The Ghana Police Service has arrested Chief Inspector Paul Akpabli of Golokwati Police Station in the Volta region for escorting seven bags of a substance suspected to be Indian hemp. The Police Officer was arrested together with two others by a team of Police personnel at Sokode-Ando in the region while transporting the narcotic substance ...

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers(CODEO) has asked the Electoral Commission to take action against individuals involved in criminal activities at the various registration centers. The Electoral Commission begun its voter registration exercise on August 4, 2014 to register Ghanaians who turned 18 after the 2012 general elections and adults who could not register during ...

The United States of America has assured it will not withhold cash meant for the second compact of the millennium challenge account if Ghana goes ahead to secure a $300 million loan facility, from Russian bank, VTB Bank, to secure arms for Ghana’s security personnel who are on peace keeping duties in Mali and Sudan. ...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has advised Ghanaians to avoid handshakes to protect them from contracting the Ebola virus. This comes amid growing panic over the spread of the viral haemorrhagic fever, Ebola, in West Africa. “We are urging all to be wary of handshakes, particularly, at public gatherings in view of the infectious nature ...

Singer Celine Dion has put her career on hold “indefinitely” for health and family reasons. The 46-year-old said on her website she was cancelling all performances to focus on her health, her husband’s health and their children. Her Las Vegas shows up until March have all been cancelled, as well as her planned tour of Asia this ...

A plane reportedly carrying the Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos has crashed in a residential area of the port city of Santos, in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state. The plane was frequently used by Mr Campos who is running for president for the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). Party members said he was on board at the ...

Renowned Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has signed an exclusive two-year deal with the Emmy, BAFTA, and Peabody award-winning production company Insight TWI: The World Investigates. Insight and Anas have previously collaborated on award-winning documentaries for Al Jazeera English, in which Anas’ exposes included the Tanzanian trade in albino limbs, money laundering in the ...

A 29-year-old man, Ekene Ucheagwu, who killed his 65-year-old mother, Agnes in her home at Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria was yesterday paraded by men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu. Ekene, a cobbler, said he had to kill his mother because she was using witchcraft to ...

Inflation for the month of July recorded a record rate of 15.3 percent. This is the highest recorded since the beginning of 2010. Last month’s inflation increased from 15 percent recorded in June. The monthly inflation rate however for July was 1.6 percent, same as the previous month. The food inflation rate declined from 7.9 ...

Despite criticism that she is beautiful and doesn’t need too much makeup to look more beautiful, actress Christabel Ekeh says she is addicted to heavy makeup and there is nothing she can do about it. “Yes I welcome all criticism but I wish there is something I can do about the heavy makeup, my face ...

The children of late actor Robin Williams have said that “the world will never be the same” without him. Among heartfelt tributes to her father, daughter Zelda said: “One of his favourite things in the world was to make you all laugh.” But she added she would “never understand” how Williams could “not find it in ...

Libya’s parliament has called for foreign intervention to protect civilians from deadly clashes between rival militia groups. MPs were meeting in Tobruk in the east because of violence in the capital Tripoli and the second city Benghazi, and 111 out of 124 voted for the call. Neither the UN nor any foreign power has any ...

The General Secretary of the Peoples’ National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah says the proposal for Parliament to approve the President’s nominee for the chairmanship of the Electoral Commission (EC) will be a waste of resources. He is convinced that the partisan nature of Parliament will not allow it to do a thorough job. “Our Parliament ...

Long before the decision to appoint a technical advisor, Black Stars coach Kwasi Appiah had demanded it as part of recommendations in his report as head coach of the Stars after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. In the said report, disclosed to the Graphic Sports by a Ghana Football Association (GFA) source, Coach Appiah ...

Minister designate for Trade and Industry, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has denied questioning the quality of persons appointed into Ministerial positions by the late President John Mills. He is said to have described the late President Mills’ Ministers as ‘team B’ adding that qualified and experienced persons in the party had been neglected during the appointment ...

Let’s face it, no one wants to date a cheater. But oftentimes we don’t see the signs that our boyfriend or girlfriend is a shady little liar. Forget him answering his phone in the closet or her being less affectionate with you. Is your girlfriend blonde? Is your guy addicted to Twitter? What’s his name? ...

The Western Regional Office of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has established three Ebola emergency and quarantine response centres as part of the region’s preparation to mitigate the disease. Dr Emmanuel Tinkorang, Regional Director of Health said the centres are at Elubo, Effia-Nkwanta and Shama, adding that, another is to be established at Half-Assini. The ...

France will supply arms to Iraq’s Kurds “in the coming hours”, French President Francois Hollande has announced. France has received approval from authorities in Baghdad for the decision, French media reports say. Kurdish forces have been fighting militants from the Islamic State (IS) group. The conflict has displaced thousands of people. The US has also ...