The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has disclosed that the Union will increase transport fares by 19% effective October 29. According to Godfred Abulbire, General Secretary of the Union, the increment is due to the recent hikes in fuel prices coupled with the galloping inflation and the current depreciation of the Cedi. Speaking in...
Patricia Asiedua, popularly known as Nana Agradaa has been granted GH¢150,000 bail with three sureties, one of whom must be justified with landed property. She has been told to leave her passport at the court register. The court has adjourned the case to November 15, 2022. This is distinct from her case before Accra’s Circuit...
Former President John Dramani Mahama has appealed to Ghanaians not to entertain the thought of committing suicide due to economic hardships. He said although times are tough in Ghana at the moment, suicide is never an answer. He was commenting on one Kakra who recently electrocuted himself at Kasoa, in the Central Region. He asked all...
Three persons have reportedly sustained gunshot wounds after some youth allegedly clashed with military officers at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. The youth had mobilized to rescue their colleagues who were reportedly trapped in a mining pit belonging to AngloGold Ashanti on Tuesday. An altercation ensued between the youth and the military officers, leading to...
The remains of Linda Obri Akufu, 57, which got missing weeks ago at the St. Francis Xavier Hospital at Assin Fosu has finally been found and buried. Per information gathered, the confusion was a result of mistaken identity. The body of the deceased was mistaken for a young lady from Assin Adiembra with a similar...
President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Yaw Acheampong Boafo has dismissed some myths associated with the legal profession. For several years, there has been a myth that lawyers are buried upside down and that of all professions, they are the most likely candidates for hell because of the peculiar nature of their profession, coupled...
President Akufo-Addo has jabbed detractors of his government who say he has done little in terms of development in the region. According to him, those detractors would soon be put to shame. The President made these remarks while addressing a gathering of chiefs and people of Suame, where he cut sod for the 4-tier Suame...
A midwife and her husband, who is a trained teacher, are currently in the grips of the Esiama District Police Command in Ellembelle for abandoning a four-year-old special child in a forest ostensibly to die. According to the assembly member for the Asaasetre-Ebowu Electoral Area, Barnabas Ewureku, who confirmed the news to Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson,...
Ghanaian actress Yvonne Nelson has bemoaned the current economic crisis on Twitter. She called Prez Nana Addo a disappointment in his capacity as the president. The actress who headed the Dumsor demonstration against the past government has had a turnabout saying the NPP has failed the country. She tweeted, “The country is bleeding. It’s that bad!...
Shaltoot Media organised a forum to shape conversations around gender equality and equity and address issues related to the subject matter.The forum was held last Saturday, 15 October 2022 at the National Mosque Complex in Accra. The forum, held on the theme, “Gender Equality and Equity: A case study of the Zongo and Muslim communities,...