The Ghana Health Service is concerned that efforts to restrict the spread of Covid-19 are being hampered by most Ghanaians’ unwillingness to get vaccinated. Dr. Franklin Asiedu Bekoe, director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, said on Citi Breakfast Show that “Covid-19 cases have risen over the last two weeks.” He added that...
“May the Almighty God and Allah have mercy on your soul as I sentence you to death” were the last words of the supervising Judge at the Bolgatanga High Court, Justice Charles Adjei Wilson, when he sentenced Mbawona Tindana, a self-styled spiritualist to death for killing his wife and daughter. Tindana, 35, who had been...
Some sub chiefs in the Wa Naa’s palace sanctioned the public flogging of the boy and girl in the Wa sex video, the police has told the Wa Circuit Court. The name of the said sub chief was given in court on Thursday as the Degu Naa, Adam Seidu Pelpuo. He is said to have given...
Barely 24 hours of denying having anything to do with tye flogging of two lovers at the forecourt of his palace, Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, the Overlord of the Waala Traditional Council has admitted giving his blessing to the barbaric act. The two young lovers were allegedly involved in a sex video scandal that...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has directed Sheik Ibrahim Cudjoe Quaye commonly called Sheik I.C.Quaye, Chairman of the Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana to remove the name of one Hamza Tanko as a member of the Hajj Board. This follows a purported letter dated May 15, 2022 from Sheik I.C. Quaye to the Ministry...
The Office of the special prosecutor has frozen all assets belonging to the late Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (Sir John) until the investigations into the alleged improper acquisition of the properties are concluded. The Office of the Special Prosecutor last week commenced investigations into the alleged improper acquisition of state lands Sir...
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) says it has taken over the incident involving the flogging of two persons alleged to have had a sexual encounter and leaking the video on social media. The Association’s Women and Minors Rights Committee has been tasked to closely monitor and offer the necessary and required legal assistance to the...
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated a $50 million Bulk Power Supply Point at Kasoa in the Central Region on Wednesday June 1, 2022. The 435 MVA project, funded by the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) under the Ghana Power Compact Agreement with the Government of the USA, is the second largest bulk power...
Some angry youth in Wa, the regional capital of the Upper West Region, Wednesday night besieged the regional police command to demand the release of their three arrested colleagues in connection with the flogging of two lovers whose sex video leaked. More than 300 youth hurled stones, cudgels and other crude weapons at the police...
The Ghana Police Service has turned down proposal by some persons affiliated to the #FixTheCountry movement who intended to embark on demonstration with weapons. Some demonstrators including Captain Godsbrain Smart, Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, Benjamin Darko and Okatakyie Afrifa notified the police that they intended to embark on 3-day demonstration starting from June 4, 2022. The...