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We’re With You – Regional Police Command Assures Tumu Cops After Attack

Wa, Ghana – The Upper West Regional Police Command has assured personnel at the Tumu Police Station of their support following an attack on the station Friday. The Regional Commander, DCOP Boapeah Kojo Otchere said they have begun an investigation into the incident and anyone found culpable will be duly …

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4 Foreigners Arrested Over Galamsey

Broniamah, Ghana – Four foreign nationals – one Chinese and three Togolese – have been arrested by Operation Vanguard (the joint military/police taskforce against galamsey) at Broniamah, a community in the Amenfi Central District of the Western Region. The four, who were arrested on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, were allegedly indulging …

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Nana Slams Mahama Over Ghost Projects

Nkoranza, Ghana – President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that the so-called unprecedented projects, especially roads, which former President John Dramani Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) government spoke about are nowhere to be found. During the 2016 electioneering campaign, then President Mahama accused Nana Addo, then presidential hopeful of …

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Why the Yagbonwura of Gonja is also a King in Ghana

I read an interesting piece by Dr. George Osei-Tutu Darkwah a Constitutional Lawyer and Sociologist titled; “Why Asantehene is a King”. The writer said Asantehene is considered as the only King in Ghana and advanced some points in justifying why Asantehene is the only King. Going by his argument the …

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Songtaba Leads Assemblies to Adopt By-laws to fight Witchcraft Accusations, child Marriage

Tamale, Ghana – Some four Municipal and District Assemblies in the Northern Region of Ghana have agreed to and adopted a set of by-laws to enable them fight dehumanising and injurious customary practices. At a short meeting in Tamale involving all except the East Mamprusi Municipal Assembly authorities to sign …

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Appearance Does Not Make a Marriage Successful

Those of us who were fortunate to meet our grandparents alive and still happily married, one of the things they wanted to show us anytime we got close to them, was their old pictures when they were young. They wanted us to see how beautiful and handsome they were. How …

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Heavy Rains Washes Away Kalba Road, Healthcare Delivery in Danger

Kalba, Ghana – Over twenty-four thousand (24,000) people resident in Kalba and other adjoining communities in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Northern Region are likely to be cut-off from the entire district in the event of a heavy rainfall. This projection follows last Thursday dawn heavy downpour which led to …

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Upper West Chief Declares Zero Tolerance For Child Marriage

Zini, Ghana – Kuoro Abu Diaka Sukabe Ninia V, the Paramount Chief of the Zini Traditional Area, has declared zero tolerance for child marriage and gender-based violence against women, a situation that was widespread within communities in his area. He described those cultural practices and many others as bad and …

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Open Letter To Mr. Robert Cudjoe, PRO Of MoH

Dear Sir, I bring you warm greetings from my one corner location, somewhere in the Northern Region of Ghana but temporarily in the Central Region. Sir, I listened to you with vigor and enthusiasm on GBC’s “Behind the news” yesterday 14th May, 2018. I must however state in black and …

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Juliet Ibrahim Threatens To Take Legal Action Against Joy Fm

Accra, Ghana – Ghanaian actress and singer Juliet Ibrahim has threatened to take legal action against media giant Joy Fm over a tweet on the station’s official twitter page. Recently, social media has been ‘flooded’ with headlines or rumours of break up of Juliet Ibrahim and Nigerian boyfriend, Ice Berg …

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