A self-contained house has been consumed by an inferno at Ohwimasi Hilltop, a plush-looking neighbourhood in Kumasi. The fire started around 9pm and traveled at lightning speed, burning everything that was on its path in the house. What caused the inferno
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc has suspended Niger's membership after the ruling military junta refused to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum. Mr Bazoum was overthrown in a military coup in July. ECOWAS said in a statement on Thursday
Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has reaffirmed government’s steadfast dedication to the full implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2019 (Act 989). Speaking at a public forum on the implementation of the RTI Act in Accra yesterday, Mr.
The Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection, (MoGCSP) has launch an electronic platform to monitor and evaluate its social protection interventions. The Social Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Management Information System (SP MEMIS), is expected to augment the monitoring and reporting
The Tarkwa Circuit Court in the Western Region has sentenced a 36-year-old caterer, Isaac Tweneboah Koduah to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for having unnatural canal knowledge with a 30-year-old unemployed man. The convict pleaded guilty to the charge, and the
Just getting to the end of the day and surviving the night must feel like a miracle in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians "plead for safety", wrote Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, the main UN relief agency in Gaza, in an "endless,
A Facebook user identified as Onoh Chukwuma on Tuesday reportedly took his own life by ingesting an insecticide allegedly for losing N2.5m to betting. Onoh had on his Facebook wall posted a message saying that it was his last day on
The High Court in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, has sentenced a 25-year-old serial killer to 105 years in prison. Musa Musasizi was sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to the murder of three women said to be his girlfriends and a three-month-old girl who was the child of one
The remains of a 60-year-old retiree of the Ghana Highway Authority, Mercy Oforiwa, who was allegedly killed by her son, Gideon Asomani has been exhumed in an uncompleted building at Kyekyewere, a suburb of Nyamekrom in the Eastern Region, the police said. Asomani Addo
The Chief Justice, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, has called on the business community to partner the judiciary to make more facilities available to promote virtual hearings in all 430 courts across the country. She said that would enable parties, particularly those in
