NEWS

GA/R: AMA PM calls on Assembly Members to own Green Ghana initiative

June 13, 2022

The Presiding Member (PM) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Mr. Alfred Asiedu Adjei has called on all Assembly Members to own the Green Ghana Initiative to ensure its sustainability and improved climate for the future and present generations. Mr. Adjei said this on Friday in an interview with the media during the tree planting […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Is it too much to use taxpayers’ money for nat’l cathedral? Should poverty, politics stop us? – Ofori-Atta asks critics

June 13, 2022

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has wondered if using state funds to build the national cathedral that President Nana Akufo-Addo promised to put up for God, if he won the presidency, was too much. “At any point in time when these buildings were built in Europe, was it ever the right time? How do we fund […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION

Gov’t supporting, perpetuating dependent graduates – AUCC President

June 13, 2022

President of the African University College (AUCC), Professor Abeku Blankson, has expressed his worry over Ghana’s educational system producing dependent and non-functioning university graduates. In an interview on the Transformation Agenda Series show on Class FM last Saturday, he revealed that Ghana’s educational system is raising an army of graduates who have no skill Continue Reading

Foreign

Dozens of wedding guests abducted in Nigeria

June 13, 2022

Gunmen have abducted at least 29 people in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara, police say. The victims were travelling back home from a wedding ceremony when the armed men ambushed a convoy of their vehicles. The victims were mostly mobile phone dealers from a popular market in Gusau, the Zamfara state capital – who […]Continue Reading

Crime

C/R: Decomposing body of woman, 39, found hanging in locked kitchen

June 13, 2022

A 39-year-old woman, known as Maame Efua has been discovered hanging in a locked kitchen at Abeadze Kyeakor in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. The decomposed body of the woman was discovered almost five days after the incident. It is, however, not known if she committed suicide or was murdered since the kitchen […]Continue Reading

POLITICS

Don’t prevent others from contesting Mahama – Kumbuor to NDC

June 13, 2022

The former Member of Parliament for Nandom, Dr. Benjamin Kumbuor, has advised the rank and file of the opposition National Democratic Congress to allow a level playing field for all presidential-hopefuls in the party. According to him, the NDC as a democratic party will be making a mistake if other flagbearer aspirants are prevented from […]Continue Reading

NEWS

LGBTQI: UK’s invitation to MPs requested by C’ttee Chair – Suhuyini claims

June 13, 2022

The Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, says the invitation by the UK Parliament to Ghana’s Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs was at the beheads of the Chairman of the Ghanaian Parliamentary Committee. Speaking to Naa Dedei Tettey on Morning Starr Monday, Mr. Suhuyini challenged the Chairman for the Committee, Kwame […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Accra: Residents of Manhean cry for police post

June 13, 2022

Residents at Manhean in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region are calling for the establishment of a police post following rising spate of robberies in the area. Residents in the area believe that the establishment of police posts will help reduce the attacks on people and ensure their safety. They also observed […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION

Pay us COLA to avoid turmoil in education sector – TEWU to Gov’t

June 13, 2022

The Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union, (TEWU) of Trade Union Congress (TUC) has warned government that nonpayment of Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) will destabilize the education sector. In a statement signed by the General Secretary of TEWU-TUC,  Mark D. Korankye, bemoaned the lackadaisical attitude of government to their demand. “We wish to state that […]Continue Reading

ENTERTAINMENT

Burna Boy’s escorts allegedly shoot men at Lagos club, police investigate

June 13, 2022

The Nigeria Police Force has ordered Lagos State Police Commissioner, Abiodun Alabi, to conduct an investigation into the alleged shooting of two people by five Police escorts attached to the popular musician, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy. The shooting occurred on June 8, 2022, at Club Cubana in Victoria Island, Lagos. Force Headquarters spokesperson, […]Continue Reading