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The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has directed all Judges to with immediate effect begin the wearing of the symbolic wigs during court sittings. The directive by the Chief justice also instructed judges to ensure they are fully attired in robes alongside the wigs. According to an internal memo from the judicial secretary to all judges, sighted by Citi News, the ...

Dr Valerie Sawyerr, a Deputy Chief of Staff under former President John Mahama, has jabbed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice president Dr Bawumia and the New Patriotic Party government as a whole, in a write up about events that have happened under the 10-month-old government. In the article, Dr Sawyer mocked Dr Bawumia and the government for spending $2.5million ...

Pressure Group, OccupyGhana, has called for the removal of Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi-Boateng from office following his comments that his topmost priority is towards members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) before any other Ghanaians. Mr Ayisi-Boatneg, after making that comment in a meeting with the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) student wing of the NPP, suffered ...

Drivers of the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) are on strike in protest at what they said are poor working conditions. The drivers and conductors of the company claim they have not been paid for two months – a situation they say is affecting their livelihood. Ayalolo driver, Michael Kwame Sogbe in an interview on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso Nsem ...

Minority MPs want President Nana Akufo-Addo to relieve Mr. George Ayisi-Boateng of his duties as Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, following comments condemned widely as divisive. Mr. Ayisi-Boateng had told a gathering of governing NPP youth that he will put their interests ahead of other Ghanaians in the discharge of his duties. “For a country that is famed for ...

Suspended General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyepong is demanding an unqualified apology from the NPP’s Ashanti NPP Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi. In a notice served by his lawyers, Sarfo Gyamfi and Associates, Mr. Agyepong is also asking Chairman Wontumi to retract a slanderous statement made against his person. ...

The most lawless political party under the fourth republican constitution of Ghana is the New Patriotic Party (NPP), a member of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has claimed. “Officially and currently NPP has become a lawless party”, the communication team member in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Frank Aboagye Danyansah stated. “It has become far a lawless party than NDC [National ...

Former Trades Minister and National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) presidential hopeful, Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah has said, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo deserves one term. According to the communication specialist, the demise of former President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills while in office was the beginning of one-term presidency in the country breaking the two-term convention. “We are now in the era ...

Former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has emphasized the need for a satisfactory involvement of women in politics. The minister who described politics as “dirty” in her quest to advocate for more women in politics pressed that women must remain steadfast in snatching political positions from men. She noted that, “we run a political system ...

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Professor Mawutor Avokeh and five other officers have been detained by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) over alleged procurement breaches. The five other officers are Finance Officer Dr. Akorli and his deputy, Frank Owusu Boateng; Internal Auditor, Ms Sena Darkeh; the Procurement officer, Mary Adzime, and Deputy Director ...