157 Cases Recorded
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that 157 cholera cases have been reported in the Central regional capital, Cape Coast. Addressing the media in Accra on Wednesday, the Director of Public Health,...
Day: November 2, 2016
Justice Beyond Judicial Review Is An Act Of Grandiosity
An Accra high court asked electoral commissioner (EC) of Ghana to rescind her decision to disqualify Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom from contesting in the 2016 presidential election. On Monday October 31, 2016,...
New Oil Refinery Promises Are Ambitious – ACEP To Political Parties
The African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), wants political parties seeking to establish new oil refineries to be cautious, describing the decision as defeating economic principles with the current...
Mahama Installed As Mpuntuohene
The President is wrapping up his campaign tour of the region where his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has targeted 50 per cent of votes in the December polls although the region is...
Cedi Stability Requires Export-Driven Boost – Terkper
Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has acknowledged that despite the cedi’s relative stability this year, stronger measures, beyond the sale of external dollar debt, are required to shore up local...
Uganda Leader Orders Closure of Makerere University
President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has ordered the closure of the country’s highest learning institution, Makerere University, “in order to guarantee safety of persons and property”....
Obama’s Disappointing Legacy In Africa
The last we saw of President George W. Bush in Africa, he was literally dancing into the sunset of his presidency, on this occasion with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia, Liberia,...
IBO Title Belt Arrives In Accra
The International Boxing Organisation (IBO) Lightweight Championship belt for the winner of the November 25 fight between Emmanuel “Game Boy” Tagoe and Fernando David Saucedo arrived in Accra...
EC Is Dabbling In Triviality – Professor Kweku Asare
Constitutional Lawyer, Professor Stephen Kweku Asare is asking the Electoral Commission to focus on its core mandate, warning the electoral body may end up disenfranchising some voters with the...
No Return For Kevin, Muntari – GFA
Ghana Football Association (GFA) has insisted that ‘bad boys’ Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Ali Muntari remain banned and would not be allowed to return to the Black Stars anytime soon, despite...
Irresponsibility Underpinned By Madness
The act of commission or omission regarding the replenishment of essential stocks at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital is an act of irresponsibility underpinned by a dose of madness on the part of the...
Supreme Court To Hear EC Vs Nduom Case On Friday
The Supreme Court has abridged the date for the hearing of an application filed by Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) challenging a high court decision which overturned its disqualification of...
Yes, He Has No Choice But To Go!!!
“Maybe, before he exits power, he will still decide not to pay us compensation. Nonetheless he will go. He has no choice but he will go” – Nana Ansah Asiedu, Gyaasehene of Abotoase. The sages...
Mahama Didn’t Build Abirem Market, Chief Lied
A group calling itself Concerned Youth of Abirem in the Eastern Region has refuted a claim made by the chief of the area that President John Mahama built the Abirem market. In a press statement...
Court To Hear EC’s Application For Abridgment Today
The Supreme Court will today hear an application of abridgment of time by the Electoral Commission in their suit for a review of the decision of the High Court judgement on the disqualification of...
EC Is Dabbling In Triviality – Constitutional Lawyer Fires
Constitutional Lawyer, Professor Stephen Kweku Asare is asking the Electoral Commission to focus on its core mandate, warning the electoral body may end up disenfranchising some voters with the...
Recall Muntari, KP Boateng
A former Chairman of the Ghana Football Association, Lepowura M. N.D Jawula, has admonished Black Stars coach Avram Grant to recall midfielders Sulley Muntari and Kevin Prince Boateng into the Senior...
Supreme Court Orders Latter’s Lawyers To File Statement
The Supreme Court has begun hearing the application for review brought before it by Ghana’s elections management body, Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) over a High Court judgement. The judgement,...
Don’t Invite Boateng To the Black Stars – Swag Chief
President of the Sports Writers' Association of Ghana, Kwabena Yeboah, says it would be unwise to give Kevin-Prince Boateng a recall to the Black Stars. Boateng, 29, is currently serving an...
€38m Loan For Eastern Region University ‘daylight Robbery’ – Agyarko
The Policy Adviser of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Emmanuel Agyarko has described the 38 million euro loan agreement secured by the government for the University of...