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The Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research, at the Kofi Annan International Peace-Keeping Centre (KAIPC) Dr Kwesi Aning, has denied ever claiming President Akufo Addo is a habitual marijuana smoker. According to Wikileaks cables released in 2011, Dr. Aning, the leaked cables stated “When asked about rumors of Akufo-Addo’s cocaine use, Aning admitted that Akufo-Addo had used drugs in ...

The Food and Drugs Authority has destroyed 4,500 cartons of rotten mackerel impounded at Mile 7 here in Accra. The rotten Asahi Mackerel was imported into the country by Dotsisco Ventures and were in transit to neighbouring Togo. They were however diverted onto the Ghanaian market and were impounded following a tip-off by some residents. Head of Communications for the ...

Just few days since the restoration of nursing training allowance, some female trainee nurses have recounted their harrowing experience over how they sold their bodies so as to make ends meet while in college. These nurses claim that the decision by the erstwhile Mahama administration to cancel their allowance caused grave financial hardship to them and that they were severely ...

The Ghana International Bank has responded to media enquiries in respect of the sacking of a bank worker for lodging money in the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II UK bank account and said the Asantehene’s diplomatic passport “had in fact expired” in August 2016 at the time of the incident.The former employee of the Ghana International Bank in the United ...

It was a heartbreaking experience for Hafiz Ali’s father after he witnessed his son being jailed 25 years by the Accra Circuit Court for being part of a gang that robbed a liquor distribution company at Mamprobi and killing a guard in the process. On his way to the vehicle that would transport him to prison, Ali saw his father ...

The late Nakpa Naa Salifu Dawuni has been buried after his body was kept at the morgue for three years. The Security Council on Tuesday, October 10, 2017, gave a flying order to authorities of the Yendi Municipal Hospital requesting for the release of the body of the late chief from the morgue for burial. According to the REGSEC, the ...

An association of youth in the Ashanti Region has said a publication that appeared in a UK-based news portal citing Otumfuo Osei Tutu II in a money laundering scandal is spurious. A statement issued Wednesday evening by the Concerned Youth of Asante stated that its President, Nana Dr Agyenim Boateng, is “convinced that the news is cooked to degrade the ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says there is every reason for Ghana and Benin to develop strong, strategic bonds based, inter alia, on the common democratic values that promote human dignity and solidarity. According to President Akufo-Addo, the two countries are recognised as beacons of democracy on the continent and have in the 1990s resorted to ...

Private legal practitioner, Nana Yaw Osei, has waded into the raging controversy over claims the King of the Ashanti Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has allegedly been involved in a £350,000 money laundry. He observed that the King is worth more than the stated amount and therefore called on Ghanaians to desist from acts aimed at denigrating the image of ...

Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa, the 13-year-old student of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) says the President Akufo-Addo is her role-model because of his scholarly nature. In an interview with Kojo Yankson on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Wednesday, Ruth explained that she did not have any female role models but looked up to the President because he ...