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The 2016 National Campaign Coordinator of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Adams has stated that the appointment of Mr Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh as the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Ejisu Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region contributed to the defeat of the party in the 2016 general elections. According to him, appointing Mr Ponkoh as MCE for ...

It is with considerable pleasure that I welcome you formally to Accra, and to the seat the Ghanaian Presidency. I recall fondly my participation in the 2011 London and 2014 Seoul Party Leaders’ meetings of the International Democratic Union. On both occasions, I attended in my capacity as leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the then main opposition party ...

It was fireworks on Adom FM’s Morning Show, ‘Dwaso Nsem’ on Wednesday Morning when panelists on the show decided to each other up. Their debates which later turned into an argument was about deciding which of the two main political parties – the NPP and the NDC – has shown tendencies of being more corrupt whiles in power. While Agbesi ...

The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and President of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has reiterated his call for the election and resourcing of MMDCEs to ensure development at the micro-level. His comments came at the wake of recent developments, where there were a lot of agitation and confusion over the acceptance of some MMDCEs ...

The office of Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has indicated that, he has not been served with the Supreme Court’s order for his impending oral examination on June 29. The Court granted an application for the Attorney General’s Department to orally examine the businessman on the means and capacity to repay the over fifty-one million Ghana cedis judgment debt to the ...

Former Head of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short, has described as misplaced and inappropriate, the appointment of an Inspector General of Police and the Chief Justice by Presidents. According to him, the President’s appointments should be strictly restricted to his ministers and cabinet members while the appointments of Heads of institutions and Public ...

A failed ‘spiritual exercise’ by a fetish priest to identify a laptop thief has left the palm of a 16-year-old boy burnt at Akyem Sekyere in the Eastern Region. The boy, Yaw Prince, was accused of stealing a laptop and was sent to the 22-year-old fetish priest, Kwasi Afari, to use spiritual means to establish if it was the Prince ...

The Supreme Court has overturned an earlier ruling by the Appeals court that compelled NIB to pay over 120 million dollars in Judgment debt. According to the court, ruling by the high and Appeals court has to be set aside; the identity of issuers of the promissory cannot be identitied, raising issues with the capacity of investors. More to come….. ...

The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has dismissed government’s claim that the council is in support of its decision to facilitate Christian pilgrimage to Israel and the Vatican. In an interview Wednesday on Morning Starr the deputy Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Paul Essien hinted of the Christian Council’s support of the move. He told Morning Starr host Francis ...

A document from the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team has revealed that the Accra Passport office issued a passport to the arrested billionaire kidnapper with a fake name- Asare Nelson. Even though his real name is Chikwudubem Onwuamadike, officers of the Accra Office contrived to issue the passport to the billonaire kidnapper under the name Asare Nelson on 10 January ...