Category: News

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that his government recruited an additional 58,000 healthcare givers to boost its fight against COVID-19 during the peak of the pandemic. Speaking at the National Honours and Awards at the Accra International Conference Center, the president said, following government’s commitment to ensuring the safety of citizens, it took...

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has cautioned the public not to deal with anyone or agency via any portal in the name of recruiting officers for a census this year. “These unscrupulous individuals are reportedly promoting the said fake recruitment portal on social media and are misleading/enticing unsuspecting members of the public to pay recruitment fees to them,” the Service said in a press release on Tuesday, March 14. It noted that...

The family of a middle-aged man who was shot to death by an anti-robbery team in Wa has given the police a 24-hour ultimatum to reach out to them and render an unqualified apology for unjustifiably tagging the deceased as an armed robber. The family maintains that contrary to the narration by the police, the...

The Registrar General’s Department has said that 80 percent of Islamic marriages in Ghana are invalid. This, according to the department is due to the refusal of spouses to register under the registrar General’s Department as demanded by law. Head of marriages at the Registrar General’s Department, Oladele Kwaku Aribike made this known at a...

The former Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr Mustapha Ahmed, has been sentenced to seven days imprisonment by the Accra High Court (Financial and Economic Crime Division 2), for contempt of court. On June 12, 2019, the court in a judge­ment, granted perpetual injunction restrain­ing the former minister, then the defendant, from trespassing on land, but...

The Ghana chapter of international human rights organisation Amnesty International has condemned the violence meted out by the military to some civilians in Ashaiman following the murder of a young soldier. Amnesty International Ghana called out the military and asked them to step back and allow the Ghana Police Service to conduct investigations into the incident....

The University Students’ Association of Ghana (USAG) has weighed into calls for the Students Loan Trust Fund to immediately disburse student loans. The calls began with  the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) following delay for this academic year. According to USAG, reports have been received of students receiving registration deadline notices over non-payment of fees. “The...

The mortal remains of soldier Imoro Sherrif who was allegedly stabbed to death in Taifa a suburb of Ashaiman has been laid to rest. It was an emotional morning as military officers could not hide their human side as they gave their 21-year-old colleague his last walk. The body was prepared for burial at the...

Former military officer and a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe wants Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul to resign or be fired for the Ashaiman invasion by the military on 7 March 2023 over the killing of a soldier.  Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe told Johnnie Hughes on 3 FM Sunrise Morning Show that...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that funds for the fight against Covd-19 were not misused. He said the funds were appropriately used for the purpose of tackling the pandemic. Delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament on Wednesday, March 8, he said “Covid funds were not missed. It is critical that we do...