This parent is giving a whole new meaning to ‘school bag’ as he helps a class of primary pupils safely cross a river by  taking them in a plastic bag. When the children in Sam Lang  village, Dien Bien Province, near Hanoi in northern Vietnam could not get to  school due to spring floods, one […]

Haruna Atta Information picked up by the New Statesman newspaper indicates that Editor of the Accra Daily Mail, Alhaji Haruna Atta is set to be appointed as Ghana’s ambassador to Namibia. This comes in the wake of Haruna Atta indicating unequivocally that he was prepared to serve in the John Mahama-led National Democratic Congress government, […]

Ghana is afflicted with an unusual spate of lies from officialdom. It appears to have originated from the propaganda which is a policy of the ruling party. As a political blemish, it is eroding the confidence level of Ghanaians in the presidency and government as a whole. Lies have become an attribute heavily guarded by […]

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo exchanging pleasantries with the Osu Manste, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowona VI yesterday Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is certainly going to announce his decision to run for the presidency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2016 polls when he addresses a major press conference at his residence […]

BUSTED! Mary Ann Nnena Okasu in police custody A 33-year-old Nigerian woman has been arrested by the police for attempting to smuggle 14 parcels of compressed dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, to Nigerian by road. Suspect Mary Ann Nnena Okasor Nwodo, a native of Anambra State, Nigeria,  allegedly hid the dried leaves under […]

Ernest Thompson The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament yesterday grilled officials of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) over what was described as a bad investment, which the officials themselves accepted as being fraudulent, resulting in the loss of thousands of Ghana cedis. SSNIT gave GH¢572,000 to Sterling Investment Security, a private […]

Edmond Kofi Agbenutse Deh: Ghana’s Ambassador to Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Police yesterday announced that on March 5, 2014, it raided a casino in the Shibuya entertainment area in Tokyo over illegal gambling operation in a premises allegedly belonging to the Ghanaian Embassy in Japan. Some of the busted culprits were quoted by Japanese media as […]

Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday adopted a 16-page report of the committee set up to investigate corruption allegations levelled against the National Executives of the party by NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. After weeks of investigations, the Disciplinary Committee […]

Samuel Gyamasi  The Nima Police in Accra have arrested a 34-year-old welder for allegedly defiling and consequently impregnating his 13-year -old stepdaughter. The suspect, Samuel Dzamasi, after allegedly defiling the victim for the first time, continued for more than three months until the victim became pregnant, according to eye witness account. Information available to DAILY […]

Kwesi Pratt Jnr Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has for some time now been on the back of Government Communicators. Mr. Pratt has been unimpressed with how some members of the current government communication machinery either contradict themselves on various platforms or speak without facts when pontificating on topical issues. His […]

Richard Osei Adjei and Joseph Clottey Augustine Gyamfi, counsel for Lance Corprals Joseph Clottey and Richard Osei Adjei, the two policemen facing trial for allegedly robbing one Muktari Adamu of his $55,000, says the police wrongly accused his clients. He said the police have ‘tailored’ the facts of the case to suit the charge of […]

The two deceased persons Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that the entire township of Bogoso, a mining community in the Western Region, was thrown into mourning last Friday when news broke out that two natives of the area had been electrocuted. According to sources, the deceased persons, Emmanuel Kwofie and Stephen Tei, aged 25 and […]

President Alassane Ouattara My new job as a consultant on Africa’s governance and economic environment allows me to analyse deeper than I ever used to in the past, as head of a Ghana-focused public policy think tank, the performance of various governments and developments in various countries across the African continent. And, I must say […]

Some officials of ECG working on a faulty plant. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Minister of Energy and Petroleum has attributed Ghana’s power challenges to equipment damage and issues relating to fuel supply. With an installed capacity of over 2,800 megawatts, it was expected that the current peak demand of about 2,000 megawatts would be met fully […]

Dr. Eleni Gabre- Madhin ELENI, a private commodity exchange promoter in Africa, has announced the formation of a private-public investment consortium to finance the establishment of the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX). Investment consortium partners include Ghana’s top tier financial institutions, Data Bank Agrifund Manager Limited, Ecobank Ghana, UT Bank Ghana, as well as IFC, 8 […]

Grace Francisca Adzroe, acting Controller & Accountant General The Controller and Accountant Generals Department (CAGD) is to roll out a nationwide electronic salary payment voucher (E-SPV) for all government employees by the end of June, this year. It is part of the drive to inject sanity and tackle the challenges in the manual payroll system […]

Dr.Ephraim Avea Nsoh, Outgoing Upper West Regional Minister More than one in five households in the three Northern regions earn less than $1.25 per day, a recent survey by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has revealed. Among the northern tier households surveyed, 67% of total household expenditures are allocated to food, the […]

TIGO has rolled out an upgraded internet security system aimed at reducing cyber security to the barest minimum. The system, which virtually eliminates spam activities in customers’ emails, also reduces incidents of phishing such as password, credit card details, theft and unsolicited emails. Most often communications purporting to be coming from popular social web sites, […]

Alfred Ofosu Ahenkorah, Executive Secretary of the Energy Commission, says the ban on importation of second-hand refrigerators cannot be lifted. According to him, the ban was backed by Legislative Instrument (LI) 1932 (2008) and therefore his outfit could not violate the act. Importers and exporters in the country recently appealed to Government to lift the […]