The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says it provided investigative and evidentiary support to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), contributing to the conviction of former Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Managing Director, Asante Kwaku Berko, in a US bribery case.
Finance Minister and outgoing Acting Minister for Defence, Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, has commissioned the newly constructed Butler Barracks and Offices Complex in Burma Camp.
The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a 54-year-old man, Mohammed Rahman, and the shooting of his wife, Christiana Fosu, 53, at Tuba near Weija in the Greater Accra Region.
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has expressed concern over delays in the promotion and placement of teachers within the Ghana Education Service (GES).
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has directed heads of pre-tertiary schools across the country to stop administering assessment items and mock examinations that have not been vetted and approved by the Council.
The North East Regional Directorate of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has cautioned residents, farmers, herdsmen, and all persons living in flood-prone areas to evacuate to higher grounds as the Bagre Dam is set to be spilled into Ghana.
The Greater Accra Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has served a 21-day notice on many beachfront night clubs, eateries and other hospitality facilities at Laboma Beach in the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly to vacate the buffer zones or face forcible removal.
Two people died on Thursday while five others sustained various injuries in a road traffic crash at Abor Junction on the Mankessim-Accra section of the N1 highway.
The deceased, a man and a woman, died at the scene, while the injured, comprising two women and three men, were taken to the hospital for treatment.
The driver of the vehicle escaped the crash unhurt.
The Central Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), DOII Abdul Wasiu Hudu said a rescue team from the Mankessim Fire Station, working in collaboration with the National Ambulance Service arrived at the scene to find a Toyota Voxy with registration number AS 8911-25 extensively damaged after the crash.
He said nine occupants were involved in the accident, comprising two females and seven males.
He said three of the injured victims were transported to the Mercy Women Catholic Hospital at Mankessim for emergency medical care, while the bodies of the deceased were conveyed to the Saltpond Government Hospital mortuary.
He added that the cause of the accident was yet to be established.
A US federal jury in Brooklyn has convicted a former Goldman Sachs investment banker and one-time Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery, Kwaku Asante Berko, on all counts in a foreign bribery and money laundering case tied to a Ghanaian power plant project.
The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has barred two Port Health officers from operating at Accra International Airport after they were found to have extorted money from a Foreign passport holder for the issuance of a Yellow Fever Card.
