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Dr. Ekwow Spio-Gabrah has urged members of the main opposition National Democratic Congress to vote for a presidential aspirant who can serve two presidential terms if the party wins power. The comment comes as former President John Mahama, who per Ghana ‘s constitution, has just one presidential term to serve, appears to be eyeing the party’s presidential ticket again. Spio-Gabrah ...

Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has urged Multimedia to commence civil proceedings against both Hajia Fati and the NPP, and to leave no stone unturned in ensuring that justice is done in the assault of one of their journalists with Adom FM, Ohemaa Sakyiwaa Ahwenepa. Sakyiwaa Ahwenepa was slapped and assaulted by Hajia Fati, a known prominent operative of the NPP at ...

Suspended Second Vice Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Crabbe, has rescinded his decision to contest for the party’s National Chair slot. This comes after party activist Hajia Fati violently attacked and prevented him from picking nomination forms when he visited the party’s headquarters last week. Mr. Crabbe, together with Mr Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is on a weeklong vacation in the United Kingdom, effective Wednesday, May 9, 2018. He was accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, his children and grandchildren, Jubilee House spokesperson Eugene Arhin announced Thursday. Akufo-Addo will honour two public engagements while away in the UK – on Friday, 11th May, 2018, he will speak ...

An Accra Circuit Court (Domestic Violence and Gender-Based Division) has warned Bishop Daniel Obinim, Founder of International God’s Way Church, to stop giving excuses of being sick and come to court. The presiding judge, Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, said the excuses were many and charged Bishop Obinim to be present at the next adjourned date. Bishop Obinim, together with two of ...

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has vowed not to kneel before the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, even though he has great respect for the revered monarch. Describing him as a wise ruler, the seasoned journalist stated that he will never go to the extent of going on his knees before him, stressing it’s his personal choice. Speaking to host Kwami ...

The chairman of the Board of Directors of GN Bank Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has charged the management of the bank to work with discipline and innovation to become the “Best Big Bank” in Ghana. He said this at a retreat for 320 bank management personnel drawn from all the 10 regions in the country. GN Bank to him must ...

Inflation rate for April 2018 dropped to a record 9.6 percent from 10.4 percent in the previous month. It is the lowest inflation rate since December of 2012, mostly due to housing and utilities and transport, the Ghana Statistical Service announced Wednesday. A deputy information minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in a Facebook post said: “No 1 task of govt is ...

The government, will in the coming days, issue Ghana’s 2018 sovereign bond after a successful deal roadshow. The exercise, which seeks to raise some $750 million of a budgeted One Billion ($1B) of new debt, has received rave reviews from international capital market investors. A government delegation comprising officials of the Ministry of Finance has been engaging investors since May ...

The Energy Ministry has dismissed as null and void the suspension of the embattled CEO of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited Frances Essiam, Starr news has gathered. The board of GCMCL Tuesday ordered Essiam to step aside with immediate effect. The action came on the back of the impasse between the board and Essiam over some of her decisions ...