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The vetting committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has failed Mr Albert Kan Dapaah Junior, who is contesting the incumbent MP for Ablekuma West, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful to become the parliamentary candidate for the constituency. Regional Secretary of the party, Parker Ordalai France, after Monday’s vetting told Class News’ Blessed Sogah that Mr Kan-Dapaah Jr. has not been disqualified ...

Ghana has over the years aspired to be a truly independent country and successive governments devise ways of being at par with the developed world. Though people are wondering if this dream of becoming one of the African countries to look like the developed world, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, popularly known as Kwaku Azar has noted that Ghana can equally ...

The youth of Sogakope who are angry over the killing of a prominent businessman and assemblyman in the area Sunday have blocked the bridge over the Volta river as they protest the crime and police response The irate youth have given the police three days to arrest the suspects in the gruesome murder. The Assemblymember for Sogakope South, Marcus Mawutor ...

The outbreak and fast-spreading coronavirus (COVID-19) has informed the decision by the leadership of the Pentecost International Worship Center (PIWC), a local assembly of The Church of Pentecost in Koforidua in the Eastern region to adjust the process of serving communion. Normally, during communion, the sacramental bread is put on a plate where members queue to hand pick in turns ...

The Ghana Health Service has dismissed calls for President Akufo-Addo to be quarantined when he returns from his European tour. There are calls for the President to undergo detailed checks and quarantined upon return from his trip abroad in the wake of the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Europe. Kumbungu MP Ras Mubarak in a speech in parliament last week ...

State security authorities have recommended investigative journalist Edward Adeti to relocate his family from the Upper East Region after learning of plots by some hired gangs to either eliminate him or abduct his family. Adeti’s undercover investigations have seen a number of people including high-profile figures forced to resign from their jobs, interdicted, hauled before disciplinary committees and arraigned before ...

Some staff of the Ghana Airport Company, Civil Aviation Authority, Customs Excise and Preventive Service and the Immigration Service who work at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) are jittery over news of Nigeria announcing its first Coronavirus (COVID-19) case last Friday. The staff are not comfortable with the set up at the airport to deal with matters concerning COVID-19 which ...

I have been reflecting over how some major decisions with outrageous financial implications have been made- I have now concluded that the most powerful advisor to our President, a man with whom he served under ex-President Kufuor, is the singular reason for some of these cantankerous decisions. The decision to replace unbroken ports valuation technologies, (cheaper and rewarding GCNet and ...

Egypt’s health ministry on Sunday announced that one foreigner, whose nationality was not announced, had tested positive for coronavirus. The ministry said that the patient was being treated in an isolation facility. This is the second confirmed case in the country. The first coronavirus patient, who was announced last month, has reportedly recovered. Egyptian health authorities are quoted by Reuters ...

Thirty-four students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) were on Saturday, arrested on the campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The suspects were rounded up during the climax of a hall week celebration by students of the Unity Hall of KNUST. The police said the suspects failed to explain why they were on the ...