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New Patriotic Party (NPP) bigwig, Dr. Kofi Dsane Selby, former Ambassador to France in Busia’s time and again during the Kufour regime, has died. Dr. Selby, died on Tuesday July 18, at the National Cardio center, Korle Bu in Accra. The medical doctor, once aspired to lead the NPP as its flagbearer, placing second to the late Prof. Albert Kwadwo ...

An Accra High court will today [Friday] hear a case brought against Interior Minister, Ambrose Derry and the Comptroller General of Immigration, Kwame Sakyi by an Indian national who is contesting his deportation from Ghana. Mr Ashok Kumar Sivaram who had lived in the country for a number of years is accusing the two officials of unlawfully deporting him over ...

A law lecturer and legal practitioner says lawyers for the Electoral Commission (EC) Sory@Law are not in breach of conflict of interest situation with decision to represent the Commission’s Chairperson. Yaw Oppong told Evans Mensah on Joy FM’s Newsnite Thursday the lawyers are at liberty to represent Charlotte Osei in an impeachment petition against her because the body is not ...

At least fifteen persons were arrested on Thursday after they were found in possession of what is suspected to be cannabis by police at Salaga, in a raid on local sitting joints in the East Gonja district capital. District police commander ASP Sulemana Sulley disclosed the operation followed an order by the regional command to clamp down on suspected criminals ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is alleging that budget allocated for the office of the president in the first six months of President Nana Akufo-Addo, represents that of former President Mahama’s four year term when he was in office. Addressing the press at the party’s headquarters on Thursday, Kofi Porturphy lambasted the president for spending lavishly on parties, gold ties ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei has described a petition by some unidentified persons of the EC asking for her removal as “frivolous, baseless” and actuated by “malice and ill will”. Some aggrieved staff of the commission on Wednesday July 19, 2017 in a petition to president Akufo-Addo called for the removal of Mrs. Osei because she ...

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has said allegations of fraud and financial malfeasance levelled against her by a group of staff of the commission through a petition to the president, are “bogus”, “frivolous”, “lies” and “baseless”. The petition by the staff was filed with President Nana Akufo-Addo and asked for investigations into allegations of fraud and ...

The Judicial Service has been ranked the most corrupt public institution in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District by the people in the area. Fifty-six (56) percent of respondents of a survey conducted by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) Consortium, grouping the GII, Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) and SEND Ghana, said the service was corrupt. The survey is part of the four-year United ...

The verdict of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on the performance of the six-month-old government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was that of a failed one. In a press conference addressed by the leader and chairman of the party Kofi Portuphy, he spoke about the state of affairs attributing the current lawlessness in the country to the Akufo-Addo government. ...

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application brought to it by Nana Obiri Boahen, Abronye and David Asante seeking to dismiss a defamation suit brought before the court by the National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams. The presiding judge dismissed their application and slapped them with a cost of GH¢3,000.00 adding it was surprised that ...