Parliament has approved a request for waiver of taxes and duties totalling US$10.24 million on materials, equipment, and services to be procured for the rehabilitation of the National Trunk Road N8 (phase 2). The duties and tax waivers comprise Import Duty, NHIL/GETfund Levy, Import VAT, EXIM Levy, Special Import Levy, ECOWAS …

Actor John Dumelo has revealed that he is going back to farming after conceding defeat in the just-ended parliamentary election to the Member of Parliament to Ayawaso West Wuogon(AWW) Lydia Seyram Alhassan. John Dumelo after Lydia Alhassan had been declared the winner of the Ayawaso West Wuogon contest wrote to the …

The pride of every father is to see his son long to become like him, especially when the path the father took was a good one. The same could be said of Wayne Rooney and his son as his son, Kai seeks to step in his father’s shoes by signing …

The Government of Ghana has provided a temporary resettlement for members of the Kantamanto Traders Association.   Following the recent fire outbreak at the Kantamanto market in Accra, the Government has in consultation with the Ministry of Railways Development, has agreed to allow the traders use the car park of …

Emmanuel Nana Appiah Sam was denied a certificate at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) after 14 attempts at graduation. He revealed on his LinkedIn page that he had pursued BSc. Agriculture and was given a maximum of four semesters (two years) to rewrite all the referred …

Dr Ernest Addison, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), has given an indication that Ghana’s economy is on a steady rebound with indicators pointing towards pre-pandemic levels. According to the BoG, their survey on consumer confidence suggests that the economic activity in the country has started picking up in some dormant …

Kwaku Owusu Baah, Board Chairman of the Cocoa Processing Company Limited, says the Company is now better placed to retool and rehabilitate its obsolete plant and machinery to fully increase its production and consumption base. This he said would enable them to have full access to its processing lines and …

The Ghana Prisons Service says it is augmenting its fight against the infiltration of contraband items into its prisons across the country, Director General Patrick Darko Missah has indicated. Prohibited items including mobile phones, cigarettes and Indian hemp have been a menace in prisons across the country, with several prisons …

Popular Ghanaian musician, Shatta Wale and Ghana’s most sought after social media sensation, Hajia Bintu, have met for the first time at the former’s mansion in Accra for an upcoming feature. From what zionfelix.net has picked up, this meeting between Shatta Wale and Hajia Bintu was not for pleasure but strictly business. According to …

Three people have been killed and seven injured, mostly children, after a taxi and a truck collided near Vereeniging in the early hours of Friday. Paramedics were called out to the scene on the R59 between Sasolburg and Vereeniging where they found a taxi rolled over on its side and …

Joseph Anokye, the Director-General of the National Communications Authority (NCA) cum NPP election collation IT guru has contradicted the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) over votes cast in the Techiman South Constituency in the parliamentary election. According to him, while the party’s internal collation of the Techiman South presidential results goes to …

The Electoral Commission has dismissed claims by the National Democratic Congress that it is scheming to deactivate data on the 2020 polls on the Biometric Verification Devices in order to cover-up alleged fraud in the elections. The NDC at a press conference in Accra Thursday said the EC had sent …

Exhausted and dishevelled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram experienced their first full day of freedom on Friday after a nearly week-long ordeal. But relief at their survival mingled with concern that many others could still be captive, and the circumstances of their …

Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has admonished Members of Parliament (MPs) to beef-up their personal security from now till the swearing-in of the new Parliament on January 7, 2021. He said it was important for members to make the necessary security arrangement via the security outfit of the House for their …

A total of eight lives, including three minors were lost during the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. They are Zakaria Samira, 12, Musah Fuseini, 14 Botwe Tackie, 16, Abdallah Ayarek, 18; Tajudeen Mohammed, 41, Dompreh Emmanuel, 36, and Abass Ibrahim whose age was not stated. About 15 other electorate also …

The decomposed body of a pregnant woman has been found in a bush near Kumasi Parks and Gardens office at the Nhyiaeso within the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region. City authorities reportedly discovered the body on Thursday morning when a man who went to the scene to ease himself …

Smock Weavers in the Bolgatanga Central market are complaining of poor patronage of smocks ahead of this year’s Christmas festivities. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, the Weavers attributed the situation to the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease. Mr Michael Agurayine, a …

As nations worldwide continue to embrace the concept of waste as a resource to cherish and not to discard, Ghana is also coming up with initiatives that will not only improve the sanitation situation, but also contribute to sustainable industrial development. One such initiative is the Hybrid Waste to Energy …

US Ambassador Stephanie S. Sullivan has met with former President John Dramani Mahama barely a week after he rejected results of the December 7 general elections. The US Ambassador also met Mr Mahama’s running mate in the elections, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, at the meeting on Thursday, December 17. They “discussed the recent …

Asante Kotoko have been condemned to their first defeat in the season after losing the matchday 3 outstanding fixture against Great Olympics on Thursday. Midfielder Michael Yeboah scored the decisive goal in the second half as Olympics secured a 1-0 victory at the Accra Sports Stadium. The first half ended …

Sammy Gyamfi, the Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress has presented to the general public evidence of electoral fraud in the just-ended December 7 elections, which his party has gathered so far. He maintained that the 2020 presidential election results declared by Jean Mensa, the Electoral Commission (EC) …

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Mr Emmanuel Marvin Essandoh has remanded one Collins Kwaku Kwanin aka Kola, the man who is alleged to have shot and injured a journalist with Newswatchgh.com and two others. Pius Asiedu and two others were at the receiving of a gun shot …

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has won the controversial Sene West Parliamentary seat in the Bono East region. Provisional results show that on Thursday, 17 December 2020 the NDC polled 13,116 votes beating the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate by 16 votes after he polled 13,100 votes. This …

The National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate for Sene West has retained his seat as the Member of Parliament for the constituency. This comes after the Electoral Commissioncounted the ballot papers from the Tato Battor Polling Station B which were prior to this locked up at the Techiman police station following a …

The National House of Chiefs is urging all dissatisfied candidates or political parties on the outcome of the December 7 general elections to endeavor to seek redress by using the laid down processes and procedure for the settlement of electoral disputes.   The House said the numerous demonstrations by a …

Ashanti Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTD), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) and the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) are embarking on road safety Campaign dubbed “Arrive Alive’’ aimed at reducing carnage on the roads before, during and after Christmas. The campaign seeks to sensitise road users and …

Ghana’s economy has, for the first time in nearly four decades, experienced a recession for consecutively two quarters of 2020. According to provisional GDP figures by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), the economy suffered a contraction as a result of the adverse impact of the coronavirus pandemic and its associated …

The Electoral Commission has released the pink sheets for the presidential elections held simultaneously with the parliamentary elections on December 7, 2020. The pink sheets as they are popularly known are results sheets used to collate data from the polling stations through to the regions. The EC on Wednesday, December 16, released …

The Wench High Court has thrown out a case brought before it by the New Patriotic Party against the Electoral Commission and the National Democratic Congress on the Sene West Parliamentary Elections. The court ruled that the said case lacks merit, reason it was dismissed. The NPP has also been fined an amount of GHS 20,000 …

Some prominent individuals in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have arrived in Wenchi in the Bono Region ahead of the High Court ruling on the Sene West constituency election petition. The petitioners are seeking that the court grants them favour that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate for Sene West, Joseph Markay Kumah be …