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Ivy Heward-Mills, the wife of the late MP for Akim Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye (JB) Danquah-Adu, has narrated the frustrations she has had to go through in the hands of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service who are investigating the gruesome murder of her husband. According to her, in her quest to get justice five years ...

Gloria Assan Arhin, the wife of Eugene Arhin, the Communications Director at the Presidency, has filed for divorce at the Matrimonial Division of the Accra High Court against her husband claiming Arhin abused her and among other things committed adultery, GhanaWeb can report. The suit was filed on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. In the writ available to GhanaWeb, Gloria Arhin through ...

The Minister-designate for Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has shot down claims that he is not fit to continue to hold himself as a Minister. This follows a question posed to him during his vetting by Parliament’s Appointments Committee on an audio that emerged last year, purporting that he meant that he was tired of carrying on in his job as a ...

A private legal practitioner, Justice Abdulai, has confirmed that the ongoing election petition can conclude without the 1st Respondent being cross-examined but indicated that it will mar the expectations of Ghanaians who are looking forward to having an opportunity to hear from Jean Mensa as regards exactly what transpired during the collating and declaration of the presidential results. Mr. Abdulai ...

The Minister-designate for Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has revealed that a promise by President Nana Akufo-Addo to construct over 88 new hospitals between April and December last year was a just a vision. Answering questions during his vetting by Parliament’s Appointments Committee, Mr Agyeman-Manu said the president’s vision should have translated into action but unfortunately work on the construction of the ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dalex Finance, Ken Thompson, has wondered why the CEO of the defunct gold dealership firm, Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1), is walking a free man. Mr. Thompson told TV3’s Komla Adom in a documentary titled ‘The Menzgold heartache in Ghana; two years on!’ that Menzgold was an obvious scam and wondered how people were lured ...

The Member of Parliament, Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini has challenged the chairperson of the Electoral Commission Jean Mensa to mount the witness box just as her predecessor Dr. Afari Gyan did in the 2012 election petition. “The argument of whether the EC boss should get into the box shouldn’t have happened. When Afari-Gyan’s last election was challenged, he went into ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has suspended sitting for three weeks following a number of covid-19 cases recorded in the Chamber. Starr FM’s Parliamentary correspondent, Ibrahim Alhassan, reports that the decision to suspend parliament comes after 17 MPs and 151 staff tested positive for the disease. Last week, the Speaker announced that some members of parliament who tested positive ...

Parliament’s appointments committee will today, Wednesday, February 10, begin the vetting of ministers designate for Health and National Security, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu and Albert Kan-Dapaah. The two will be the first of the more than 40 sectors and regional ministers nominated by President Akufo-Addo to serve in his second term. Kwaku Agyeman Manu, who is also the MP for Dormaa Central ...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has urged the Ghana Education Service to establish a threshold for closure of schools in the wake of COVID-19. According to the GMA, some level of infections of the virus in schools should lead to a shutdown. The appeal comes in the wake of reports of rising cases COVID infections in some schools in the ...