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The Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) has appointed Justice Mrs. Georgina Wood (retired), immediate past-Chief Justice of Ghana, as the 2017-2018 AIG Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. The AIG Fellowship is awarded each year to an individual from West Africa who has demonstrated evidence of outstanding contribution to the public good, through ...

Bastie Samir is no ‘small’ boxer as he is highly regarded highly regarded as a very good boxer. Even the great Floyd Mayweather admitted to his toughness after training with him. Braimah Kamoko, popularly known as Bukom Banku was handed his first professional defeat by US-based Bastie Samir last Saturday. The convincing defeat which came by a seventh round knockout ...

Greater Accra Regional Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC], Anthony Nukpenu has revealed that the communications outfit of the Flagstaff House at the Presidency level really worried the then ruling party prior to the 2016 elections. “It is a fact that the communications outfit of the Flagstaff House at the Presidency level really worried the party, they can ...

Statistics released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime indicates that Ghana is ranked 14th out of 115 countries when it comes to the consumption of cocaine. Topping that table is Albania. Public Health research from 2014 estimates that 2.5 percent of its population aged between 16 and 64 use the drug. Other countries in the top 10 ...

The Ga Dangme Concerned Youth Association (GDCYA) says the installation of a chief for the Ga State is unlawful but has urged calm and peaceful resolution of disagreements that may arise as a result installation. President of the Association, Nii Ayaafio Tetteh I, said in a statement, “We hope and pray that our forefathers will grant us wisdom to solve ...

Security Expert Dr. Kwasi Aning has described as disturbing the mild punishment meted out to members of the pro-government vigilante group Delta Force. According to him, the punishment by the court will escalate political vigilantism ahead of the 2020 general elections. The 13 members of the Delta Force vigilante group in Kumasi were on Thursday sentenced to a fine of ...

Former National Security Advisor, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah has said the fine of GH¢1,800 each handed to members of the Delta 13 by an Asokwa District Court in Kumasi is woefully inadequate. He thus suspects that the court was coerced into delivering what he described as “not a better decision.” The 13 members are to serve 12 months in jail ...

Business activities came to a halt as scores of residents in the Kumasi Metropolis lined up on the streets to wave at the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, when he touched down at the Kumasi Airport on Thursday. The Asantehene was taken through some principal streets of the metropolis before finally taken to the Manhyia Palace. Otumfuo’s Mawerehene, Baffour Osei ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the fight against deforestation and forest degradation is critical to Ghana’s successes of tackling Climate Change. With Climate Change being, perhaps, the biggest threat to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, President Akufo-Addo noted that it is fast becoming a developmental issue of grave concern to most leaders across the world. It is ...

A member of the communication team of the Ghana Hajj Board Zakaria Rahman is in hot waters for collecting money from prospective pilgrims who could not travel to Mecca. Four women have reported Rahman to two separate police stations in Accra – Airport and Nima Police Stations – over his inability to acquire Visas and flight tickets for them to ...