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Controversial Ghanaian socialite, Ibrah One has alleged that President Nana Akufo-Addo has paid $1.7m to the Supreme Court judges to rule John Mahama’s election petition in his favour.   The NDC flagbearer refused to accept the EC’s verdict after the declaration of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner of …

A 45-year-old tutor at Namon Senior High School in the Offinso Municipality of the Ashanti region has been remanded by the Offinso Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding two Pastors and other residents of the community of a total amount of GHS244,700. The two Pastors namely Bernard Kokroko and Eric Owusu …

Ghana will have to make a case to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to secure Ebola vaccines as a buffer to protect its citizenry, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has said. According to him, that had become necessary after three people had been reported …

A former student of the Icodehs Islamic JHS where the Minister-Designate for Fisheries, Hawa Koomson, was once a headmistress has revealed that she insisted on speaking English in the school when she headed the school. The former student, identified as Alhaji Sterling on social media said that Ms Hawa Koomson …

Former Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress has stated that he voted for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over John Dramani Mahama because the former was a better leader and competent than the latter. According to Allotey Jacobs, he urged all his family members to vote for …

Parliament’s Appointments Committee will approve all ministerial nominees put forward by president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo because so far there are no constitutional blocks facing any of them. This was the view of Insuah Fuseini, a lawyer and former lawmaker, whose submissions GhanaWeb monitored on NewsFile, Joy FM’s news analysis program today, …

Anti-corruption campaigner, Mr Vitus Azeem has called for the creation of a specialized committee of Parliament that will scrutinize all government contracts presented to the House by the Attorney General before the general discussions on it by the entire House for approval. He suggested that the committee should be made up of …

Mavis Hawa Koomson, the Minister-nominee for Fisheries and Aquaculture has disclosed that she was a teacher with over two decades of experience. The Awutu Senya East Member of Parliament took her turn at the ministerial vetting on Thursday, February 18, 2021. Hawa Koomson in a brief profile stated that for …

COVID-19 records in Ghana show a plateau of the active cases since February 1, 2021. “We are still at a very high point” albeit declining case numbers, Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, told a Press conference on Friday, February, 19, 2021, “There has been a decline compared to …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of 401 candidates suspected to have been involved in various examination malpractices during the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates. This follows the release of the examination results for private candidates who sat the WASSCE …

Though Jean Mensa will not be mounting the witness box, she has not failed to mount the invisible red carpets of the Supreme Court, this time with witnesses she may be open to seconding. And from the perspective of the fashion police, she did not take any prisoners as she …

Petitioners who had served the President with a petition demanding the removal of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) have notified the police of their intention to picket the Presidency, the EC Headquarters, and the Supreme Court following the apparent refusal of the President to forward the …

The Supreme Court has dismissed a review application by Former President John Dramani Mahama challenging the court’s decision not to compel the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa. The nine-member review panel, in a unanimous decision, tossed out the application because it did not meet the legal threshold. Two new …

A nine-member panel of the Supreme Court has dismissed an application for Review by the Petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition before the apex court to review its own ruling that it cannot compel Chairperson of the Electoral Commission to testify. Lawyers of the Petitioner led by Mr Tsatsu Tsikata …

Staunch Member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has taken a subtle jab at Dr. Justice Moses K. Aheto, a biostatistician who was key in the collation of votes of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), saying that he deserves the Nobel Prize for Phantom Statistics for …

Counsel for the 2nd respondent in the ongoing hearing of the election petition, Mr Akoto Ampaw has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a review application filed by counsel for the petitioner against the earlier ruling of the court that no witness can be compelled to testify. The Supreme Court …

It was widely anticipated, that the vetting of Mavis Hawa Koomson, Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister-designate will be an interesting one. She certainly has made her name, in the past for certain issues including the shooting incident at the Awutu Senya Constituency. This was the first question posed at her by Parliament‘s Appointments …

The President’s Minister nominee for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson is currently before the Appointments Committee of Parliament. The Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East served as Minister for Special Development Initiatives in the first term government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The President who is currently constituting his second term government has …

The students at the Seikwa Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the Tain District of the Bono Region are living in extreme fear because of rampant armed-robbery attacks and other criminal activities at the College’s female hostel. The students told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview on Wednesday …

Hundreds of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) members have taken to social media to demand their party accounts for its own collated results in the just-ended election instead of deceiving them with the court case, MyNewsGh.com has filed. The footsoldiers of the party say it appears the NDC led by John Dramani …

128 lives have been claimed so far by coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the first two weeks of February 2021 in Ghana. The daily update released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) shows that Ghana recorded 22.8% deaths from Coronavirus between February 1, 2021 to February 13, 2021. Ghana’s coronavirus related …

Two Civil Society Organisations have passed a negative verdict on Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Communications and Digitalisation Minister-nominee after her vetting at the Appointments Committee of Parliament. Sulemana Braimah, the Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) told Joy Prime in a report broadcast on Wednesday and monitored …

Minister-designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has intimated that the phenomenom of child labour is a big societal problem, so much so that some legislators in Ghana’s Parliament are not able to fully appreciate it. Taking his turn before the Appointments Committee of Parliament for vetting on Wednesday, February 17, …

Some Farmers in the northern parts of the country say they will keenly monitor the Vetting Proceedings on Friday when the Minister-designate for Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto appears before the House. The farmers say due to the COVID-19 restrictions which makes it impossible for them to appear in person to …

The state is to pull down the four-decade-old uncompleted maternity and children’s block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) officials have announced. This, according to government officials is to allow for the reconstruction of an entirely new ultramodern edifice at the nation’s second referral centre. Speaking on the Happy …

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has said he is not interested in becoming a party chairman for now. According to him, he is happy with being the General Secretary in view of the tremendous change that had taken place. “Contesting as a chairman will mean …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has urged the Ghanaian public on the resurgence of the Ebola virus after confirmed cases were reported in Guinea and Nigeria. The GMA in a letter dated February 15, 2021, cautioned the public of their lifestyle as 7 cases of the virus confirmed by sister …

Rockson-Nelson Este Kwami Dafeamekpor, the NDC MP for South Dayi has said the Petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition at the Supreme Court should file a motion to discontinue the hearing. According to him, looking at how the Justices at the Supreme Court are throwing out motions filed by the Counsels for …

Suspended member of the National Democratic Congress Allotey Jacobs has advised the party to coil back and reorganize the party for 2024 as they could face the shocks of their lives in 2024 should the New Patriotic Party present Vice President Bawumia. According to him, if the party continues to thread on …