President of Ghana’s Actors Guild, Rev. Eddie Coffie has passed away.He is said to have passed on the dawn of Friday October 30 2015 after battling with sickness at the Ridge Hospital in AccraRev. Coffie was elected president of the Actors Guild (GAG), the umbrella body for Ghanaian actors, in October 2014.He took over from […]
A night security man of the Chirepatre MA Primary School within the Kumasi Metropolis has committed suicide within the precincts of the school. The deceased only identified as Amadu Sulemana 68 and physically challenged was found early this morning hanging on one of the trees on the compound of the school by pupils who had reported
The Adenta District Education Directorate has closed down the Adenta Community School over poor hygienic conditions. An inspection team led by the Assemblyman for Gbentanaa Electoral area who visited the school yesterday realized the school children were living in total filth, hence the closure. He said the action had become necessary after water from a
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has written to the Electoral Commission to stop dealing with its suspended National Chairman Paul Afoko.The acting chairman, Freddie Blay, in a letter dated October 28 to the electoral body said due to the suspension “all correspondence and records” should reflect the party’s decision.However, the EC gave Afoko accreditation in
The Ghana Football Association has described the British High Commissioner to Ghana Jon Benjamin as “ignorant” over recent comments that the FA misuses Fifa funds.According to the outspoken British envoy, the GFA does not use FIFA’s money to develop good pitches at grassroots level for ordinary Ghanaians and also implied that GFA officials use FIFA
The death of a 33-year old dispatch rider with the Ashanti Regional Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service came as a shock to his colleagues at the unit. Corporal Kwaku Duah who hailed from Asante Mampong, died instantly when he fell off his motorbike after bumping into a pothole. The
Sitting in the office at his home in Washington, 67-year-old graduate student Patrick Brown spends hours searching for boats and buildings on a satellite photograph as part of an online project to combat child slavery in Ghana’s vast Lake Volta. Brown is one of thousands of volunteer “mappers” around the world laying down digital markers
Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, the Chief Policy Analyst of the Ghana Institute for Public Policy Options (GIPPO), a policy Think Tank has warned that Ghana should be wary of the kind of assistance being offered by the US on the voter’s register brouhaha.The US government has stated that it is concerned about developments in Ghana and
A 34 -year old woman Maame Serwaa at Bompeso in the Western region is in the grips of the law for allegedly burning the private part of her 18- year old daughter for stealing her Gh¢1, 800 which she gave to her boyfriend. The enraged mother after noticing money kept in her safe had been
Fulani herdsmen in Kwahu Praso in the Eastern region are reportedly fleeing the area as they fear for their lives.It follows the gruesome murder of a chainsaw operator and his son.The two men were shot in the bush while cutting timber by persons suspected to be Fulanis.It’s unclear if the latest incident is a reprisal
