Yearly Archives: 2019

Goodbye to Her Ladyship Chief Justice Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo

Friday, December 20, 2019, marks the end of Her Ladyship the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo’s tenure as Ghana’s 13thChief Justice since independence and the 6th Chief Justice under Ghana’s 4th Republican Constitution. Quite unfortunately, there seems to be a growing notion that Her Ladyship the Chief Justice has not acquitted …

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Fuel prices to go up again

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has hinted of another upward adjustment in fuel prices at the pumps. According to the chamber, the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has written to Petroleum Service Providers notifying them of an adjustment “some elements on the already high petroleum price build-up and fuel prices”. Fuel …

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Are you crazy? – Andy Dosty to Shatta Wale

Radio presenter Andy Dosty cannot fathom Shatta Wale’s behaviour towards him over the weekend and is posing a rhetorical question to the dancehall artiste in that regard. “Is he crazy or what?” He asked on the Daybreak Hitz show, Monday. According to Andy Dosty, he dared Shatta Wale on Twitter …

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Police arrest five suspected illegal gun manufacturers

The Central Regional Police Command has arrested five people for allegedly manufacturing local weapons in a special operation at Assin Brofoyedur in the Assin Municipality of the region. Commissioner of Police (COP) Paul Manly Awini, the Regional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, said the Police acted on intelligence that …

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CDD reacts to Akufo-Addo’s 72 per cent grading

IMANI, in a latest assessment of the promises made by President Nana Akufo-Addo in the run-up to the 2016 elections concluded that only 48.78 percent of the promises have been fulfilled. The report further indicated out of the 510 promises made by government, only 27 per cent of them have …

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Zambia asks US to withdraw ambassador over gay row

The president of Zambia Edgar Lungu says his government has asked the United States to withdraw its ambassador, after the diplomat criticised the jailing of two men for being in a gay relationship. Daniel Foote said he was “horrified” last month when a judge sentenced the men to 15 years …

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Zimbabwe vice president’s wife due in court over fraud

Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Zimbabwe’s Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, will on Monday appear in court to face charges of money laundering and fraud. The fraud charges arise from an alleged attempt to forge a marriage certificate without her husband’s consent while he was sick. The couple was customarily married …

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Ghana’s foreign missions unable to pay rent, utilities

Member of Parliament for North Tongu says the country’s foreign missions are playing hide and seek with their landlords because of their inability to pay rent. According to Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, this is because the Finance Ministry is starving the foreign missions of funds they need to operate. “The Foreign Ministry has suffered …

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