The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has seized over seven articulated trucks loaded with large quantities of illegal chainsaw lumber. The illegal lumber was headed for neighboring Burkina Faso, but was intercepted in the Wenchi district on the Wenchi-Wa highway in the Brong Ahafo Region. The Minister and members of the Regional Security Council ...

Pressure Group, Occupy Ghana, has joined the list of organisations calling on the President to downsize the number of Ministers appointed to serve under his government. The pressure group in a statement indicated that, the President’s appointment of what critics have described as “elephant-sized”cabinet will only lead to corruption. It argued that President Nana Addo’s ...

Ghana has launched a National Alcohol Policy after years of working with key stakeholders to combine the fragmented laws that exist on the production, distribution sale, advertisement and consumption of the commodity. The 33-page document would now set out a policy direction aimed at regulating the production, distribution sale, advertisement and consumption of alcohol, with ...

A political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof. Ransford Gyampo, has questioned President Akufo Addo’s decision to run his government with a hundred and ten ministers. According to him, the number is too large for the country and will not promote efficiency as suggested by the President. He said the President could have ...

Vice President Dr, Mahamadu Bawumia, has hinted that government will in the next few weeks; announce a policy plan to fight illegal mining popular called Galamsey. Speaking at a round table conference organised by the Institute of Green Growth Solution, he said a group of experts are currently developing a document which will outline the modalities ...

Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has lauded assembly members of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) for contributing to the removal of former KMA Chief Executive, Kojo Bonsu. Simon Osei Mensah said their action will serve as a deterrent to anyone who occupies the position of the Kumasi Metropolitan chief executive. Referring to them as ...

Mr Martin Kpebu a legal practitioner on Friday said the establishment of Domestic Violence Support Fund to cater for victims of domestic violence seeking medical attention in the country was crucial. According to him there are about 3,000 Ghanaians who suffer domestic violence and unable to pay for medical expenses even as low at GH¢50.00 ...

Reverend Professor E. Kingsley Larbi, the Chancellor of the Regent University College of Science and Technology, Ghana, has urged tertiary educational institutions to come out with innovative ideas that would solve critical societal challenges. He said universities in Ghana and other African countries must be centres of excellence to research into socio-economic challenges and provide ...

The funeral of Game Of Thrones actor and Britain’s tallest man has been attended by hundreds of mourners. Neil Fingleton, who was 7ft 7in, died from a heart attack at home last month. In a service at Durham Cathedral the 36-year-old was described as someone who “touched the lives” of many. Canon Alan Bartlett, from ...

Pakistan says it has asked Facebook to help investigate “blasphemous content” posted on the social network by Pakistanis. Facebook has agreed to send a team to Pakistan to address reservations about content on the social media site, according to the interior ministry. Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan. Critics say blasphemy ...

President Donald Trump has stood by claims he was wiretapped under Barack Obama, telling visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel: “At least we have something in common, perhaps.” US intelligence agencies under Mr Obama reportedly monitored Mrs Merkel’s phone, sparking an angry response. But both Republican and Democratic congressional leaders have said they do not believe ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Li in Beijing in the final leg of his East Asia tour, which has been dominated by anxieties over North Korea. On Friday, Mr Tillerson warned Pyongyang that a military response would be on the table if it threatened South Korea or US ...

Importers and freight forwarders are anticipating at least 200 dollars cut in cost of clearing goods following the scrapping of the one percent special import levy. They say though the figure is marginal, its timely considering the ultimate impact in reducing the burden on businesses. Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, in the 2017 budget statement ...

Disqualified candidate for the presidency of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Lloyd Evans, has vowed to resist the decision by the incumbent executives of the association to kick him out of the race. A statement from the GJA Elections Committee, signed by chairman of the Election Committee, Ben Assorow, said Mr. Evans is “not in good ...

Iddrisu Musah Superior has been overwhelmingly confirmed as the Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE). He secured hundred percent of the total votes of 57 to serve as the Tamale MCE of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo’s government. The confirmation was held at the Tamale Sports Stadium on Friday, March 17. As a youth activist ...

Confusion broke out in the Eastern Region Friday afternoon between some executives of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), at a sitting of the Dr. Kwesi Botchwey-led committee, aimed at diagnosing the party’s loss in the December 2016 elections. This comes after some foot soldiers of the party prevented regional executives for engaging in a ...

Hands up if you were a young vibrant young person in the 80s and 90s! Those were the times when ‘Burger highlife’ was the big thing. From the pictures I have seen, those times were the high times. The 80s and 90s were times when Ghanaian highlife music regained the strong image that it used ...

A Psychiatric Specialist at the Psychiatric Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Albert Sedohia, has confirmed to Citi News that Evelyn Boakye, the Mawarko kitchen employee who was allegedly assaulted by her Lebanese supervisor, attempted suicide Thursday evening. According to Dr. Sedohia, Evelyn nearly succeeded in ending her life, but for the intervention of ...

The Centre for Democratic Governance, (CDD), has said there is no guarantee President Nana Akufo-Addo’s large government would translate to the realization his transformational agenda. President Akufo-Addo’s appointment of 110 ministers and deputies, has been met with widespread criticism, with the CDD itself saying it set a negative record for Ghana, but the president has ...

The Inspector General of Police, David Asante-Apeatu, has said that his administration will work to revamp the Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) of the service, to meet international standards. According to him, the directorate will now serve a dual purpose of protecting lives and also ensuring that the service regains the trust of the public. ...