Crime TOP STORIES

One dead, 5 arrested in renewed disturbances at Kandiga-Doba

May 23, 2022

  At least one person has died and five(5) suspects arrested in connection with a renewed clash between Doba and Kandiga in the Kassena-Nankana Municipal and Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region. There were sporadic gunshots between the two communities last night, which threatened the safety of road users plying the Bolgatanga-Navrongo road. […]Continue Reading

Opinion

Our Police Again for Wrong Reason?

May 23, 2022

Personnel of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) are not saints. Yes, they are not. But are a group of well-trained individuals of one nation with different socio-cultural backgrounds akin to ethnicity; they are trained or supposedly so, on the global standard couched on best practices of policing as could be found elsewhere, to fit in […]Continue Reading

HEALTH NEWS

Royalhouse Chapel Women’s Ministry Rescues Nursing Mothers

May 23, 2022

The Royalhouse Chapel International, through its women’s ministry, ‘Royal Ladies’ has organized a nationwide initiative to discharge over 50 mothers who were unable to pay for their hospital bills after delivery. Dubbed the ‘Baby Project,’ the local assemblies of the Church across the country visited health facilities within their localities and paid the hospital bills Continue Reading

NEWS

I’m Not Interested In AchimotaForest Lands …Jinapor Rebuts

May 23, 2022

Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has debunked rumour that government released portions of the Achimota Forest Reserve in Accra in order for appointees to purchase for personal projects. According to the Minister, he is not interested in buying portions of the forest released to the Owoo family. He cites simple reason that […]Continue Reading

NEWS TOP STORIES

ECG Workers‘Rejects’ New MD

May 23, 2022

There is a simmering tension mounting among the general staff of the state-owned Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG),following the appointmentof Mr. Samuel Dubik Masubir Mahamaby the Presidency as the new Managing Director (MD) of the company. Theydescribed the appointment as retrogressive, considering the challenges bedeviling the company which required more experienced Continue Reading

NEWS

¢700 Million Alleged Bribery Scandal Hits Lord Commey’sOffice

May 23, 2022

A ¢700 million bribe scandal has hit the Director of Operation at the seat of government, the Jubilee House, Lord ObliteyCommey, a onetime National Youth Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to information intercepted by The Anchor, the said money paid last year by one Barfuor, was given to Chris, one of […]Continue Reading

Business

Cedi depreciation pushes Ghana’s debt to over GH¢390 billion in April; 78% of GDP

May 23, 2022

Recent data released by the Bank of Ghana put Ghana’s total public debt stock, as of March 2022, at US$ 55.1 billion or GH¢391.9 billion. In Dollar terms, the debt dropped by over $3 billion in the first 3 months of the year, from $58.4 billion in January to $55.1 billion in March. In Cedi […]Continue Reading

Crime

Accra: Police arrests errant motorcyclists, warns them to ‘go and sin no more’

May 20, 2022

The Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service on Thursday May 19, 2022, arrested scores of motor riders as part of the Police Action Against Rider Indiscipline (PAARI). The suspects were cautioned, sensitised and released to go and sin no more after interaction with some senior police officers. The riders were arrested […]Continue Reading

Business

BoG Governor confident inflation has peaked; expects rate to start declining

May 20, 2022

Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, has described as baffling the sustained rise in the rate of inflation in the country. According to the governor, the Monetary Policy Committee, which is meeting to review developments in the economy, will need to decide on the current policy rate, which stands at 17%. The […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Applaud Gov’t for doing the right thing with Achimota forest’ – Benito

May 20, 2022

A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Bio-Owusu, has justified the government’s decision to remove the reserve status from parts of the Achimota forest. “What the government has done is to do the right thing. hen we do the right thing by being transparent as a government, we must be applauded for that. […]Continue Reading