Six (6) persons have been confirmed dead in the Ashanti Region following an outbreak of Pneumococcal Meningitis in the country a couple of weeks ago. The confirmed number of deaths is out of a total of 17 suspected cases of the new strain of the disease reported by health officials in the Offinso Municipal, Adansi […]
Armed robbers suspected to be Fulanis have shot and killed a police officer at Kasei near Ejura in the Ashanti region.The officer, Alexander Kyeremeh, was shot when the bandits attacked a taxi he was traveling in, Friday evening.The incident has been confirmed by the Ejura Police District Police command Superintendent Anthony Appiah .Meanwhile, the body
Mr Joël Touhas-Bernaté, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief for Ghana, says Ghana’s growth is expected to rebound in 2016, after the slowdown of about four per cent in the last three quarters. He said the projected growth is expected to be pushed by reforms in the energy sector as well as the coming on
Exclusive information gathered from the corridors of Manhyia by ghnewsnow indicates that the current Board and management of Asante Kotoko will be dissolved to be replaced by Entrepreneur Dr Kwaku Frimpong (Champion Divine) in the course of this week. The source revealed that the board and management led by Lawyer Paul Adu Gyamfi and Opoku Nti
The Ministry of Mines and Natural Resources has called for calm amid rising tension over demands that AngloGold Ashanti, cede part of its mining concession to artisanal miners for their operation. Nii Osah Mills, the Sector Minister, made the call after he met separately with the management of the global mining company, the leadership of
Ghana FA president, Kwesi Nyantkyi, was on Tuesday January 12, 2016 retained as WAFU-B president. Mr Nyantakyi won by a single vote beating Niger’s Djibrilla Hima Hamidou by 4-3 at the West Africa Football Union (WAFU) congress held in Ghana at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. The Ghana FA boss will continue to become
President John Dramani Mahama has thrown light on why he rewarded a taxi driver who foiled a robbery attack at Cantonments in Accra on Saturday with a house. The driver rammed his taxi-cab into a motor bike that was conveying two suspects away from a robbery scene where they had shot a female employee of Koala
The chairman of the Agogoman Residents Association, Opanin Kojo Oduro, has accused government of being unwilling to address the cause of clashes between Fulani herdsmen and local farmers in communities around Agogo in the Asante Akyem District of the Ashanti region.This followed the murder on Monday January 11, 2016, of a fetish priest, Okomfo Badu,
Foreign Affairs minister Hanna Tetteh has said the two former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay cell who are being sheltered in Ghana were merely “foot soldiers” of Al-Qaeda with no potential danger to Ghana.According to her, the two had no role in the operational functionality in the terrorist group.Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef,36, and Khalid
The country earned US$1.7billion, roughly 7%, in taxes and royalties out of a total US$23billion, which is the value of gold produced in the country from 2010 to 2013, a study by the Africa Centre for Energy Policy has shown. Using Newmont as a case-study, ACEP said the scant rent the country received from mining
