No Interpreter for Donkorkrom Police Robber
A lack of Twi interpreter at an Accra High Court on Tuesday compelled it to adjourned the trial involving two Policemen and a driver involved in the robbery of a GCB Bank Bullion van at Mame Krobo near Donkorkrom, Eastern Region in 2016. When the matter was called there was no Twi interpreter hence the […]
Quarry activities threaten water supply in Sekondi/Takoradi, Shama
Activities of a quarry company operating at Sofokrom near Inchaban have completely blocked the flow of water from the Anankor River to the Inchaban Water Treatment Plant of the Ghana Water Company. The plant, with a capacity of four million gallons of water a day now processes 1.4 million gallons a day. Already, water is […]
Chelsea's Hudson-Odoi ready for league start, says Sarri
Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi is set to start one of the London club’s next two Premier League matches, against Brighton and Hove Albion and West Ham United, manager Maurizio Sarri said on Tuesday. Hudson-Odoi received his first England start in last month’s international break, but he has yet to start a league game under Sarri, […]
Need for Ministers of State and Senior Public Officials To Pay Road Tolls
NEWS COMMENTARY ON THE NEED FOR MINISTERS OF STATE AND SENIOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS TO PAY ROAD TOLLS The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Attah recently implored all Ministers of State as well as men and women in top positions to pay road tolls to encourage other road users to do same. He revealed […]
UTAG amplifies demands for exit of current Vice Chancellor of UEW
The University Teachers Association of Ghana, UTAG, has repeated demands for the removal of the current Chairman and Vice Chancellor of the University of Education after EOCO’s exoneration of the former Vice Chancellor Professor Mawutor Avoke. Speaking on GBC’s Current Affairs Programme, ‘Behind The News’, Member of UTAG’s Executive Committee, Dr. Harry Agbanu, accused the […]
Cholera vaccines arrive in Mozambique
The UN children’s agency Unicef says nearly 900,000 doses of cholera vaccine have arrived in the Mozambican port city of Beira to help contain an outbreak of the water-borne disease that emerged in he wake of Cyclone Idai. There are more than 1,000 confirmed cholera cases – most of which are in Beira. One person […]
Procurement Authority sets up unit to probe procurement processes of state entities
The Public Procurement Authority (PPA) has established an investigation unit to conduct audit into procurement processes. This comes after the Authority uncovered a lot of anomalies with regard to procurement processes. The anomalies include, complimentary biding, customer and market allocation and tender suppression. The Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, Agyenim Agyei, at the Meet-the-Press […]
Takoradi missing girls: Relative does not believe Police have found her sister
Rebecca Quayson, a relation of one of the three missing Takoradi girls says she does not believe that the Police have found the missing girls. “Seriously, honestly speaking, I don’t believe it,” Madam Quayson, the sister of 18-year-old Ruth Love Quayson (last seen December 4, 2018) said in a radio interview with Accra based Joy […]
We’re hitting the streets soon if ‘dumsor’ doesn’t stop – Yvonne Nelson
Ghanaian actress Yvonne Nelson has announced her intention to embark on another demonstration if the recent power outages are not fixed. In a tweet on Tuesday, she wrote: “#DUMSORMUSTSTOP !!!! We are gonna hit the streets soon if it doesn’t stop!”. This comes a few weeks after Ghanaian comedian, Derrick Kobina Bonney, known in showbiz […]
Kindergarten teacher accused of poisoning nearly two dozen children in China
A kindergarten teacher has been arrested in eastern China after 23 students were sickened in a suspected act of deliberate poisoning, police said Tuesday. The teacher is believed to have poisoned the children’s food with sodium nitrite, the Jiaozuo city police said on their official microblog. Overexposure to sodium nitrite can be toxic and possibly […]
'Dumsor is back: Admit it and publish load-management timetable' – NDC
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged the government to admit that the days of the much-feared intermittent power outages popular known as ‘dumsor’ are back. According to the NDC, the handlers of the energy sector must publish a load-shedding timetable to enable citizens to plan appropriately. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) takes notice […]
German FA boss Grindel quits over expensive gift
BERLIN – German Football Association President Reinhard Grindel resigned on Tuesday after apologising for accepting an expensive watch from a Ukrainian colleague as a gift, although he said he had not known its value. Grindel, who took over the world’s biggest sports federation by membership in 2016, had come under pressure over reports about income […]
Multi-coloured Malabar Giant Squirrel Captured In Stunning Images
Fifty shades of grey squirrel: Multi-coloured variety of the common rodent leaps from branch to branch as it looks for food in India Stunning images of exotic, giant squirrels with brightly-coloured three-tone fur coats make their British grey and red cousins pale in comparison. The Malabar Giant squirrel spot a colourful patchwork of fur, with […]
Police know where Takoradi missing girls are – CID
The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has announced that the police now know the whereabouts of the three missing Takoradi girls. “We know where the girls are”, the Director-General of the CID, DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah said at a press conference in Accra on Tuesday. She has, therefore, urged the families […]
