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Sharpnewsgh.com sources in the corridors of power have indicated that this year’s 63rd independence anniversary would be celebrated in Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region. Last year it was celebrated in Tamale in the Northern region for the first time in the history of the Republic. Government announced last year that the celebration would be rotational to ensure the generality of ...

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Sheila Bartels successfully picked up her nomination forms on January 29 at the Ablekuma North NPP office. This will not come as a surprise to many of her patriots as Mrs Bartels has on many other platforms expressed her willingness and ability to use this opportunity to unify the party and ...

Some law lecturers in Ghana’s law schools are not competent enough to be teaching, Private Legal Practitioner Nii Arday Clegg has said. Commenting on the claim by the former Chief Justice allowing many entries at the School of law compromise quality, the former broadcaster said: “I don’t think that the number of people who become lawyers is necessarily a way of ...

“The interior of the state of the art ambulances recently commissioned and distributed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo can give life back to a dying patient,” these were the exact words of Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs. He said the procurement and importation of the ambulances into the country is not ...

Aker Energy has announced the appointment of Mrs. Kadijah Amoah as Country Director of Aker Energy Ghana Ltd, effective 1 February 2020. The appointment follows Aker Energy’s strategy to strengthen the company’s local presence and management in Ghana. “We are very pleased to strengthen our team and presence in Ghana with Kadijah as the Country Director of Aker Energy in ...

The Ghana Railway Company has suspended its intended passenger services from Takoradi to Tarkwa scheduled for February 5. According to the Company, the decision was as a result of the high patronage for the transport service during the 3-day free ride piloting. The Ghana Railways Company had announced that rail passenger services from Takoradi to Tarkwa in the Western Region ...

The Second Accused person in the case of the Republic versus Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, and four others, Matthew Tetteh Tevie, has told the Commercial High Court presided over by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, that contrary to claims of Secrecy by the State over the purchase of the infamous Pegasus system intended to be used by the State for cyber-security surveillance, it ...

Some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) last Tuesday picketted at the Central Regional offices of the Electoral Commission (EC) to protest the compilation of a new voters register. Clad mostly in red, the protesters held placards some of which read “The new register is a waste”, ” we are for peace” “let’s all protect the public purse” ...

The meeting organised by the eminent advisory committee with political parties and the electoral commission to find solutions to the voters’ register impasse has ended in a stalemate. The parties and the commission once again failed to settle on an amicable solution on whether the nation requires new voters register for the December polls. As tension engulfed the meeting, Starr ...

At a time he has compelled Ghanaians to pay more taxes to his government, President Akufo-Addo has offered a tax exemption of $23,983,033.43 to a company called Platinum Properties Limited (PPL) to put up a hotel facility in Accra. PPL is a Special Purpose Vehicle owned and controlled by Inter-Afrique Holding Limited(IAHL) set up to put up the hotel facility ...