The Abeka District Court has fined a man GH¢600 for accumulation of refuse in containers and on bare ground exposing residents to health danger. A resident of Akweteman in the greater Accra Region, an Electoral Area within the Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly appeared in the District Court at Fadama on 9th July, 2019 for sanitation indiscipline on bench warrant. The ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Bongo has said government’s suspension of the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS) is a major dent on parliament’s ability to diligently scrutinise agreements. PDS took over ECG on March 1 after its major shareholder Meralco Consortium from the Philippines won the Millennium Challenge Power Compact Two from the U.S.A. However ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah is still being held in police custody despite being granted bail by an Accra Circuit court last week. This is because he has not been able to meet the GH¢1 billion bail and related conditions given by the court. The court, as part of the bail conditions, said he was to present five ...

Details are emerging about how the missing three Takoradi girls were kidnapped by their Nigerian captors. The court in Takoradi heard how Samuel Udoetuk Wills, the 28-year-old Nigerian, suspected to have kidnapped the three girls, admitted that he conspired with John Oji, 29, to escape with the girls who are yet to be found. According to a Chief State Attorney, ...

The State of Israel has honoured the late Maj Gen Francis Vib-Sanziri, the former Head of Missions and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). A road on the Golan Heights in Israel has been named after him. The road is now ‘Vib-Sanziri Route’. This was contained in a statement issued to the Ghana News Agency by ...

Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence in 1957 – the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve this feat. He’s still remembered for his unrepentant anti-colonial stance and strident Pan-Africanism. Above all, he is regarded as one of Africa’s ablest statesmen of the 20th century. Nkrumah has been ranked among leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi and Mao Tse-Tsung. All contributed significantly in shaping the course ...

Energy expert Kojo Opoku says the blame for the failure of due diligence to be done over the concession agreement between government and Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited must be laid at the doorstep of the Minister of Finance and not any other. He says it took a Qatari company to alert government of the fraudulent documents tendered in ...

The applicant in a case against the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) and the University Kingsley Amoakwah has withdrawn the case. The  lecturer was challenging the legitimacy of the Vice-Chancellor, Rev Fr Prof Anthony Afful-Broni. When the Winneba High Court presided over by Her Ladyship Janapare A. Bartels Kodwo (Mrs) called the case today, the applicant ...

The Chief State Attorney in the case of the three Takoradi missing girls, Patience Klinogo, has told the Sekondi High Court that the two Nigerians standing trial for the crime, Sam Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, used coded language on kidnapping and other crimes in their conversations on social media networking platform, Facebook. During proceedings in court on Wednesday – ...

John Dumelo has not spent that much time as an official politician and he’s already getting into the politician’s mindset. Lawyers for the actor and NDC parliamentary hopeful have written to editors of Peacefmonline demanding a retraction and an apology over an article criticizing Dumelo. The article was titled “Ayawaso West Wuogon, A Vote for John Dumelo is a vote ...