Mr Phanuel Kadey Donkor, President Akuffo Addo’s nominee For the position of District Chief Executive for Adaklu on Monday became the first casualty so far in the Region. Seven nominees before him were endorsed in the same Region and Nine assembly members voted yes representing 44.36 percent while 9 others voted No with one ballot rejected. The election was supervised ... Read More »

Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah, the leader of Glorious Word and Power Ministries International, and four of his associates are scheduled to appear in an Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday to answer new charges. Rev. Owusu Bempah and his four accomplices have been charged with threatening to kill people and assaulting public officers, as well as offensive behaviour in relation to ... Read More »

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. The company says the cause was a faulty configuration change. All three services are owned by Facebook and could not be accessed over the web or on smartphone apps. Downdetector, which tracks outages, said it was the largest ... Read More »

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram faced a major global outage on Monday evening with thousands of users around the world being locked out of these digital platforms. Facebook owns photosharing platform Instagram and messaging platform WhatsApp. The outage is estimated to have started around 9pm IST. Users complained of not being able to use any of the three services. “We are aware that some people are having trouble accessing ... Read More »

The government is anticipated to receive an additional 18 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to help with the virus’s national fight. The expected vaccine delivery will include 1,330,270 Pfizer vaccine doses from the US government via COVAX; 834,729 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from the governments of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, and the European Union via COVAX; and a bilateral agreement ... Read More »

Last Saturday, an officer from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFSAgona )’s West Municipal office drowned while rescuing three people trapped in a 40-foot deep well at Gomoa Oboasi in the Gomoa Central District of the Central Region. In an attempt to rescue two guys who were trapped while working in the well, the owner was also trapped. The fire ... Read More »

President Nana Addo Dankwa will go on a seven-day tour of the Ashanti and Eastern regions starting on Friday, October 1. Director of Public Affairs at the Jubilee House, Eugene Arhin, told media at the Presidency on Monday that the President has visited 12 of Ghana’s 16 districts. President Akufo-Addo will travel to his home region from the Ashanti Region, ... Read More »

Professor Honoré Bogler, Chairman of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA), has stated that the second phase of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Market will commence in late 2022 or early 2023. The second phase, which involves the actual operationalization of the Regional Electricity Market, was initially scheduled to begin in 2021. However, because to the impact of the COVID-19 ... Read More »

A 41-year-old trader has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly pouring hot water on her 16-year-old daughter whom she accused of stealing GH¢5.00 to purchase food without her consent. Rahinatu Issah charged with causing unlawful harm, pleaded not guilty. The Court presided over by Mrs. Christina Cann admitted Rahinatu to bail in the sum of GH¢80,000 with ... Read More »

King Aboagye Brenya, The ace actor who has featured in many Ghanaian movies was declared dead on Thursday, September 30, 2021, after a long battle with chronic illness. According to sources, King Aboagye Brenya died at Kumasi’s County Hospital in Abrepo following an emergency hospital visit. Prior to this terrible tragedy, the 82-year-old Kumawood actor had been noticeably absent from ... Read More »