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1,748 The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, The Netherlands, has dismissed a $55 million judgment debt against Ghana which was being sought by a Chinese company over a traffic management project. The disputed project — the Accra Intelligent Traffic Management System (AITMS) — was signed between the government of Ghana (GoG) and […]
2,402 His name is Shadrack Arloo, 32, and was scheduled to travel to Germany on Tuesday, but 24-hours before that journey, he had an encounter with some persons, said to be policemen that resulted in his death. Shadrack Arloo was allegedly beaten to death by the said policemen, assisted by suspected private security guards […]
2,378 The Police Administration has interdicted a police Inspector for negligently leaving a service rifle in a commercial vehicle. The rifle has since been returned by the driver of the said vehicle who alleged that the Inspector had extorted money from him. The interdicted officer, Inspector Sulemana Adam, stationed with the Rapid Deployment Force, Takoradi […]
2,414 Five people have reportedly died after eating a meal of rice and beans, popularly known as waakye they bought from a food joint at Oyibi Bush Canteen Junction, in Accra. About 40 people were reportedly affected, out of which five, including a pregnant woman and a lotto vendor, died. The victims including the waakye […]
1,962 The Ghana Police Service has assured of taking measures to tackle the rising menace of electronic commerce (e-commerce) fraud and impersonation in the virtual space. The Inspector General of Ghana Police Service, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare – who said criminals in e-commerce and impersonators on social media platforms will no longer have a field […]
76 A 38-year-old man has been tragically shot dead in his vehicle along the busy highway linking Kumasi and Techiman in what authorities now believe to be a chilling case of mistaken identity. The victim, whose name is being withheld pending full family notification, was discovered lifeless in his car under circumstances that initially pointed […]
2,364 Assailants armed with wooden clubs and iron bars dragged a gay activist Broadcast Journalist from his bed and assaulted him, yelling that they were going to “cleanse” their neighborhood of gay people. Alhassanm Issah, a broadcast journalist with Kumasi-based Zuria FM, was chased out of Aboabo, one of Ghana’s largest Muslim communities. Mr. Issah, […]
1,248 A trending story in Ghana involving a man named Opoku Kofi Williams, who is known to be a bisexual activist (strongly into gay activities) to be the son of Mr. Kwame Danso and Mrs. Afia Ayowa who are currently living in Ghana, Ejisu Besease has resulted in breaking of many traditional and customs norms […]
77 Abdul Aziz Ismail, a resident of the Ashanti Region and survivor of Ghana’s protracted Bawku conflict, carries scars both physical and emotional from a violent episode that claimed the lives of close family members during ethnic clashes in the Upper East Region. On the night of 7th January, 2017, at about 10:00 p.m., violence […]