Ghana seizes cocaine from Panama at port

Security operatives in the Port City of Takoradi have seized large quantities of cocaine imported from Panama. Mr Charles Forson, Western Regional Public Relations Officer of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), confirmed the seizure to the media in Takoradi on Saturday. He said both the clearing agent and consignee of the [...]

Fake Chinese Condoms Hit The Ghanaian Market

Research is clear about the efficacy of condoms and it effectiveness against sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. Because of the critical importance of condoms, it is a worrying phenomenon when substandard and unapproved products enter the Ghanaian market. The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Monday alerted the public that it had seized a large [...]

NAFTI lntroduce Post Graduate Diploma In Teaching And Learning

The National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) has launched a new program called the Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in higher education. The Course is for lecturers and all other instructors in institutions of higher education. Professor Linus Abraham, Rector of NAFTI said the educational field had become very competitive with several other [...]

Agya Koo Goes Naked!

News-One has received photographs that show the uncovered buttocks and sex organs of popular Ghanaian actor Agya Koo, known in real life as Kofi Adu. Reports said the photos were taken on set while Aga Koo was acting completely naked in the yet-to-be released movie, ‘Okomfo Anokye’. What makes the photos news worthy is not [...]

Yvonne Nelson, R2Bees, D-Black, others verified by Twitter

Over the weekend, several Ghanaian celebrities joined the list of verified persons of popular social media platform, Twitter. Actress, Yvonne Nelson (@yvonnenelsongh), music group, R2Bees (@r2bees), E.L. (@ELrepGH), D-Black (@DBLACKGH) and some members of his Black Avenue Music (BAM) were among some of the celebrities who saw their accounts authenticated by Twitter. Yvonne Nelson is [...]

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A curse in the name of Galamsey

Kwame Amponsah 26, abandoned his job as a farm hand to join friends to engage in illegal mining popularly called Galamsey, at Wassa Akropong In the Western Region. He says he abandoned farming because it was not making life meaningful for him to be able to cater for his family. He however admitted that although [...]

When Pestilence Reigns

Corruption continues to taunt us as a people, eluding all attempts to uproot it, the negative fallouts thereof notwithstanding. For the umpteenth time, it has come up for mention in many public discourses with politicians in particular restating their commitment to fighting and eradicating it from the public service and our body-politick. As a social [...]

Animals are also angry with John Mahama

The greatest news over the weekend was about how an Elephant came out of a forest reserve in a village known as Bagri in the Lawra Nandom area and angrily pulled down the 2012 campaign billboard of John Mahama and rushed back to where it came from. Though the billboards were many, it was only [...]

A Country Where Guinea Fowls Are Valued Than Doctors

Nobody is enthused that our doctors are on strike. I support appeals to the doctors to rescind their decision and return to the wards. They should disregard the unprofessional way the government of Dumsor Mahama is handling them. There is something we all have to come to terms with; the doctors did not just wake [...]

A Piece Of The Meatless Bone!

“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time; but you cannot fool all the people all the time”—Abraham Lincoln Some say strike here, strike there, strike everywhere. Others call it season of strike actions. But I simply refer to it as scrambling for a piece [...]

Industrial strikes in Ghana – A personal reflection

As a Ghanaian with deep interest in the development of my beloved country, I am greatly concerned especially watching labour unions go on strikes one after the other. Strikes seem to have become the best alternative means to drive workers’ demands home. The purpose of this script is to express my profound frustration regarding the [...]