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As part of efforts to decongest the prisons, three judges Friday sat at the Nsawam Prison and heard the cases of some inmates who have been on remand for years. The Chief Justice (CJ), Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood, the Danish Ambassador and the Director of Public Prosecutions were also in the prisons as the CJ witnessed her last Justice For All ...

Illegal galamsey miners are set to return to site not to deplete and pollute the environment  but to work towards reclaiming areas devastated by the illegal mining activity. According to the Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu, his outfit will vigorously engage the illegal miners in a desperate bid to repair the lands destroyed by galamsey. The illegal ...

NDC Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has refused to throw support for names mentioned in the race for the 2020 NDC presidential candidate. Adopting a ‘wait-and-see’ posture towards growing interest for the position, the Asawase MP wants to see party energy concentrated on re-organising the party following its worst defeat since it was founded in 1992. In a ...

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu appears to be under some pressure from some persons within the party to run as flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the 2020 general elections or make his stance of who he will support public. Whereas many including former ministers and diplomats are still yearning a return of former President John Dramani ...

Child Rights International is calling for the arrest and prosecution of parents who engage their children in illegal mining. According to the organisation, its latest findings on child exploitation in mining communities point to an alarming increase in the engagement of children as labourers on mining concession sites with at least four in every five homes within the designated areas ...

The Editor of the Finder Newspaper, Elvis Darko, has rubbished claims discounting the discovery of cocaine at the Tema Port that reportedly went missing. The Sector Commander of the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), at the Tema Port, Confidence Nyadzi, had earlier dismissed claims that 500 kilogrammes of cocaine worth about $30 million ...

The Water Research Institute (WRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says government will be effective at monitoring activities of small scale miners if it legalizes galamsey. The Institute said the degeneration of illegal mining in the country is a function of the absence of effective monitoring by the relevant state institutions. At a media encounter on ...

The state transporter, Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMTL) is reportedly on the heels of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over buses the party rented whilst in government but allegedly failed to pay for the services the company rendered to it. According to a pro forma invoice issued to the NDC after it had lost the general elections on December ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana ECG says it has restored power to over 85 percent of its customers who were affected by last night’s massive power outage. The electricity distributor says it has experienced some few challenges including the poor planning in some communities which has slowed down the restoration of power. Around 10:00 pm Wednesday, the whole country was ...

The Western regional Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Japhet Baidoe, has sued his regional chairman, Michael Aidoo and two others – Famous Tumi Acquah, the western regional communication officer and a party member, Kwesi Dick – for defamation at the Sekondi High Court. In his statement of claim, the plaintiff, Japhet Baidoe claims on Sunday April 28, ...