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The biggest opposition party, the NDC is leading a coalition of like-minded opposition political parties to demonstrate through the streets of Kumasi Tuesday morning to mount enough pressure on the Electoral Commission to rescind its decision to compile a new voters’ register for the December general elections. The disgruntled parties say there is no need for a new voters’ register, arguing ...

The Auditor-General Daniel Yao Domelevo has been cited for contempt of Court in an application filed by lawyer for the Senior Minister, Lawyer Yaw Oppong, for his refusal to file in court documents based on which he surcharged Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo and four other public officers. The Senior Minister and four other public officers filed an appeal at the High ...

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The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has warned that should the illegal mining menace persist in the Western Region, residents there will not have treated water running through their pipes. GWCL’s Communications Manager, Stanley Martey, in an interview on Joy FM’s Top story on Monday, indicated that the utility provider loses about 40 percent of the water abstracted before and during ...

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), James Klutse Avedzi has ordered the arrest of the current and former finance officers from the Sefwi Akontombra District Assembly. Isaac Akowuah and James Essilfie, who were sent to the Parliament Police Station, were accused of attempting to deceive the Committee during a hearing on Monday. The Chairman of the Committee was unimpressed with ...

The Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Nicholas Mensah Abodakpi has issued a bench warrant for the immediate arrest of Samuel Hinson, the site manager of the Turkish Construction firm which is at the centre of the 22-storey building saga at the airport residential area. Following an application for contempt against the Kess Plus ...

The police have arrested a 29-year-old man, who posed as a soldier, in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. Frederick Kulepe, unemployed, who was said to have duped innocent people, especially, mobile phone dealers. in the Obuasi municipality, was arrested wearing a military uniform, after a mobile phone dealer alerted the security operatives. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Asenso, ...

A currency analyst Collins Appiah says the depreciation of the Cedi will not be addressed by the setting up of committees. The comment comes on the back of the establishment of a committee by government to investigate the regular fall of the Cedi against the major trading currencies especially the dollar. Speaking on the Morning Starr Monday, Mr Appiah said ...

Ahead of the National Democratic Congress’ planned demonstration in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party has warned them to comport themselves in a good manner or risk incurring his wrath. Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako in an interview with Peacefmonline.com stated that he personally granted the opposition party the chance to demonstrate in his region but would not ...

A member of the newly established Forex Development Committee, Franklin Cudjoe, says their work will not usurp the mandate of the Central Bank. In his view, the committee, instead, will bring more value to the work of the Bank of Ghana in finding solutions to the destabilisation of the Cedi. Critics of the committee say the terms of reference of ...