On Thursday, September 29, 2022, a shooting spree a la Rambo took place in broad daylight in Asaman Tamfoe in the Eastern Region. A viral video showed heavily armed gunmen shouting orders and firing at a parked SUV with their assault weapons and handguns. 16 people have now been detained …

With immediate effect, Samuel Abu Jinapor, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has directed the Forestry Commission to prohibit Akonta Mining Company from operating in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve. In accordance with a statement released by the Ministry’s Public Affairs on Friday, September 30, 2022, the Company controlled by …

The two suspects, Michael Darko alias Nana 1 and Christopher Ekow Clarke, have been found to have killed another victim, bringing the total of individuals they have confirmed to have brutally murdered to two, according to the police’s ongoing investigation into the Mankessim murder case. Gloria Yeboah, a petty shopkeeper …

A Chinese national was detained by the police after he harmed a Ghanaian coworker at a construction site in the Western Region’s Kweikuma area by using an aggressive weapon. According to preliminary findings, on September 28, 2022, the suspect, Xue Hue, reportedly slashed the victim’s neck while attacking him with …

This Friday, September 30, 2022, marks the expiration of the extended deadline for SIM card re-registration. The Communications and Digitalization Ministry has already created a list of sanctions against people who will miss the deadline, some of which started to take effect on September 5. If the subscribers do not …

If the government doesn’t raise the price of producing cocoa for the 2022–2023 growing season, cocoa farmers in Gyampokrom, in the Sefwi Juaboso District of the Western North Region, have threatened to “smuggle” their cocoa products to Ivory Coast. They want the price of a bag of cocoa, which is …

Judges and magistrates are being urged by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah not to let public criticisms affect how they carry out their responsibilities. The Chief Justice replied, “Your duty is to administer justice and preserve the rule of law regardless of public clamor.” President Akufo-Addo described the current criticism of …

Since the start of his second term in office, according to a former political science lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been living in a fantasy world regarding his popularity. Dr. Richard Amoako Baah asserts that the president continues to …

Pressure Group Occupy Ghana says the biggest problem with illicit mining in Ghana is the government’s “sheer incapacity, absolute unpreparedness, and, or plain reluctance to police the law.” The government’s “absolute impotence, in the face of the brazen destruction of our lands and wanton poisoning of our water bodies,” according to Occupy Ghana, has left it speechless in an open letter to President Nana Akufo-Addo. In its eyes, the government has no justification for failing to successfully …

Four labor unions in Ghana’s public universities have given the government a week to address unresolved conditions of service, or they will go on strike on October 5. The unions, which include the Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG), Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH), Ghana Association …