Heather Vaughan A mother was reduced to tears after being told to stop breastfeeding her baby daughter in a creche and instead to continue in a toilet.  Heather Vaughan, 29, was feeding nine-week-old Lydia during a family trip to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth when ‘aggressive’ staff ordered her to stop. A male worker told […]

Chromebooks, Google’s cheap, modestly powered laptops, make up just a tiny percentage of notebook sales. But Microsoft is freaking out about them. Late last year, Microsoft launched a seemingly random, preemptive campaign against Chromebooks in a series of TV commercials. The ads attacked Chromebooks’ lack of functionality and compatibility compared to Windows. At the time, […]

Oscar Pistorius threw up in the dock today after horrific images of his girlfriend’s blood-splattered body were accidentally shown in court. Gasps filled the courtroom when close-up pictures were displayed on a screen on two occasions while the operator was scrolling through trying to find other images. They showed Reeva Steenkamp’s skull, body and bullet […]

Samuel Jabanyite Former Member of Parliament for Chereponi, Samuel Jabanyite, has strongly asserted that all MPs are given money by institutions and organisations that seek to re-shape their minds toward getting them to support amendments of laws in Parliament. The former Legislator described as “charitable”, Nadowli-Kaleo MP, Alban Bagbin’s recent confession that some MPs take […]

Uli Hoeness A German court has sentenced Uli Hoeness, president of European football champions Bayern Munich, to three years and six months in jail for tax evasion. He admitted defrauding German tax authorities of millions of euros. The former World Cup-winning Germany striker, 62, had kept the funds in a secret Swiss bank account. His […]

A Human Rights Court has awarded GH¢200,000 damages to a 46 years old man, Francis Agyare who was unlawfully detained for 14 years without trial. Agyare was arrested on January 5, 1994 in James Town and was kept on remand at the Nsawam prisons for 14 years without trial. He was released in 2008 by Justice […]

The Head of the Audit Unit of Access Bank, Kafui Codjo Bimpeh, yesterday testified in the trial of Samuel Otumfuo, the Head of Operations of  the bank,  who has been put before an Accra Circuit Court with two others for allegedly stealing GH¢809,611.24 from the bank. Otumfuo and Pastor Samuel Amanor have been arraigned with […]

Nana Akufo-Addo responding to cheers at Kumasi. INSET: Nana Addo exchanging pleasantaries with Otumfuo Osei Tutu II at the Manhyia Palace yesterday NANA ADDO Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the two-time presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has promised to break his silence about his political future on Thursday, March 20, 2014 at a press conference […]

Ghana has very weak institutions. So feeble are some of these institutions that they appear not to exist at all, incessantly failing stress and efficiency tests. It is a reality hardly contended. As a critical factor militating against good governance in the country, it accounts almost wholly for the abysmal state of governance and economic […]

Gabriel Barimah THE TROUBLES of the beleaguered DCE for Ahafo Ano South, Gabriel Barimma, popularly called ‘Tweaaa,’ seem far from over. Fresh reports reaching DAILY GUIDE indicate that Mr. Barimma had been to a medical facility at Ejura in the Ashanti Region for undisclosed ailment. According to a source, the sacked DCE had a problem […]

Nana Addo exchanging pleasantaries with Otumfuor Osei Tutu NANA ADDO Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), says he has disclosed his future political plans to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the Asantehene has blessed him for his plans. According to him, he held a closed-door meeting with the Asantehene […]

The Vetting Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday cleared Paul Afoko to run for the party’s Chairmanship race. This follows investigations into some allegations levelled against him. The Committee, chaired by Mr. C K Tedam, withheld his vetting after it received a supposed petition against the candidature of Mr. Afoko. But after almost […]

Suspects Kingsley Ekezie Chime and Nicholas Ucheama Mbeagbu in custody. INSET: The wee Personnel from the Narcotics Unit of the Ghana Police Service have arrested two Nigerians who attempted to smuggle 27 parcels of compressed dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, to Nigeria. The suspects are Kingsley Ekezie Chime, 30 and Nicholas Ucheama Mbeagbu, […]

An Accra Fast Track High Court has handed a 10-year jail term to one Isaac Idowu Shobola aka Isaac Ossomo for possessing some whitish substances suspected to be cocaine.  He was said to be in possession of three parcels of a whitish substance with a net weight of 296.9164g which proved to be cocaine, without […]

Sumaila with the vehicle and the gallons of diesel The Abura Dunkwa District Police Command, together with a monitoring team of MTN, has arrested a 46-year-old Kia truck driver, Issaka Sumaila, for stealing diesel belonging to MTN – a telecommunication company operating in Ghana – at Nyankomase Ahenkro in the Assin South District of the Central […]

Back in the years, there was a song: “This is Ghana, this is Ghana, our beautiful Ghana …” Indeed, one wonders what is happening to our beautiful Ghana, which Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah declared, “…is FREE forever.” The Gold Coast cannot be described as the Chinese Coast, American Coast, British Coast or the Australian Coast. […]

Year-on-year inflation as measured by the Ghana Statistical Service’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded 14.0 percent in February 2014, up from the 13.8 percent recorded in January 2014. This was the percentage change in the CPI from February 2013 to February 2014. Dr Philomena Nyarko, Government Statistician, who disclosed this yesterday at a press conference […]

Daniel Rose(middle) and Irwin Barkan (left) BG INTERNATIONAL, an American-based development firm, has announced that it will soon begin the construction of a shopping mall at Mallam Junction in Accra. The project, which is expected to begin in June, this year, will cost $80 million. It will cover about 23,000 square meters of space in […]

Isaac Andoh and Prosper Adopre in police custody The Adabraka Police have arrested two young men who attempted to rob a trader of her bag containing money and other personal effects in Accra. The suspects, Isaac Andoh, 18 and Prosper Adopre, 19, both driver’s mates operating at Newtown station, Odorna allegedly used a stick to […]