NEWS

‘No further development at Bulgarian Embassy pending court cases’ – Lands Ministry orders

May 17, 2022

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has directed that there should be ‘no further developments” on the land housing the demolished Bulgarian Embassy in Accra pending the final determination of legal matters. The Ministry says “for the avoidance of doubt, no person or entity is to carry out any development on the said land […]Continue Reading

Crime

Man, 30, dies in girlfriend’s room after sleepover

May 17, 2022

A 34-year-old man, Mr Philip Arkoh, has died in his girlfriend’s room at Asawase in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti region. The incident occurred on Sunday, May 15, 2022. The Assembly member for the area, Mr. Matthew Amissah, told Class 93.1 FM’s Elisha Adarkwah that the man visited the girlfriend and decided to […]Continue Reading

Business

Agongo’s lithovit fertiliser is our ‘messiah’; it gave us more yield, money and made us happy – Cocoa farmer

May 17, 2022

  A cocoa farmer, Samuel Torbi, the second defence witness for Dr Stephen Opuni, a former CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), who is standing trial along with businessman Seidu Agongo for causing financial loss of GHS217 million to the state, has told the High Court trying the case that lithovit liquid fertiliser was […]Continue Reading

Business

Over 120,000 persons reimbursed after wrongful E-levy deductions – GRA

May 16, 2022

After the initial challenges that disrupted the first few days of the implementation of the electronic transfer levy, over 120,000 customers have so far been reimbursed for wrongful deductions. Head of Project Management Unit at the Ghana Revenue Authority, Isaac Kobina Amoako, who made this known said, “the data we had for those who had […]Continue Reading

Crime

Ritual killing: Level 300 CCTU Student found dead without private part 15 May 2022

May 16, 2022

The police have found the lifeless body of level-300 marketing student of the Cape Coast Technical University without her private part. The Central Regional police retrieved the body of the deceased, Nana Ama Clark, on Friday night at OLA Estate in Cape Coast. According to the Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police Irene […]Continue Reading

Opinion

Felicia Edem Attipoe shares the story of how she became Ghana’s first female aircraft marshaller

May 16, 2022

Felicia Edem Attipoe, Ghana’s first female aircraft marshaller on Wednesday, May 11, shared an emotional story of how she fell from “grace to grass” on the first edition of the “My Story series” on the Strong and Sassy show. She broke down in tears as she recounted how she tasted “Heaven on Earth” in her […]Continue Reading

Business

Fuel prices to rise marginally in second pricing window of May – IES

May 16, 2022

Consumers of fuel may have to brace themselves for more shocks in the next couple of days because the Institute of Energy Security (IES) is forecasting a 3 to 6 percent increase in the price of petrol and LPG and 2 percent increase in the price of diesel on the local market. According to the […]Continue Reading

Opinion

Energy Ministry Assures Ghanaians of Enough Power

May 12, 2022

The Energy Ministry has once again rejected assertions by Former Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor that the country will soon return to the dark days of dumsor. This negative assertion from the former Deputy Minister comes barely a month after his former boss, the former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, went on a similar route […]Continue Reading

NEWS POLITICS

Popular Fetish Priest Wins NPP Chairmanship Race

May 12, 2022

Nana Kwame Antwi, a fetish priest, who contested for chairmanship position of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Nsuta-Kwaman- Beposo Constituency, has shocked his contenders after giving them a landslide defeat in ‘absentia’. Nana Antwi, interestingly, was not aware of the victory himself after the polls, as he was seriously engaged in celebration […]Continue Reading

Business NEWS

MIIF To Inject Over $400 Million Into Mining Industry

May 12, 2022

The Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) is set to pump some 400 million dollars ($400M) into its new small-scale incubation programme to, ostensibly, transform Ghana’s gold mining sector. According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Fund, Edward Nana Yaw Koranteng, the amount which will cover a period of ten years, forms part of […]Continue Reading