The Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West in Accra Emmanuel Kyeremanteng Agyarko has died. The New Patriotic Party MP who is brother of former Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko passed on at a hospital in the United States after a protracted ailment. Mr Kyeremanteng Agyarko was a pharmacist, medical doctor, and a politician born on December 10, 1957 at Odumase Krobo […]

Police in Tema have picked up two suspects in connection with the October 28, 2018 robbery incident at the Top Up Pharmacy at Tema Community Four. The two, Daniel Boachie Yiadom alias Aso and Joseph Nartey are believed to have been involved in the incident which saw the robbers bolt with an undisclosed amount of money, mobile phones and other […]

Pollster Ben Ephson has blamed the Volta caucus in the National Democratic Congress for their inability to clinch any position in the National executive body at the just ended congress of the party. It comes after former national women organizer Anita Desoso raised concerns over the nonexistence of a Voltarian in the new executive body of the party after she […]

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has given a strong assurance that government is well prepared to pool together the needed resources to fund the projects outlined in the 2019 budget. The comment was in reaction to concerns raised by some stakeholders about how government was going to raise money to finance its budget deficit as well as some of its […]

Popular pastor, Mensa Otabil, and his church International Central Gospel Church are among 15 shareholders and directors of defunct Capital Bank sued over the collapse of the bank. The Plaintiffs Messrs Vish Ashiagbor and Eric Nana Nipah from PricewaterhouseCoopers say the bank’s collapse was a “direct result’ of defendants’” “‘misgovernance” and “willful” breaches of banking regulations. The writ of summons […]

The Local chapter of the University Teachers Association (UTAG) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called the bluff of government, describing its stance on the KNUST impasse as ugly and tyrannical. The government was expected to reconstitute a new Governing Council for the KNUST by Friday, November 2, 2018 after it dissolved an interim governing […]

Former students of KNUST have catalogued abuses students suffer which triggered violent protest Monday. A seven-page press statement by the ‘Concerned Fellows of Kantanga Hall’ said KNUST lecturers are known to cane students. The statement submitted links to video evidence of caning of some students including females. Some believe the caning was light-hearted and jovial. But the students who are […]

A disqualified aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has placed an injunction on the party’s upcoming elections to elect national Executives. The aspirant, Elikem Kotoko filed a writ in court seeking to place an injunction on the election. He prays the court to order the NDC to reinstate him into the contest. Elikem Kotoko who is contesting as the […]

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said it is dangerous to experiment with a political leader who lacks the needed leadership skills to put the country on the right track. “Somebody came to you and said try me, now look at the results”, Mr Mahama told delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Nadowli constituency in the Upper […]

Parliament’s Committee on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs is expected to visit various sites in the Northern Region where the government says it has built or is building dams as part of the One village-One dam policy. The move, according to the Vice Chairman of the committee, Abraham Odoom, will enable the members to verify the claims and counter-claims. The […]