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A 41-year-old woman has been shot dead at Alavanyo Deme in the Hohoe Municipality in the Volta region. According to reports, the incident occurred after an unidentified assailant opened fire in the conflict volatile community. A second victim, an 80-year-old woman who sustained gunshot injuries, has also been rushed to the Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital at Kpando, where she is ...

Maverick Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has admitted that President Akufo-Addo is running a family and friend’s government. According to Mr. Agyapong, in spite of such family and friends’ ties with the president, they were men who are more qualified and competent than those in the Mahama-administration. “I don’t dispute he has family and friends in ...

Forty-nine (49) bills including the affirmative action bill are to be presented for the first time in parliament as the House resumes sitting today after a break for the Easter celebrations. The second session of the second meeting of the seventh parliament will see members work on a number of the bills including the Right to Information bill. The Appointments ...

The Chief Executive Officer of African Energy Consortium Ltd, Kwame Jantuah, says the appointment of persons with no technical competences to manage the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), is a key factor to its failure. According to Mr. Jantuah, TOR is unable to achieve maximum productivity partly because “politicians have used it as political football” without investing in it. The energy ...

The Campaign Team of Mr. Freddie Blay has said the National Chairman aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) acquired the now-much-talked-about 275 buses, with which he intends to “empower” the party, “through a facility”. In a statement signed by Mr Blay’s spokesperson Richard Nyamah, the campaign team of the Acting National Chairman, said the buses were not a ...

Some residents of Akyeremade in the Sene West District of the Brong Ahafo region have invaded the district police headquarters at Kwame Danso allegedly beating up officers and freeing four suspects in custody. Reports say some residents of Akyeremade a fortnight ago attacked some Sisala indigenes in the area and burnt over 200 bags of their charcoal after which the ...

Ghana’s Ambassador to the U.S. has been caught in a cat and mouse game with the American authorities piling pressure on him to sanction the deportation of thousands of Ghanaians. Dr Barfuor Adjei-Bawuah has described as unfair pressure on him to give his approval for hundreds of Ghanaians to be sent home for violating U.S. immigration laws. “It leaves me ...

The former Second deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Johnson Asiama has described as ‘false’ claims by the Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia that the Central Bank was expected to spend an amount of GHC4.6 billion into the proposed switch to interconnect mobile money transactions. Dr. Bawumia has claimed that the deal was executed for less than $4 million, a huge ...

The Ministry of Education has dismissed claims by former President John Dramani Mahama that only 30 percent of the funds meant for the first-year implementation of the Free Senior High School programme has been paid by the government. Mr. Mahama during the first National Conference of Ex-MMDCEs of the National Democratic Congress said: “It’s like the government is just, as ...

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako has defied a court order to vacate a residential property which is a subject for litigation between him and a legislator. Mr. Antwi Boasiako reportedly restrained court officials and police from entering the premises to enforce the court order. Member of Parliament for Bantama, Daniel Okyem Aboagye, ...