A defeated NPP parliamentary aspirant in the Kumawu constituency primaries Edward Kofi Osei has reportedly asked his supporters to retrieve monies they paid delegates to vote for him. According to the US-based legal practitioner, such actions do not promote unity in the party. Four members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Kumawu constituency contested for the Saturday parliamentary ...

The Abeka District Court in Accra has issued a stern warning to the aggrieved relatives of the late Benjamin Okyere, the tenant who was murdered by his landlord, over their continuous disturbances at the court. Before the court even heard the case on Monday, the aggrieved relatives started chanting and drumming in a manner that was disturbing activities of the ...

Political scientist and former lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Dr Amoako Baah has bemoaned the influence of money in the just ended parliamentary primaries of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to him, majority of the outcome of the Saturday primaries was influenced by money and not competence or ability to impact good ...

The Osu Traditional Council has laid claim to the parcel of land on which a structure purported to belong to the Nigerian High Commission was pulled down last week. According to the Osu stool, the owner of the property trespassed, adding that several attempts to prevent him/her from developing the land had proved futile. Some unknown persons, over the weekend, ...

The Court of Appeal today threw out an application from the Bank of Ghana (BoG), which challenged the jurisdiction of the High Court. BoG had argued that the High Court has no jurisdiction to hear the complaint which is challenging the revocation of GN Saving’ licence. It argued that the only lawful forum for resolving the GN Savings concerns is ...

The National President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Philipa Larson says government has supplied all necessary safety materials as schools reopen in the wake of COVID-19. According to her, GNAT made specific demands before accepting to cooperate on the decision to reopen schools and the government has satisfied all those requirement. Senior High Schools are reopening for ...

(Appreciating the World’s and Ghana’s ICT Trail Blazers in a COVID 19 Pandemic World and Making a Case for Indigenous participation in the Internet & Mobile telephony sector in Ghana) By Ato Sarpong Preamble It is estimated that some 4.2billion people [or 56%] of the world’s population, in the last few months, have experienced some sort of lockdown necessitated by ...

Ghanaian rapper, Asem has blasted the former manager of Sarkodie after he advised him to stop his continuous attacks on Sarkodie. Following the release of Sarkodie’s new song with M.anifest ‘Brown Paper Bag’, Asem mocked Sarkodie for not making any sense in the song while he hailed M.anifest. “Manifests verse though. Fire. As for the other guy so so nonfa eiii wey kind matter too be ...

Former Finance Minister, Seth Tekper says government cannot continue to assume it is impossible to pay back depositors their locked up capital after the collapse of some 347 micro-finance companies, 39 microcredit companies, 23 savings and loans and finance house companies. According to the former Finance Minister, there is no excuse for leaving those affected frustrated resulting in the renewed ...

President Akufo-Addo has directed that one dormitory in every secondary school should be used AS COVID-19 isolation centre as schools reopen in the wake of the pandemic. “One dormitory block in each senior high school is to be used as an isolation centre, in the event of a student falling sick. Again, each SHS has been mapped to a health ...