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Human rights lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu’s prayer to have his three-year ban by the General Legal Council suspended suffered a jolt after an Appeal Court threw out the case. He filed an application for stay of execution on the General Legal Council’s decision to suspend him from legal practice describing it as “very selective, ill-motivated and an affront to natural ...

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has withdrawn the Special Prosecutor Bill from Parliament. He also withdrew the Zongo Development Fund Bill. The Minister who is also Majority Leader withdrew the corruption-fighting bill without explanation. But the Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has been demanding, the government withdraw the bill because it was improperly laid before the House. According ...

The election dispute of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and other related matters on the mandate of the current executive of the association have been referred for an out of court settlement. Consequently, labour expert Mr Austin Gamey has been appointed to mediate the impasse. This was made known on Wednesday, when the case came up for hearing at the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has today, Wednesday July 26, 2017, referred the petition seeking to impeach the chairperson of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei to the Chief Justice. Some faceless staff of the Election Management Body have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to impeach Mrs. Osei over misconduct and abuse of office. “Whilst the President was out of the country, the ...

Reverend Isaac Owusu-Bempah was instrumental to see Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo win the presidential election in the 2016 election. Many doubted his prophecy about Nana Addo’s victory but he was unperturbed and continued to preach a massive victory for Nana Addo which came to pass. However, the controversial founder of the Glorious Word Power Ministry has again prophesied that former ...

The leadership of Parliament has summoned all the seven commissioners at the electoral commission over the impasse that has plagued the election management body over the last two weeks. The chairperson of the commission Charlotte Osei and two of her deputies; Georgina Opoku Amankwaa and Amadu Sulley have been embroiled in a public spat with each corner throwing allegations through ...

Kwabena Mensah Woyome has described as depressing the continuous trial of his brother – Alfred Agbesi Woyome – over the GHc51.2million supposed judgment debt paid to him by the State. “What is happening to my brother is a sad thing,” bemoaned the MP for South Tongu on Morning Starr Wednesday July 26, 2017. According to him, his beleaguered brother duly ...

Thieves have turned their attention to the Upper East Regional Hospital, targeting motorcycles belonging to staff, patients and visitors on a daily basis. A multiple-source report, supported by some worried-looking staff at the hospital, indicates that five motorbikes were taken away at the hospital by thieves in the second week of this July alone after their owners had parked them ...

The leadership of parliament will later today, Wednesday, 26 July meet with Commissioners of the Electoral Commission to intervene in the ongoing fight between Chair Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Class News’ parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan has gathered. He said the meeting will come right after the EC boss finishes briefing the house about how much the election ...

Six persons have been arrested by the Obawale Police in the Eastern region for refusing to participate in a Communal labour held at the Pepetifi community in the Yilo Krobo District. The six persons are; Tetteh Denis, Djaba Ismael, Tettey, Tetteh Bazuka, Tetteh Bless and Michael Odesti-Bless. The six persons are being processed for Court. According to Bismark Amgbor, a ...