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Former President John Dramani Mahama has joined millions of Ghanaians to celebrate the country’s 61st Independence Anniversary. Mr Mahama is currently out of the country to lead a Commonwealth Observer Group to monitor the Sierra Leonean elections slated for March 7, this year. In a solidarity post on Facebook, the former president urged all Ghanaians to use the 61st Independence ...

Senator Dino Melaye has lamented that Nigeria no longer marks important days. He said this on Tuesday in a post on Instagram. The lawmaker was reacting to Ghana’s Independence celebration. In attendance were President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Bukola Saraki among others. Melaye who is attending the celebration alongside President Buhari took a swipe at the Independence Day Celebration in ...

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has announced a staggering electricity tariff reduction. The decision comes after an extensive stakeholder consultations, detailed technical analysis of utility tariff proposals and consideration of inputs and concerns of consumers. Per the summary of the approved percentage reductions residential consumers will enjoy 17.5% reduction with Non-Residential consumers enjoying 30% with Special Load Tariff Customers ...

Former Minister of Power, Dr Kwabena Donkor has denied ever receiving double salary as Minister and a Member of Parliament. There’s a list in circulation which has Dr Donkor and his then deputy Minister, John Jinapor as appointees who drew double salaries during the erstwhile Mahama government. The Communications Minister and MP for Ablekuma West, Ursula Owusu Ekuful during the ...

Edmund Kyei has rejected claims that NPP vigilante groups, the Delta Forces and Invisible forces have a hand in the recent armed robbery cases across the country. The newly elected First Vice Chairman of Asokwa constituency speaking on Homebase TV’s political talk show “The Lens” decried the politicization of a matter as sensitive as armed robbery. He said, “NPP does ...

Five of the accused persons involved in the murder of Major Maxwell Mahama have told the Accra High Court that they don’t have money to afford the services of a lawyer. Out of the 14 accused persons standing trial for murder, 9 already have lawyers to defend them but five are yet to get lawyers. When the presiding Judge, Justice ...

The Koforidua branch of the Technical University Teachers Association (TUTAG) has served noticed to begin a full scale sit-down strike Thursday, 8 March 2018, if government fails to withdraw proposed amendment to the Technical University Bill 2017. The bill seeks to transfer power from the governing council of Technical Universities to the National Council for Tertiary Education. According to them, ...

The runaway headteacher Mr. Robert Sepey, who bolted after his sex video with a senior high school student on a kitchen stool emerged in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District of the Central Region, has resurfaced. Mr. Sepey was suspended in absentia as the headteacher of Breman Adumanu D/A Basic School when he went into hiding in January this year. The Ghana Education ...

The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper has challenged Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to find a solution to the recent spate in armed robbery attacks in the country. The Vice President according to Article 201 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, is the chairman of the Police Council. In view of this, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has charged the Vice ...

Some soldiers and police officers in the Upper East region flexed muscles Sunday in a row over a military uniform. Tension mounted to an alarming peak where the police received strong orders amid war songs to unlock their arms depot in the regional capital, Bolgatanga, to open fire on a peacekeeping military detachment who, as a bloody showdown loomed heavily ...