The Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has praised the contributions of young appointees under the Akufo-Addo administration and urged them to continue to make a difference. Addressing the maiden edition of the Nation Building Updates in Accra on Tuesday 22nd September 2020 on the theme “Leadership that delivers for the youth” , Mr Nkrumah encouraged the young CEOs to ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured the United Nations that Ghana will make the world on proud during the December 7 elections. Addressing the 75th Session of United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, President Akufo-Addo stated that Ghanaians have agreed to work together to ensure transparent, free, fair, safe and credible elections. “It is a matter of great pride ...

Seven persons who robbed a Supreme Court judge and a banker of their vehicles, a laptop and other personal effects at gun point, have been sentenced to a total jail term of 175 years by an Accra Circuit Court. Nene Kwadwo Tetteh, aka Chairman Obed, who was not present while judgement was to being pronounced, has been sentenced to 25 ...

US President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses November’s election. “Well, we’ll have to see what happens,” the president told a news conference at the White House. “You know that.” Mr Trump also said he believed the election result could end up in the US Supreme Court, as he again cast ...

Two officers have been shot amid huge protests in the US city of Louisville after a grand jury decided no officers would face charges for killing unarmed black woman Breonna Taylor. Ms Taylor, 26, a hospital worker, was shot multiple times as three officers stormed her home on 13 March. One, Brett Hankison, has been charged, not with Ms Taylor’s ...

Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare a.k.a Kwaku Azar says Ghana as a country failed the late Adamu Dramani Sakande when the state decided to prosecute him on a charge of dual citizenship after the latter was duly elected to represent Bawku Central in Parliament. Adamu Dramani Sakande, a former MP for Bawku Central, died in London at age 58, after a ...

The Electoral Commission has extended the voter register exhibition exercise by two more days. The exercise will now end on Sunday, September 27. The EC in a statement said the move is intended to avail more Ghanaians the opportunity to verify their details in the register. It comes after the opposition National Democratic Congress raised concerns over the integrity of ...

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has given the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) and government one month to resolve the impasse over service conditions of the healthworkers. According to the GRNMA General Secretary David Tenkorang, the NLC at today’s meeting told the party’s to report back to them on the status of negotiations after the four weeks period. ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revoked the appointment of Mary Boatemaa Marfo as the Chief Executive of the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region. In a letter written by a Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kwasi Boateng Adjei, the decision by the President, in accordance with Article 243(3)(b) of the 1992 Constitution, takes immediate effect. It is ...

Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue, the Presidential Staffer infamous for the Galamsey task force saga, says he did not physically attack George Mireku Duker, who represents the people of Tarkwa-Nsuaem in Parliament. “I neither physically attacked nor bit the finger of the MP for Tarkwa-Nsuaem Constituency, Honourable Mireku Duker as widely reported. I was not the aggressor in this situation, ...