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Lawyers of Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni, Seidu Agongo and Agricult Ghana Limited have filed two separate applications with one of them asking the judge to recuse himself. Justice Clemence Honyenuga, Justice of the Supreme is the presiding judge of the case in which Dr Opuni and two others are standing trial for causing financial loss to the state to the ...

President Akufo-Addo has appealed to 21 newly commissioned Ambassadors and High Commissioners to familiarize themselves with his government’s post-COVID-19 recovery agenda and to champion same at their various destinations and duty post. Addressing the newly commissioned Ambassadors and High Commissioners at the Jubilee House after administering the Oath of Allegiance, Official Oath and the Oath of Secrecy to them, President ...

The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called for a holistic review of the 1992 Constitution. He said the COVID-19 pandemic and its unintended consequences had provided a good opportunity for the country to have a second look at the Constitution At a stakeholder engagement with civil society organisations on economic revitalisation amid COVID-19, he said, “Let’s shift ...

The Minister of State designate for Finance, Mr Charles Adu-Boahen, has stated that the government’s solid management of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it a victim of its own success. “Under the exceptional leadership of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, we managed to tackle the pandemic so well that people do not realise how devastating it was and what the ...

Oheneba Nkrabea, one of the Rastafarian students who won the landmark dreadlock case against Achimota School has reported for school. He is set to be taken through admission processes and then join his colleagues in class. He was accompanied by his parents. Meanwhile, Achimota School has temporarily backtracked on its decision not to admit the two students. The School in ...

A miner who went missing after a ground collapse at AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi mine on May 18, 2021, has been found dead. AngloGold in a statement issued on Monday, May 30, 2021 said his body was discovered on Saturday, May 29, by mine rescue teams. The miner was an employee of a mining contractor that works with AngloGold. “Our thoughts ...

An Educationist, Mr Samuel Ziga has called for a review of the Free SHS policy saying the policy in its current state is not sustainable. According to Mr Ziga, parents who are in the position to pay fees must be allowed to pay to ease the burden on the government and also help the government undertake some infrastructural development in ...

The Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, the Most Rev Henryk Mieczysław Jagodziński, has described the election of Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin as the Speaker of Ghana’s 8th Parliament as a historic event that should guide future leaders. He said the fact that a candidate of the opposition party had been elected Speaker of Parliament should send a clear message to ...

There was chaos at St.Pauls Technical School in Akyem Kukurantumi in Abuakwa North Municipality in the Eastern Region Sunday when students in the school went on rampage and impounded a taxi cab being used by the matron of the school to transport alleged stolen food from the school’s kitchen. The students, some of whom were armed with stones and sticks, ...

The mother of former Black Stars midfielder Sulley Ali Muntari, Hajia Kande, has reportedly passed on according to reports in the Ghanaian media. Hajia Kande is said to have battled illness for some months but unfortunately succumbed to the illness. The mother of the former AC Millan and Inter Milan star reportedly died at Konongo in the Ashanti Region. Source: ...