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Disappointed Ghana fans booed West Ham United player Andre Ayew during Ghana’s unimpressive stalemate with Congo in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Kumasi on Friday afternoon. Fans at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium were obviously underwhelmed by the performance of the 26-year-old and booed him when he was being replaced by Miami FC’s Kwadwo Poku in the 68th minute. ...

The Communications Minister Ursula Owusu Ekuful has described as “scurrilous and unwarranted” allegations of bribery and corruption levelled against her by Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyepong. In a statement released Friday, the minister challenged her accuser to produce evidence of his allegations, adding the allegations are born of ignorance. Ursula Owusu stands accused of collecting bribes as a condition for ...

Criminologist and acting Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority has broken his long silence over the controversial contract that appears to be tearing members of the New Patriotic Party apart. Prof Ken Attafuah insists the allegations of wrong doing by Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyepong leveled against him and Communications Minister Ursula Owusu were not only baseless but untrue. ...

Former presidential staffer under the President John Mahama led administration, Dr. Clement Apaak is upset with persons blaming and trolling the former President for the annulment of Kenya’s presidential polls. “What nonsense, did JDM [John Dramani Mahama] write the constitution of Kenya? Is he the Kenya’s EC! Focus your attention on fighting the army worm infestation”, Builsa North lawmaker took ...

The abortive mission of Exton Cubic Company Ltd to mine bauxite at Nyinahin in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region seems to have rejuvenated the animosity between two top businessmen in the country. From all indications, Bernard Antwi Boasiako aka ‘Wontumi,’ the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Ibrahim Mahama, a brother of ex-President ...

Dear Benjamin Boakye, I read your opinion backing the sale of VRA thermal plants in an interview posted on the web of the Daily Express. It reminds me of an old adage which says that politics is nothing but a concentrated form of economics. It also reaffirms a statement by a favorite guide: “the world is composed of two people, ...

Out of a total number of 460,941 registered candidates who sat for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), 424,092 candidates have qualified to benefit from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s flagship ‘Free Senior High School’ policy. The policy takes off by the middle of this month when President Akufo-Addo launches it, possibly at the West Africa Secondary School, ...

The Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful is ready to present herself to the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service to answer to corruption claims leveled against her by the Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong. The allegations were in relation to a contract given to a foreign company for the production of national identification cards. Kennedy Agyapong had claimed that ...

Social commentator, Casely Hayford has advised Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu to sue Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong over corruption claims leveled against her. Kennedy Agyapong had alleged that Ursula Owusu-Ekuful disregarded a bid [he had interest in] for a contract to print NIA cards in favour of more expensive bidders who had paid her money. Ursula, in a rebuttal, ...

The Minister of Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says she supports the CID’s investigation in the allegations of corruption levelled against her in the award of the contract for the production of National Identification Cards. “I welcome the investigations by the CID and even though I am yet be contacted, I will cooperate with the law enforcement agencies to ascertain the truth,” ...