A Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Abdul Kamal Deen has said he is against the decision to block unregistered SIM cards by the National Communications Authority (NCA). He said this while contributing to discussion on the suit against the NCA for blocking the unregistered SIM cards, on TV3’s New Day show with Berla Mundi on Monday September 12. “I am not for blocking of SIM cards, I am not actually for it,” he intimated. The NCA and the Minister of Justice and Attorney General have been sued. The suit, filed at the Supreme Court by Kwame Asare-Obeng (A-Plus),...

Russia aims to “deprive people of light and heat” by causing power cuts across eastern Ukraine in revenge for a Ukrainian counter-offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Blackouts reportedly affected millions of people in the eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. The Kharkiv city mayor says power is now restored. It comes after Ukraine said it had retaken over 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) in an eastern counter-offensive. The BBC cannot verify these figures. Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure left much of his city without power or water on Sunday evening. He called it a...

The police have arrested three suspects to aid in investigations into the murder of 15-year-old Regina Sarfo in Konongo in the Ashanti Region. The body of the deceased teenager was found dumped in a bush at Ahenbrom, a suburb of Konongo, on Thursday, September 8. Crime scene experts conducted a forensic examination of the scene after which the body was conveyed to the Stewards Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy. In a statement on Friday, September 9, the police said the Ashanti Regional Command has met with the family and the Inspector-General of Police has also commiserated with them over...

Embattled illegal mining kingpin, Aisha Huang has been accused of being a Chinese spy These allegations were made by Professor Kwesi Aning, the Director of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre. Aisha Huang who was deported to China in 2018 was accused of engaging in small-scale mining, however, the state could not prosecute her due to diplomatic relations between Ghana and China. The former Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo justifying the reason Aisha Huang was not jailed said “putting that woman in jail in Ghana is not going to solve your money problem”. In...

The family of the late Muniratu Moro who was allegedly stabbed to death at her residence in Abeka on Tuesday evening by a yet to be identified person has called on the Ghana Police Service to expedite its investigations into the matter. Speaking to Baina News, the relatives of the late Muniratu say they hope the Police would investigate the incidence and bring the culprit to book and until such is done, they would not allow the remains at the mortuary to be released for burial. They say want the law take its course and justice be served by unravelling...

The deputy Minister for Trades and Industry, Micheal Okyere Baafi has assured the people of Koforidua Zongo, that in no time, contractor will move to site to commence the construction of the Zongo Hospital project. The Minister who also doubles as the Member of Parliament (MP) for New Juaben North made the disclosure over the weekend at the 34th Maulaid ceblebration of Sheihk Ahmed Tijani at Zongo Laaka, a suburb of Koforidua. He said, the government is doing everything possible to help develop Zongo and his office has recently received a letter from the ministry of health indicating the ministry’s...

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for La Nkwantanang Madina Municipal Assembly (LaNMMA), Jennifer Dede Adjaben, has encouraged candidates participating in the West African Secondary School Certificates Examination (WASSCE) in the municipality to remain confident and approach their papers with determination to enable them to come pass and pass well. That, she said, would ensure they get admitted to tertiary institutions of their choice, which would then propel them to achieve their future aspirations. Mrs Adjabeng disclosed this during her tour of some selected West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) centres in in LaNMMA enclave. Some of the centres visited...

The Minority in Parliament has endangered not to authorize the budgetary funding for the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation if the nation continues to ignore troubles over the SIM card re-registration exercise. This stood after the National Communications Authority on Sunday rolled out penal criteria to be meted out to persons who are yet to register their SIM cards. SIM card users in Ghana who have not re-registered their SIM cards started confronting penal actions yesterday, Monday, September 5, 2022, ahead of the September 30 deadline. Stakeholders have however asserted that some persons are incompetent to re-register their SIM cards...

After years of anticipation, social media giant Twitter announced on Thursday that it is now testing an edit button. Twitter provides the option to edit tweets within 30 minutes of tweeting via its new Twitter Blue service, however, this is not free as it will cost users US$4.99 per month. Users often complain about the inability to edit tweets containing inaccuracies or typographical errors. Deleted and unavailable tweets are frequently seen on the Twitter platform as most users usually have to delete tweets as a result of errors. Concerns of an edit button being abused leading to the loss of...