Crime

Girl found dead in drain at Ablekuma Manhean with hands tied

June 23, 2022

The lifeless body of a teenage girl has been found in a drain at Ablekuma Manhean in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. Some residents say the body was discovered early Thursday morning. One of them, who spoke to the press, said the deceased’s hands were tied at the time the body […]Continue Reading

HEALTH

We will partner NHIA to advance advocacy on benefit packages – Okuapehene tells Okoe Boye

June 23, 2022

Paramount Chief and elders of Akuapem Traditional Area in the Eastern Region on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, wholeheartedly welcomed to the palace a high-powered delegation from the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA).  The delegation, led by the NHIA Chief Executive, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, paid a courtesy call on Oseadeeyo Kwasi Akuffo III, as part […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Births and Deaths Registry head office relocated to Shiashie in Accra

June 23, 2022

The head office of the Births and Deaths Registry has been relocated to Shiashie in the Ayawaso West Municipality. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the National Office of the Registry on Tuesday, June 21. Persons who want to seek their services have been directed to visit the National Association of Local Authorities […]Continue Reading

POLITICS

Minority Leader calls for a forensic audit into Covid-19 expenditure

June 23, 2022

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has called for a forensic audit into government’s Covid-19 expenditure. Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, Mr Iddrisu, who had been highlighting what he said were discrepancies in the figures presented by the Finance minister, demanded an account of the rest of the money. “In many civilised jurisdictions, the Auditor-General Continue Reading

NEWS

Justice Honyenuga dismisses Opuni’s stay of application

June 23, 2022

The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD’s application to temporarily suspend his trial at the High Court has failed. Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni was seeking to stay proceedings pending the determination of an appeal against the High Court’s decision, but was rejected by the presiding judge. His appeal at the Court of Appeal is […]Continue Reading

TOP STORIES

Alarm Blows Over COCOBOD’s $140M ‘Cooked’ Deal To Private Firm

June 23, 2022

Officials at COCOBOD have been caught pants-down, following a sudden management decision to terminate an ongoing cocoa rehabilitation program estimated at $140million dollars and outsource the contract to a private company under strange circumstance. The move, which came as a shock to regional managers and district officers of Cocoa Health and Extension Division of Continue Reading

Business

There is no time to waste; seek for IMF support – government told

June 23, 2022

Associate Professor of Finance at Andrews University in the United States, Dr. Williams Kwasi Peprah, says time is running out for the government of Ghana to seek economic support or programme from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since the economic fundamentals are deteriorating. He is basing his argument on the fact that the country’s net […]Continue Reading

POLITICS

‘I have not endorsed any aspiring flagbearer’ – Kufuor

June 23, 2022

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has refuted claims he has endorsed an aspiring candidate in the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearership race. According to him, media reportage suggesting that he had endorsed the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s candidacy, against the other aspiring candidates at the recent Peduase Valley Resort Father’s Day soiree had totally Continue Reading

NEWS

Presidential spouses’ salary: Supreme Court postpones ruling again to July 27

June 23, 2022

The Supreme Court has for the second time failed to deliver its judgement in a case challenging payment of salaries to spouses of the President and Vice President. The court now says it will deliver its judgement on July 27. The Court previously indicated it was delivering its decision on May 4 and July 22. […]Continue Reading

Business

Abandoned Ejura Farms Rotting Away

June 23, 2022

The Ejura Farms Ghana Limited located in the Ejura-Sekyedumasi district of the Ashanti Region, is still rotting away, as successive governments come and go without any attempt to revive it. The current deteriorating condition of the farms, again brings to the fore, concerns about Ghana’s poor maintenance culture of its assets. Photos of the onetime […]Continue Reading