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The suspects who are facing trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Akufo-Addo led- government by attacking the presidency have been charged with treason in a Kaneshie Magistrate court. The charge, according to EIB court correspondent Murtala Mohammed was revealed in court today. The suspects include a senior military officer Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli and a civilian employee of the ...

Inadequate infrastructure at Kwabeng Anglican Senior High Technical School in the Atewa West District of the Eastern region has forced students to study and dine under trees and canopies while boarding students perch in very congested dormitories. Kwabeng Anglican Senior High Technical School established in 1984 by the Koforidua Diocese of the Anglican Church was absorbed into the public education ...

More than 100 residents of Ablekuma, a suburb of Afienya in the Ningo-Prampram district, have been rendered homeless as their buildings have been demolished to pave the way for ongoing railway project in the area. At least 30 of the about 60 buildings earmarked for demolition were pulled down Tuesday by the Works Department of the Ningo Prampram District Assembly ...

A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has said claims he was sacked from the United Nations (UN) because he was questioning activities of the intergovernmental organization that had to do with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) rights, are untrue. Lawyer Moses Foh-Amoaning while making a submission on the controversial ...

Founder of collapsed Capital Bank Ato Essien has been hit with 26 charges by government over his role in the fall of the bank. The outspoken businessman was charged alongside three others at the High Court on Wednesday. The others include Fitzgerald Odonkor, Tetteh Nettey and Kate Quartey-Papafio who were all executives of the bank. Portions of the write said: ...

Students of the University of Ghana’s Commonwealth Hall have threatened to embark on an intellectual walk should government fail to take action on their demands on issues of accommodation in the university. Addressing the press on the perennial accommodation challenges facing the University, the JCR President of the hall, Prince Lumor acknowledged the Vice-Chancellor and the Government of Ghana’s response ...

Three persons have been jailed eight (8) years each for Stealing an AK47 rifle from a Police Officer at Asesewa in the Eastern Region and selling it for Ghc1,000 The convicts – Kofi Osakonor, 24, a farmer, Isaac Agyemang, 19, masonry apprentice and Sarkodie Solomon, 20, an apprentice in Barbering, all pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to Commit crime ...

A victim of sexual harassment, Ms Gloria Adona, has described the BBC’s undercover documentary which captured two University of Ghana lecturers, Prof Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, allegedly sexually harassing a female reporter who posed as a student, as the “best news” she has heard ever. Ms Adona was speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show on Tuesday, 8 ...

The Accra Circuit Court Four on Tuesday acquitted Dr Dominic Kwame Obeng-Andoh, the Proprietor of the Obengfo Hospital, located at Weija in Accra. He was charged for being an unregistered practitioner and operating an unlicensed health facility, but the Court did not find him culpable per the way the charges were framed by prosecution. Mr Emmanuel Essandoh, in a 100-page ...

A member of the Women Caucus in Parliament has threatened to kill any male teacher who makes sexual advances at her daughter in any educational institution in the country. The Member of Parliament for Bosome-Freho Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Joyce Adwoa Akoh Dei, said such acts “should not be tolerated in schools” because they have tendencies of ruining the ...