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The Minority in Parliament has for the third time insisted the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Bill must be withdrawn from Parliament with immediate effect. The leader of the Minority Haruna Iddrisu said while the spirit behind the Bill may be well intended, it was improperly laid before the House. He is demanding that the Attorney-General goes through the full ...

Chairman of the National Peace Council Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante has said calls for the commissioners of the Electoral Commission to step aside following mud-slinging among themselves are premature. The Chairman of the Council said stepping aside is “jumping the gun”. There is a leadership crisis at the electoral management body. What began as a petition from some staff ...

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) will soon scrap the tax on the 20 percent commission it charges its operators. The NLA will also scrap the taxes that lotto winners pay on their lump sum, according to the Director General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) Kwaku Osei-Ameyaw has disclosed. The move, according to him, is part of efforts to rope ...

Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) is demanding immediate action from the Presidency on the fallouts from the EC. According to the group, affiliated to the ruling government, President Akufo-Addo must within a week set up a commission of inquiry to ascertain the merits or otherwise of the barrage of allegations against commissioners of the EC. AFAG’s calls come ...

Bent on getting his preferred candidate to become the next National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, President Akufo-Addo has cannily baited former National Vice Chairman, Stephen Ayenso Ntim, with a lucrative post in his government to get him to back down on his ambition. The President and his strategists, The aL-hAJJ has gathered, fear Mr Ntim could go pass ...

A member of the Minority in Parliament, Ni Lante Vanderpuye has threatened, Parliament will be made ungovernable if the state continues to harass their colleague MP, Kwabena Donkor. Kwabena Donkor’s house was raided by security officials on Monday on suspicion that he caused financial loss to the state in helping secure the AMERI power deal. But condemning the raid, National ...

The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey-Jacobs has called on the President to tread cautiously in dealing with the alleged corruption allegations at the Electoral Commission (EC). Tensions at the EC were dragged into the public domain after some employees of Commission petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to remove Charlotte Osei from office for alleged financial ...

A 16-member Council for the University of Ghana was last Friday inaugurated by the Minister of Education at a brief swearing-in ceremony at the Conference Room of the Ministry of Education.​ The Council is composed of the following: NAME CONSTITUENT UNIT Professor Yaw Twumasi Chairman of Council Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Vice-Chancellor Dr. Ama Essel Government Appointee Professor Akua Kuenyehia ...

Scores of female army recruits hopefuls have had their dreams of defending the country by land, sea or air dashed after they were rejected due to the plus size of their breast and buttocks. The Ghana Armed Forces which is currently recruiting personnel, disqualified such ladies during the documentation and body selection process which is ongoing at the El Wak ...

A former Co-ordinator of the Emergency Power Programme at the Ministry of Energy, Francis Gyata has revealed that personnel of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service have confiscated his laptops, phones and other electronic devices after a raid at his home in Accra. This was done at dawn on Tuesday, July 25 as part of ongoing ...