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Klagon Chief, six others in court for murder

The Chief (Mantse) of Klagon, a suburb of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region has been arraigned together with six others for the murder of one Ibrahim Mohammed Abass at the Kaneshie District Court. Nii Bortey Klan I, also known as Samuel Nii Bortey Kofi is a traditional ruler while Hamidu Fuseini (A2), aka Sankara, Tahiru Mamudu (A3) aka Tsikata, ...

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Tsatsu makes case for video evidence of events in EC’s strong room

Lead Counsel for the petitioners in the ongoing election petition hearing, Tsatsu Tsikata, is making a case for video recordings of happenings in the strong room of the 1st Respondent, the Electoral Commission (EC) during last year’s elections, to be played in court to support the witness statement of Mr Rojo Mettle Nunoo, one of the petitioner’ witnesses. Tsatsu objected ...

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Ada youth demand commencement of work at Songhor salt site

A section of youth at Ada in the Greater Accra region known as the Unemployed Youth of Ada are demanding the immediate start of operations at the Songhor salt lagoon so that they can secure employment with the company awarded the lease to operate it. Electrochem Limited was in October 2020 granted a lease to mine salt at the Ada ...

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LIVESTREAMING: 2020 Election Petition hearing

The Supreme Court will resume the 2020 Election Petition case filed by the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama today Friday, February 5. This follows the adjournment of the hearing on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. The case was adjourned after the lawyers for Mr. Mahama requested an in-camera hearing on the status of one of their witnesses ...

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NDC must boycott Good Evening Ghana – Dafeamekpor

The opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, must boycott a news analysis program on Accra-based Metro TV. This is the view of South Dayi Member of Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor. According to him, the host of the show has turned the program into propaganda machinery to churn ‘non fa.’ “I think we (Ndc) must boycott Good Evening Ghana. It’s now a key ...

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Seven more Ghanaians die of COVID; death toll now 440

Ghana’s COVID-19 death toll has now hit 440, according to the latest figures by the Ghana Health Service. A total of 697 new COVID-19 cases have also been recorded, shooting up the active cases to 6,086. 497 persons have also recovered from the disease bringing the total number of recoveries to 62,340. Currently, Ghana has 126 and 46 persons in ...

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15 MPs, 56 staff test positive for Covid-19 so far

Fifteen members of parliament have tested positive for the deadly covid-19 so far since mass testing began last week. Also, 56 parliamentary staff have contracted the virus. The revelation comes after the speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin directed all MPs and staff to mandatorily test for the virus. Following hesitation from some MPs, some of them had their test done ...

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Election Petition: We were going to ask Mahama about his Peace Council meeting – Rojo Mettle-Nunoo

“Having regard to her earlier reference to the meeting between the Peace Council and the Petitioner, which she had obviously been briefed about, I took seriously what she said,” Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, the petitioner’s third witness has said in a witness statement to the Supreme Court dated 4 February 2021. Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo, one of the witnesses testifying for Petitioner John ...

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Oppong-Nkrumah opens up on gay allegations and affair with older women

When everyone thought the allegations of pornography projecting, homosexuality, sleeping with people’s wives, including having sexual affairs with a top lady in President Akufo-Addo’s office have died, Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has finally explained his side of the story resurrecting the matter all over again. The then Information Minister, became the object of serious speculations on all social media ...

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