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Finally, to the credit of our democracy and the persistence of the Minority in Parliament, the government has complied with Section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993, Act 463 by submitting to Parliament the full list of Presidential Staffers. As Parliamentary records and media reportage will confirm, we in the Minority raised concerns during the debate on the 2018 ...

The Chairman of the Church of Pentecost has expressed outrage at recent comments made by British Prime Minister, Theresa May, concerning the legalisation of homosexuality in Ghana. Apostle Professor Opoku Onyinah says the suggestion by Theresa May that her government is willing to support a change in the legislation that makes homosexuality illegal in Ghana and other Commonwealth nations is “insulting”. “For ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has ignited a strong reminder campaign in the north-targeted at Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to come out clear as to when the dams promised all villages in the Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions will be due for construction. Dr. Bawumia, a major face of the 2016 election campaign for the New ...

President John Dramani Mahama has sent goodwill messages to National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr Osumanu Nuhu Sharabutu as he marks his 99th birthday.Mr Mahama took to his Facebook page on Monday 23 April 2018 and stated: Dr Sharubutu, who is a member of the National Peace Council, was born in Old Fadama in April 23, 1923.His ancestors are of Hausa ethnicity ...

Some members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) are being hypocritical with their justification of the 998 presidential staffers list released by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Private Legal Practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has said. According to him, the NPP expressed misgivings about the 678 staffers employed by Former President John Dramani Mahama and so one would have thought ...

President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has criticized the record appointment and the huge staff at the Presidency by President Akufo-Addo saying its only “making former President Mahama a saint.” The situation, according to Cudjoe is the hallmark of unplanned policy programmes and a clear case of ‘official waste’ in the system. In a post on his ...

Lawyer of former Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) boss, Mr. Abednego Tetteh Mensah, has described as senseless, the charge of causing financial loss to the state as leveled against his client, Ernest Thompson in the award of a $72 million Operating Business Suite (OBS) contract. Mr. Ernest Thompson and three others have been indicted for alleged financial misdeeds ...

Four suspected robbers have shot and killed two young men at the Pelungu market of the Nabdam District in the Upper East Region. The four suspected robbers, on two motorbikes, attacked and robbed a First Allied bank branch at Pelungu, and later shot indiscriminately, killing the two people. Narrating the incident to Citi News, Assembly Member for the Damolg-Tindongo Electoral ...

The Ashanti Regional Education Directorate has interdicted the headmaster of the Tweneboah Koduah Senior High School, Francis Badu Agyare, following allegations of sexual misconduct involving three female students. The directive follows a petition by some teachers of the school to the Kumawu Traditional Council about his conduct. The teachers had earlier threatened a sit-down strike if immediate action was not ...

The Government of Ghana has rejected calls by leaders of some powerful countries in the world for the legalisation of homosexuality. The UK Prime Minister Theresa May Tuesday urged Presidents of African countries attending the Commonwealth Heads of government meeting in London to decriminalise homosexuality in their various countries. She argues, it is wrong for homosexuals to be persecuted for ...