The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has stated that the accusation of conflict of interest levelled against its Director-General, Kofi Osei Ameyaw, in the award of a contract to Rams Kitchen, is baseless. This follows recent reports that the Director-General might have played a role in the award of a contract to his mother-in-law’s company – Rams Kitchen – in November […]

A Ghanaian, Billy Agbozo, has been executed in Singapore after a court convicted him of drug-related offenses in 2016. The Central Narcotics Bureau of Singapore announced earlier this week that it had executed Agbozo on Friday, 9 March 2018. The deceased, 39 years old, was convicted for importing 1,634.9 grams of methamphetamine, and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in […]

The Attorney General has said her office is not witch-hunting any member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Gloria Akuffo said she is only executing her mandate as stipulated by the laws of the state. Her comments come a day after the former Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr Steven Opuni was charged with causing financial […]

About 70 ministers serving in the current administration under the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo do not receive salary, Deputy Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has revealed. “Should most of our ministers have been new in government without being MPs, then I would agree we are overspending on them as ministers. These ministers we are talking about, most of them […]

The monarch of the Ashanti Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II on Friday, March 2, 2018 declared a 21st Century ‘War’ at the 5th Mediterranean Tourism Forum in Malta. Giving a historical antecedent of the Ashanti Kingdom, he described it as one that hitherto to present democracies, had large armies that fought wars to protect its territories and conquered others to […]

A woman has been arrested for allegedly filming an altercation between a police officer and dancehall artiste Shatta Wale. The woman, whose identity has been withheld was picked up and later granted bail for allegedly capturing the video of Shatta gesturing and swearing at a Police Officer. The dancehall artiste was said to be driving an unregistered vehicle and was […]

Two suspected robbers, said to be on the police wanted list for some time now, have been gunned down in Accra. They were shot on Friday afternoon when the police embarked on a swoop at their hideout, reports Graphic Online’s Emelia Ennin Abbey. They two have been identified only as Ramond alias Dragon, and Kwame alias Mafia. The lifeless bodies […]

Four suspected armed robbers on Friday attacked a total fuel station at Bosofour, a suburb of Asante Mampong and stole an amount of GHc9,000 from the station. The robbers also stole GHc3,000 from a mobile money vendor nearby. According to the police the incident occurred around 6:45pm on Friday. “On 02/03/18 at 1845hrs four suspected arm robbers with three wielding […]

The Tema Regional Police Command is on a manhunt for some four suspected armed robbers believed to have killed and robbed a Lebanese national in Tema. The incident, according to the Police, occurred at about 10:00am when the victim identified as Ahmed Safiadeen, aged 54, who’s a cashier of Delta Agro Company, went to withdraw an amount of GHC 200,000.00 […]

It has emerged that, the mortuary man who is in the news for desecrating the corpses of late Dancehall act, Ebony Reigns and her friend, Frankie Kuri was acting on the orders of the police. A close friend of the popular mortuary man in the Ashanti region revealed this to Nhyira FM’s Ohemeng Tawiah during an interview. A video of […]