Author: Gifty Baoateng

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…

Two University of Ghana (UG) lecturers, Dr George Domfe and Prof. Ransford Gyampoh, lost their cool over the weekend, resulting in hot verbal exchanges during TV3’s Key Points Programme on Saturday November 15. The incident which occurred both on and off air has been captured in a videos making the rounds on the internet. In the second video which was off air but was leaked, Dr Domfoh is seen being restrained by other members of the panel, Dr Joshua Zaato, Prof Godfred Bokpin also of the same University and in-studio personalities, to walk off stage. The angry lecturer with the…

Member of Parliament (MP) for the Nhyiaeso constituency Stephen Amoah, has admitted that he knows Abigail Salami Aboagye, the widow of Samuel Aboagye, one of the eight victims of the August 6 helicopter crash. But he insists that he has not been in touch with her for about seven (7) years now, denying allegation that he fathered the couple’s three-year old daughter, threatening legal battle with a media personality. “The issue is, if I say I don’t know the lady I will be a liar but it’s been about 7 years I have not seen her. That lady is not…

Senior statesman, Kojo Acquah Yankah has praised the Minister for Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, for handling his office with distinction. The onetime Minister under late President Jerry John Rawlings, is impressed with the way and manner Dr Forson has conducted himself and office. He is particularly mesmerized how he presented the budget statement recently. The Ejumako Enyan Essiam constituency Member of Parliament (MP) in the Central Region, last Thursday November 13, presented the 2026 budget statement. It was his main budget reading after he did a similar exercise in March following the National Democratic Congress (NDC) taking political…

The Police administration and it sister institutions namely the Immigration Service, the Fire Service, Immigration Service, Prison Service, have announced a well-planned recruitment processes beginning next week. It comes two days after a stampede marred the Ghana Army Forces’ (GAF) department of this year’s recruitment exercise, leading to the deaths of six young ladies. Some 28 applicants were affected—12 in critical condition, five in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). A similar occurred in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region resulting in five additional injuries. Addressing the media on Friday November 14, the Interior Minister, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, said the portal for…