Parliamentarians from both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have come to a consensus on the 2020 general elections. Both sides of the chamber have pledged their support to the Electoral Commission to conduct the 2020 general elections in December despite the Coronavirus pandemic. The Majority Leader, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, was responding to calls by the Minority for ...

Parliament’s Appointments Committee has approved President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s nominees for the Supreme Court bench. The President in March nominated Prof Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu, Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu and Clemence J Honyenuga; justices of the Court of Appeal and Yoni Kulendi, a private legal practitioner to the Supreme Court. They are expected to replace Justices Julius Ansah, Nasiru Sulemana Gbadegbe ...

About 30 health workers in the Ashanti region have contracted Covid-19, the Ashanti regional health directorate has revealed. They include doctors and nurses. According to the health directories, the affected workers are responding to treatment. The regional case tally is now 888. The death toll in the Ashanti region remains 7. Meanwhile, cases in Ghana have now moved to 6,096 ...

The National Security Advisor to ex-President John Dramani Mahama, has broken his silence on the procurement of the Israeli spy system; Pegasus, which was intended to be used by state security for cyber surveillance by the previous government, but eventually led to the jailing of two former board members of the National Communication Authority (NCA) and a deputy National Security Coordinator ...

Second lady Hajia Samira Bawumia has presented Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other items to the Maamobi General Hospital and Nima Polyclinic in the Ayawaso North and East municipalities in Accra. The two municipalities with the highest concentration of Muslims in Accra, have been identified as hot-spots for the coronavirus in Ghana, recording more than six hundred (600) suspected cases. ...

An officer with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service at Donkro Nkwanta in the Nkoranza South Municipality has allegedly brutalized a student of University of Education, Winneba, for allegedly flirting with his wife. The victim, Hayford Osei, who suffered multiple cuts on his nose and mouth, is currently nursing his wounds. The offending officer has been ...

Rainstorm has devastated parts of Fanteakwa South District of the Eastern Region. The violent rainstorm ripped the Osino Health Center and at least a total of twenty-three (23) houses in Osino, Juaso and Saamang communities displacing about 200 occupants. Many properties including television sets, refrigerators, medical supplies and other household items were destroyed in the Monday rains. At the Osino ...

Correspondence from Eastern Region: The Okuapehemea, Nana Obuo Nketiaa II, on Tuesday refused to accept appeals from highly regarded personalities from the government who led the new Okuapehene and the Abrewatia in a bid to seek unity. As well, the Queen also rejected all the items brought to appease her anger including a total of 60 rams, cash, and assorted ...

Not more than 25 people will be permitted at a registration centre at a given time when the Electoral commission begins the mass voter registration exercise for the December polls, that’s according the Communications Director for the Commission. According to Sylvia Annor, the commission will put the necessary safety protocols in place to ensure that Ghanaians are adequately protected against ...

Kantinka-De Beat fm The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sefwi Juaboso, who also double as District Epidemic Response Committee Chair person, Hon Martha Kwayie Manu on Tuesday May 19 has donated a bunch of Personal Protective Equipment PPE’s to 3 Health Institutions in the area as a move to help prevent the spread of Corona virus pandemic. The beneficial health ...