Day: December 19, 2016 - Page 3

Our Covenant With the Akufo-Addo Regime

It has taken President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo a decade of struggle to finally seal his place in the history of this country as the Fourth Head of State, since the proclamation of the...

Eyewitness News, Monday, 19th December, 2016

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African States Narrowly Fail To Stop U.N. Gay Rights Envoy Work

African states narrowly failed on Monday for a second time to halt the work of the first U. N. independent investigator appointed to help protect gay and transgender people worldwide from violence...

Citi Sports’ Rahman Osman Interviews Ashley Fletcher

Last Minute Contracts Signing Breaches Transition Act – Lecturer

A senior Political Science lecturer says last minute contracts being signed by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) breaches the spirit of the Presidential Transition Act (845). Professor...

Fate of Afoko, Crabbe, Kwabena Agyapong Yet To Be Considered – NPP

The New Patriotic Party has rejected claims that the party is considering a reversal of the suspension handed to three of its executives. Reports surfaced last week that the party was considering a...

A-Plus Was A Brick In My Campaign – Akufo-Addo

President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said hip life musician A-Plus played an important role to ensure the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the December 7 presidential and parliamentary...

44 Perish In Election-Period Accidents

A total of 44 people died during Ghana’s electioneering period between 7 and 10 December, 2016. 100 accident cases were reported within the period with about 157 vehicles involved. The National...

FIFA Fines England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland Over Poppies

FIFA has fined all four home nations for displaying poppies during World Cup qualifiers around Armistice Day. England and Scotland players wore armbands featuring the symbol when they met at...

Celebrate Goals Like Crazy, But Don’t Be Surprised By Liverpool’s Qualities

Jurgen Klopp has spoken exclusively on Liverpool's responsibility to ensure they get results, but give supporters moments to savour in the process EXCLUSIVE 127 days after the curtain opened on...

GoldStar Air Set To Begin Operations In Ghana June 2017

GoldStar Air, a wholly owned Ghanaian airline, has been granted Air Carrier Licence and is expected to start operations in the country by June next year. The licence, issued by the Ghana Civil...

GoldStar Air Set To Begin Operations In Ghana June 2017

GoldStar Air, a wholly owned Ghanaian airline, has been granted Air Carrier Licence and is expected to start operations in the country by June next year. The licence, issued by the Ghana Civil...

Man Sues IGP, AG For GHC1 Million

Awudu Ali, an unemployed man, resident at Fiapre, in the Sunyani West District has sued the Inspector General of Police, the Attorney General and two others for wrongful detention. He is seeking an...

Transition Team Agrees On ‘last Minute Contracts’

Both sides of the transition team have reached a compromise regarding the signing of new contracts and other decisions with major financial implications by the President John Mahama-led...

IMF Chief Convicted Over Payout

play videoMs Lagarde said earlier that the trial had put her and her family through a As French finance minister in 2008, she approved an award of €404m ($429m; £340m) to businessman Bernard Tapie...

NDC To Fill One Deputy Speaker Position

Although the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has lost hold of majority seats in Parliament owing to its massive defeat in the December 7 polls, it will still have the opportunity to...

NativeDr, Nii On Personlity Types

Personality largely explains the ‘unique set of attributes that define a particular person or persons’. While personality could fundamentally be described as a product of ‘nature’, there...

Senate, SERAP, Ibrahim Magu And The Dearth And Death Of CSO’s In Nigeria

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, recently wrote a letter to Mr Michel Forst, the UN Rapporteur on situation of human rights defenders on Senate’s refusal to confirm Mr...

5 Reasons Ablekuma Central Seat Fell To the NPP

The Ablekuma Central constituency situated in Accra encompasses areas like Mataheko, Lartebiokoshie, Abosey Okai, Zamramaline, Russia and Shukura. It is largely a middle-class and lower class...

Mahama Ayariga Defends ‘last Minute’ €18m E-Waste Contract

The Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga has defended the government’s decision to sign a new waste management contract worth €18 million days after his...