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Private legal practitioner and broadcaster Samson Lardy Anyenini says Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu should have apologised to North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa after he wrongly accused him of authoring an article he found offensive. According to the Multimedia broadcaster, the refusal of Mr. Amidu to apologize over the impasse takes a lot from him. The former attorney general ...

The Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu was wrong to indicate during his vetting that one’s biological children are no longer your children after they became adults, Lawyer Samson Ayennni has said. The former Attorney General answering questions at the Appointment’s Committee of Parliament Tuesday opined that his children are now his adult companions and no longer his children. His comments sparked ...

Law Professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, has sent a strong warning to President Nana Akufo-Addo and the Attorney-General over a suit challenging the nomination of Martin Amidu as Ghana’s first Special Prosecutor. Professor Asare says the suit filed by former Deputy Attorney-General and MP for Bolgatanga East, Dr Dominic Ayine, asking the Supreme Court to declare the nomination of Mr Amidu, ...

Nurses and physician assistants at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital have proceeded to lay down their tools to protest the conduct of the facility’s Medical Director, Dr. Emmanuel Dordoye. According to them, Dr. Dordoye’s presence at the facility posed a danger to their mental and physical health. The spokesperson of the Ankaful Psychiatric nurse’s group, Emmanuel Ofori, explained to Citi News ...

A Ghanaian pilot of Africa World Airlines unleashed hot gas to foil an armed robbery attempt by thieves in Nigeria as they attempted to burglarize the Accra-bound CRJ jet. Robbers operating within the perimeter fence of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos on Tuesday evening sought to break into the aircraft and steal the luggage of passengers. The brazen ...

At least one Police Officer  was injured Monday in an attempt by the Police to rescue some suspected lesbians at Tafo in the Ashanti Region. The Police were called in when some irate men had massed up at a house where the alleged lesbians were caught in the act. The ladies were alleged to be naked when the mob stormed ...

South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned from his office with immediate effect. He made the announcement in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening. Earlier, Mr Zuma’s governing ANC party told him to step down or face a vote of no confidence in parliament. The 75-year-old has been under increasing pressure to give way to Deputy ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has today Wednesday February 14, left Ghana for the International transformative governance conference in Nigeria, a statement from the presidency has announced. The two-day trip is at the invitation of the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Most Rev. Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah. According to a statement signed by Eugene Arhin, the Director of ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed sadness over the demise of party stalwart Appiah Akenten Menka. Appiah Menka died Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at the age of 84. He was a private legal practitioner and served as a Minister of State in the Second Republic. In a statement, the NPP said the legendary contributions, both financially and otherwise, to ...

Physicians at the Cardiothoracic Centre at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra have revealed that 80% of the heart cases recorded are from children. The centre also claims many patients die of heart complications due to the high cost of undergoing a surgery. “There are many who are lost from the system because they cannot afford a heart surgery. ...