The Electoral Commission has justified the decision to change the voters’ register with just a year to the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. According to the Commission, the current register has been over-stretched, hence, the need for a new one with enhanced features to protect its credibility. Addressing the media …

The Ashanti regional Police anti-robbery task force has arrested Baba Musah one of the alleged deadly armed robbers in the region. Baba Musah until his arrest has been on the Police command’s wanted list for more than six years dating from the era of COP Kofi Nathan Boakye. The suspect …

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has threatened legal action against the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) over a directive to oil marketers to increase fuel prices at the pumps. This directive according to COPEC is illegal and unconstitutional and must be reversed immediately else face court tomorrow. According to the chamber, …

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) is demanding the payment of allowances of nurses and midwives interns on national service across the country to prevent any industrial action. The GRNMA alleges that the majority of these nurses have not been paid since April 2019. President of the Association, …

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 …

Action Patriots for Justice, (APJ) a group associated with the ruling NPP has described the former President John Mhamah as “a leader without conscience”, saying: “If indeed he had a conscience, he would run away whenever the issue of corruption is mentioned adding that, had it not been AG and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …