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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named his remaining 212 persons as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs). New Patriotic Party (NPP) aficionados have been up in arms over the nominations, condemning some of the president’s decisions against their wish. However, announcing the names on Wednesday, the Minister for Local Government, Hajia Alima Mahama appealed to party faithful to ...

The Chairman of the government’s Asset Retrieval Committee, ACP Aboagye Nyarko,  has strongly dismissed reports that officials of the task force stormed the private residence of  former Youth and Sports Minister in search of stolen state vehicles. According to him, he was surprised by Nii Lantey Vanderpuije’s  insistence that the force raided his residence Tuesday. The Odododiodoo Member of Parliament ...

Joyce Bawa Mogtari, Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama has advised the government not to blame Mr. Mahama for their failures. In a strongly worded statement released on Wednesday, April 26, Mrs Mogtari condemned what she described as a government-sponsored attack that has been launched on the former President “based on a deliberately concocted lie, that the former ...

The UK High Commission in Ghana has fingered three sitting lawmakers and a former one in alleged visa fraud and have been slapped with a 10-year travelling ban to the UK. According to the High Commission, the MPs used their diplomatic passports to apply for visas for persons traveling to the UK and they never returned. The MPs are Richard ...

Irate supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Mpohor District of the Western region have issued a stern warning to President Akufo-Addo to appoint no other person than their former constituency chairman George Bernard Eshun as District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area. The supporters who were clad in red armbands said information available to them suggest that ...

The Volta Region Security Council and police are set to conduct autopsies on the bodies of two persons killed last week, after which arrest of the killers would be made. A lack of strong evidence on the cause of the deaths, suspected to be due to gunshot wounds, is preventing police from making an arrest. A Police Criminal Investigation Department ...

Lieutenant Colonel GNK Hoenyedzi, Commanding Officer of 2 Battalion of Infantry (2Bn), Takoradi has been recalled to the Southern Command Headquarters as he faces a Board Of Inquiry (BOI) for his suspected galamsey related activities. He has also been said to have engaged in illegal seizure of cars and provided armed escorts for galamsey operatives in a region which is ...

Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called the bluff of the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong over threat of ending his life if the brother of the former President, Ibrahim Mahama is not jailed. According to Bernard Allotey Jacobs, the party will gladly provide him with the poison to end his life ...

Some aggrieved men said to be members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) have vandalised state properties at the Bawku West District Assembly over speculations that a candidate they dislike  has been nominated  as District Chief Executive. The group, alleged to be loyalists of one of the three candidates vying for the DCE position in the area, appeared without warning ...

Alhaji Bature, Managing Editor of the Alhajj Newspaper has revealed that brother of Former President John Dramani Mahama, Ibrahim Mahama believes in the leadership qualities of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and will be the last person to attempt to defraud the state. “This is someone who is lauding the president behind the scenes for his efforts to empower local ...