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Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, known popularly as Kwaku Azar, has charged the public to stop saying that “the Court cannot compel a witness to give evidence”. According to him, the Supreme Court can get away with that but people should desist from repeating that statement, which has become popular in the ongoing Election Petition hearing at the Supreme Court. Prof. Asare in ...

Former Deputy Attorney General Dominic Ayine says the Supreme Court’s basis for dismissing former President John Mahama’s motion to reopen his case smacks of a predetermined agenda to rule against the petitioner. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, February 16, dismissed an application filed by former President John Mahama to have his case re-opened. The apex court panel of seven Chaired ...

Rockson-Nelson Este Kwami Dafeamekpor, the NDC MP for South Dayi has said the Petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition at the Supreme Court should file a motion to discontinue the hearing. According to him, looking at how the Justices at the Supreme Court are throwing out motions filed by the Counsels for the Petitioner, it clearly shows that the opposition ...

Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the former Senior Minister has been named as one who directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to take over an Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) investigation into the tenure of Dr Stephen Opuni as the Chief Executive of COCOBOD. The investigation which was almost concluded by EOCO had to be abandoned for ...

Spokesperson for the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing Dominic Ayine says the Supreme Court’s ruling on the motion for the reopening of the petitioner’s case is unhelpful to Ghanaians. “We think that the court by this decision has not done Ghanaians a great service. The justices have not given us a reason to believe that they want Ghanaians ...

Ghana will soon see popular car manufacturer, Peugeot, open a vehicle assembly facility in the country. This is according to the CEO of Silver Star Auto, the sole authorized distributor of Peugeot in Ghana. Mr. Asad Nazir says that talks with relevant authorities are far advanced and an official announcement will be made soon. He said this whilst speaking to ...

Government has given the green light for demolishing of the 44-year-old abondoned maternity block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital to pave ways for the construction of a new building. President Akufo-Addo, on Friday, 15th May 2020, cut sod for the reactivation of work for the construction of the forty-four (44) year old Maternity and Children’s Block of the Komfo ...

Spokesperson for the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing Dominic Ayine says the Supreme Court’s ruling on the motion for the reopening of the petitioner’s case is unhelpful to Ghanaians. “We think that the court by this decision has not done Ghanaians a great service. The justices have not given us a reason to believe that they want Ghanaians ...

Professor Kwaku Asare is wondering what the petitioner in the ongoing Supreme Court case over the 2020 election is still looking for in the wake of the dismissal of his latest motion. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, February 16, dismissed an application filed by former President John Mahama to have his case re-opened. The apex court panel of seven Chaired ...

The seven-member Supreme Court panel hearing the 2020 presidential election petition has ruled against the petitioner’s application to reopen his case. The decision by the court essentially indicates the highly held expectation that the Electoral Commissioner of Ghana, Madam Jean Mensa would be allowed to mount the witness box will not materialize. The petitioner upon the election by the respondent ...