The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, is to face Parliament’s Committee on Privileges and Immunities after the Interior Minister formally challenged him to substantiate allegations that the ongoing recruitment into the security services is unlawful and exploitative. The development followed an … Read more →
Private Universities in the country have hinted that they may be forced to increase school fees if government goes ahead to enforce a new tax regime which requires private universities to pay corporate taxes.The Internal Revenue Act has been amended … Read more →
Chris Brown and Drake now have something else in common besides Rihanna — a New York judge just ruled they don’t owe a CENT to a nightclub they brawled next to last summer, TMZ has learned.
Government is to recover over GH¢200 million, constituting unlawful payments, from service providers with the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA). An investigative committee set up by Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah found that service providers … Read more →
On 14th July this year, Prophet TB JOSHUA read out a prophecy and as already known across the world for accurate prophecies with various instances to point to, his prophecies are not joked with globally.
A 28-year-old carpenter at Dadako, near Awutu Bawjiase in the Awutu Senya District in the Central Region, has allegedly murdered his wife for denying him sex for the past 10 months. The suspect, Adam Tokuyagna, was said to have attempted … Read more →
A Nigerian Pastor with Deeper life Bible Church, Abudu, in Orhiomnwon Local Government Area, Eze Fidels, has been paraded by the Edo State Command of the Nigerian Police for defiling two underaged girls. Also, three suspected rapists, a robbery gang, … Read more →
Georgina Tam, a 21-year-old woman believed to be a member of a car-snatching syndicate operating in the Ashanti Region, is in the grip of the Abuakwa Police.
Information reaching The Independent has indicated that, the classrooms of Abura Ahmadiyya Junior High Schools in Cape Coast is now being used as sexgrounds by the residents of the area.
The world is celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, as his family insists he is making “remarkable” progress in hospital.South African biker gangs will clean streets, volunteers will paint schools and politicians will spend 67 minutes on worthy projects – to … Read more →
Road transport operators have served notice to passengers and commuters to get ready to pay higher transport fares. The pump price of petrol was yesterday increased by approximately 1.71%, Diesel by 1.27% and LPG by 6.18%.
Drivers and users of petroleum products are expected to pay more as prices go up this morning. The price increase according to authorities is due to increasing world prices for crude.
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has warned prospective importers of Zambeef Products produced in Zambia to immediately halt any processes to get the beef into Ghana. The beef is said to contain high concentrations of aromatic aldehydes, a chemical … Read more →
The minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) in parliament has alleged that mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung may pull out of Ghana if government imposes new taxes on imported mobile phones.Addressing the media in Accra on Tuesday minority leader in parliament, Osei … Read more →
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Financing, James Klutse Avedzi, has dismissed claims that the introduction of tax on the importation of condoms could undermine the fight against HIV/AIDS.In an interview on Eyewitness News the Member of Parliament for Ketu … Read more →
The General Overseer of International Central GospelChurch (ICGC), Dr. Mensa Anamua Otabil, says he can sense evil befalling Ghana within the next one month if Christians do not wake up and pray for the country. “I have a sense of heaviness in my spirit concerning … Read more →
The Chinese Development Bank has advanced part of the $3.00 billion loan for government to continue with the construction of the Ghana Gas Company, President John Dramani Mahama has announced.
Information reaching the Independent newspaper indicates that jailed notorious armed robber, Aryee Ayittey alias Ataa Ayi is now a church leader in the Church of Pentecost at the Nsawam Prisons. Reports say a local assembly of the church in Accraannounced this during a church meeting. The … Read more →
Although religion does not form part of the criteria for recruitment into the Ghana Police Service, Rastafarians wearing dreadlocks cannot join the Service because they are considered indecent. This was made known by DSP Cephas Arthur, Director of Public Affairs … Read more →
An eight-month-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed 90 times by his mother, mostly in the face, for biting her while she was breastfeeding. Xiao Bao needed more than 100 stitches after the incident in Xuzhou, … Read more →
The Inter ministerial taskforce on illegal mining has so far deported a total of about 3,800 foreigners engaged in unlawful small scale mining, since it began work on June 1.