All commercial and goods carrying vehicles with gross weight of 3.5 tonnes and above are to be fitted with speed limiters as part of mechanisms to reduce growing road crashes in the country. The move, according to Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, was in line with Regulation 135 of L.I 2180 (Road Traffic Regulation, 2012) which mandates all such ...

Pressure group, OccupyGhana have outlined 12 measures it believes must be undertaken to addressing the increasing spate of road carnage in the country. In a statement the group said the situation can be attributed to the poor nature of the country’s roads, lack of enforcement of traffic laws among other reasons. “Most of our roads are in an abominable state. ...

It has emerged that, leader of one-man Independent People’s Party (IPP), Percival Kofi Akpaloo, is having difficulty executing the US$2 million energy contract awarded him and his wife; Delvine Akpaloo by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The almost $2 million contract, mentioned as one of several last minutes contracts awarded to cronies of the Akufo-Addo government on September 14, ...

Sources at the Ghana Police Service have confirmed to MyNewsGh.com that one suspect has indeed been picked up and is in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for the murder of a member of Tiger Eye PI. Police have declined giving further details of the suspect except to say he was seen around the scene of the ...

Joy News investigations into underhand dealings at the Births and Deaths Registry have uncovered how a total of GH¢411,760 meant for the state, were diverted into private accounts in the Upper West, Western and Eastern Regions. These included funds meant for registration of child births in deprived communities as well as revenue collected by staff of the Registry between 2015 ...

A former National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Kwabena Adjei, has passed. He died Tuesday morning at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, formerly Ridge hospital, a highly placed source at the party confirmed to myjoyonline.com. The politician who was the chairman when the NDC won power in 2008 had been battling with a protracted sickness first ...

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo has disclosed that cabinet in 2013 gave approval for the payment of GHC67m judgement debt to a private company, Construction Pioneers contrary to claims that payment was made without cabinet’s approval. In a 2016 auditor general report, it was purported that former Attorney General, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong in 2015 paid an amount of GHC67,380,718.20 to ...

Joy News has responded to government’s statement on its latest documentary detailing the operation and training of a pro-government militia group at the Osu Castle. In a press statement to respond to the content of the documentary which was aired on Joy News on Thursday, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah rubbished the findings. But JoyNews has a response. On Joy ...

Out of Twenty Three oil fields discovered in Ghana in the last 12 years, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) under John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo administrations combined, discovered just two though the party made the first discovery in 2007. On the other hand, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) under Professor John Evans Atta Mills and John Dramani ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dissociated itself from a militia group called De-Eye, which is alleged to be affiliated to the party. The NPP, in a statement, said it has no connection to the militia group. The statement comes on the heels of an exposé by investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni on how the Osu Castle, a former ...