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The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, swore in three new Ambassadors, who are to safeguard and promote the image and interests of Ghana outside her shores in Japan, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. They are Mr. Frank Okyere, Ghana’s Ambassador to Japan; Eric Odoi-Anim, Ghana’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe; and Mrs Amma Adomaa Twum-Amoah, Ghana’s Ambassador to Ethiopia. Reminding the Ambassadors ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong has jabbed pastors for drawing back the fortunes of the country by indoctrinating the mindset of the citizenry that the only antidote to their problems is prayer and attending church services. According to him, God gave everyone a brain to think and protect oneself as well as work to feed ...

The Minority in Parliament is calling for thorough national security checks on the over 200 Ghanaians who would be brought back from Libya by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), following reports of slave auctions. Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, earlier told Parliament that a five man team from Ghana had visited six detention centres in Libya, a move ...

Pastor Mensa Otabil has warned his congregation never to disturb his sleep with prayer requests. According to him, the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), which he founded, is designed to teach and grow leaders who are able to take charge of their lives and not be dependent on their pastors. Preaching at the 34th anniversary service of ICGC on Sunday, ...

The New Patriotic Party has temporarily ‘banned’ its Deputy General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahen, from speaking to the media in an official capacity on any matter until a disciplinary case against him is resolved. The decision was taken by the party’s National Steering Committee at its meeting on Wednesday, which considered a leaked audio tape of Nana Obiri Boahen in ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has challenged the newly constituted Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral Project to work expeditiously in constructing an edifice of national significance. The President yesterday inaugurated a 13-member board, which has Rt. Rev. Asante Antwi, former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, as chairman. The National Cathedral Project, one of the legacy ...

The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen will this morning appear before the party’s Steering committee to answer to some controversial claims he made in a leaked audio tape with an opposition NDC member. Even before the Steering Committee concludes its probe on the damaging claims by the maverick Deputy General Secretary, he’s apologised profoundly ...

The Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey has called on the Minority in Parliament to get involved in the ‘Ghana beyond Aid’ agenda being pursued by President Akufo-Addo. The barely two-year-old Akufo-Addo presidency is pursuing a self-sufficient Ghana agenda and called on the citizenry for support in order to achieve it. In his speech ...

Augustine Antwi Agyengo, aged 36, has been arrested by the Sefwi Bekwai Police for parading himself as a policeman and extorting money from unsuspecting members of the public. According to the police, they had been receiving a series of complaints against the suspect who has been telling potential applicants he could help recruit them into the police service. Based on ...

For many pupils, marching at the Independence Day celebration is an honour. It is one of the memories they cherish and hold on to for several years. But what happens when this march of honour becomes a potential life-threatening adventure? On the 61st Independence Day Celebration, as was the one before it, scores of school pupils collapsed in the heat ...