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North Korea has said it will cut off all inter-Korean communication lines with the South, including a hotline between the two nations’ leaders. The North said this was the first in a series of actions, describing South Korea as “the enemy”. Daily calls, which have been made to a liaison office located in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, ...

The move by Daniel Duku, a former Chief Executive of the Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF) who is standing trial for causing financial loss to the state, to pay GH¢15 million as restitution to the state is in limbo.An Accra High Court yesterday rejected an agreement reached between Duku and the Attorney-General on the terms of the restitution. The presiding ...

A member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor has appealed to the Chief Justice to allow a televised broadcast of the voter’s register case between the NDC and the Electoral Commission currently at the Supreme Court. In a statement, the South Dayi MP said his appeal is due to the high public interest in ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that the underlying legal reasons for its decision not to include the existing voters’ Identification Card (ID) in its upcoming registration exercise is because the Supreme Court itself has held that the register is reasonably not credible and that by implication, the cards issued pursuant to it are also reasons not credible. The EC ...

A member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communication Sam George has raised concerns over the Board Chairman of the National Communications Authority Kwaku Sakyi-Addo serving as a show host on new radio station Asaase FM. According to him, such a development, as advertised by the radio station, will be conflict of interest. “I wish to draw your attention to ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, who credits himself for the woes of the Head Pastor of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, has dared Apostle Kwabena Owusu Agyei to proceed with his ‘evil’ intent against Chairperson of the Electoral Commission and others. Apostle Kwabena Owusu Agyei, believed to be a staunch member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ...

Businessman Alfred Woyome has revealed that he played a key role in helping Ghana win the bid to host the Africa Cup of Nations in 2008. Woyome disclosed he was the mastermind behind the successful bid of the competition, insisting that he had to convince the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi to allow Ghana to host the competition. Ghana’s main ...

Four more Ghanaians have died of COVID-19 since the last count bringing the total number of deaths to 48, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced in the latest update of figures of the pandemic in the country. Also, the rate of infections has jumped to 9910 from 9,462. The rate of recoveries now stands at 3,645. Below is the ...

A self-styled preacher, Prophet Kwabena Owusu Agyei who was seen in a viral video threatening and castigating President Akufo-Addo and the electoral commission chairperson Jean Mensa has been arrested. The preacher was reportedly arrested by plain cloth security men during a live interview with Accra-based Hot FM Tuesday morning. The pastor at a Church Service on Facebook live via NDC ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed its constituency executives to suspend members who have been involved in cursing party executives over th upcoming parliamentary primaries. It comes after viral videos of some party members agitating and visiting rivers to invoke curses on executives of the party for disqualifying their preferred candidates. Addressing a press conference in Accra Monday, ...