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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged members of the Council of State not to be sycophants but speak truth to authority. “The constitution mandates the government to select some people to counsel the president. The regions also elect persons to the Council. You are here to speak truth to the president and not to massage the truth” the President ...

A medical doctor and a deputy director of nursing services at the Kumasi South Hospital died in a fatal accident while attending the funeral of the late former MP for Akwatia Dr. Kofi Asare. Dr. Patience Fletcher and Mrs Philomena Adomah Kwayie died on the spot. Reports have it that the Medical Director of Kumasi South Hospital, Dr. Ofori Boadu ...

Information Minister Mustapha Hamid has said government will introduce elections at the local government level to cure the outbreak of violent resistance against nominations to such posts by the president. “Within this four years of Akufo-Addo’s governance, we are going to make the necessary constitutional changes to allow for the election of DCEs directly by the people themselves, ” he ...

The chief of Sayeegu, Woobjung Kamoutan (termites cannot consume stone) and three others including his eldest son have been assassinated in a renewed protracted land dispute between the Sayeegu and Sambiluk communities near Nakpanduri in the Bunkprugu- Yunyoo district of Northern region. The victims were allegedly killed at a farmland in an ambush strike by an armed mob suspected to ...

Some comments made by former President John Mahama ahead of the 2016 elections contributed to his awful performance in the polls, a research conducted by some political science lecturers at the University of Ghana has revealed. The research also attributed the failure of the NDC to win the elections on their over reliance on the so called unprecedented infrastructural development ...

National service personnel in the country have joined the campaign against illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) to protect the country’s water bodies.The service personnel thronged the principal streets of Koforidua in a procession with anti-galamsey placards as part of their Seventh National Terminal Congress on Friday, 28 April. Mr Akufo-Addo’s government, led by Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu, ...

Elders and the stool father of the Dorfor Paramountcy in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region have given an 11-day ultimatum to the chief of Podoe, Togbe Adela Titriku Ananze, to cease holding himself out as the paramount chief of Dorfor. They also want him to hand over all stool properties and documents in his possession to the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stressed the critical importance the regional market of ECOWAS represents to the development of West Africa, stating that “it has to be a very fundamental objective of all of our peoples and governments in the region.” According to President Akufo-Addo, with West Africa’s population set to hit 500 million people by 2035, the region ...

The family of the murdered MP for Abuakwa North constituency JB Danquah Adu has served notice it will resort to an international body such as the International Criminal Court in seeking justice. The Bretuo and Acheampong families are unhappy with the delay in prosecuting the case and have given the prosecution a three-month ultimatum to come to the conclusion of ...

The Sector Commander of the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), at the Tema Port, Confidence Nyadzi, has dismissed claims that 500 kilogrammes of cocaine worth about $30 million dollars has disappeared from the Port. According to him, thorough investigations conducted by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), the Ministry ...