The Police have launched investigations into the incident in which three ladies who were caught for allegedly shoplifting at the Accra Shopping Mall were subjected to inhumane treatment. A statement signed by the Director-General of Police Public Affairs, Rev David Nenyo Ampah-Bennin said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Domestic Violence Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) have been tasked to investigate the matter. A video on Youtube which went viral Tuesday showed security personnel

The University of Ghana has closed all entries into the school with the exception of the Okponglo end, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday. This, according to the report, follows the suspension of the collection of tolls by the University. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Ernest Aryittey, who announced the suspension and subsequent closure of the entries, called on government to redeem its promise of paying for the $2.3 million the University contracted for infrastructural

The Akim Oda Magistrate Court has slapped 18 months jail term on Kwasi Kahoho, a farmer, for stealing 11 bunches of plantain valued 100 Ghana cedis. The 28-year-old farmer pleaded guilty to stealing. Mr. Albert Owusu Annor, the presiding judge, convicted him on his own plea. Police Chief Inspector, Adelaide Appiakorang told the court that the complainant, Madam Akosua Aboagyewaa, is a farmer who lives at Aduasa, while Kahoho lives at Akortikrom in the Birim South District. She said Madam Aboagyewaa

Osotimehin, has pledged his commitment to support Ghana to achieve its population development goals. He, however,  appealed to the government to speed up the administrative process to enable the newly appointed UNFPA country representative to take up office to provide the required leadership for the country office to perform.  The last country representative ended his term of office at the end of January 2014.   Meeting at UN headquarters Dr Osotimehin made these statements during a meeting with

A new report published by ActionAid Ghana (AAG) reveals that Ghana may be losing an estimated $1.2 billion annually as a result of tax incentives. This is usually about half the entire annual Government of Ghana budget for education. While the study recognises some usefulness of tax incentives, it emphasises the need to gauge how much is given as tax incentives against the expected benefits.   The study particularly identifies as a major problem the arbitrariness or the discretion in tax incentive

The continuation of the Agogo-Dome road in the Ashanti Region, aimed at connecting the  Afram Plains to the Ashanti and Eastern regions, is required to make the huge investments made in the reconstruction of the stretch meaningful to motorists that ply the road from Agogo to the Afram Plains and beyond. From Dome, the road continues to Kwesi Fanti, Maame Krobo, Forifori, Tease and Donkokrom, the capital of the Kwahu Afram Plains South District, but many travellers are discouraged from using that

VIVO Energy Ghana, the company that distributes and markets Shell products, and Chirano Gold Mines have embarked on a project to provide solar-energy gadgets to communities in the Bibiani- Anhwiaso-Bekwai District in the Western Region. The project, dubbed: “Access to Energy Programme,” forms part of the two companies’ community investment programmes intended to provide energy-saving devices to deprived communities that do not have enough access to such facilities. The items to be provided

An interdenominational service has been organised by the chiefs, queens and the people of Enyan Denkyira to thank God for the end of a chieftaincy dispute that started in 1993 between the two gates of the royal Dihyena clan of the town. The dispute erupted when the Hamah gate disagreed to the choice of a paramount chief of the Enyan Denkyira Traditional Area from the Antwi gate following the death of the last paramount chief of the traditional area, Nana Antwi II, though the queen, Nana Otua Apramboa

The Ga East Chiefs Association in the Ga East Municipality in the Greater Accra Region has expressed its readiness to support the development of the Pantang Hospital. It said as the hospital was located within its jurisdiction, it was ready to work within its means to put smiles on the faces of the management and inmates of the hospital.   Donation The President of the association, Nii Samuel Adjetey Mohenu, said this when he led members of the association to present items worth over GH¢2,000

Journalists have been advised to consider specialising in chosen fields rather than being general journalists.The General Manager of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Dr Bernard Otabil, gave the advice  at the opening of a two-day training workshop in oil and gas and in financial reporting for selected media personnel in Accra. According to him, specialisation would ensure quality and reliable information to the citizenry, and that would aid them in making informed choices.  “The training is part

The Ghana Access and Affordability Programme (GAAP), an initiative designed to improve access to safe, effective and affordable medicines for the treatment of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the country, has been launched in Accra. GAAP is a private/public partnership initiative between the Government of Ghana and three pharmaceutical companies, Sanofi Associate, MSD and Pfizer. The programme targets low and middle-income Ghanaians suffering from NCDs such as hypertension, diabetes and neoplastic

Residents of Ashaiman have appealed to the government to fast track  construction works on the  dual-carriage road from the Adjei Kojo underbridge through the main Ashaiman traffic light to the roundabout on the Tema-Akosombo road to bring relief to road users. It would be recalled that drivers and a section of the youth in Ashaiman, in June 2013, embarked on a violent demonstration to protest the poor conditions of roads in the municipality. The situation was revisited when most parts of the

Discussants at a forum on the cedi have underscored the need for the government and other stakeholders to work together to resolve the challenges confronting the economy. They were of the view that resolving the challenges of the national economy, particularly the fall of the cedi, was not for only the government but also for the people who should patronise made-in-Ghana goods. They expressed this view at a forum organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs in Accra last Wednesday. The discussants

The government has instructed the Attorney-General to pursue the prosecution of persons indicted in audit reports for allegedly misappropriating public funds, in line with its commitment to fight corruption. “I have also directed that sole sourcing should be used sparingly to ensure that our nation receives value for money and benefits from competitors,” President John Mahama said this when he delivered the State of the Nation Address to Parliament yesterday. Anti-corruption legislation He said

Bamson Company Limited, in collaboration with Crown Paints Limited of United Kingdom (UK), has held a two-day seminar in Accra to sensitise architectural and industrial painters to the need for the observance of high professional standards in the discharge of their contracts. The Managing Director of Bamson, Mr Kwame Ofosu Bamfo, noted that Ghana's estate development sector was growing, "And there is the need to inject a high level of professionalism into the painting aspect of the housing industry,

Two consultants from the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), Messrs Benoi Dagadu and Colber Prosper, have held a training programme on the formation of coalitions. The programme is to help in the campaign against drug use for some organisations at La Nkwantanang in the Madina municipality of the Greater Accra Region.  The training session was organised by the Philip Foundation Programme, a youth and social development non-governmental organisation (NGO). The Philip Foundation Programme

The first prosecution witness in the Adaklu Anyigbe Mutual Health Insurance Scheme embezzlement case was called at the Financial Division of the High Court last Monday. Mr Maxwell Addico, a former Head of Audit at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), told the court that he did not take part in the auditing of the NHIA accounts for the period January 2008 to December 2009. The former Scheme Manager of the Adaklu Anyigbe Mutual Health Insurance Scheme, Evans Raybon Anyadi, is currently

President John Mahama has called for the transformation of the structure of the Ghanaian economy to reflect a taste for local products. "The basic structure of our economy has not changed from colonial times. The Gold Coast was designed by the colonial masters to be an exporter of raw materials and importer of finished goods. That was what served their needs and purposes," he said. Unfortunately, he said, even though after independence Dr Kwame Nkrumah had sought to break the tradition through the

A modern eye centre at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), established at a cost of GHc4 million, was inaugurated in Kumasi Tuesday. The centre has been designated as a facility for eye surgical training in West Africa.  The two-storey building, with a basement, has a theatre complex with five operating tables, as well as a 50-bed ward, a spacious out-patients department, training and lecture wings, a diagnostic section, consulting rooms, among others. The centre was financed by the United

The Southern Area Blood Centre of the National Blood Service, Ghana, has expressed appreciation to all voluntary blood donors who responded to the national call to freely donate blood in support of blood banks. A statement from the National Blood Service signed by the Public Relations Manager, Mr Steven Addai-Baah, said blood stocks in the recent past dwindled to a record low, compelling the service to go public and appeal to people to help salvage the situation. It said the service was grateful