Some residents of Bortianor Hills (Mountain View Area) on the Kokrobite-Tuba road in Accra are appealing to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, to help intensify security at the area following the soaring activities of armed men believed to be land guards who are terrorising residents in the area. According to the residents, the land guards have ...

“Is there any justice in this country? A policeman shot my husband and we have been appealing to the Ghana Police Service to investigate and all we get is silence,” a distressed Deborah Adjeley cries out. As tears run down her cheeks, her husband Elias Ojoojo Adjetey Anum, who is now paralysed as a result of the shooting, also bursts ...

The Office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice ( CHRAJ), Volta and Oti Regions has recorded 1,520 human rights infractions in 2019 compared to 1,597 in 2018. The Commission, however, brought a total of 199 human violation cases from 2018, making the available cases at the Commission by 2019 at 1,719. Mr Daniel Mensah, Acting Volta Regional ...

Nearly 300 students of Buipe Senior High School have been asked to go home after they lost all their personal belongings in a fire that burnt down their dormitory, Monday, February 3, 2020. Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Northern Region, Kanzoni Donald, in a release said the decision has become necessary because both students and the ...

It was only when Abi Blake was nearly killed by her abusive husband that she decided to break up with him and press charges. A new policing pilot in Cheshire encourages women not to leave it so late, reports the BBC’s Sue Mitchell. They were introduced by friends just after Valentine’s Day in 2014. She was an operations manager at ...

There has been widespread disruption in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos on the first working day of a ban on motorbike- and tricycle-taxis. There were long queues at bus stations even though extra transport was laid on, while some walked for miles. Commercial motorbikes are the most common form of public transport in the city of at least 20 million people, ...

The National Road Safety Authority (NRSC) has indicated that the time has come for drivers who cause road accidents in the country to be sanctioned. According to the Authority, this will go a long way to deter others and ensure that drivers observe all safety rules and regulations when on the road. This comes in the wake of recent accidents ...

Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC)held a press conference in Accra toannounce the dismissal of Mr Kofi Asare as the chairman of the coalition following investigation which revealed that he came to the office based on false information with regards to the constitution of GNECC. This has led to instability in the activities of the coalition as he still holds ...

President Akufo-Addo has expressed his delight at the return to production, productivity, and profitability of the Anglogold Ashanti Gold mine, six years after it was effectively closed down. According to President Akufo-Addo, the coming back on stream of the Obuasi mine signals to the rest of the world “new beginnings for Obuasi, which will help in spurring on the development ...

– Environment is king but Ghana must be an exception-  For two decades, we have been running with the narrative of ‘a Ghana rising.’ Today, it is no longer a narrative but a reality, although in fading shadows. Ghana is now a land of economic freedom where investors from all over the world troop into to start businesses and/or takeover ...