Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr says attempts by numerous authorities to prevent University of Ghana (UG) from collecting user charges and the university’s unwillingness to adhere to public outcry is ‘a vote for constitutional lawlessness’. According to him, it is a ‘messy picture’. The University received a […]

President John Dramani Mahama The announcement by the Majority Leader in Parliament yesterday that the President’s State of the Nation Address, which was to take place tomorrow, has been put on hold till Tuesday, February 25, was greeted with a thunderous ‘Tweeaaaa’ by the Minority members, saying “President has run away.” The postponement also comes […]

A suspect said to have defrauded the state by false pretense in the controversial Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA) scandal, is likely to be sent to Nsawam prisons after failing to meet his bail conditions. Joseph Akpeena Assibit, Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill International, who is currently in police custody at the Ministries Police Station, […]

An unidentified man has been crushed to death by a moving train Wednesday morning in Takoradi. The victim, believed to be in his early 30s and a dockworker at the Takoradi Port, died instantly after the train knocked him unto the rails beheading him. Narrating the incident to the Daily Graphic, an eyewitness, Mr. Samuel Quayson, […]

Prince Charles last night entered into the spirit of things at the start of a three-day tour of the Middle East. Wearing a traditional Saudi full-length outfit known as a thobe, the heir to the throne joined members of the Saudi royal family in a ceremony celebrating the country’s culture. Prince Charles played his part […]

The parents of a baby girl thought to have been killed by the family dog say her death has cast a “horrible shadow” over them. Police seized an Alaskan Malamute dog after the sudden death of six-day-old Eliza-Mae Mullane on Tuesday. Eliza-Mae’s parents Sharon John and Patrick Mullane have paid tribute to their “dearly-loved” daughter. They said: […]

National security operatives were in the news yesterday and expectedly, for negative reasons. We have lost count of the times these operatives have undertaken brawny and crude missions largely inconsistent with the rule of law and acceptable practices. From demolitions at Nman Dzorn to Adjei Kojo national security operatives masking their faces and donning military […]

The debris from the legon toll booth, inset.Lt Col. Larry Gbevlo-Lartey (rtd) National Security operatives, led by their boss Lt Col. Larry Gbevlo-Lartey (rtd), in the early hours of yesterday stormed the University of Ghana campus in a Rambo style, demolishing the controversial toll booth erected by the university to collect road tolls from motorists entering the […]

President John Dramani Mahama The announcement by the Majority Leader in Parliament yesterday that the President’s State of the Nation Address, which was to take place tomorrow, has been put on hold till Tuesday, February 25, was greeted with a thunderous ‘Tweeaaaa’ by the Minority members, saying “President has run away.” The postponement also comes […]

Otumfuo welcoming the Techimanhene’s delegation to the Manhyia Palace THE ASANTEHENE, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has finally broken his silence over wild rumours of his death in South Africa, a speculation which caused nightmares for Ghanaians, particularly, the Asante Kingdom. The Asante Monarch broke his silence over the death rumour on Tuesday, when a powerful […]

Prof. Naana Opoku Agyeman, Education Minister The purported announcement of mass transfer of teachers has incurred the wrath of members of the Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT). Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, is reported to have said in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, on Monday that there would be mass transfer of teachers […]

Henry Alibah leaving the court room yesterday Henry Alibah, the 21-year-old student who posted nude pictures of his former girlfriend on Facebook, has been jailed for six months by an Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Judge Ellen Vivian Amoah. He told the court that his 21-year-old client was really sorry and that he had […]

Prez John Dramani Mahama When the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama told Ghanaians that the country was so broke that what had been left were bones, we wrongfully laughed at the wrong side of our ugly mouths. We did not understand the man and so we thought he was not telling us the truth. And so […]

Isaac Opoku Mensah (left) and Kojo Aboagye(right) EIGHT SUSPECTED armed robbers yesterday attacked two passenger buses between Mile 14 and Hiaa on the Obuasi Kumasi road, shooting a 25-year-old man in the process. Enoch Gumado was shot in the chest by one of the robbers in a mysterious circumstance and the victim is currently on […]

The New Hospital Morgue THE DORMAAHENE, Osagyefo Oseadieyo Agyeman Badu II, is reported to have issued a seven-day ultimatum for the general manager of the Presbyterian Hospital in Dormaa Ahenkro, Fred Effah Yeboah, to leave the town or stay there at his peril. At a Traditional Council meeting held at his palace on Monday, the […]

Some of the police personnel in exchanges with the displaced victims. TWO DISLODGED people at Promised Land near Adjei-Kojo, sustained various degrees of injury last Tuesday when they were allegedly engaged in a fight with some security personnel supervising the demolition of houses in the area. The victims were identified as Famous Gamore and Cudjoe […]

A section of dignitaries at the launch The Minister for Transport, Dzifa Attivor has stated that the old manual system of vehicle registration will be abolished by the end of September 2014. She said many Ghanaians would be sensitized on the new online automation programme of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) before the […]

Frank Annoh-Dompreh The Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam/Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has urged the government to take the development of the railway system seriously since that could help to drastically reduce the cost of haulage of heavy-duty goods and transportation of passengers across the country. The MP, who made the call in a statement on […]

Alan Kyeremanten has called for a national dialogue on the country’s economy to advance various contributions to shore the waning national currency. Such a dialogue should involve various stakeholders such as economists, businessmen, gender activists, among others, he said, adding that “the inputs of such diverse persons would be meaningful and help us arrive at […]