Author: Gifty Boateng

President John Mahama has approved a recommendation of the Police Council for a two-year re-engagement for the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Christian Tetteh Yohuno. In a letter dated November 25, 2025 and signed by Secretary to the President, Dr. Callistus Mahama, the President said the appointment extension for the IGP takes effect from December 28, 2025. But this latest news has raised eyebrows coming at a time the same government has assured it was not going to endorse the extension of contract for any public servant due for retirement. Recall that earlier this year, the government issued a statement stressing…

Private legal practitioner, Marin Kpebu, has chided former President John Agyekum Kufuor, saying his presidency described by some as one of the best in the 4th Republic, was not as perfect as may have been categorized among his peers. The human rights lawyer and advocate, assesses that, during the later days of the administration, the former president who served from 2001 to 2008, were not something Ghanaians cherished. “When he was in government, it’s true his last days were not happy days at all okay. So he should be reminded that it is not everybody that embraces him as a…

The Eastern South Command Police in Ghana have arrested a Nigerian suspect who fled out after murdering a mother and daughter and absconded to Ghana. The 26-year-old suspect, Victor Benjamin Fejemirokum, was picked up from his hideout at Akyem Wenchi near Akwatia in the Denkyembour district of the Eastern Region. The Police said their intelligence indicated that he fled into Ghana to evade arrest and was being sheltered by friends who reside in the community. He is wanted for abducting and killing a Federal Road Safety Corps office and her daughter at Abeokuta, in Ogu State. The suspect, who is currently…

The Vice President, Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has celebrated her birthday with two donations to the Nsawam Maximum Prison in the Eastern Region and the Accra Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra Region. Born on November 22, 1951 in Cape Coast, in the Central Region, the former first female vice chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and first female vice president, turned 74 this month. The first presentation, performed on her behalf was led by the Chief of Staff at her Office, Alex Segbefia on Saturday November 22. Items donated included an undisclosed cash amount, bags of rice…

A team of Bank of Ghana (BoG) officials led by Governor Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama, has paid a day’s visit to the Central Business District (CBS) Makola in Accra, to interact with traders and buyers. The team also included the Deputy Governor Dr Zakari Mumuni and other Bank staff to the popular market where the governor discussed activities and wellbeing of the national currency, the Cedi, promoting awareness and appreciation of same. He urged traders and the general public to handle the banknotes with utmost care. “Do not squeeze the Cedi, do not crumple the Cedi, do not write on…

Isaac Adonteng, a 54-year old father, is in the grips of the Police for beating his 13-year old daughter to death at Kokrobite a suburb of Accra. The crime of Celestine Adonteng alias Baby, was that she allegedly ate a meal, left for her younger sibling. The act was committed while the father, a mason, was away and so when he returned her stepmother reported her to him who did not take kindly to her action. He allegedly set to teach the teenager a lesson by severely whipping her with cane and metal pipe. In the end, she allegedly got…

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Evalue Ajomoro Gwira constituency in the Western Region, Kofi Arkoe Nokoe, together with Herbert Kuah Dickson, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Nzema East, have organized the maiden edition of teachers’ award ceremony at Axim. The event, which was facilitated and sponsored by Kofi Arkoe and Kuah Dickson, was mainly to appreciate and motivate both past and active teaching staff in the municipality. Some of the items donated included four motor bikes for teachers in the remote parts of the constituency, thirteen double decker fridges, six table top fridges, and five deep freezer…

A Ghanaian lady, Confi Ayram Gbevitor, has narrated her ordeal with the Nigerian Immigration at the Agbara checkpoint last week. According to her, she was subjected to severe slaps and punches by both superior and junior officers in the attack. The incident occurred on Saturday November 15, 2025. The distraught woman, in a social media post recounted she was travelling from Lagos to Lome when the officers pounced on her. Traveling in a commercial vehicle, Confi said when they got to the Agbara checkpoint, and the checks were happening she was asked her nationality to which she revealed that she…

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) police have swiftly nabbed the man seen in viral video flogging his victim believed to be his wife. John Odartey Lamptey, was arrested at his family residence on Monday November 17, at Ofankor, a suburb of Accra. In the video, Odartey Lamptey was captured flogging his wife while she sat on the bare floor almost naked begging him to stop. According to a tenant who is suspected to have made the recording, it was the first time the suspect was domestically abusing her. While the tenants looked on helplessly without being able to rescue her,…

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has today Monday November 17 lifted the suspension of it 2025/2026 recruitment screening exercise for Greater Accra Region. The exercise will resume officially this week, on Thursday, November 20, 2025. It was halted last week Wednesday following a tragic stampede that resulted in the death of six female applicants and a couple of injuries. The announcement was made in a statement signed by Captain Veronica Adzo Arhin of the Ghana Navy, Acting Director General of Public Relations. She explained that the screening will be conducted across eight sub-centres in five locations as part of measures…