TOP GHANA NEWS HEADLINES FOR TODAY, WEDNESDAY, 31ST AUGUST, 2022

 

GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES

*Two JHS Girls' death: Families call for arrest of boyfriends over text message

*I didn't build any house when I was a Press Secretary - Kwabena Agyapong speaks on 'spirit of contentment'

*Ahotor Project: Asiedu Nketiah’s ‘fight’ needless - Yaw Boateng Gyan backs Dr. Duffour

*Labianca owner not an appointee of Akufo-Addo, she's done nothing wrong - Sam Okudzeto

*Reverend Boakye's wife slaps church elders over offering

*Are you ‘observing how the president continues to pack our courts with partisan judges?’ – NDC replies Justice Douse

*Ato Forson trial: I'm not aware MoH approved payments for ambulances - Agyeman-Manu tells Court

*The Elmina King who was exiled to Sierra Leone for 21 years for standing up to British rule

*Ghana is not a monarchy - MP tackles Kumasi Traditional Council

*Ato Forson trial: What transpired in Court when defence counsel grilled Agyeman-Manu

*My salary was GH¢2,500 as NPP Director of Communication - Yaw Adomako Baafi

*I never said I was suffering; I own a waste management company - NDC MP

*Mahama donates to party but doesn’t dictate its use – Asiedu Nketiah slams Duffuor

*Dafeamekpor releases an alleged list of projects under the $750m Afreximbank loan facility

*Polio vaccine is effective, safe and free - Bole Health Directorate assures

*NDC’s attacks on Akufo-Addo unwarranted - NPP Savannah Regional Organiser

*NAM 1 has no Service Passport - Foreign Affairs Ministry

*Mahama attacking Judiciary because he lost 2020 election petition – Gary Nimako

*S/R: Ako Gunn chides Akufo-Addo over attack on John Jinapor

*W/R: 480-bed capacity dormitory unveiled for Fiaseman SHS

*Lack of support for E-Levy affecting road construction - Amoako-Attah

*Easing economic crisis 'keeps our President up beyond midnight' - Gabby

*Girls advised to still look at abstinence as the first option in their sexual choices

*Adukrom: Two women found dead by roadside

*2021 A-G’s report: GSS paid company GHC60K for no work done

*NDC congratulates Alban Bagbin on his ascension to CPA presidency

*NPP UK celebrates 30th anniversary

*SIM Card Re-registration: Some Ghanaians are like 'vultures' - Prof Kofi Agyekum

*SIM Card Re-registration: It is not good to procrastinate, don't wait for deadline - NPP MP tells Ghanaians

*Curbing galamsey is a collective responsibility - Mireku Duker charges Chiefs, MMDA’s in Ashanti Region

*Akufo-Addo will lead us out of this crisis - 'Optimist' Gabby assures

*Leave judiciary alone, focus on your economic policy alternative – Lawyer to Mahama

*New electricity tariff takes effect Thursday

*UCC students urged to learn Chinese as a second language

*Medical and Dental Council urged to proffer creative strategies to boost numbers

*Fuel laced with water: Rainwater entered underground super tank after downpour – NPA

*Akufo-Addo should have instituted a committee to investigate Col. Damoah - Fmr NDC MP

*I expect labour unions to applaud gov't - Oda MP on gov't's payment of workers' 15% COLA

*Apply technology to boost security at Zoos - Adam Bonaah to Forestry C'ssion

*Judiciary comment: Your call on Mahama misplaced - NDC to Justice Douse

*Provide value to the world - Dampare advises UPSA graduands

*Scrapping KNUST JCR system wrong - Suhuyini

*Tema Police on manhunt for robbers who shot victim Tuesday afternoon

*Mining Company accused of reneging on promise to host communities – Report

*If Col. Damoah has been sacked, why is Labianca's boss still on the Council of State? – MP asks

*It is difficult for the average Ghanaian worker to save – Kofi Akpaloo

*People & Places: The mysterious link between the Gas, Egyptians and the pyramids

*Mahama’s aide honours Tsatsu Tsikata

*No chief has the right to banish anyone – Computer Man challenges

*Tertiary TVET enrolment to hit 100,000 by 2025 – Education Minister

*Who takes the blame for the death of the man mauled by lions at Accra Zoo?

*Here is why the Ga wulomei are always barefoot

*My government will build 1,200,000 housing units for Ghanaians - Kofi Akpaloo

*Man pounds mother, sisters to death with a pestle

*‘Next NDC government will tackle issues of ex-gratia payments head-on’ – Mahama

*Ex-accountant fraudulently withdrew GH¢430,000 from Buipe Polyclinic account – A-G report

*McDan gives hints of political ambitions

*Reverse decision to abolish JCR system – KNUST students petition University Council

*I agree with Odike 100% - Computer Man

*Controversies and more: Col. Damoah's journey as customs boss and how it ended

*Abena Magis fraud claims: What we know so far

*Jean Mensa was prevented from testifying at the 2020 election petition - Edudzi alleges

*Col. Damoah’s removal 'big loss' to state - Importers, Exporters

*We won’t relent in our pursuit of inclusive access to healthcare – Bawumia

*Today In History: Pray to God to be ‘agyapa’ not ‘alibaba’ – Wereko-Brobby jabs Akufo-Addo

*Late Sir John’s wife reported dead

*Man falls from Tamale interchange; suffers life-threatening injuries

*Today in History: Forgive me for campaigning for Nana Akufo-Addo – Akua Blakofe pleads

*Labianca case may die with Col. Damoah’s exit – Vitus Azeem

*BoG had no excuse to collapse Heritage Bank - Kofi Amoabeng opines

*Nigerian trafficked for prostitution sexually abused by helpers

*Forestry Commission orders closure of Accra Zoo

*Immigration officer lands in trouble for allegedly defiling two girls aged 9,10

*Akufo-Addo packing judiciary with openly partisan judges - Mahama

*Kwasi Anin-Yeboah only applying laws, be fair to him – JUSAG replies Mahama

*Churches hold prayer meeting over Krobo, ECG stand-off

*It is worrying that Judiciary is involved in breach of the law – Dafeamekpor on A-G report

*Auditor-General cites top Judges for unlawful purchase of vehicles

*Stability of Cedi: Fiscal authorities must double up with negotiations with IMF – Dr Boakye

*Tarrif increase: Consumers will pay higher percentages than PURC announced – ECG

*Over ¢95k worth of items procured by EOCO officials not budgeted for – Auditor-General’s Report

*Over ¢318k spent by UPSA officers not documented – Auditor-General’s Report

*NPP Flagbearership Race: Leading member in AR calls for early congress

*Northern Region NDC Council condemns attack on party’s secretariat

*>>>SPORTS NEWS HEADLINES...*

*Karlsruher SC coach heaps praise on Ghana new defender Stephan Ambrosius after perfect start to season

*Callum Hudson-Odoi has everything to help us immediately – Bayer Leverkusen director insists

*Didi Dramani refutes claims that foreign Ghanaian players switch nationality because of World Cup

*Inaki Williams' injury could puts Black Stars debut in jeopardy

*Ex-Hearts captain Nii Noi Dowuona now lives in abject poverty, cries for help

*How Kwasi Appiah attempted to convince Dutch striker Cody Gakpo to play for Black Stars

*Here are the Black Stars players who could miss Brazil friendly due to injuries

*Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe reacts to Asamoah Gyan's World Cup declaration

*Ike Quartey is ignorant about coaching - Coach Ofori Asare slams ex-world champion

*Athletic Club provide updates on Inaki Williams' injury

*>>>BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES...*

*Fuel laced with water: Rainwater entered underground super tank after downpour – NPA

*27.15% hike i electricity tariff starts Thursday, September 1

*2021 Auditor General’s report: Power customers owe VRA ¢4.7bn

*Akufo-Addo will lead us out of crisis – Gabby expresses ‘incurably stubborn optimism’

*RE: Suzuki S-PRESSO takes over Accra

*Songhor salt exports will bring enough dollars to help stabilize the Cedi – McDan

*28 OMCs owe GRA more than GH¢402 million — AG’s report

*Ghanaians’ lack of support for E-Levy affecting road construction – Roads Minister

*Kejetia traders sue market management for Ghc1m compensation

*Deputy Lands Minister inspects ongoing housing projects

*>>>ENTERTAINMENT NEWS HEADLINES...*

*I married in a rush because she was pregnant – Kobby Kyei

*Times are hard – Opanka

*Finding a body in a lion's den doesn't mean it killed him - A Plus

*You don’t need much to get married, I did it broke – Kobby Kyei

*Becca bags a Master’s degree with a 3.92 GPA

*'Mother of twins' Afia Schwarzenegger flaunts her bikini body

*Lydia Forson slams Gabby Otchere-Darko over needless comparison

*Delay's team counters Blakk Rasta over Dr. UN school brouhaha

*Burna Boy reportedly charges $500,000 among other incentives for an international show

*Don’t kill yourself over motivational messages - Bridget Otoo

*God will never instruct me to go back to my 'first love' - Joyce Blessing

*>>>AFRICA NEWS HEADLINES...*

*South Africa is not a xenophobic nation - President Ramaphosa

*African women increase chances of giving birth to twins with okra water

*First shipment of grain from Ukraine to Africa docks in Djibouti

*Nigeria EFCC raises alarm over money laundering, cash movements ahead of 2023 elections

*Tanzania: Why NHIF is facing imminent collapse

*Nigerian State, Katsina, records 4 cases of Monkeypox

*Angola president secures re-election, main opposition rejects outcome

*Madagascar police shoot 18 dead in albino kidnap protest: Medic

*Nigeria court blocks top policeman’s extradition to US

*2 railway bosses arrested in South Africa over corruption charges

*>>>WORLD NEWS HEADLINES...*

*Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

*5th China-Africa Media Cooperation forum held in Beijing

*Ukraine wages counterattack to reclaim Russia-occupied Kherson

*Chinese envoy calls for closer cooperation with Africa

*Ukraine war: Russian recruitment drive unlikely to have impact – UK

*3 off-duty Dutch commandos shot outside hotel in Indianapolis

*France accuses Russia of weaponising energy after Gazprom cuts gas deliveries

*'Caméra Libre': a French plan to foster freedom of speech for muzzled filmmakers

*France calls defence meeting to devise 'roadmap' for energy crisis

*EU plans to make it more difficult for Russians to obtain visas