Five persons got injured in an accident that involved an articulated truck and five other vehicles on Tuesday at the Suame roundabout in Kumasi. A taxi driver was trapped in one of the accident vehicles for close to two hours before rescuers were able to remove him from the wreckage. According to the Ashanti Regional Correspondent of Daily Graphic, Donald Ato Dapatem, the incident happened around midday. He said the articulated truck which was loaded with iron bars fell on [...]

Organised labour has given government a two- week ultimatum to transfer funds to various public sector pension schemes or they would embark on an industrial action. “We wish to state that if by July 14, directives have not been issued for the transfer of funds to various public sector schemes, we will advise ourselves,” said Mr Awotwi Nkansah, Deputy Executive Secretary of GNAT in charge of Labour at a press conference. Organised Labour was represented at the press conference by Civil [...]

“We feel that there is much the world can learn from those of us who belong to what we might term the pre-technological societies. These are values, which we must not sacrifice unheedingly in pursuit of material progress. That is why we say that self-government is not an end in itself. We have to work hard to evolve new patterns, new social customs, new attitudes to life, so that while we seek the material, cultural and economic advancement of our country, while we raise their standards of life [...]

A bomb blast hit a busy market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least eight people, and troops announced the arrest of a businessman suspected of helping Islamist militants to carry out attacks including the kidnap of over 200 schoolgirls.Witnesses said the explosion of a suspected vehicle bomb on a road adjoining the market in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri wrecked cars and taxis which were unloading passengers and wares. They said a suicide bomber carried out the attack. “I saw police and troops picking out [...]

Over 300 protesters are charging to the Flagstaff House House in an unprecedented march armed with a common theme summed up in a protester’s placard “the King is naked” The protester and founder of Energy Solutions Foundation Golda Addo’s told Joy Fm’s Super Morning Show “the King thinks that he is in fancy clothes but the king is naked. Nobody is telling him the truth”. The non-partisan group calling itself Concerned Ghanaians for Responsible Governance (CGRG) is marching to [...]

A truck pusher is in the grip of the police for allegedly boiling both hands of his eight-year-old daughter. The suspect, 25-year-old Jacob Kuli, a resident of Ashaiman, was said to be living alone with his kindergarten two daughter after the victim’s mother abandoned them.According to the Police, Mr Joseph Adjetey Adjei, who is a resident of Apolonia and the landlord of Kuli, visited his Ashaiman house on June 26 at about 0600 hours. Mr Adjei [...]

Subscribers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) who enjoy healthcare services at Mission Hospitals will be made to pay cash with effect from Wednesday, July 2, 2014. This follows the decision by the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) to withdraw its services to subscribers of the NHIS because managers of the scheme are indebted to Mission ospitals in excess of GHC 50 million. There are 183 Mission Hospitals in the country which cater for about 42 per cent of the [...]

Chelsea Football Club today says goodbye to Ashley Cole, a player who contributed enormously to the highly successfully period in our history in which we were crowned champions of Europe and won the League and Cup double for the first time. Cole, whose contract came to an end yesterday, was a Chelsea player for eight seasons, making 338 appearances, 13 of those as a substitute, and finding the net seven times. Throughout that time he was the England team's left-back. He announced his  [...]