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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been awarded the AU Gender Champion by the Chairman of the African Union and President of Guinea, Alpha Conde. According to Mr. Conde, the award is in recognition of President Akufo Addo’s efforts in gender equality at continental level. The Chairman of the AU announced the award on the floor of the Nelson Mandela ...

Members of the Coalition of Unposted Veterinary Technicians are picketing the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) today over the government’s failure to give them financial clearance to begin work. Daniel Amoako, spokesperson for the group, speaking to Accra News’ Nana Amoako Gyampah on Tuesday July 4, said most of the about 500 students had not been posted several months ...

Founder of the National Democratic Congress, Jerry John Rawlings has succeeded in regaining the support of some kingpins of the party to further his grand scheme to keep the umbrella party in opposition for a long time, a leading member of the biggest opposition party has observed. According to the NDC guru, though Mr Rawlings does not wish the party ...

The Supreme Court will today, (Tuesday), rule on an application filed by businessman, Alfred Agbeshie Woyome, seeking to halt the oral examination by the Attorney General on how he intends paying off the GH¢51 million judgment debt wrongfully awarded him. Mr Woyome prayed the Supreme Court last week to stay proceedings on the oral examination since he had filed for ...

Political Science Lecturer with the University of Ghana (UG), Dr. Evans Aggrey Darko has bemoaned the road network in the country taking a swipe at government contractors for such shoddy work. “I was on a visit to the second largest city, Kumasi specifically at a place called Adoato. I was appalled by the nature of road network. I realized that ...

A man believed to be in his 20’s has been found dead at Nuaso-Odjadornya in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality of the Eastern region. The lifeless body of the deceased, a native of the area identified only as Ayernor was found in the bush Monday morning. The deceased was hacked to death several times in the head by the unknown ...

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 ...