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The influence of the wife of former President Jerry John Rawlings played a significant role in the parting of ways between Rawlings and the late Prof Mills, Prof Kwamena Ahwoi has recounted in his book, “Working with Rawlings”. According to him, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, Rawlings’ wife also influenced greatly, her husband’s falling out with his comrades and confidants who had ...

West Africa, with about 380 million people, is the final frontier for global automakers looking to increase manufacturing capacity in a region where they currently have little presence. While local assemblers in Nigeria, home to nearly half of the region’s population, have partnered with companies such as Volkswagen AG to make vehicles in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari last year ...

Details emerging from the Bono Region, continue to firmly place the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa West, Ali Maiga Halidu, at the center of last Saturday’s indiscriminate shooting at Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa West District. Yesterday, the police arrested Ali Musah, alias Idrisu Musah, identified as one of the MP’s bodyguards and a driver, who ...

Former President John Mahama says Christians in the country cannot look on as the country slips into decadence by the Akufo-Addo government. According to the NDC flagbearer, the NPP government has compromised all state institutions with partisan politics and interest. Introducing his runningmate to the Christian Community at a ceremony in Accra, Mr Mahama appealed to the Christian community to ...

A High Court in the Upper East regional capital, Bolgatanga, has awarded costs of Gh¢4,000 against the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Mineral Processing Company Ltd and the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Company Ltd for failure to file Statement of Defence on time to Statement of Claim lodged against them by the Chief of Namoalug and four elders. The penalised Defendants were expected ...

Tokyo NPP chapter has in a letter written to the office of the president through Ghana’s embassy in Tokyo, Japan, appealed for the reconsideration of the ban on importation of Japanese made right-hand vehicles. Alhaji Abdul Razak, chairman of the Tokyo chapter of the ruling NPP, expressed his worry over the ban of the importation of right-hand vehicles citing wrong ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has today, August 11, 2020 cut the sod for the construction of a 400-bed facility at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. This forms part of the president’s effort to fulfil promises made to the management of the health facility in 2018. The 12-storey facility which also includes a separate two-storey building when completed ...

Ghana’s High Commission in Amsterdam, Netherlands, has responded to a directive from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to return Ghanaians in the European country to Accra. Detailing the evacuation arrangement in a communiqué to GhanaWeb, the mission said the stranded Ghanaian nationals will be evacuated on Monday, August 17, 2020, at 9:00 am via a KLM flight. ...

President of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI has advised professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang to have a big heart to accommodate insults and verbal attacks which have characterised Ghana’s politics since she is now a leading political figure in the country. “Naana Professor, you’re welcome, and my personal advise to you is that the ...

Former President and Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to grant clemency to a pastor and his two followers jailed for four years for flouting the ban on public gatherings. Mr. Mahama says the four-year prison sentence handed down to the pastor, Apostle Sampson Agakpe and two others is ...