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Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, will be dragged to the Privileges Committee of Parliament over claims he made that Ghana is the second largest supplier of fighters to the dreaded Islamic State, also known as ISIS. Mr Ablakwa on Tuesday, rehashed portions of an alleged report of a special inquiry commissioned by the ...

Acting General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has asked party members to ignore internal party election timetable reportedly circulated on social media. “They are all fake”, John Boadu said on Accra-based UTV Friday. He said the most important agenda of the party now is holding an extraordinary delegates congress expected in December to effect constitutional amendments. Mr Boadu ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reinforced his government’s commitment towards the strict enforcement of the new measures issued by cabinet Thursday to guide the operations of the petroleum industry. To this end, a ministerial co-ordinating committee has been set up to ensure the strict adherence and implementation of the regulatory measures announced after a cabinet meeting Thursday following Atomic ...

Policy analyst, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has criticized a plan by the Ghana National Fire Service to deploy personnel to fuel stations to supervise the delivery of fuel. In his view, this only amounts to “wasting a fire man’s time.” Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Wereko-Brobby said,” I don’t really see that we need to go and deploy fire service people ...

The Vice-Chancellor of the Nduom School of Business & Technology (NSB&T), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom has announced that the school has “finally” been accredited by the National Accreditation Board and will begin receiving new students on November 3, 2017. Dr Nduom in a post of Facebook said admission was open and only 200 students will be admitted According to him, ...

The former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei has threatened to wage a one-man crusade against the Vice President Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia to force him to reduce the number of cars in his convoy. Prof Adei in an address at the 20th-anniversary celebrations of Morrison and Associations (an international audit firm), said ...

A member of the communication team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dr Zakaria Mawiah has said government denied about 5000 prospective nursing students admission in order to restore the scrapped trainee nurses allowances. A host of government officials, including president Akufo-Addo converged at a lavish ceremony in Sunyani Tuesday to officially announce the restoration of the allowances which ...

Two persons including a staff of the Ghana Health Service are in the grips of the Volta regional Police command in Ho for engaging in an alleged forgery. This follows a complaint lodged against the two, Bright Paul Yebbi, 32, and Penidas Fordjour, 33, by the outgoing Regional director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Joseph Teye-Nuertey on Wednesday, October ...

A journalist with Rivers FM at Wassa Akropong in the Western Region has incurred the wrath of traditional leaders after he criticised them for not doing enough to secure the interest of youth in the area. Larry Saint was asked by the paramount chief of the area, Omanhene Tetre Akuamoah Sekyim, to kneel in the sun for over three hours ...

Deputy National Communications Officer on the ticket of the National Patriotic Party [NPP], Ekow Vincent Asefuah has described members of the largest opposition party as persons who do not learn from their mistakes. Rather they keep adding to their numerous wrong doings claiming and compelling others to take them as rights or privileges. “I get amazed when I come across ...