Author: TNRgh

Every rainy season, Accra behaves as if water has committed a surprise attack. The clouds gather. The drains overflow. Roads vanish under brown water. Homes flood. Shops shut. Drivers calculate risk with their tyres. Commuters remove their shoes and become emergency engineers. Radio stations open their phone lines. Officials tour affected areas. Everyone agrees the situation is serious. Then the sun returns, the water recedes, and Accra quietly prepares to forget. Until the next rain. The June 29 flooding should therefore not be treated as breaking news. It is a reminder. Heavy rains that began late on Sunday, June 28,…

-As Amoako Atta Leads Ken’s Trial-Party’s Disciplinary Committee Members Haunted By Their Own Scandals As They Move Against Firebrand MPBy Gifty BoatengThe New Patriotic Party has lit a fuse it may not be able to extinguish.In a move dripping with irony, former Roads Minister Kwasi Amoako Atta a man whose tenure was dogged by corruption allegations has been handed the gavel to chair an eight-member disciplinary committee against Kennedy Agyapong.The party has given the committee fourteen days to determine the fate of the Assin Central firebrand following a staggering ten petitions against him. But the move may prove to be…

Former Spy Chief Amassed 27-Unit Apartment, Seven Homes At Mayfair Garden Despite Earning GH¢5,000 MonthlyBy Prince AhenkorahEconomic and Organised Crime Office investigators have told a High Court that properties linked to former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahen are grossly inconsistent with his known income, as the prosecution continues building its case in the GH¢49.1 million corruption trial. Frank Marshall Cromwell, an EOCO investigator and the prosecution’s fourth witness, testified on Wednesday that investigators scrutinised Adu-Boahen’s salary records covering 2017 to 2019. The documents showed the former spy chief earned approximately GH¢5,000 monthly in 2017, rising to GH¢6,000 in 2018…

…agrees US$4.4m restitution…Sentencing set for September as Ghanaian socialite trades denial for pleaBy Prince Ahenkorah Joseph Kwadwo Badu Boateng better known in Accra’s nightlife circuit as Dada Joe Remix has entered a guilty plea in a federal court in Arizona, ending a decade-long chase that stretched from Ghana’s political salons to the retirement homes of the American Midwest. The entrepreneur and self-styled socialite admitted to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and has agreed to pay roughly US$4.4 million in restitution to a string of elderly victims he and his co-conspirators systematically fleeced.The plea, entered before the U.S. District Court for…

Pesticide Levels Exceed Safety Limits By Philip Antoh A study conducted in June by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) has confirmed that cabbages sold at Accra’s Agbogbloshie and Madina markets are contaminated with pesticide residues above statutory limits. Every cabbage sample tested failed the safety standards for eight different chemical compounds.Okra performed marginally better: 67% of samples met the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs). However, okra sourced directly from Agbogbloshie showed high concentrations of hazardous substances, indicating a market-specific contamination risk. The contaminated cabbages were traced to major farming supply hubs…

…as GES Ceases Salary A teacher at Bole Senior High School (SHS) at the center of an unethical sex video scandal has suffered another major setback as the Ghana Education Service (GES) has suspended his salary. The latest punitive measure follows the teacher’s alleged failure to report to duty after the scandal broke, prompting the GES to halt his remuneration and refer the matter to the Ghana Police Service for his arrest. Speaking to the media on Tuesday, July 1, 2026, the Director-General of GES, Professor Ernest Kofi Davis, confirmed that the teacher had already been interdicted prior to the…

Dutch carrier’s handling of West African passengers triggers diplomatic unease and calls for boycott By Gifty Boateng KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has become the target of a fierce public backlash in Ghana after a weekend fiasco at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport left some 500 West African passengers predominantly Ghanaian, Nigerian and Togolese stranded for days without adequate accommodation, food, or access to basic hygiene facilities. The episode, which saw ten Ghanaian passengers arrested by Dutch police for protesting their treatment, has reignited long-simmering grievances about the standards of service foreign carriers offer on African routes.The lead complainant, Frieda Yayra Amable, a…

Part 1 of 7: The City, the Rain, and the Planning QuestionBy CQ The IllustratorEvery rainy season, Accra behaves as if water has committed a surprise attack.The clouds gather. The drains overflow. Roads vanish under brown water. Homes flood. Shops shut. Drivers calculate risk with their tyres. Commuters remove their shoes and waddle through floods. Radio stations open their phone lines. Officials tour affected areas. Everyone agrees the situation is serious.Then the sun returns, the water recedes, and Accra quietly prepares to forget.Until the next rain.Yesterday’s flooding should therefore not be treated as breaking news. It is a reminder. Heavy…

By Prince Ahenkorah The Private Newspapers and Online News Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG), has strongly condemned the sentencing of The Herald Editor, Larry Alans Dogbe, describing the High Court’s ruling as harsh, unreasonable and disproportionate. Mr. Dogbe was convicted for contempt of court in the case of Kevin Okyere v. Larry Alans Dogbe, with the judgement delivered by an Accra High Court on Thursday, June 25, 2026. In a statement issued shortly after the ruling, PRINPAG President David Tamakloe expressed the association’s deep concern over the conviction and sentence, arguing that the circumstances surrounding the substituted service, the disputed…

By Prince AhenkorahFrance has confirmed its first Ebola case after a doctor returning from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) tested positive for the virus. The patient has been admitted to a specialised facility and is in stable condition, according to the French Health Ministry. Contact tracing is underway.The development comes as DR Congo’s outbreak intensifies, with more than 260 deaths and over 1,000 infections recorded. Although officially declared last month, health experts believe the virus had been circulating in affected communities for weeks before detection. French officials stress the risk of wider transmission remains…