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The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has served notice that no one will be spared in President Akufo-Addo’s quest to ensure all river bodies and forests are not destroyed by irresponsible mining. Speaking at Daboase waterworks treatment plant of the Ghana Water Company in the Western Region, Mr. Jinapor said the government’s renewed spirit against irresponsible ...

The exercise to get traders off the streets in Accra has been given a further boost with the planting of greenery at the Madina-Zongo Junction. The exercise, which will soon be extended to the Ritz Junction and the Atomic Junction, will help enhance the flora beautification and improve the traffic situation in the area. Observations The Daily Graphic, during an inspection ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has begun a nationwide programme aimed at reorganising the rank and file of the party for victory in the 2024 election. As part of the programme, the leadership of the party has directed all executive members at the branch and constituency levels to urgently begin holding regular weekly meetings and also activate steps to mobilise ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has presented the original documents on the Techiman South parliamentary election to the Wenchi High Court. The documents have since been inspected by the parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Christopher Beyere Baasongti, who is challenging the results of the parliamentary election in the constituency. The presentation of the documents to the court followed ...

Eleven out of the 14 alleged killers of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama have accused the police of coercing them to confess to the murder of the military officer. Consequently, their lawyers have objected to the tendering of their caution statements, which contain the alleged confessions, as evidence in their trial at the Accra High Court. This came up yesterday when ...

The Ghana Eduction Service (GES) is expected to dismiss teachers who fail to register with the National Teaching Council (NTC). The National Teachers Council directed graduate teachers who want to practice teaching as a profession to register on its portal before 7th May 2021. According to a press release by the Council, all teachers who were recruited before 1st August ...

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to the 2020 general election has called for the establishment of a reasonable deadline for the ruling on parliamentary election petitions. That, it said, would increase stakeholder access to an effective remedy and increase public confidence. “Parliamentary election petitions should be commenced within 21 days after declaration of results just like presidential ...

Africa World Airlines (AWA), a private airline operator, yesterday organised a historic test fight from the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra to the newly completed Ho Airport in the Volta Region. The 50-capacity Embraer-145 aircraft landed at the Ho Airport after 22 minutes of takeoff at the KIA. Travelling by road from Accra to Ho takes almost four hours. ...

The timely intervention by the police on Thursday foiled violent clashes between two groups within the New Patriotic Party in the Ablekuma Central Constituency in Greater Accra. A group known as the Concerned NPP Grassroots of Ablekuma Central had planned to hold a press conference Thursday at the party’s constituency office at Shukula in Accra to express their misgivings about ...

Ghanaian Actress, Rosemond Alade Brown, aka Akuapem Poloo was Friday slapped with a 90-day imprisonment for the publication of a nude picture with her seven-year-old son in June 2020. Brown, was sentenced 90 days each to all three counts of publication of obscene materials, engaging in domestic violence namely a conduct that in any way undermined another person’s privacy or integrity, and ...