I am pleased to be addressing the full house today, and I wish to thank all my parliamentary colleagues for the cooperation you have continually extended to me since I was sworn in as President. As a former Member of Parliament for twelve (12) years, I am always filled with a sense of nostalgia anytime […]

Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22 The two men who murdered soldier Lee Rigby are being sentenced at the Old Bailey. Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, ran the soldier down before hacking him to death in Woolwich last year. The pair were convicted of the murder in December, but Mr Justice Sweeney […]

A leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa has said Ghana retrogressed and stagnated during the two-decade rule of former President Jerry John Rawlings. According to Prof Akosa, Mr. Rawlings failed to use his 19-year rule to make a difference in the development of the country in comparison to other […]

Gabby Otchere-Darko Lawyer and the immediate past Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Gabby Otchere-Darko, has criticized President John Mahama’s plan to introduce free education in senior high schools in the country. In a series of Facebook posts Wednesday, Gabby said the Mahama administration’s decision to implement a ‘Free SHS’ programme after kicking against it […]

Judges accused the defendants of inciting violence against the army and police An Egyptian court has sentenced 26 people to death for founding a “terror group” with the aim of attacking ships using the Suez Canal. Judges said the men were also accused of manufacturing missiles and explosives, local media report. The defendants were tried […]

Polly McCourt, 39, explains how she tried to hail a cab on the Upper East Side but it was too late and she gave birth to baby Ila on the sidewalk on Monday A mother who gave birth on a Manhattan sidewalk described her baby’s dramatic arrival – and how one impatient New Yorker pinched […]

Some chiefs appear to be nostalgic for the pre-colonial days’ powers their forebears wielded. Unfortunately, those days when a powerful chief could descend upon his weak counterparts and sell off captured and able-bodied men to waiting slave merchants, have long been gone, and confined permanently to the dark pages of our history. News about chiefs […]

President John Dramani Mahama swarmed by some female MPs in Parliament yesterday President John Dramani Mahama yesterday announced in his State of the Nation Address in Parliament that his government would progressively introduce free senior high school education as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution from the 2015-2016 academic year. The announcement by the President sent […]

JAILED! Prince Adu Gyamfi A KUMASI Circuit Court, presided over by D.P.W. Armediour, has jailed Prince Adu Gyamfi, the 20-year-old suspected murderer who recently escaped from the grips of the police while being escorted to prison in Kumasi. The court sentenced the self-confessed auto electrician to two years’ imprisonment in hard labour, for escaping from […]

President Mahama with some students in Parliament House yesterday President John Dramani Mahama indeed had the first baptism of fire in Parliament yesterday when he was subjected to constant and intense heckling by the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament during the delivery of his State of the Nation Address, compelling him to […]

The alleged panty thieves Members of staff of Mr. Price, a clothing store at the Accra Mall, have been severely criticized by human rights advocates for forcing three ladies who allegedly stole underwear from the shop to crawl on their knees for several minutes as punishment. The three alleged shoplifters, believed to be students of […]

Johnson Asiedu Nketia and Dr. Nii Armah Josiah Aryeh The war between the Nana Kondu-led National Democratic Party (NDP) and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) looks far from over. Recent comments by the Founder and the Chairman of the NDP, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and Dr. Nii Armah Josiah Aryeh respectively, in which they spoke […]

Evans Raybon Anyadi, the Scheme Manager of Adaklu Anyigbe Mutual Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) at Kpetoe in the Volta Region, was on Monday slapped with fresh charges before an Accra Financial Court for allegedly stealing GH¢106,706.23. Anyadi, who has been accused of not being able to account for paid vouchers totalling the said amount, now […]

Mortey Akpadzi The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) has told Citi News, institutions and companies have begun complying with the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) directive on the ban on quotation of goods and services in dollars. A special taskforce comprising officials of EOCO and some security agencies on Monday inspected some companies and institutions […]

Suspect Augustine Abbam with the motorbikes Augustine Abbam, a 22-year-old unemployed man who specialises in stealing motorbikes and later sells them to prospective buyers at Accra CMB, has been nabbed by the Sowutuom Police. Abbam was arrested on February 17, 2014 after succeeding in stealing six of the motorbikes at Omanjor, near Sowutuom by residents […]

Are you a leader? Have you noticed the evils of familiarity? But Jesus said unto them, a prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. Mark 6:4 1. Familiarity is a product of frequent interaction with a leader. Peter began to make pronouncements […]

Sadat Fusheini A 28-year-old trader Sadat Fusheini, who posed as a banker and defrauded unsuspecting customers at various banks within the Tamale Metropolis under the pretext of assisting them to fill deposit slips, has finally been arrested. The suspect, who has stolen the cash of victims for the past two years, was last Friday arrested at […]

Dr. Amoako Baah and Dr. Charles Marfo TWO DONS at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have damned President John Mahama for offering little inspirational rhetoric in his State of the Nation’s Address to Parliament, yesterday. Dr Amoako Baah, Head of Political Science Department, and his colleague, Dr Charles Marfo of the […]

President John Mahama Government has once again called for measures to cut down on imports to stabilize the Ghana Cedi. However, it has not walked its talk as far as actualizing such ideals are concerned. It has on numerous occasions called for value addition to raw materials exported from Ghana to stabilize the cedi but […]