The move by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to evict traders selling at the Novotel Trading Park, has taken a new twist, with the latter ( the traders) accusing their executives of taking advantage of the situation to extort huge sums of monies from them. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije According to the traders, who visited the offices of Today yesterday, they are being asked by  their executives to... 

Plans by some leading members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region to gag serial callers, who are perceived to be supporters of Mr Alan Kyerematen, an aspirant to NPP presidential nomination, failed woefully when they rather incurred the wrath of the serial callers. Speaking to this paper, a member of the Serial Callers Club, Michael Ofori-Akuoko, popularly known as Gizo... 

Barely three weeks after Today reported that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had instituted investigations into reports of irregularities in the procurement of materials and equipment for the 2010 national population census, the paper can report that the Government Statistician, Dr Grace Bediako, has since made three appearances at the SFO within two weeks. A flawless source at the Statistical Service... 

The Youth Organiser of the Manhyia constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Owusu Amankwa a.k.a chief was attacked by some irate members of the Nana Addo campaign team last Sunday for allegedly sabotaging Nana Addo’s campaign in the Ashanti Region. About four muscular men pounced on chief around 5pm that day, while he together with some friends were on their way to a restaurant in front... 

The denial of visas by the United States Government to two Ghana ministers of state is indeed a precursor to an obvious estrangement in the relations between the two countries, Today can state on authority. But the two countries have diplomatically parried off any suggestion that the action of the US embassy in Ghana is diplomatic faux-pas gradually emerging in relations between the two countries. US... 

The Osu chieftaincy dispute, Today’s findings have established, is being stoked by some political firebrands who are exploiting their proxy relationship with the President and other staffers at the Castle, the seat of government, to gain an inside into many Osu lands and other goodies. Leading the assault is one Oko Nikoi-Dzani, a close confidant of the President and the chairman of the Black Satellites... 

During the course of the UK elections and the negotiations to form a new government, many Ghanaians called me to discuss what was happening. Indeed, a lot of our people watched and listened to what went on in the United Kingdom as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats negotiated to determine who will form the next government of Her Majesty the Queen. The high level of interest shown in the... 

Issah Mohammed, a 29-year-old salesman, was last week jailed 10 years with hard labour by a Takoradi Circuit Court ‘B’ for stealing 110 pieces of Vodafone mobile phones valued at GH¢5,110.00. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge and asked the court to tamper justice with mercy, but his plea was not taken by the court presided over by Justice Charles B. Nimako. The prosecution team,... 

This week, Hotel and Tourism Today crew stormed Abeka-Lapaz, a suburb of Accra where the team visited Africana Guest House Annex located off the new market road. Africana Guest House Annex is the latest addition to the chain of guest houses and hotels established by Africana in some parts of Accra. Africana Guest House Annex is a member of Hotels Combined with its main branch located at Haatso, in... 

Flawless information gathered by Today from the United States offer a disturbing trend in the issuance of Ghanaian passports and visas to Ghanaians in that country. The paper’s findings which were corroborated by some victims of the scam indicate that some Embassy staff at the Ghana mission with the connivance of other middlemen, who are mostly Ghanaians sell the processed passports and send them...