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The Local Government Ministry has announced, the setting aside of some streets within Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions, as street markets during the yuletide. The “Street Hawking Markets”, according to a statement signed by sector Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama, will operate between 5am-11pm from Monday, December 16, 2019, through to …

MPs have approved President Nana Akufo-Addo’s appointees to the Supreme Court, JoyNews’ Kwesi Parker-Wilson reports from the House. The Appointment Committee vetted the three nominees earlier in the week and submitted their report to the House with a recommendation to proceed with their approval. Justice Mariama Owusu, Justice Lovelace Johnson …

Ghana’s most decorated rapper, Sarkodie has obviously forgotten all the wahala that are associated with the recent Cardi B concert in Ghana as he steps out in style in the UK. Described by many of the people who don’t actually know him as somebody who is pompous and over-confident, this latest …

Algeria has a new president in the person of Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The 74-year-old won controversial December 12 elections with 58% of the vote, the national electoral body announced quoting preliminary results. Mr Tebboune, 74, previously served as housing, then information minister. He served seven-months as Prime Minister two years ago …

Two Ghanaian have been sworn into office as high court judges in The Gambia. Justice Alexander Osei Tutu and Justice Francis Apangabuno were sworn into office by President Adama Barrow on Thursday, 12 December 2019 in The Gambia. Both judges were high court judges in Ghana prior to their appointment …

Abena Oppong-Asare of the labour party has been elected as the next MP for Erith and Thamesmead. She follows the footsteps of her male colleagues Adam Afriyie, Sam Philip Gyimah, and Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng. Abena makes history as the first female Ghanaian-British MP in the UK. She grabbed the …

A member of the erstwhile National Reconciliation Commission, Archbishop Palmer Buckle, has described as disheartening how some victims and survivors of various human rights violations in Ghana, during unconstitutional regimes, never received any form of compensations from the government as directed by the Commission. He expressed dissatisfaction with the delay, …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he has never been corrupt. “I’m certainly not corrupt, I continue to say that I’m not corrupt, I’ve not been corrupt; I’ve not taken money from anybody to give anybody contracts”, he told journalists at the Jubilee House on Friday, 13 December 2019 when he …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he has only two family members in his government, thus, ricocheted accusations by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that he has 51 relatives in his “family-and-friends” government. “I’m not presiding over a government of family-and-friends”, the President rebuffed at the Jubilee House on …

LPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that the government is working to ensure strict enforcement of the country’s laws to discourage foreigners from engaging in retail business in the country. The President said he sides with the Ghana Union of Traders Association’s (GUTA) interpretation of the country’s trade laws …

Boris Johnson has promised to deliver Brexit and repay the trust of voters after he led the Conservatives to an “historic” general election win. The prime minister – who has met the Queen to ask to form a new government – has a House of Commons majority of 78, with …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has refused to back a contract extension for Black Stars coach James Kwasi Appiah, claiming any pronouncement he makes will put the Ghana Football Association and the Ministry of Youth and Sports in an awkward situation. The President, during his Meet the Press at the Jubilee House …

The reschedule Presidential Cup match between Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko would come off at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium next Sunday. It will serve as a precursor to the 18-team Ghana Premier League that is expected to take place in the last weekend of December. The game was …

Cardi B in Ghana gave you a December to remember the experience? Then you’ll need to free more space in your mind to remember a lot of things about this December because Beyonce is reportedly coming to Ghana too. According to an exclusive report by pulse.com.gh, the Queen of pop, Beyonce, is …

Libyan military strongman General Khalifa Haftar has called on his forces to begin an advance aimed at capturing the capital, Tripoli. The General’s statement came in a rare, live television broadcast. In April, he launched a major attempt to seize the city – which is held by Libya’s UN-backed government. …

Musician Article Wan has observed that several investors have resolved to not plough money into the music industry mainly because of numerous unfair treatments meted out to them. He claimed in an interview that some artistes extend their promiscuous lives to the girlfriends of these investors as they snatch them …

THE ASANTEHENE, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has cautioned against sabotaging the peace and security currently being enjoyed by the people of Dagbon in the Northern Region. He said it had taken dedication and hard work to bring peace to the Dagbon Kingdom after a protracted chieftaincy dispute and the Ya …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his biggest regret as president in 2019 is over the four girls who were kidnapped and subsequently killed in Takoradi in the Western Region. “My big regret from the begging of this year is the kidnapping and killing of the four girls in Takoradi. …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has jabbed critics of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy who are constantly giving apparently erroneous statistics about the progress of implementation of the policy. According to him, unlike his critics, he has not been sitting in Accra to give statistics about the state of infrastructural …

President Akufo-Addo says government does not have the necessary funds to fix, expand and rehabilitate all the roads in the country. In his words: “We are not going to build all the roads in Ghana, we don’t have that much money, but we will make significant progress in the course …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is holding a media encounter at the Jubilee House after his three-year leadership. The president is expected to speak about the performance of his government in areas of economy, governance, health, education, security among others, and what he is doing to turn around the fortunes …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his biggest regret as president in 2019 is over the four girls who were kidnapped and subsequently killed in Takoradi in the Western Region. “My biggest regret from the begining of this year is the kidnapping and killing of the four girls in Takoradi. …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he disagrees with policy think tank IMANI Africa’s recent score of 48 per cent as far as the delivery of his campaign promises are concerned. “I disagree with the 48 per cent assessment”, he told journalists at the Jubilee House on Friday, 13 December 2019, …

Some 11,000 beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) have so far exited from the programme after successfully securing employment or establishing their own businesses. This is according to the Chief Executive of NABCO, Dr. Ibrahim Anyars. Established in October 2018 to address graduate unemployment, beneficiaries of the programme are …

Ghanaians embarked on a traumatic and divisive journey into their troubled past starting 2002 when the National Reconciliation Commission began investigating the bloody secrets of dictatorial unconstitutional regimes. The formula was simple: torturers, killers and their political leaders were to come forward and confess their crimes and that if they …