Twelve New Patriotic Party (NPP) aspirants in the Okaikoi North Constituency have withdrawn from the election process and called for its suspension. Three others who complained about the process are partaking in the exercise after meeting with the party’s regional organizer, Archibald Kobina. The aggrieved aspirants are expected to present a challenge form to the […]

 MTN Ghana Boss, Serame Taukobong Three telecommunications companies operating in the country lost over 30,000 subscribers at the end of November last year, a recent report by the National Communications Authority (NCA) has stated. MTN, the leading mobile operator in Ghana, lost over 20,000 of its 12,731,772 subscribers at the end of November 2013. The […]

Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has rewarded 1,200 commercial drivers who successfully participated in its ground-breaking ‘Twa Kwano Mmom’ Don’t Drink and Drive campaign launched in December 2013. The bespoke education and behavioural change campaign sought to educate commercial drivers on the effect of alcohol abuse and empower them to behave responsibly by not engaging […]

Ibrahim Mahama Engineers & Planners Company Limited (E&P) has settled its outstanding debt of $28 million to Merchant Bank. According to sources close to the deal, the payment, made last Friday, represents the total amount owed Merchant Bank by Ibrahim Mahama, a brother to President John Dramani Mahama. The amount was transferred by Afrexim Bank […]

A 50-year-old estate developer has committed suicide at Pobiman, near Amasaman. The deceased, identified as Robert Akabah, allegedly jumped into a deep well in his house around 1:10am on Sunday. An eyewitness revealed that the suspect, who recently informed the wife about his intention to commit suicide, actually carried out the act after dawn prayers […]

Some displaced people whose properties have been demolished DISLODGED VICTIMS at Promised Land and King Solomon City near Adjei Kojo in the Tema municipality, whose homes were demolished by the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) are living in fear after a combined team of police and military personnel forcibly seized tents housing them at gunpoint. The […]

Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood has challenged local law firms to specialize in the provision of legal services to businesses in order to support the country’s economic growth. Speaking at the commissioning of a new ultra-modern West Africa Head office of AB and David, a business legal firm in Accra, she expressed dissatisfaction with the […]

Abdul Ramah  Beggars on the streets of Accra say they are going through hell because of harsh economic conditions in the country. “I am only surviving now by the grace of God, it’s not easy. Getting food to eat now is a serious problem as people who used to give us money here now pass […]

A staff of OBL displaying a tinted paint. Odaymat Brothers Limited (OBL), a representative of BBC Industrials Company Limited in Ghana and the main distributor of Leyland and Leylac Paints, has opened an ultra-modern showroom in Accra at a recent function. The event, which took place over the weekend at Tudu in Accra, saw the […]

Phishing, hacking, phreaking, 4-1-9 scams – however you describe it, cyber crime is on the rise in Ivory Coast. According to the Ivorian government, it received more complaints about cyber criminality in the first half of 2013 than any other country on the continent, making it Africa’s unlikely capital of “brouteurs” – Ivorian slang for […]

From left; Sergeant Adam Ibrahim, Constable Juliet Akombo, Constable Bright K. Owusu and Sergeant Daniel Asiedu in police custody Four police officers have been arrested by the Accra Regional Police Command for extorting money from two ladies they arrested for fondling each other in a car by the roadside at East Legon, Accra. They were […]

Sylvester Mensah, NHIS Boss The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has clarified that it is not entirely to be blamed for the intended closure of the King’s Medical Centre in the Kumbungu District of the Northern Region. The management of the King’s Medical Centre served notice to its patients and workers that it would be […]

Some of the health professionals that attended the programme THE KWABRE East District in the Ashanti Region is in dire need of medical doctors and other health professionals, DAILY GUIDE can confirm. According to Dr Boakye Boateng, the Kwabre East District Director of Health Services, “the lack of medical staff in the district has been […]

AKADJI BAKARI Mohammed, the car dealer accused of murdering Naomi Aseyie Avevor, his former lover as well as their baby boy in cold blood at Leklevikope in the Volta Region, was yesterday put before an Accra Central Magistrate Court. Mohammed murdered Aseyie together with their two-year-old baby boy and dumped the boy in a container. […]

Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyeman with some Ministers of State and the Ashaiman MCE at the proposed site for the construction  THE MINISTER of Education, Professor Naana Opoku Agyeman, has inspected a proposed site for the construction of a new senior high school (SHS) in Ashaiman, with a call on the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) […]