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The Member of Parliament (MP) for Savelugu Constituency, Muhammed Abdul-Samed Gunu has sided with angry youth of the area that embattled Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Hajia Ayishetu Seidu is not known to the party in the area. “Politically, she is not known to us. I cannot tell how she was shortlisted and subsequently nominated. I think the Regional Chairman of ...

The late Major Maxwell Mahama who was a Captain before his death got promoted posthumously by President Akufo-Addo who doubles as the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces. Major Mahama was lynched by some residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Upper West Denkyira District of the Central Region, when he was allegedly mistaken for a robber. The president prior to the burial ...

Alhaji Naziru Mohammed of the opposition National Democratic Congress Communications department has advised the leadership of the party to consider putting the Kwesi Botchwey report up for sale. According to the soft spoken communicator, the party must think of ways of making money and one of them is by selling copies of the research findings for profit since the general ...

Drama unfolded at the Tamale Teaching Hospital on Monday when the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Prosper Akambong refused to hand over to newly-appointed CEO, Dr. David Zaawumya Kolbila. Dr. Akambong reportedly refused to hand over suspecting foul play in the appointment of his successor. He said he wouldn’t exit office until he receives an official letter from the Ministry ...

Maverick Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe has revealed that he has brought his role as the head of a presidential taskforce to retrieve state vehicles in possession of past government officials to a close. The exercise in his view would be a futile one because government officials who are supposed to be ...

The Chief Justice nominee Justice Sophia Akuffo will face the Appointments Committee of Parliament today, Friday June 16. President Akufo-Addo appointed Justice Akuffo to replace Georgina Theodora Wood who retired on June 7, 2017. The Committee has already assessed past judgments of Justice Akuffo and her publications to be better informed about her performance at the Supreme Court. She was ...

The Ministry of Transport has directed the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to suspend, with immediate effect, the introduction of Smart Drivers Licence and Vehicle Registration Cards slated to take effect on July 18. A letter dated June 14, 2017 ordered that the two projects should be suspended until the necessary approvals have been sought. The letter signed by ...

Celebrated cocoa farmer Tetteh Quarshie was not the first person to bring cocoa pods into the country, renowned historian and Associate Professor at the Department of History at the University of Ghana Prof. Akosua Adoma Perbi has stated. Speaking at the sixth edition of Achimota School’s 90th anniversary education forum Prof. Perbi noted that “historically cocoa was initially brought into ...

Host of Adom FM’s Morning Show, Captain Kwadwo Smart deserves to be decorated with a national award for his fight against corruption in the country, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) organizer has said. Japhet Baidoo speaking on Adom FM’s Morning Show, ‘Dwaso Nsem’ Thursday said that the morning show host deserves to be celebrated because of his fight against corruption ...

One of the oldest political parties in the country, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), turned 68 years old on June 12, 2017. The party assumed the reins of government in the First Republic under the country’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. During its nine years in power from 1957 to 1966 before the party was overthrown in a military coup ...