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‘No sex scandal at Kwahu’
The leadership of the Kwahu Youth Movement has refuted widespread media reports of two individuals, male and female having open sex during this year’s Kwahu annual Easter celebration.
In a statement signed yesterday in Accra and issued by its Youth Organiser, Davis Opoku, the youth described the media reports as absurd, stressing that the report was a deliberate ploy to soil the hard-won image of...
Use overhead bridge
—Drivers appeal
Joe Gidisu, Roads & Highways Minister
Drivers at the St. John transport station near Dome in the Greater Accra Region have called on the National Democratic Congress [NDC] government and other key stakeholders in the transport sector to educate pedestrians on the purpose of the overhead foot bridge at the station and others scattered across the capital.
This, they said, is...
Upper Manya Assembly asked to provide juvenile cells
The Upper Manya District Assembly, has been asked to provide juvenile cells, so that the police can keep children under investigation there.
The call was made by participants at an annual review meeting on prevention and combating violence against juveniles, in justice institutions, at Asesewa at the weekend.
Juveniles on detention in the district are sent to police cells in Koforidua, and brought...
Accra floods again!
Asylum Down, Caprice worst hit
Heavy rains early Tuesday morning has caused flooding in many parts of Accra.
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Ashaiman MCE reacts
Numo Addinortey Addison, Ashaiman MCE
The Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive, Numo Adinortey Addison, has called on members of the public to disregard a recent call by some people in the municipality that he should be removed from office because he had not performed well since his appointment.
According to him, those who made the call at a press conference at Ashaiman and called on the president to...
POISON!…Solar Mining pollutes rivers with mercury
Mike Hammah, Lands & Natural Resources Minister
Information reaching Today indicates that activities of Solar Mining Company, a local gold mining company operating within the Fanteakwa District of the Eastern Region have culminated in the pollution of the Anoma and Akusu rivers within the township.
This paper gathered that the usage of mercury by Solar Mining Company for its mining operations...
Registration officers threaten boycott
Dr Kwadwo Afari-Djan, Chairman of Electoral Commission
Registration assistants at Sampa in the Jaman North in the Bono Ahafo Region are threatening to boycott the biometric exercise over unpaid allowances.
They say authorities have failed to pay them training, feeding and transportation allowances when their colleagues in other places have received their monies.
One of them spoke to Luv FM from Sampa,...
Ghana cautions foreign nationals
Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, Minister of Foreign Affairs & Regional Integration
Ghana has cautioned foreign nationals in the country to abide within her laws.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration per a statement Thursday said it has learnt that some persons from Cote d’Ivoire in Ghana are engaged in activities which undermine the government’s commitment to good neighbourliness,...
Remove ACP Angwubutuge Awuni now – NDC
Ade Coker, NDC Greater Accra Regional Chairman
The Greater Accra Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has served notice it will not continue to work with the National Commander of the Police MTTU, ACP Angwubutuge Awuni and wants to see him removed or transferred.
This is in reaction to an alleged manhandling of NDC MP for Osu Korle Klottey and immediate past Greater Accra Regional...
President is not a law enforcement officer’
President John Evans Atta Mills
President John Mills has reminded critics that it is not his duty to physically arrest and prosecute miscreants fomenting trouble in the ongoing biometric registration exercise.
He said law enforcement agencies have been equipped and are competent enough to maintain security in the ongoing exercise.
The exercise has not been without challenges, with reports of violence...








