The Tarkwa District court two has sentenced Nana Yaw Bukari, a 52-year-old unemployed to two months imprisonment for unlawfully escaping from police custody. He pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea. Prosecuting, Sargent Joseph Lartey, told the court that the complainant is a police officer stationed at Tarkwa, and the accused, a resident ...

Ghanaians expecting a downward review or the scrapping of some taxes imposed on petroleum products, would have to dump their hopes since government is not ready to barge in. The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Hassan Tampuli, at a press conference on Wednesday, gave a litany of reasons why the about ...

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Attah, has warned contractors against shoddy road projects although they are to speed work within agreed schedules. He said Ghana has set a high-quality road construction standard that must not be compromised. He gave the advice when he toured some road construction project sites in the Greater ...

Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko has stated that government will reduce electricity tariff in the national budget which will be presented before parliament in November this year. Mr. Agyarko explained that government could not reduce the tariff in this year’s budget due to moves to stabilize power supply in the country. Speaking at a conference in ...

The World Food Programme’s (WFP) Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Abdou Dieng, has commended the Ghana government for implementing pro-poor programmes geared towards alleviating poverty, and to address gender inequalities in the Northern Region. He made reference to government’s flagship programmes such as the planting for food, one-district, one-factory as well as the ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dissolved the lower house of the parliament ahead of a snap election. The poll, announced on Monday and which comes a year early, will take place on 22 October. Mr Abe is seeking a fresh mandate amid a rebound in his approval ratings and the ongoing North Korea nuclear crisis. The ...

Cameroon has forcibly returned 100,000 Nigerian refugees in breach of international agreements, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The rights group accused soldiers of deporting refugees escaping Islamist violence, as well as attacking and sexually exploiting them. Cameroon is “punishing” refugees for Boko Haram attacks, HRW said. Cameroon has rejected similar accusations previously, saying Nigerians ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him. The US president accused the social network of “collusion” on Twitter, branding it “anti-Trump”. He made the same claim against the New York Times and the Washington Post. Facebook will shortly hand over 3,000 political adverts to ...

Ghana’s Black Starlets hammered Guinea 6-1 in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday in a pre-U-17 World Cup friendly. The match was part of the team’s preparations for the 2017 U-17 World Cup in India which starts on October 6. Starlets forward Aminu Mohammed scored three times while Gabriel Ibrahim Sadiq grabbed a brace with Emmanuel Toku scoring ...

A shift to the four-year duration of secondary education to improve quality is supported by research, especially if examination results are used as an indicator of quality, according to the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana. But a Senior Research Fellow at ISSER, Dr. Nana Akua Anyidoho acknowledged that using ...

The Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) is demanding from the government proof that Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) workers will be retained by the concessionaires who will take over ECG in September 2018. The latest demand follows a sit-down strike by ECG staff, who are requesting a severance package for workers who could be laid ...

The acting Executive Director of National Service Scheme (NSS), Mustapha Ussif, has expressed his delight with the yield on the Scheme’s farms at Dawhwenya. The visit by the head of the NSS on Tuesday, was to support and supervise personnel at the farms as they begin the harvest of the 250 acres of maize farm. Speaking ...

Hugh Hefner, founder of the international adult magazine Playboy, has died at the age of 91. Playboy Enterprises Inc said he passed away peacefully at home, from natural causes. Hefner began publishing Playboy in his kitchen at home in 1953. It became the largest-selling men’s magazine in the world, shifting seven million copies a month ...

Ghana’s economy recorded strong growth in the second quarter of this year, much higher than the previous quarter. New figures recorded by the Ghana Statistical Service reveal that Ghana grew by 9.0 percent as compared to the same period last year which had a growth of 1.1 percent. Industry led the growth followed by the ...