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Scrap MPs Common Fund; We Are Not Agents Of Developments – Okudzeto

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency in the Volta Region, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has called on the government to scrap the percentage of the Assemblies’ Common Fund allocated to Members of Parliament. According to him, many people are expecting the MPs to be agents of developments in …

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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to address Parliament next week

Popular American politician and Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is set to address Ghana’s Parliament next week Wednesday. The former California representative will be part of an entourage of US lawmakers to visit Ghana next week before parliament goes on break on Friday. As speaker of …

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Bank Fraud: Why is Otabil, Ato Essien still walking free – lawyer asks

Private Legal Practitioner, Maurice Ampaw is questioning why founder of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr Mensa Otabil and the likes of William Ato Essien are walking free with their properties intact when they allegedly played roles in the collapsed banks. On Kumasi Fm monitored by MyNewsGh.com, he proposed that their …

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4 dead, others injured in gory accident

Four women have been confirmed dead, with 10 other passengers injured after the bus they were travelling in got involved in an accident around Koluedor in the Ada West District of the Greater Accra Region. The accident occurred on the Tema-Aflao Highway. The bodies have been deposited at the Bator …

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NAM1 granted GHS1bn bail

The embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of gold dealership firm, Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1), has been admitted to a GHS1-billion bail bond by an Accra Circuit Court on Friday, 26 July 2019.He is to provide five sureties.Earlier, aggrieved customers of the now-defunct firm stormed the court with …

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Vigilantism Bill finally passed into law

The Vigilantism and Related Offences Bill, 2019 has finally been passed by Parliament after corrections were effected on Clause 7 (3) of the Bill. Parliament first passed the bill last Monday, but it rescinded the passage following a motion moved by the Majority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, that the sentencing …

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I’ll welcome ideas from Ghanaians for effective policing – Acting IGP

The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) James Oppong-Boanuh has said he is open to public opinion in shaping policies to make the police service an effective one. He says, his administration will continue with programs started by his predecessor to ensure the highest professional standard such as capacity building, provision …

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Sanitation Minister gifts Adom FM intern chocolate after Multimedia visit, apology

The Multimedia Group and its business unit Adom FM, on Wednesday, 25 July 2019 visited the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah in her office to apologise to her over a recent publication by an intern of the local-language speaking radio station which attracted public opprobrium against …

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Supreme Court orders sale of 2 Woyome Trassaco mansions

The woes of embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome is far from over as Supreme Court yet in another ruling has ordered for the sale of two of his Trassaco mansions to offset part of the debt owed the state. The court presided over by Justice Baffoe Bonnie directed that the …

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NCA CASE: SC cautions High Court Judge, AG over procedural errors

A five-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Sule Gbadegbe, has cautioned the trial judge in the case of the Republic verses Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie and four others, Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, as well as the Attorney General’s Department not to abuse the criminal trial procedure in pursuit of the …

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