Benin’s Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni secured a landslide victory in the West African nation’s April 12 presidential election, garnering over 94% of ?the votes, provisional results from the electoral commission showed on Monday. Sacca Lafia, head ?of the country’s ?independent … Read more →
Three persons have been arrested by the Ashanti Regional Police Command for allegedly seizing a DAF truck loaded with 600 bags of dried cocoa beans at gunpoint and pushing the driver out of the vehicle, John Asare, to his death. … Read more →
His Excellency, President John Dramani Mahama has met and held discussions with Pope Francis at the Vatican.This is the first meeting between the two leaders. It follows Ghana’s appointment in 2013 of its first Ambassador to the Vatican, H.E. James … Read more →
The Mayor of Accra, Alfred Vanderpuije actively participated in the recent clean up exercise. He was seen trying to trim the hedges with his cutlass but with the kind of energy he used, only an expert from the garden can … Read more →
At least 20 students have reportedly been killed by a bomb at a school assembly in the north-east Nigerian town of Potiskum. The explosion happened at a boys’ science and technical school in the town. Militant group Boko Haram is … Read more →
Three people have been killed in a fatal accident which occurred at Oframanse near Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipality of the Eastern Region, in the early hours of Saturday. Reports said a Yutong bus travelling from Bawku to Accra … Read more →
Some irate church members of Mempom Assemblies of God Church in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern region on Sunday chased out their district Pastor, Pastor David Asare from the Church premises over what they term incompetent management of the … Read more →
A man named Mama Solomon, who reportedly hails from Enugu State, was arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos, after he was caught with cocaine concealed in women’s shoes.The drugs were detected in the luggage compartment of … Read more →
General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Pastor Mensa Otabil has underscored the need for people in leadership positions to seek wisdom. In his view, it is a calamity of life to be positional powerful but bereft of … Read more →
Founder and presiding Bishop of Winner’s Chapel International (WCI), David Oyedepo, is making plans to open a school in Kent, England. However, human rights campaigners and the National Secular Society (NSS) are urging the government to prevent that from happening. … Read more →
A Health worker with the Ahmediya Hospital in Daboase in the Wassa East district of the Western Region has done one of the unthinkables under the sun. He has subjected his elder sister to a merciless beatings for a rather … Read more →
The Ebola virus disease yesterday compelled authorities of the University of Ghana to deny graduating students of the university the usual symbolic handshakes that characterise such ceremonies. Thousands of graduating students were told before the ceremony that there would be … Read more →
Some journalists were assaulted by relatives of Ali Gabass at the Cocoa Affairs Court on Friday. According to Citi FM’s Fred Dajabanor, the “two journalists who were from TV3 and Multi TV, were beaten up when they attempted taking photos … Read more →
Residents of Egyambra, a community in the Ahanta west district of the Western Region are still struggling to come to terms with how 2 cable thieves who were arrested and sent to the police station could escape from cells. The … Read more →
A 26-year-old Systems Administrator of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale campus, Ransford Stanley Baidoo, needs help to have his fractured right leg corrected to save his life. Mr Baidoo was one of eight survivors in the November 2012 … Read more →
The maiden Made-In-Ghana Fair, designed to encourage the public to patronise locally produced goods and services, was launched in Accra yesterday. It is scheduled for December 15 to 24, 2014 at the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre in Accra. The … Read more →
The World Health Organization (WHO) has told the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that the much anticipated Ebola vaccines could cost about $100 per dose. An official of the WHO revealed this to heads of states of ECOWAS … Read more →
The Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) has described the failure of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to submit to Parliament the $1.2 billion loan agreement for approval as suspicious. The Petroleum Revenue Management law states categorically that at … Read more →
Not being able to find a date might seem like an emergency, but it’s not a reason to call 911. Case in point: Stephen Ramsey, 45, of Naples, Florida was arrested Tuesday after allegedly calling 911 three times and asking … Read more →
The entire township of Kwesimintsim in the Sekondi / Takoradi metropolis was thrown into a state of shock and disbelief when the news of a lady who stabbed a young man to death spread with lightning speed in the community … Read more →
IT HAS emerged that the assassinated District Chief Executive (DCE) for Nkwanta South in the Volta Region, Peter Kojo Kenyenso, received death threats before his gruesome murder Monday night. The Paramount Chief of Nkwanta Akyode Traditional Area, Nana Obonbo Sewura … Read more →