Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has filed a suit at the Fast Track High Court against the publishers of The Herald newspaper and three others for accusing him of engaging in illegal mining. According to the Okyenhene, Prime Mark Company Limited, publishers of The Herald newspaper, Nana Kwame Adjei-Boateng, a member of the Asona […]

Kwabena Agyapong The Electoral Commission (EC) is under more pressure to organize an emergency meeting with all political parties before the commencement of next month’s voter registration exercise. The latest to join the call is the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) who are advising the EC to implement certain measures before next month’s exercise. […]

Alfred Agbesi Woyome The trial of Alfred Agbesi Woyome, National Democratic Congress (NDC) bankroller, who has been charged for defrauding the state to the tune of GH¢51.28 million, yesterday resumed briefly at the Accra Fast Track High Court as the letter he claimed that Yaw Osafo-Maafo purportedly wrote could not be found. Woyome had claimed […]

Gideon Quarcoo -GEPA Boss Gideon Quarcoo, Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GEPA, has called on Government to ensure the stabilization of the Cedi to reduce inflation. Speaking at the 75th National Exporters Forum in Accra, Mr Quarcoo called for funds to be made available to the sector, including GEPA, to assist the private sector to […]

Arnold Kavaarpuo When Joseph Brenya, a 49-year-old farmer from Mamprono in the Ashanti Region registered with AFB’s SmartCash in April 2013, little did he know that he had subscribed to a product that would soon make him a responsible father. He instantly became very fond of the SmartCash staff because he felt they were ‘honest’ […]

Stakeholders signing the agreements Newmont Ghana’s Ahafo Mine has signed new social responsibility agreements with 10 mining communities in Ahafo in the Brong-Ahafo Region. The Revised Ahafo Social Responsibility Forum Agreements seek to define the sustainable development of the 10 host communities in the Ahafo Mine area, namely Kenyasi No. 1 & 2, Ntotroso, Wamahinso, […]

Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, Minister of Energy A Senior Energy Specialist at the World Bank Ghana Office, Sunil Mathrani has advised Government to seriously look at the quantum of debt and the interlock of debt of ECG, GRIDCo, VRA and Ghana Water Company since the situation was seriously affecting the sector. According to Mr Mathrani, […]

Bernard Kofi Ellis The Volta River Authority (VRA) has attributed the current erratic power supply in the country to the loss of about 500 megawatts of its generation capacity. The loss of the generation capacity, according to the authority, was as a result of damage to some of its power plants, which are currently undergoing […]

Hanniel Jamin Roberta Annan Consulting (RAC), organizers of the Miss Universe Ghana, has denied claims by Hanniel Jamin, winner of the 2013 beauty pageant, that she was forced to sign documents to cover prizes she never received. This was contained in the statement of defense of the defendant filed by its lawyer, Martin Agyen-Sampong dated […]

Hannah Bissiw Reports reaching DAILY GUIDE suggest that tension is mounting at Dwomo, a community near Techimantia in the Tano South District of the Brong-Ahafo Region due to controversy over the holding of the final funeral rites of the father of Dr. Hannah Louisa Bissiw, Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture in charge of Livestock. According to […]

R-L Dept. Regional Minister, Mavis Aka Frempong; Emmanuel Safo; Regional Minister, Julius Debrah; E/R GJA Chairman, George Larbi The Eastern Regional branch of the Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA) has organised a day’s seminar to mark the World Press Freedom Day in Koforidua, the regional capital. The occasion, which was marked under the theme, “Media Freedom […]

The excited traders following DCOP Kofi Boakye with shouts and praises    AFFECTED TRADERS of a massive decongestion exercise on the compound of the Suame District Police Headquarters in Kumasi were thrown into an ecstatic mood on Wednesday morning when the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye, stormed the place to inspect work done so […]

Dr Richard Amoako Baa THE HEAD of History and Political Studies  Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Richard Amoako Baa, has called for change of the 1992 Republican Constitution as it contains many flaws that give room for individual discretion. According to him, the current constitution harbours several ambiguities, […]

Sheik Mansoud The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Care And Social Development, a Kuwaiti-based non-governmental organization (NGO), Sheik Mansoud, has thanked Muslim communities which benefited from the construction of mosques and boreholes in the Brong-Ahafo Region. Sheik Mansoud was speaking to Muslims at Techiman after visiting certain mosques constructed by the NGO.  According to him, […]

Mr. Ahmed C. Salia (INSET) speaking to a section of participants at the seminar THE SOCIAL Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) would soon undertake a pilot biometric voter registration exercise in some corporate institutions in the Tema Metropolis. The exercise, which is part of a nationwide project towards preventing fraud and improving the method […]

Sherry Ayittey, Health Minister The Ghana Nurses and Midwife Trainees Association (GNMTA) has given the government a month’s ultimatum to make payment of over two years accumulated allowances owed them. In a press release issued and signed by the Western/Central Zonal President of the GNMTA, Onipanua Hukporty Derrick, the students stated that the government had […]

Nana Oye Lithur interacting with the media and the hospital staff after her visit. Nana Oye Lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has pledged the Ministry’s commitment to make the Mercy Women’s Hospital at Mankessim in the Central Region, a Fistula Centre of Excellence. Nana Oye, who made the pledge when she visited fistula patients […]

Seth Danso in police custody A 45-year-old man, who is said to be a serial fraudster, has been arrested by the Achimota Mile 7 District Police Command in Accra for attempted fraud. Seth Danso was arrested after he allegedly attempted to sell fake oil seals to somebody at GH¢30,000. This happened barely two days after […]

“Bribery offences contaminate the public sector and cause the structure of government to collapse. People who receive bribes give rise to a feeling of disgust and cause the public to despise the state’s institutions. The taker of bribes is like a traitor who betrays the public trust that was given to him – trust without […]

General Lance Corporal Daniel Mensah A 31-year-old policeman stationed at the Dansoman Police Station, Accra, who was arrested for allegedly robbing a taxi driver of his GH¢2,170 at gunpoint near the Awudome cemetery, not too far from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court. General Lance Corporal Daniel […]