Powerful people with military protection are those behind the resurgence of illegal mining in Ghana’s forests, the Bekwai District Manager of the Forestry Commission, Mr Rexford Twum-Damoah has revealed to journalists. The Bekwai forest reserve in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region is one of the areas bearing the brunt of the return of galamsey as some seven ...

Mr Justice Eric Kyei-Baffour, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, with additional responsibility as a High Court judge, will continue to preside over the trial of the five individuals accused of embezzling $4 million belonging to the National Communications Authority (NCA) during the erstwhile Mahama administration. That was the decision of the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, ...

A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries from the public purse. It has therefore asked the affected employees to make themselves available for enumeration from January 28 to February 11, 2020 at the Audit-Service Headquarters (Payroll Audit Branch), Accra to avoid disallowance and ...

Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has challenged former President John Mahama to prove that the reported sale of some 361 government vehicles during the last days of his regime were done legally. OccupyGhana made the demand following ex-President Mahama’s recent promise that should he be elected in December 2020 as President of Ghana once again, he would “put an immediate and permanent ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has said that about 90% of illegal small-scale miners (galamseyers) have ceased operations since the Operation Vanguard Team was established almost three years ago. “I can say 90 percent, by and large, [of] those who are doing galamsey, I can say about 90 percent have stopped. These galamsey people ...

Internationally acclaimed Ghanaian-UK based gospel artiste, Sonnie Badu says instead of focusing on what they can do for the country and how best to do it, a group of the current crop of Ghanaian youth are only focused on being quick to jump on social media to dish out insults to their elders. According to the gospel singer and preacher, ...

Transparency International since 1995 annually releases its Corruption Perception Index, a ranking of countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys. Just last week the group released the 2019 edition of the rankings which has seen Ghana fall two places further from its 78th position in 2018 to 80th, out of ...

The Spokesperson for the National Chief Imam and Co-Chairperson of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), Sheikh Aremeyawo Shaibu, has described arguments against the compilation of a New Biometric Voters Register as unconvincing. Some Ghanaians including some civil society groups and the Interparty Resistance Against New Voters Register have kicked against the EC’s decision to compile a new voter’s ...

It is on record that King John Aggrey Essien of Oguaa (Cape Coast) was the first king in the 19th century to really have challenged the legitimacy of British authority. Organizing systematic protests against the British earned him the accolade as one of the African political martyrs of British imperialism, but not the first king of Cape Coast. King John ...

The commissioning and distribution of 307 Ambulances to all the 275 constituencies nationwide as part of efforts to improve emergency healthcare delivery in Ghana would take place on Tuesday, January 28. Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, who announced this at a news conference in Accra on Sunday, said the digitised ICT system, tracking devices and labelling had been ...