The General Jurisdiction 6 Division of the High Court presided over by Justice Kwaku Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo, has awarded GHS1,075,000 in damages against the 37 Military Hospital for negligently causing the death of a 27-year-old woman during childbirth almost six years ago. Ruling on the November 2015 incident, the court awarded the father and husband GHS400,000.00 each for loss of expectations ...

Greats Olympics midfielder Gladson Awako is close to joining newly crowned Ghana Premier League champions Hearts of Oak.  The midfielder has reportedly agreed personal terms with the Rainbow club after Hearts were able to match his demands. Hearts have started bolstering their squad ahead of the upcoming season after ending an eleven year wait for the topflight league. Awako’s imminent ...

The authorities in north-west Nigeria say they have freed 100 women and children – mainly mothers nursing infants – who were seized by bandits. The group were abducted on 8 June in Zamfara state. Four people were also killed during the incident. The Zamfara state government said they were released without any ransom being paid, but gave no further details. ...

Ghana will end the year 2021 with an overall GDP of between 3.9% and 4.9%, Databank Research has said. “We expect the increased utilisation of spare production capacity to sustain the recovery in the manufacturing and trade sub-sectors”, the report said, adding: “We, however, view the rising cost of production occasioned by the tax hikes, transport fare hikes, and higher ...

A student of the Kumasi Girls SHS Ama (not her real name) has shared a story of starvation at the school over the past week. Students of St Louis and Kumasi Girls SHS went on rampage on Monday after which a joint police-military team went to the schools to calm the situation. According to Ama, there was inadequate food to ...

A public interest organisation, Social Democracy and Development Dialogue Forum – Africa (SDDDF-Africa), has petitioned the Privileges Committee of Parliament over the “unparliamentary” conduct of Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong. The organisation said the MP has gained exceeding notoriety for conducts that infringe parliamentary privileges and, so, must not be treated as a first-time offender appearing before the privileges committee ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has denied reports that its officers assaulted some students who were protesting over the cancellation of their mid-term break by the Ghana Education. The officers were reportedly called into a protest by students of St. Louis SHS and Kumasi Girls who were angry over the midterm cancellation. Some media accounts suggest a combined team of ...

AshantiGold Sporting Director Kwasi Darlington has said that Inter Allies defender Hashmin Musah should be investigated for scoring the two own goals in the Ghana Premier League game on Sunday. The AshantiGold-Inter Allies game has raised suspicions of match-fixing after the game ended 7-1 with some bizarre goals scored in that game. Inter Allies defender Hashmin Musah who came from ...

The Kumasi Metropolis has recorded over 200 cases of the Delta variant of the coronavirus with 10 mortalities occurring at different centres from 1 July to 13 July 2021. This was disclosed by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) in a statement dated today, Monday, 19 July 2021 signed by the PRO Henrietta A.K Aboagye. The upsurge of the new cases ...

Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has admitted that he erred by not seeking parliamentary approval before contracting a private individual for procurement of Sputnik-V vaccines from Russia to vaccinate Ghanaians against the coronavirus. Mr Agyeman-Manu said this before the nine-member parliamentary committee probing the government’s contract to purchase Sputnik V vaccines at its second public hearing today, Monday, 19 July 2021. ...