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The family of the late Lily Donkor, former student of Achimota School who was shot to death by her colleague student said to be her boyfriend has indicated they’ll appeal the court decision ordering the release of the accused. The Criminal division of Accra High court presided over by Justice Kofi Dorgu, on Monday ordered the release of the accused, ...

The Appointments Committee of Parliament has approved the President’s nominee for the position of a Special Prosecutor, Martin ABK Amidu. Members from both sides on the committee voted for approval except the MP for Tamale North, Suhuyini Alhassan Sayibu who voted against the nominee. The Committee’s report recommends among other things that “given Mr. Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser’s high standard ...

The JOSPONG Group of Companies has implored the general public to disregard an impression created in sections of the media that a bench warrant had been issued for the arrest of its Executive Chairman, Mr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, for deliberately refusing to appear before a Kumasi High Court. In a press statement copied to the Daily Graphic, the Group said: ...

The Second Lady, Mrs Samira Bawumia, has assured Ghanaians that the government was working towards addressing the teething challenges in the implementation of the free SHS policy. She said the government is making every effort “to make this life-changing programme sustainable.” Event Mrs Bawumia was speaking at the 68th Speech and Prize-giving Day of the T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School ...

A private legal practitioner has said the reaction by the Chief Justice and Supreme Court Judges to Prof Raymond Atuguba’s controversial research has not been as severe as it should have been. According to Yaw Oppong, considering that the yet-to-be-published findings could taint the image of the Judiciary, he expected harsher words from the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, and the ...

Heads of Institutions who fail to respond to “audit observations” by the Auditor General after 30 days will have their salaries blocked, the Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo has said. He said it was inappropriate for some heads of institutions to delay response to audit findings until they appear before the Public Accounts Committee, hence the need to invoke the sanction. ...

Unposted nurses who are picketing at the premises of the Health Ministry have accused the Police of manhandling them on Monday night. The Police who had been dispatched to the premises to evacuate the agitating nurses were reportedly compelled to apply force after the health workers refused to go. According to the President of the unposted nurses association, Samuel Asante, ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has attributed Africa’s underdevelopment to the massive brain drain it suffered in the post-colonial era. Citing several economic researches, he said the single most important resource that every country needs in order to develop is not its natural resources but rather, its human resource. According to him, it was, therefore, no surprise Africa is still ...

The Ranking Member of the Select Committee on Mines and Energy, Adam Mutawakilu, says he finds it very difficult to come to terms with claims by the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that he has fixed ‘dumsor’ when evidence on the grounds suggests otherwise. According to him, despite achieving relative power stability in 2016 under ...

Yale medical student Aimee Alphonso chose to complete her four-week obstetrics-gynecology clinical rotation in Accra, Ghana last year, rather than at a Connecticut-based hospital. Alphonso,currently in the final year of her M.D. degree program at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), was able to have this experience through an International Clinical Elective Travel Fellowship. YSM’s Office of International Medical Student Education ...