By Daniel Nonor A mad rush for Temitope Balogun Joshua’s anointing water at the Ghana branch of the Synagogue Church of All Nations on the Spintex Road in Accra, on Sunday morning left four people dead, and many more injured in a stampede at the church premises, leading to the cancelation of the church service. [...]
From Samuel Agbewode, Ho Chinese contractors have started work on the permanent site for the University of Health and Allied Sciences at Sokode near Ho. The work being undertaken at the site includes laying of a foundation for the building of temporary accommodation and offices for the foreign workers, pegging and erecting of a security [...]
A former Ghanaian President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has called on media commentators on the election petition to present the facts as they were being told in court, and desist from twisting and reshaping them to fit into people’s prejudices and political agenda. The former President said when facts are twisted or misshaped it [...]
My attention has been drawn to a statement from the end of Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the man being prosecuted by the Republic of Ghana for fraudulently procuring a “judgment debt payment”. In the statement in question, it has been alleged that the Minority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, met Alfred Agbesi Woyome at Schipol Airport [...]
From Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi Nana Osei Boateng Yentumi, Benkumhene of the Offinso Traditional Area, is advocating a radical change in the chieftaincy institution, to ensure that it (institution) plays an effective role in governance and development. The chief wants the institution to be cleansed of ageing chiefs, to make it formidable and contribute its quota [...]
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has condemned the obsessive politicisation of the society, which virtually compels people to look at every issue from the narrow and darkened prism of party politics. ‘We have allowed politics to dominate our lives and influence our thoughts that nothing else seems to matter to us, but the good [...]
By Fatima Adam The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), in an effort at bringing its services closer to customers at the district level, has constructed an ultra-modern office complex at Dansoman, a suburb of Accra. The company, in addition, has constructed a 20/26MVA primary mobile sub-station to help stabilise power supply in the area. Commissioning [...]
By Daniel Nonor Five notorious illegal miners have been arrested by the crack members of the national security taskforce in Obuasi, and are due to be arraigned before a court in Kumasi on Tuesday. They have been on the wanted list of the taskforce for some time, but were finally arrested by the National Security [...]
From Issah Alhassan, Kumasi The sex escapades of a young man, who makes money by uploading sex videos of female partners on the internet, came to an end last week, when he was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service in Kumasi. Akwasi Asare, aka “Festival”, was picked up by the [...]
Story from Albert Nana Asante, Obuasi A 20 year old illegal miner met his untimely death when he drowned in one of the abandoned pits dug by Chinese galamseyers (illegal miners) around the Sanso junction in the Obuasi municipality of the Ashanti Region. The pit was one of the many dug by the Chinese and [...]