The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has assured the general public the shutdown of the Kpong water treatment plant will not exceed the stipulated three days which ends on Sunday. The company shut down the plant on Thursday to allow for repair works. In a bid to reduce the impact of the shut down, the […]

late Professor Marian Ewurama Addy Funeral service for the late Professor Marian Ewurama Addy is expected to begin on Friday, February 28 at her hometown in Saltpond, the Central region. Prof. Addy will be laid in state before her interment on Saturday, March 1. Before the interment, a public memorial service will be held in […]

Otiko Djaba National Womens Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Otiko Afisa Djaba has accused her deputy of sabotaging her ambition to retain her position, ahead of the party’s delegate congress on April 12 in Tamale. Madam Tina Mensah also contesting the National Women’s Organizer position has questioned Otiko’s allegiance and loyalty to […]

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Yanukovych has vowed to fight for Ukraine, in his first public appearance since being ousted as president last week. Speaking in Russia, he said he was “not overthrown” but was compelled to leave Ukraine after threats to his life. In the latest flare-up, Ukraine accused Russian troops of seizing two airports in […]

Asiedu Nketia The National Democratic Congress (NDC) owes the New Patriotic Party (NPP) no apology for its plans to introduce a progressive free senior high school education from the 2015/2016 academic year, the General Secretary of the NDC, Mr Johnson Asiedu-Nketia has declared. According to Mr Nketia, the NPP could not lay claim to the […]

Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, Executive Director of Healthy Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation has proposed the creation of a new capital city of Ghana for greater development. Prof Akosa said the new capital should be more than 400 km from the capital because Accra has become congested and must be decongested to […]

The National Vetting Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has asked Mr Paul Afoko to  continue with his campaign for the position of National Chairman of the party. This may be an indication that the decision of the vetting committee to put Afoko’s vetting on hold may end in his favour. The news of […]

Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have vowed to work according to international standards which require that each doctor attends to only three patients a day. It follows the Health Ministry’s warning it will sanction negligent staff of the Hospital who played a role in the case of the missing baby. The doctors’ […]

Human Rights advocate, Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah has lauded efforts by the Ministry of Health to bring closure to the saga of missing babies at Konfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi. Government has warned it will severely punish management of KATH if the hospital fails to produce five babies declared dead at birth at the […]

The ordeal suffered by three girls at the hands of private security personnel at Mr. Price – a shopping mall in Accra – a few days ago was as harrowing as it was humiliating. Both Mr. Price as a corporate entity and Ghana as a country, share in the dented image the action has visited […]

Suwaiba THE ASHANTI Regional Police Command has charged seven people in connection with the missing babies at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. The suspects, who had been granted bail, were charged for stealing and conspiracy to steal the missing babies at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), which figure had tentatively been put […]

Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, Minister of Education The Minister of Education, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, yesterday failed to appear before Parliament to answer questions relating to the educational sector. Five Members of Parliament had filed questions for the minister to answer but when the First Deputy Speaker, Ebo Barton-Odro, who was presiding, called for question time, […]

Johnson Asiedu Nketia Western Publications Limited, publishers of DAILY GUIDE, have hinted on appealing against a judgment involving an award of GH¢250,000 against it in a libel suit filed by Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). Yesterday, an Accra Fast-Track High Court, presided over by Justice N.M.C. Abodakpi, awarded […]

The two cops and their civilian accomplice in Koforidua court yesterday A Koforidua High Court yesterday handed a 210-year jail term to two ex-police officers – Augustine Nti-Peprah, 31 and Eric Anto, 27 – as well as their accomplice, Anthony Dagadu Djampo, 30, after it found them guilty of robbery and conspiracy. Each convict got […]

POLICE AT FOMENA have arrested a 26-year-old man who posed as a military officer and succeeded in luring several ladies into bed. Richard Osei Kuffour, a resident of Bekwai in the Ashanti Region, was arrested yesterday at Adansi-Asokwa in full military gear and shackled into police cell. He was being sought for by police officers […]

Dr Owusu Afriyie-Akoto The Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament has accused the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) of deliberately shortchanging poor cocoa farmers who should have been compensated for their hard work in sustaining the cocoa industry. According to the Minority, cocoa farmers should be paid GH¢319 per bag of 64kg and not […]

A few weeks back, I had the opportunity of listening to President Obama delivering his state of the nation address to the people of America and by extension, the whole world.  It was a delight to listen to a President who thinks, a President who sees the challenges confronting his nation, fashions out policies that address […]

Former President Jerry Rawlings has waded into the Accra Shopping Mall shoplifting saga, condemning the treatment meted out to the three ladies involved. Outraged by the incident in which three ladies were made to crawl a considerable distance for allegedly stealing panties from the South African clothing franchise, Mr. Price, the former President issued a […]

Sadat Fusheini A Tamale District Magistrate Court II presided over by Augustine Essah, has remanded a 28-year-old trader, Sadat Fusheini, into prison custody to reappear on March 4, 2014. The suspect pleaded not guilty to all four counts of stealing, despite his earlier admission of the offence in his caution statement. According to the facts of the case […]