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The Northern regional minister Salifu Saeed has called for peace in Bole after tensions escalated between supporters of two rival chiefs over the Bole Skin. The confusion is said to be linked to disagreements over the rightful heir to the Bole skin after the death of the paramount chief Bolewura Awuladese Pontomprong Mahama (II). Speaking in Bole, the regional minister ...

The Managing Editor of the Al Hajj Newspaper, Alhaji Bature Iddrissu has revealed that the litany of problems that have bedeviled the country must be blamed on former President Jerry John Rawlings. “He ruled this country for 19 years and I am telling you that the current problems we are facing must be laid at his doorstep. 19 wasted years ...

Reverend lsaac Owusu Bempah, General Overseer of the Glorious Way Chapel, has expressed shock at recent comments about him by Reverend Stephen Opuni, General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG). Rev Opuni, in an interview last week, condemned Rev Bempah over some comments he purportedly made about the lynching of Captain Maxwell Mahama. Rev Bempah is alleged to ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday visited family of the late Major Adam Mahama to commiserate with them. There, he again, expressed his deepest condolences for their loss and disclosed that in agreement with the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Obed Akwa, the late Captain be promoted to the rank of Major. He also revealed that a monument ...

One of the most difficult decisions President Akufo-Addo had to take since he was sworn into office five months ago was to decide who among his “large size” and lopsided Ministers join his 19-member Cabinet, The aL-hAJJ can confirm. Though the President has been reluctant naming his Cabinet, sources in government say the pressure on him from some sections of ...

Having come to the realization that President Akufo-Addo will be unable to fulfill most of his lofty campaign promises, First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo and some kingpins of the ruling New Patriotic Party have resorted to begging Ghanaians on the president’s behalf. The first lady and some NPP apparatchiks, The aL-hAJJ has gathered, are overly worried about the high expectations ...

Dr Kobby Mensah, a Political Marketing expert of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) has asked the state investigative bodies and the Electoral Commission to probe a recent revelation by former President Jerry John Rawlings that some Nigerians intended to fund the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of Ghana’s 2008 elections. According ...

The virtue of consistency was manifested at the GUBA Awards 2017 which took place on Saturday the 3rd of June 2017, at the Intercontinental Hotel, o2, London. The biennial award in its sixth year, paid tribute to an array of trailblazers from various industries. The night commenced with an ode to Ghana by the Shekinah singers as they sang the ...

The race of life is not won by the swift nor the powerful, but by those with the strong will to make good use of every moment their maker presents to them. Some children through no faults of theirs grow up with certain physical challenges that make them often marginalized and are faced with lack of access to public health, ...

The Ministry of Education has suspended with immediate effect, the transfer of all categories of teaching and non-teaching staff across the country. Sector Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, who disclosed this last Saturday said a number of teachers have applied to be transferred from their stations to mostly urban areas but said that cannot be granted. However, he said those ...