Otiko Is Courting Hatred For Akufo-Addo
Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister-designate Otiko Afisa Djaba’s defensiveness during her appearance before parliament’s Appointments Committee is likely to set the tone for...
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Appointments Committee Chairman Begs Speaker
A claim by Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga that Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko attempted bribing members of the Appointments Committee with GHS3000 each was a "colossal untruth" smacking of "bad...
Mahama To New Crusading Guide
Flag bearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr Edward Mahama has instructed the New Crusading Guide newspaper to retract and apologise for a publication he said was “veritably false...
US Embassy Relocation To Jerusalem ‘a War Crime’
From the windows of the grey, cube-shaped building that houses the US embassy in Tel Aviv, staff enjoy an undisturbed view out over the Mediterranean and a beach adorned in the summer with sunbeds...
Assemblymen Threaten Legal Action Over Council of State Nomination
SOME Assembly members in the Central Region have threatened to institute legal action against nomination of members onto the Council of State (CS). According to the aggrieved assembly members,...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has hailed the election of Ghanaian career diplomat, Ambassador Kwesi Quartey as Vice Chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission at the ongoing 28th AU Summit in Addis...
Ayariga Hot Over MPs Bribe
Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has landed himself in hot waters following a claim he made that MPs were given bribes to approve the nomination of then Minister-designate...
Ghana @ 60 Planning Committee To Forfeit Allowances
The 60th Independence Anniversary Planning committee has decided to forfeit any allowances due them. This was decided after the committee’s maiden meeting on Saturday, January 28 according to a...
Traditional Chiefs, Please Stop Dictating To President Akufo-Addo
By Rockson Adofo I shall plead with our traditional leaders to cease dictating to, or bringing pressure to bear on, His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo. I had it in mind to write...
Council Closes Down Obengfo Hospital
The Medical and Dental Council has closed down the Obengfo Hospital, a body sculpting and plastic surgery facility at Weija in Accra, for alleged illegal operations. A team of policemen from the SWAT...
Ghana @60 Committee To Forfeit Allowances
The 60th Independence Anniversary Planning committee will be forfeiting any allowances due them. This was decided after the committee’s maiden meeting on Saturday, January 28 according to a...
Sunyani Traditional Council’s Demand Wrong Approach
Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has described calls by the Sunyani Traditional Council that the President's nominee for the position of Brong Ahafo...
Leading Lawyer Ko Ni Assassinated At Yangon Airport
A leading lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party has been shot dead at Yangon airport in Myanmar. Ko Ni was shot in the head on Sunday after arriving from...
My Dreams Have Been Shattered – Wrongfully Jailed Teacher
40-year-old teacher who was jailed 15-years for a crime he never committed said his future is shuttered. Prior to his predicament, Eric Asante said he had so many dreams and aspirations but all...
‘Minority Not My Friends To Offer Them Bribes’ – Osei-Owusu
The chairman of the Appointments Committee of parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has revealed that most legislators from the Minority are not his close associates, making it improbable for him to even...
I’m Willing To Testify – Ayariga
Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga has said he is willing to testify in court if any citizen of the country wishes to have the the allegation of bribery against Energy Minister-designate Boakye Agyarko...
NACOB Investigator Exposes Ruby Cocaine’s Mum
An investigator at the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) says the properties Akua Adubofour, mother of Ruby Adu-Gyamfi aka Nayele Ametefe, is claiming ownership of, after all belong to her daughter....
My Lawyer Disappointed Me – Wrongfully Jailed Teacher
Eric Asante, the 40-year-old teacher, who was wrongfully jailed for defilement, has blamed his initial lawyer for his predicament. The Supreme Court of Ghana Thursday acquitted and discharged him...
We Thought Agyarko’s ‘bribe’ Cash Was Sitting Allowance – Ayariga
Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga says minority members of Parliament’s Appointments Committee currently vetting nominees for various portfolios in the new government have had to...
Ghanaians Assured of Transparency and Accountability
Ghanaians fear that the high numbered committee members would go the way of the committee who allegedly squandered the country’s resources It is a well known fact that each independence...