Students of the Opoku Ware School (OWASS), one of the premier second cycle institutions in the Ashanti Region are currently engaged in serious open defecation over lack of and inaccessibility of toilet facilities in the school after numerous cries for help went unheeded, a joint Pure 95.7 FM and MyNewsGh.com investigation has uncovered. As a result of this, the children ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo, will from Tuesday, February 12, 2019, publicly present Constitutional Instruments (C.I.s) to give effect to the creation of the six (6) new regions. This was contained in a statement issued Saturday, February 9, 2019, by the Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. The president, through the Ministry of Regional Reorganisation ...

The government has extended the validity of an ordinary Ghanaian passport from 5 years to 10 years, effective March 31, 2019. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in a letter dated February 6, 2019 and addressed to all heads of Missions notified them of the government’s decision. “MISSIONS ARE HEREBY THAT GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED TO EXTEND THE VALITY ...

A supposed brother of embattled Menzgold CEO, Nana Appiah Mensah, has accused the Economic and Organize Crime Officer (EOCO) of sealing a $51 million fraud case. According to the man only known as KOD, EOCO is aware of the pending fraud case which led to the arrest of NAM1, who he claims is innocent of the crime, late last year. ...

Seidu Agongo, the businessman who is currently on trial for allegedly conspiring with ex-Cocobod Chief Executive, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, to cause financial loss to the state, has lost a matter of arbitration he initiated against the Cocobod. Had he been successful at the arbitration, Seidu Agongo’s three companies were going to take home not less than a whopping $46.460 ...

The Deputy Minister for Energy in-charge of Petroleum, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, has hinted of a possible prosecution of some persons whose actions and decisions resulted in serious financial breaches at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST). According to him, following the contaminated fuel saga at BOST; two committees were set up explaining that the first one which ...

The name of former Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has popped up in the trial of the former Board Chairman of the National Communications Authority (NCA) and four others. It was Navy Captain (Rtd) Asase Gyimah, counsel for Alhaji Salifu Mimina Osman, a former National Security Coordinator on the NCA Board, who claimed the late former Vice President was aware ...

Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Minority side who displayed placards during the swearing-in of the MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Madam Lydia Seyram Alhassan, last Tuesday are to face the Privileges Committee of Parliament for their behaviour. The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, who gave the ruling yesterday, directed the Clerk of Parliament to go for ...

The Committee on Foreign Affairs in Parliament has urged the European Union (EU) member countries not to see Ghanaian migrants as criminals. It said the country’s migrants were economic migrants who wanted to secure decent work to raise funds to cater for their respective families back home. The Vice Chairman of the committee, Mr Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong, and the Ranking ...

Joy News investigation has revealed that the cost of 350 vehicles procured in 2016 by the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) for private transport operators cost the state over GHS18 million. This is higher than the market price of the vehicles from the same supplier. The vehicles were purchased for the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) but the ...