Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng has warned: “If you are an electoral officer or a returning officer and you change results, I am going after you”. In an interview on Wednesday, 29 September 2021, Mr Agyebeng added: “Immediately you declare the results, I am going after it and matching polling stations and matching pink sheets with pink sheets and if they ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Nicodemusly arrived in Ghana after attending the 76th session of the United Nation’s General Assembly in the United States of America (USA), North Tongu lawmaker Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said. While in the US, President Nana Addo Danwak Akufo-Addo met the US Vice President Kamala Harris and had bilateral discussions with her. After the President’s ...

The Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana (AMJG), has appealed to the government to pay allowances due to members on time. According to them, the way their allowances are paid is disrespectful. “We feel disrespected about the way our allowances are paid as if it is a favour being done to us,” Justice Senyo Dzamefe, the President of AMJG, ...

The Savannah Regional Executive Committee of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has slated Friday, October 1 for its regional delegates’ conference. In a statement issued by the regional Communications Director, Mohammed Issah, the conference is scheduled to take place at Daboya in the North Gonja District. “The conference is expected to have all 17 constituency executives from the seven ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Kwaku Afriyie, has announced that cabinet has taken a decision to dedicate 1% of Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to research and innovation. This, he said would be disbursed through the Ghana National Research Fund. He said this at a press conference moderated by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in Accra on ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has mourned one of Ghana’s legendary highlife musicians, Nana Kwame Ampadu, who passed away on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. In a Facebook post sighted by African Entertainment, President Akufo-Addo said “I have learnt, with great sadness, of the death of one of Ghana’s musical icons, the legendary high-life artiste, Nana Ampadu. The outpouring of grief ...

South African Airways (SAA) has relaunched flight services on the Johannesburg – Accra – Johannesburg route on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. A brief ceremony was organized at Kotoka International Airport to welcome the airline back to Accra. In March last year, SAA announced the suspension of the flights to to some African countries. Flights to African cities including Accra in Ghana, Lusaka ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s nominee for the Obuasi Municipal Assembly, Elijah Adansi-Bonah, has been confirmed as Municipal Chief Executive by Assembly members. Mr Adansi-Bonah polled 28 votes out of the 28 ballots cast on the day, representing 100 percent at the elections supervised by the Municipal Electoral Officer,Thomas Biyimba. In his victory speech, Elijah Adansi-Bonah, who could not hide his joy, ...

Rotational nurses have given the government a two-day ultimatum to pay their allowances else they strike. Addressing a press conference today, Wednesday, 29 September 2021, the Vice-president of the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees’ Association, Mr Madugu Kwame Richard, said the nurses have not been paid their allowances for the past eight months since they started the mandatory service. He said since ...

The confirmation of Municipal and District Chief Executive nominees for the Savannah Region is set to begin today, Thursday, September 30. The Region has seven administrative MDAs, comprising five Districts and two Municipal Assemblies. Bole, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba, North Gonja, North East Gonja and Central Gonja Districts and East Gonja and Central Gonja Municipality. In all, a total of 218 elected and ...