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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 ...

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 ...

The poor state of education at Amedzope, a farming community in Afram Plains South District has pushed a journalist in Kwahu to kneel before a camera, appealing to all agencies to assist them. The Kwahu-based journalist with Agoo FM Ebenezer Kojo Nyavor in a video said “Just take a look at where these kids study, let me kneel down and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The country manager for Asky Airline, Worlanyo Afadzinu, has confirmed that one person has been picked up and handed over to the Police over the fake covid-19 test results handed over a traveller on the Nigerian-bound flight. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Thursday, Mr Afadzinu said investigations are still underway to arrest the perpetrators at the Kotoka International Airport ...