The National Secretary for United Patriots of NPP, a pro-NPP group, Kwabena Frimpong has appealed to the President of the Republic, H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to permit members of Parliament and Constituency Executives to choose their preferred MMDCES to help avoid the numerous tension that brewed between them that …
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Nana Yaw Basoa Wins Ahafo Regional Council Of State Elections In A Landslide Victory
The Ahafo Regional Council of State Elections was one of the keenly contested in the Country. The elections were held today. 12th February 2021 at the Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council, Goaso, the Regional Capital. Yaw Basoa, a native of Duayaw Nkwanta who also doubles as chief, Farmer and a Businessman …
Read More »I regret accusing Mahama falsely – NAPO
Former Education Minister and now Minister-designate for Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has retracted and apologized to former President John Dramani Mahama for accusing him of busing people to the Independence Square in 2017, to come and fake a fainting scene during the placements for students into senior high schools. According to …
Read More »Ras Mubarak loses Council of State polls with no vote
Former Kumbungu lawmaker Ras Mubarak has lost his run to represent the Northern region on the Council of State. The outspoken politician garnered no vote in the Friday election. The winner, Chief Zung Mahamud Tahiru, obtained 23 votes with his closest contender Chief Pishegu Alhassan Andani securing 8 votes. The …
Read More »COVID-19: Akosombo Int’l School begins shift system
Akosombo International School is set to begin a shift system to curb the spread of Covid-19 infection in the school. This comes on the back of about 80 positive cases recorded in the school after three weeks of reopening. The Volta River Authority (VRA) announced the development in a press statement …
Read More »NDC is in crisis – Atubiga admits
A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Communications Stephen Atubiga team has acknowledged that the NDC is in crisis. According to him, at this time when the party is in court, it’s imperative that all members provide the needed support and not go against the political party to make utterances against …
Read More »Supreme Court throws out Mahama’s request to cross-examine Jean Mensa
Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission will not undergo cross-examination, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court after listening and weighing the submissions of the counsels for the petitioner and first and second respondents has declared that Jean Mensa and McManu cannot be compelled to testify. Delivering the …
Read More »KNUST Student arrested Over Threat To Burn Down Supreme Court
The Police have reportedly arrested An Emergency Nursing student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Simon Awini Ayamga. Simon Awini’s arrest comes after he reportedly threatened to burn down the Supreme Court of Ghana. According to a report by GhanaXtra, Simon while commenting on WhatsApp group warned …
Read More »Let’s Not Forget We Have Judge -Made Laws
Folks, In 2019, The Supreme Court(UK) unprecedentedly and a surprise to many legal and political commentators, declared Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament at the peak the Brexit crisis as unconstitutional or ultra votes; and ordered the Prime Minister to recall Parliament immediately. This was because the Supreme Court among …
Read More »Top American universities chase 2020 best WASSCE candidate from Mfantsipim School
Cecil Tetteh Kumah, a 16-year-old student of Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast, who emerged overall best candidate in the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) 2020 has made history as one of the few people in the world to have the luxury of ‘bouncing’ offers from IVY League institutions. The …
Read More »New NPP MP lobbies NDC MPs to disqualify a particular Akufo-Addo minister-designate
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) first-time Member of Parliament(MP) has been revealed to be secretly lobbying National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament to ensure a particular Akufo-Addo ministerial nominee is not recommended for approval, MyNewsGh.com has learnt. The first time NPP MP beyond having a grudge with the minister-designate also believes Ghana will be better off …
Read More »Sekyere Kumawu DCE under fire
Some aggrieved ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) members, sympathizers, and citizens of Sekyere Kumawu district in Ashanti Region of Ghana have called for the removal of their District Chief Executive (DCE), Samuel Addai Agyekum. This comes up after the aggrieved members described the DCE as having “woefully failed” as a …
Read More »Koku’s reaction to his suspension will shock you
Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has reacted to the news of his suspension from the party. The party, in a letter addressed to Mr Anyidoho and signed by the NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the suspension is pending a final determination of a …
Read More »Universities’ Senior Staff suspend strike
The Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSA-UOG) has suspended its industrial action. Members of the association have been on strike for close to three weeks in protest of delay by the government to pay outstanding Tier-2 contributions of their retired members. The suspension follows an interlocutory injunction secured …
Read More »Akufo-Addo came to court with over 11,000 pink sheets and evidence in 2013 – Oppong Nkrumah
The spokesperson for President Akufo-Addo’s legal team says the petitioner’s witnesses have failed to provide evidence to prove their case in the election petition hearing. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah told the media after Monday’s hearing, that comparing the ongoing election petition filed by the 2020 NDC presidential candidate, John Mahama to …
Read More »Jean Mensa Needs To Mount The Witness Box
When an expert or a person is vested with the constitutional responsibility to perform certain statutory duties, and the expert hires a lawyer about his/her official and statutory duties, the expert ought to be giving instructions to the lawyer and not the other way around. Madam Jean Mensa is …
Read More »Supreme Court Sets Date To Rule On Cross-Examination Of Jean Mensa
The Supreme Court will on Thursday, decide whether or not Madam Jean Mensa and Peter Mac Manu will mount the witness box. Lawyer Justine Amenuvor on Monday had told the Supreme court that “given the evidence of the petitioner’s witnesses under cross-examination so far, of those witnesses, speaking for the …
Read More »VIDEO: Can I answer to you one at a time! – Tsatsu clashes with SC bench
Exchanges between lead counsel for the petitioner in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition hearing, Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata, and some justices on the bench hearing the petition in Supreme Court, escalated to a point where Tsikata had to demand to answer a question at a time. Mr. Tsikata was arguing his case as to …
Read More »Koku Anyidoho Suspended
The National Democratic Congress has suspended its former deputy general secretary Koku Anyidoho. It comes after some members of the party petitioned its leadership for his suspension following his recent attacks on the party and its 2020 flagbearer John Mahama. “The with immediate effect, your membership of the NDC is …
Read More »NDC should deal with Rojo Mettle-Nunoo – Vim Lady
Radio and Television personality, Afia Pokuaa, has called on the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to punish its third witness, Robert Mettle Nonoo, for leaving the Strong Room of the EC during the 2020 elections. Robert Mettle Nonoo in court said he left the Electoral Commission’s Strong Room after identifying …
Read More »5 years, zero justice – Wife of former Abuakwa North MP speaks
Wife of the slain Abuakwa North MP, JB Danquah Adu, Ivy Heward-Mils, has lamented over the delay in justice for her late husband, 5 years after his gruesome murder. Today marks exactly 5 years since a then incumbent MP, JB Danquah Adu was murdered in his residence at Shiashie, a …
Read More »Election Petition: Afari-Gyan’s name pops up in court
Third witness for the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing, Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, told the Supreme Court on Monday, February 8 that former Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, gave representatives of the various presidential candidates in an election in the strong room opportunities to correct some …
Read More »2020 FRANCOPHONIE French Quiz Competition Held In Accra
The final results of the 2020 edition of the Francophonie French Quiz Competition have been released. The quiz is organized annually to enrich and revive the spirit of the study of the French language among Ghanaians. Announcing the results during the last program for the Primary School category, which …
Read More »Agyemang Manu Is a Failure, Revoke His Appointment – Bono Group to Prez Akufo-Addo
MOVEMENT FOR NPP GRASSROOTS, SUNYANI Firstly, we as a group has taken notice of the failure of the Minister of Health, The Honourable Minister has fail in managing of COVID-19, information as compared to the Director General (DG) Dr Patrick Kuma ABOAGYE who has been leading the the crusade …
Read More »Perspectives On Election Petition At Supreme Court 2020-Amicus Curiae;Burden Of Ec’s Accountability Or Petitioner’s Allegations?
Ghana has again witnessed a petition to the Supreme Court (SC) concerning the outcome of a Presidential Election. Nevertheless, there are a number of incidences that has occurred with this petition that leaves me and a lot of citizens befuddled as to what exactly is going on. Which principle can …
Read More »SC to decide Jean Mensa’s cross-examination today
The Supreme Court will on Tuesday, February 9, hear legal arguments from parties involved in the 2020 Election Petition on whether the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa will mount the witness box to testify or not. After the Petitioner John Dramani Mahama had closed his case after …
Read More »Court grants Koku Anyidoho’s request for substituted service against Gunu
A Tema High Court has issued an order for substituted service on Dzifa Gunu, the member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who allegedly claimed that Koku Anyidoho, a former deputy general secretary of the party and Founder of Atta-Mills Institute killed his 8-year-old daughter for ritual purposes. The court upon reading the …
Read More »NPP Chairman sacks pupils from classroom, locks up building
Jaman South Constituency First Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Henry Yaw Afful has allegedly locked up the Ampenkro/Asatroa primary school. According to the Chronicles newspaper, the chairman who sacked the pupils from the classroom before the closure, claims the government has not paid him for a work done. …
Read More »COVID-19: Close schools now – GMA to gov’t
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) says schools in the country must be shut down in order to control the rising spread of Coronavirus in the country. The call comes in the wake of increasing fatalities among COVID patients in the country. The death rate of the virus has reached 464 …
Read More »Recruitment of doctors, dentists to begin 9 Feb
Recruitment of medical doctors and dentists who have completed their house jobs into the Ministry of Health, will commence on Tuesday, 9 February 2021. This was announced by the Ministry in a statement issued by its Acting Chief Director, Kwabena Boadu Oku-Afari on behalf of the Minister. The statement informed …
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