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The Ghana Police Service has reopened its training school in Koforidua in the Eastern region despite the directive against school attendance by President Akufo-Addo. The recruits of the training school who were asked to go home when President Akufo-Addo directed the closure of educational institutions have been recalled. On Sunday, May 12, 2020, the President announced an extension of the ...

The Ghana Immigration Service has promoted six of its junior officers for their dedication to duty in the country’s fight against the novel Coronavirus. Five of the six officers are said to have rejected bribe from some Burkinabe nationals who tried to enter the country illegally. They are Inspector Lukman Tea Salifu; Immigration Control Officers (ICO) Christian Kobla Kekeli Zilevu; ...

Eight health workers, including doctors, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Western Region According to the Western Region Health Directorate, the health officials who tested positive for COVID-19 are mostly from the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The daily situational report released on the pandemic on Tuesday said the case counts in the Western Region stood at sixty-one (61), with Sekondi Takoradi ...

Private Legal Practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini has revealed that the sixteen(16) years sentences handed to three (3) out of the five (5) accused persons who have been on trial in the case of “The Republic versus Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie and four others” on the issue of a conspiratorial drill by them to cause financial loss to the state could mean the ...

Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Papa Owusu Ankomah has fully recovered from the deadly Coronavirus disease. Mr Owusu Ankomah was in April 2020 diagnosed with the virus which has killed almost 300, 000 people globally. In a statement to announce his recovery, the diplomat said he is now free from the virus. “I am reaching out to you ...

MP Mahama Ayariga says the presidential candidate of his party, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has had a lot of time so he should have nominated a running mate by now. “He has had a lot of time, he is the candidate of the major opposition party, he was chosen long ago and so, he’s had ...

A Supreme Court Judge nominee, Professor Henrietta Mensah Bonsu, has categorically dismissed reports that she was approached to become the chairperson of the Electoral Commission. Prior to the appointment of Jean Mensa as the Chairperson of Ghana’s election management body, reports were rife that Professor Mensah Bonsu was the front runner to lead the Commission. Appearing before Parliament’s Appointments Committee ...

Mahama Ayariga, the Bawku Central legislator says the Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu, is not seeking justice in the corruption allegations against him but rather after him, Ayariga. According to Ayariga, the evidence against him in court does not suggest any kind of corruption or abuse of office as expressed by the Special Prosecutor. The MP said that ...

An Accra Commercial High Court presided over by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, convicted three (3) out of the five (5) accused persons who have been on trial in the case of “The Republic versus Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie and four others” since December 2017 when the case was first filed by the State at the High Court registry. The trial of the ...

Supreme Court judge nominee Yonny Kulendi has revealed he has a relationship with President Akufo-Addo. He says if the President had not nominated him as a judge of the highest court of the land, he would have still put his name as reference on his CV in any job appointment. Answering a question on how his relationship with the president will ...