President PAkufo-Addo left Ghana on Sunday, 31st October 2021, to lead Ghana’s delegation to the World Leaders’ Summit of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP 26), being held from 31st October to 3rd November, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. The COP26 Summit, which will be one of the largest gatherings of world leaders, will bring parties together to accelerate ...
Read More »Author Archives: larryehu
Kumerica sound engineer commits suicide after facebook post
Budding Kumasi based sound engineer, Yaw Geng, has committed suicide after a sad facebook post on October 16, 2021. Yaw Geng, who doubles as an artiste left a post, suspected to be a suicidal note, on his Facebook account. In the post, he wrote that he has given up on life after his plans didn’t yield any fruit. His post ...
Read More »Facebook changes its name to Meta in rebrand
Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand. The company said it would better “encompass” what it does, as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas like virtual reality (VR). The change does not apply to its individual platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, only the parent company that owns them. ...
Read More »Ghana receives 756k additional doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine
The Government, on Tuesday October 26, 2021, received 756,000 additional doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine under the watch of the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT). The doses delivered are the largest J&J vaccine consignment received so far by the country. The vaccine deliveries are part of the historic COVID-19 vaccine advance procurement agreement signed on 28 ...
Read More »Jean Mensa, Bossman Asare have no difficulty sounding like NPP – Felix
A former Deputy Minister of Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has said the current Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa and her Deputy Dr Bossman Asare have jeopardised the gains made the commission when their predecessors were at the helm of affairs. In his view, the two personalities have exhibited the worst form of leadership in the history of ...
Read More »You’ve no power to ban ‘Aboboyaa’ – Legal practitioner to Henry Quartey
A private legal practitioner, Justice Abdullai, has said the Greater Accra Regional Minister Henry Quartey did not have the power to take away the rights of operators of motor tricycles popularly known as “Aboboyaa” by banning them. He said the operators can sue the Minister or the government following the decision to truncate their activities. The Minister announced the ban ...
Read More »Ex-Fomena NPP Chairman slams Wontumi; urges footsoldiers to vote him out
Former Fomena Constituency Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Akwasi Nti has taken a sharp swipe at the regional executives led by Chairman Benard Antwi Bosiako,popularly known as Chairman Wontumi. The NPP stalwart called out the regional chairman, claiming he is out of touch with reality as he warns Mr Boasiako’s actions could jeopardize the party’s electoral fortunes in ...
Read More »Stop discriminating against us – NMC Chairman tells gov’t
The Chairman of the National Media Commission Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo has accused the government of discrimination in the treatment of state agencies. According to Mr Ayeboafo, allowances for the commissioners are sometimes in arrears for seven months. Speaking at an engagement with the expanded leadership, the NMC chairman questioned why the Electoral Commission which is of the same status is ...
Read More »Parliament pays tribute to departed colleague Kofi Adda
Parliament on Thursday, 28 October 2021, paid glowing tribute to the memory of the late Member of Parliament (MP) for Navrongo Central Joseph Kofi Adda and described him as a selfless politician and democrat, gem, gentleman, statesman and a true patriot. The MPs bowed their heads in a minute’s silence to remember their former colleague and said thoughts of him ...
Read More »Mahama made the 1m vote fraud claim on solid grounds – NDC
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as red herring a call by a Deputy Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) Dr Bossman Asare, asking the Police to investigate a claim by former President John Dramani Mahama that the commission allegedly, thumb printed one million ballot papers in favour of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the 2020 presidential election. ...
Read More »