Former presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, Most Reverend Titus Awotwi Pratt, has attributed the inability of security services in Ghana to fight crime to undue political interference. Speaking at the one-year anniversary thanksgiving service of the Consolidated Bank of Ghana (CBG) in Accra, Most Rev. Titus observed that appointments into the security services are made more on […]

Radio and Television station managers in Volta and Oti regions have pledged support to this year’s Volta Trade and Investments Fair, slated on the November 25th to December 8th, 2019. The Volta Trade and Investments Fair, organized under the auspices of the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC), in its inception has seen tremendous outcome and returns in the region. Addressing […]

Family members of two of the three missing Takoradi girls have agreed to assist the police to conduct forensic examination to determine the identities of the skeletons that were retrieved from a cesspit at Kansaworodo, a suburb of Sekondi/ Takoradi. The discovery of the skeletons had stirred controversy as the families of the three girls insisted that they would not […]

It has been confirmed that teenage prostitutes who were trafficked into the country were required to undergo blood rituals by their Queen Mother, Chioma Sabina Abaraonye. This was to ensure that they never divulge the secret of the business they were engaged in to their relations back home in Nigeria after being promised decent jobs in Ghana as sales girl. […]

Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP) in the 4th Republic, is bowing out of parliament. He has been representing the people of Nadowli-Kaleo in the Upper West Region since January 7, 1993 on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), but as at the close of nomination by the NDC for aspirants for the 2020 […]

Sources inside Jubilee House tell the Daily Statesman that President Akufo-Addo is set against moves by Parliament’s leadership and other senior figures in the House to embark on building a new debating chamber for MPs. The proposed chamber, which parliamentary leaders hoped to build within three years, was expected to cost US$200 million. They argued that the present chamber in […]

The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has listed nine reasons why Ghana’s Parliament needs a chamber. The House is currently considering a proposal to build a multi-purpose 450 capacity chamber block worth about $200 million. However, the move has been met with anger and derision from a section of Ghanaians. Many believe the decision to erect a new chamber is […]

The embattled Chief Executive Officer gold dealership firm, Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, aka NAM 1 has won his appeal court case in Dubai brought against him by a Dubai-based company, Horizon Royal Diamonds. The Supreme Court in Dubai on Tuesday, 2 June 2019 ruled that Horizon Royal Diamonds must refund $39 million worth of gold to NAM1 supplied to them. The […]

It was all excitement for supporters of Kpando SHS, as they become the first Volta Region based school to sail through to the quarter finals of the 2019 National Science and Maths Quiz. KPASEC, as they are popularly called, was too much for their contenders Kumasi High School and Aburi Girls’ SHS in the sixteenth One-Eighth contest. They pulled an impressive […]