay district respectively on Sunday, March 13, 2016. Twelve people died in the
The Electoral Commission (EC) has rolled out series of activities for the conduct of the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections including the revision and exhibition of the voters’ roll. The EC 2016 Activity calendar indicates that the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) would meet nine times before the Election Day – tentatively on the first Monday
The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Alhaji Collins Dauda has expressed worry over poor performance of students in Mathematics, Integrated Science and English language in the Asunatifi constituency. According to the Asunatifi South Member of Parliament (MP), low scores of students in these three subjects have denied several youth in the constituency admissions
