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It has emerged that irate youth in Yendi with the overwhelming support of the Dagbon overlord, Ya-Naa Abukari Mahama II, were very furious and attempted to attack the Yendi Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner (ACP) Peter Akokora Ayirezang, hence his decision to quickly flee the troubled the town. According to the police, the timely intervention of the Divisional Crime Officer and ...

President Akufo-Addo has told NPP communicators to insist on comparing his record with that of former President John Mahama as they campaign for his reelection in the upcoming polls. The President has also charged the communicators to ask Ghanaians to make a decision based on records on which of the two leaders is best to be trusted with affairs of ...

The founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Dr. Hassan Ayariga, has decided on a former presidential candidate as his running mate for the 2020 polls. He disclosed this to journalists moments after he had registered for the Ghana voter identity card at a registration centre yards away from his Bawku residence on Saturday. “We should be having ...

The 2020 campaign team of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has advised its communicators against attacking ethnicity or gender of their opponents as they campaign in the 2020 elections. It comes on the back of the barrage of attacks from some NPP officials on the opposition NDC’s running mate Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang following her announcement by former ...

Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said the government will not hesitate in informing Ghanaians should President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo test positive for COVID-19. “If he is positive, we will tell you because the president has been at the forefront of asking people to speak up and help fight stigma. The president was the one who spoke on the Health Minister’s positivity and ...

The Opposition NDC has sued Ghana’s Electoral Commission at an Accra High Court to stop the planned registration of voters in Senior High Schools. The party contends it is illegal and wrongful for registration to take place at any place that was not contained in a Gazette and notification in accordance with C.I 91. They want the court to rule ...

The prosecution yesterday called its first witness in the trial of the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of defunct Capital Bank, Ato Essien, and three others who were put before an Accra High Court over their alleged involvement in the misappropriation of funds leading to the collapse of the private bank. In his evidence, the witness, Vish Ashiagbor, a ...

The High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Anthony Opppong has accepted terms and agreement the state has entered into with three out of the six accused persons in the Ventures Capital case. They are to pay a total of about (GHc 18,500,000.00) to the State. The terms also included the seizure of eleven properties belonging to the first ...

The Aflao Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service in the Ketu South of the Volta Region has apprehended a Nigerian, Emmanual Phillip, with the new Ghana Voter Identification Card. The interception was effected on Monday, July 6, 2020, when the suspect attempted entering Ghana through the main Aflao border illegally. A bodily search on him at the time of ...

He took all the precautions to the extent of even spraying files and papers that came to his office with alcohol-based disinfectants, thus testing positive for COVID-19 came as a surprise. The above narration is just a tip of the iceberg regarding the extraordinary COVID-19 journey of Dan Kwaku Botwe, Minister for Regional Reorganisation and Development. The Member of Parliament for Okere constituency was ...