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The Forestry Commission is investigating four persons at Vamboi in the Sisala East Municipality for allegedly poaching an elephant. The four are said to have decapitated the middle-aged elephant on seasonal movement from Burkina Faso. Mr Bernard Asamoah-Boateng, Executive Director of Wildlife Division, who disclosed this said the Forestry Commission …

Ms Constance Baidoo, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Director for the Department of Social Welfare has bemoaned the alarming increasing cases of incest and defilement in peri-urban communities of the Metropolis. Ms. Baidoo who made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency explained that victims of this incestuous act were …

COVID-19 cases in Ghana has reached 7,768, according to the Ghana Health Service. The Greater Accra is still has the highest number of cases with 5,430; the Ashanti Region has the second highest with 1,183; the Western Region – 405, Central – 381; the Eastern Region has 117, the Volta …

The Management of Toyota Ghana Limited has launched the 12th generation of the new Toyota Corolla vehicle, which comes with two variants, 1.8 litre and 1.6 litre engine in Accra. It also unveiled the New Toyota Agya with 1.0 litre engine. Mr Andrews Lamptey, the Head of Sales Operations at …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he would ensure that the Free Senior High School programme becomes real for every Ghanaian child. Thus, with the successful implementation of the programme, he would ensure that during his time in government, more senior high schools would be built across the country to …

Anxiety over the outbreak of COVID-19 – the fear of catching the virus combined with depression caused by the collapse of businesses, has led to an upsurge of mental illness in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city. The Psychiatry Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), a specialist mental facility …

The Bank of Ghana has released an amount of GH¢5.5 billion as first tranche of the GH¢10 billion of the COVID-19 Relief Bond, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta announced in Parliament in Accra on Thursday. In a memo to the House, the Minister said, the programme, launched earlier by the Government …

An Accra High Court has ordered the State to file, by June 22, all the documents they intend to rely on in the matter of Prince Kofi Amoabeng, Chief Executive Officer of the defunct UT Bank Ghana and five others, whose alleged roles led to the collapse of the Bank. …

Bless Amedegbe, the man who instigated the public on social media to burn the house of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and also kill police officers enforcing COVID-19 measures has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢100,000, with two sureties. An Accra Circuit Court ordered that one of the …

An Accra Circuit Court has granted two persons a GH¢530,000.00 bail with two sureties each for allegedly causing damage to an eight bedroom storey building valued GH¢525,000.00. Prince Asiamah Mintah, banker and Nana Obeng Yeboah, trader denied conspiring to cause unlawful damage and they are to make their next appearance …