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The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has indicated that it cannot permit the #FixTheCountry group to embark on their intended protest. The #FixTheCountry campaigners wrote to the Ghana Police Service to notify the law enforcement body of their intention to demonstrate on 9 May 2021 against hardships in the country. The conveners of the demonstration include Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, Felicity ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disagreed with critics of the government who say there is a culture of silence under President Nana Akufo-Addo. At the opening of the office for the Coordinated Mechanism on the Safety of Journalists at a ceremony in Accra on Tuesday, 4 May 2021, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said: “This is part of the many layers ...

Ghana’s active COVID-19 caseload has risen to 1,584 from 1,580, the latest figures from the Ghana Health Service have indicated. Of that number, six and 24 patients are in critical and severe conditions, respectively. Also, the death toll has risen from 779 to 780. Some 57 new cases were recently confirmed. Since mid-March, a total of 92,740 cases have been ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Dormaa East, Mr Paul Apraku Twum Barimah, has described the allegations made by the Minority in Parliament on load shedding as calculated to tarnish the image of the government. In an interview with the media, the communication and energy specialist said there was no nationwide load shedding and that the government ...

Speaking to Starr News, Executive Director of COPEC Duncan Amoah who commended the ministry for the initiative said work must begin immediately to further remove taxes that burden consumers. He said “we’ve had ministers of energy in the past, they’ve only paid lip service. You talk about these things, sometimes, they even come out with the posturing that says there’s ...

Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, the judge presiding over the murder trial of Daniel Asiedu, the man accused of killing J.B Dankwa-Adu, has issued a stern warning to the jurors to stop delaying the trial. The presiding judge threatened to dissolve the jury for holding the case to ransom. The prosecution was expected to call its second witness when the case ...

Eric Kojo Duah, aka Sakora, the man accused of killing two police officers at Buduburam in the Central Region on August 28, 2019, has been refused bail by the Accra High Court. Counsel for Duah, Mr Augustines Obour, made an oral application for bail at the court today(Tuesday) when his client made his first appearance. He argued that Duah had ...

The Methodist Church of Ghana has rejected a directive by the Ghana Education Service to allow Muslim students at the Wesley Girls’ Senior High School to fast during Ramadan. The GES directive followed a decision by the Headmistress of Wesley Girls’ High School not to allow Muslim students at the school to fast in the ongoing Ramadan.  The development sparked ...

Fuel prices at the pumps have been reduced by 8 pesewas per litre effective Wednesday, May 5, 2021. This means that the recent 17 pesewas per litre increase announced by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has been reduced to 9 pesewas per litre. It takes effect from Wednesday, May 5, 2021. This was made known in a communique issued on ...

Pressure group OccupyGhana has faulted government’s approach to torch equipment seized at illegal mining sites, saying the method is a brazen illegality that should cease forthwith. Again, the group says the failure of the security agencies to bring persons arrested for indulging in illegal mining (galamsey) to face the law undermines the whole exercise of fighting the menace. Describing government’s ...