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Ayawaso West Wougon, a notable constituency under the Accra Metropolitan Area of the Greater Accra region of Ghana has over the years elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. Due to the unwarranted and unnecessary chaotic scenes from the By-elections, the Ayawaso West Assembly, BarCo Studios, in collaboration with the SQN LDR Foundation is out to ...

Some Chiefs in Nzema have appealed to the National Democratic Congress Presidential Candidate to reactivate the botched Atuabo Free Port Project. The over 700 million dollar project which was contracted to Lonhro Port Limited would have been Ghana’s third port. The project was expected to be operational in 2017 and serve as a regional hub in promoting safe and efficient ...

President Akufo-Addo has sent a message of solidarity to the people off Nigeria following clashes between security forces and citizens over police brutality protests. In a tweet on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, President Akufo-Addo urged for calm in Nigeria and added that violence, be it on the part of the Police or protesters, cannot be the solution. “I join all ...

The United Nations (UN) has called for an end to police brutality and abuses in Nigeria. In a statement attributable to the Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, the UN said Nigerian “security forces to act at all times with maximum restraint while calling on protestors to demonstrate peacefully and to refrain from violence.” Tens of thousands of Nigerians have been ...

The ECOWAS Commission has called on security forces in Nigeria to exercise restraint in their engagement with protestors who have been on the street for days over police brutalities. The Commission has also urged the protestors to be peaceful in their demonstration. The statement comes in the wake of calls on ECOWAS President Nana Akufo-Addo to comment on the chaos ...

An Accra Circuit Court has, today October 21, 2020, discharged some 60 arrested Volta separatists suspected to be members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation. The court’s decision came after the State Prosecutor, Sylvester Mensah, requested that the court grants the State’s application for withdrawal of charges against the separatist group. According to reports by Citi News, the State prosecutor ...

Vice Presidential Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has justified the decision by the erstwhile Mahama administration to pay teachers three months’ salary despite the claim they worked for over a year. She indicates that affected teachers were not employees of government and as such could not have claimed salaries they were not entitled to. ...

Law students who sat the 2019 Ghana School of Law Entrance Exams have won a case in which they sought to challenge an undertaking that they were forced to sign by the General Legal Council (GLC) not to challenge the results of the exam. The students complained that prior to the exams they were compelled to sign an undertaking that ...

The death toll from the Church Building Collapse incident at Akyem Batabi in the Eastern region has increased to 10 out of the total number of 17 victims retrieved as of Wednesday. The four persons retrieved Wednesday morning were all pulled out of the rubble dead. Meanwhile, the Founder of Church Of Prosperity, Prophet Isaac Ofori popularly known as Akoa ...

In the past 24 hours, there has been surmounting pressure on Nana Akufo-Addo, as ECOWAS Chair, to speak out on the ongoing unrest in neighbouring country Nigeria. Nigerian youth have for the past twelve days engaged in a series of protest to demand better treatment from their government. The protests, themed #EndSars and #EndPolicebrutality saw thousands gather at vantage points ...