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Kindergarten and Junior High School pupils who have been home since the peak of COVID-19 in the country are to return to school on January 15, 2021, President Akufo-Addo has announced. First-year Senior High School students will, however, start classes on March 10 while form 2 and 3 students are to resume on January 18. The President also announced the ...

The Electoral Commission has reviewed its leave notice to staff saying senior leadership of the commission will continue to work while juniors proceed on leave. In a revised statement Wednesday, the commission said:” The Senior leadership and some key operational staff of the commission will continue to work during the break”. It comes after the massive backlash from civil society ...

Deputy Information Minister Pius Enam Hadzide says the Minority caucus in Parliament broke the Public Order Act with their protest march at the Electoral Commission headquarters on Tuesday. “I think that the request by the NDC minority, even though they don’t have any locus on the matter and they broke the public order act, their request doesn’t stand on any ...

The alleged fake lawyer Dennis Benson Seyram who has been arraigned for impersonating as a lawyer in the Volta secessionists case has pleaded not guilty at the Kaneshie District Court in Accra. Seyram, has been slapped with six charges three each of defrauding by false pretence and deceit of court by impersonation. The Kaneshie Court Magistrate, Her Worship Rosemond Agyiri ...

Some  Civil Society organisations in the country have appealed to the Electoral Commission to rescind their decision to go on recess following agitations over the 2020 election results. The EC in a statement Wednesday noted it is breaking for Christmas and will return on January 19. The statement comes as the opposition NDC continues to challenge some of the results ...

Transparency International has urged the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to make detailed inquiries into the Government of Ghana’s application to list Agyapa Royalties Limited on the London Stock Exchange, and to reject the listing if corruption concerns are not satisfactorily addressed. The banks and lawyers involved in the deal have also been urged to withdraw their engagement. Agyapa Royalties ...

The Ghana Water Company Limited has announced the free water package announced by President Akufo-Addo following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ghana will end on December 31, 2020. In his fifth address to the nation on the Coronavirus outbreak on April 5, this year, President Akufo-Addo announced that the public would enjoy free water supply from the GWCL for the ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has given an indication that it will challenge the legitimacy of the National Democratic Congress‘(NDC’s) Member of Parliament(MP)-elect for Assin North Constituency in the Central Region. According to the NPP, the Member of Parliament (MP)-elect was not qualified to partake in the just-ended election. This according to the NPP is because James Joe Quayson has dual citizenship. The party through its ...

The family head, widow and children of 70-year-old Eric Osei Ansere, Krontihene of Akim Chia near Ofoase in the Eastern Region have visited the police. They were taken to St Joseph’s Hospital morgue where the second son identified the deceased body as that of his late father. Sources reveal to MyNewsGh.com that while police are still investigating the matter, efforts ...

Lord Hamah, a former propaganda secretary of the NDC, has described his elder sister Victoria Lakshmi Hamah, a former Deputy Minister of Communications under the erstwhile John Mahama administration as “a national sex symbol”. He urged his sister to find a man to carry and serve her, for, her social ‘relevance’ is sex and if she cannot, she should bury ...