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Commuters who risk their lives on the Tema motorway because of the absence of streetlights may have to do so for some 15 more months. The Roads and Highways Minister, Kwesi Amoako-Atta, has said erecting new streetlights will be a waste of resources because they would eventually be torn down for the expansion of the Tema Motorway. The lack of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should have been arrested by the police for allegedly engaging in drug use which the laws of the country frown on, a private legal practitioner and member of the NDC has suggested. According to Lawyer Abraham Amaliba, Appiah Stadium only acted as a whistleblower when he alleged the President is a drug addict and must ...

Contrary to a Facebook post announcing his intentions to abrogate his contract with BOST, Kwame A Plus insists he still works with the organisation. Some weeks ago, the controversial musician in a Facebook Livestream said he was ready to end his contract with BOST because of some corrupt elements in the New Patriotic Party. But speaking to Accra-based Starr FM ...

NDC serial caller, Frank Kwaku Appiah popularly known as Appiah Stadium has been granted bail after he was arrested by police in the Ashanti Region. Appiah was arrested after he claimed in an audio that the President smokes marijuana. Speaking to GhanaWeb, one of the lawyers representing the NDC serial caller said he[Baba Jamal] and a team of lawyers had ...

President  Akufo-Addo has called on stakeholders in the oil industry to put in place urgent steps to make Ghana reap all the benefits from oil deposits in the now settled disputed region in the country’s territorial waters. Addressing a group of officials from the energy ministry who were part of Ghana’s delegation that secured the ITLOS judgment in Ghana’s favour, the ...

Lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah has dismissed assertions that insulting the president is an offence according to the laws of the country. He explains that such acts as insulting presidents are wrong but cannot be described as an offence demanding action by law enforcement authorities. His comments follow the recent debate arising as a result of the arrest of popular serial ...

The Member of Parliament for Katamanso, Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo, has denied breaching the constitution which states that “a chief shall not take part in active politics, and any chief wishing to do so must or shall abdicate his stool or skin” Hon. Afotey Agbo was in June 2017, installed as the Caretaker Chief of Katamanso in the Greater Accra ...

The Prempeh College Senior High school in Kumasi in the Ashanti region has sacked 51 students for failing their promotional exams last term. The students who were to repeat form-one have been asked to go home because they cannot be accommodated under the new Free SHS policy since they were fee-paying, and government no longer allows head teachers to charge ...

North Korea’s foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country. Ri Yong-ho told reporters in New York that North Korea reserved the right to shoot down US bombers. This applied even when they were not in North Korean airspace, the minister added. The world “should clearly remember” it was the US that first declared ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is calling on government to take “proactive steps to safeguard” Ghana’s maritime boundary with Togo to forestall future dispute. On Saturday, September 23, 2017 Ghana emerged victorious in a maritime dispute against Cote d’Ivoire in a landmark ruling of the Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Germany. ...