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On Friday 2 December 2016, a curious story appeared on the website GhanaBusinessNews.com. “Ghana security authorities shut down fake US Embassy in Accra,” the headline declared. For a decade, the story went, there had been a fake US embassy in the Ghanaian capital. The fraudsters behind it had flown the American flag from their building and even hung a portrait ...

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni has arrived in Ghana for a two-day official state visit. Welcoming him at the Kotoka International Airport Monday evening, Ghana’s Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia wished him a “fruitful visit to our dear country” and hoped his presence will help foster knit relationship between the two countries. Gentiloni is expected to hold bilateral talks with ...

A private legal practitioner, Nana Oppong, has said the decision by businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome to resort to the African Human Rights Court in Tanzania, over the GHS 51.2million saga, is a good move for Ghana as a country. According to him, the sovereignty of Ghana has not been sullied in any way over the case. He believed that the ...

The police are on a manhunt for one of the persons believed to be key in the criminal activities in the Kasoa municipality and surrounding areas. Isaac Boakye Yiadom, aka Kofy, is said to be the person supplying guns to other criminals who have been terrorising residents of the area. An accomplice of Kofy, Emmanuel Aditey, was on November 24, ...

The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo has empanelled a committee to look into the alleged abuse of power and corruption scandals that have rocked the Electoral Commission (EC). A report by the Daily Guide Newspaper indicates that there appears to be sufficient grounds for impeachment of the EC officers involved, who are at loggerheads, thereby jeopardizing the operation of the commission. ...

Outspoken Political Scientist Professor Ransford Gyampo has praised the foresight of President Akufo-Addo describing him as a legacy hunter. In his view, series of actions and comments made by the President since he assumed power in December show that he wants to leave a mark before he leaves the scene. Aside the famous Free SHS policy, the Akufo-Addo led administration ...

The police in Asokwa have been captured on video brutalising students from the KATANGA of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology after a Luv FM Old School’s reunion on Saturday. Some police officers were seen slapping and kicking the students at the Tech junction in Kumasi after an alleged clash between students of the University Hall popularly known ...

Lawyer for Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the Southern African country does not require the input of Ghana’s Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to return to the path of growth. According to Farai Mafunga, the country has many competent economists to fix the state and would not need any external support. In 2011, now resigned President, Robert Mugabe, ...

The government says it has no intention to legalise same-sex relationship, hours after it came under pressure to make public its position on the matter. Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid told Joy News Monday homosexuality continues to be unacceptable because there is no “cultural orientation” that supports it in Ghana. Although he admitted a society’s culture could change to reflect modern ...

A gay and a lesbian in Ghana have called on the government not to legalize homosexuality since their security cannot be guaranteed even if it is decriminalized. The call follows President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s response to gay and lesbian rights in Ghana in an interview on Al Jazeera. Mr. Akufo-Addo had said there was no sufficient advocacy to force ...