Opinion

Editorial Impostor Guns: Lest We Bequeath Internal Terror Cults at our own Chagrin

June 14, 2022

In a release dated June 6, 2022, referenced ARHQ/PAU/AR.10/VOL.1/09 and, signed by Superintendent Juliana Obeng, Head of Public Affairs unit/AR – of Accra Regional police headlined “Shooting at Zammrama Line Involving A Soldier: Six Persons Injured”, the Ghana police administration, thus, announced the arrest over yet another reckless, needless incident of Continue Reading

NEWS

School Feeding Collapsing; MP Accuses Gov’t of Insensitivity

June 14, 2022

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Builsa-South constituency, Dr Clement Apaak, has slammed President Nana Akufo-Addo, for releasing a whopping GH¢200 million towards the construction of the controversial national cathedral, while caterers of the flagship School Feeding Programme continue to strike. According to the Deputy Ranking Member on Education, government’s Continue Reading

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Minister Orders Removal of Trees Planted By NDC Members

June 14, 2022

In what otherwise, described as a successful national initiative collectively embraced by all and sundry devoid of politics, is now being destroyed with cheap politicking. It follows an order by the Oti regional minister, Joshua Makubu, for the removal of all the trees that were planted by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as part […]Continue Reading

Opinion

EDITORIAL Ex-gratia Blues: Confusing Tales of Two Returned Cash

June 14, 2022

Ghana last week descended into yet another confusion of whether a true patriot should be the one who returns unwanted wantonly-gifted cash, to the people’s chest, or the one gluttonously-grabbing the recklessly-dissipated state cash cast on silver-platter and devoured carnivorously into over-fed thundering stomach amidst snarls and barks like in the wild hounds’ hunt on Continue Reading

Business

$10m Buipe Sheanut Factory Left to Rot

June 14, 2022

It is emerging that the $10-million Buipe Sheanut Processing Factory commissioned in May 2012 by then vice President, John Dramani Mahama, has been left to rot. The 40, 000 capacity factory, has been in this sorry state over two years, The Anchor has gathered. Reports of the sheanut factory bring to mind, the Komenda Sugar […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Supreme Court maintains injunction against Assin North MP

June 14, 2022

The Supreme Court has in a unanimous 9-0 decision affirmed its April 13 decision that granted an injunction against Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson. The court on April 13 restrained Mr. Quayson from holding himself as a Member of Parliament for the constituency. This was a majority 5-2 decision. Justices Jones Dotse, Mariama Owusu, […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Hajj Board Accused of Massive Scam; Pilgrims Cry for Help

June 14, 2022

After years of incident-free organization of the annual Pilgrimage to Mecca, this year, a scandal seems to be brewing between some aggrieved prospective pilgrims on one side and the Ghana Hajj Board on the other. The aggrieved Muslims are crying foul after organizers on Tuesday June 7, 2022, announced new fare for this year’s pilgrimage […]Continue Reading

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

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