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Even though the next general elections in Ghana is some 42months away, tacticians of the governing New Patriotic Party are mapping out strategies on how to extend the party’s stay in power beyond the 2020 elections through manipulation and implementation of the Representation of Peoples Act (ROPA), The aL-hAJJ can authoritatively report. Sensing Ghanaians are so early getting disappointed and ...

Twice-failed NPP National Chairman Aspirant, Stephen Ayenso Ntim and current acting Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Freddy Blay, may have to give up on their National Chairman ambitions or risk suffering heavy defeat as information reaching The aL-hAJJ indicates that, the presidency has thrown its support behind the Upper West Regional Chairman of NPP, Alhaji Abubakari Abdul Rahman, for ...

Fourteen (14) illegal miners have been declared dead by the Prestea Police Command in the Western region after an abandoned galamsey pit caved in at Kubekrom-Abease near Prestea Nsuta. The illegal miners were reportedly among 19 miners who were trapped in the pit. Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene Gyan reports that rescue mission is underway to see if any of the ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has joined the long queue of prominent Ghanaians and security experts raising alarm over the country’s deteriorating security situation. The two-time president of Ghana warned, the country risk sliding into anarchy if immediate steps are not taken to address what he described as “worsening youth unemployment”. Speaking at a conference organised for the leadership of ...

The ID cards and purse of the 2017 National Science and Maths Quiz mistress Dr. Elsie Effah Kauffman have been found after being stolen at the finals. The items which were in her stolen bag were dropped at the University of Ghana, Legon, according to her sister Belinda Yaa Dankwaa Effah. The bewildered senior lecturer and head of the Biomedical ...

The Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Letsa has disclosed that, Agro-base Processing factories which are already operating in some districts of the region will not be given any competition from the government’s ‘one-district-one-factory’ policy. The policy which forms part of the Akufo-Addo led administration’s national industrialization agenda, intends to establish a factory in each of the country’s 216 districts to ...

President Akufo-Addo has urged all senior citizens of the country to speak out boldly and criticise his government. Referring to his inaugural speech were he called on the people of Ghana to be “citizens and not spectators”, the President said he has one more request to make of senior citizens and that is for them to offer him constructive criticisms ...

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education has expressed great displeasure at the incident where the quiz mistress of the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) competition had her handbag stolen at the climax of the competition. Professor Kwasi Yankah lamented how the incident has not only robbed the NMSQ of its value and essence but has also ...

President Akufo-Addo has left Ghana Sunday, July 2, 2017, to attend the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, which is being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting of the Heads of State will take place from July 3 to July 4, 2017, under the theme, “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investment in the Youth”. Issues ...

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram in Accra, Samuel Nartey George has kicked against calls for independent probe into the bribery scandal involving Members of the Finance Committee of Parliament. Head of Legal Department at the National Lottery Authority (NLA), David Lamptey requested then Director General, Brigadier General Martin Ahiaglo (Rtd.) to authorise the release of a total sum of ?150,000 ...