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Ghanaians who hold ordinary passports and diplomatic passports can now travel to India, Iran, Colombia, Equatorial Guinea, Hungary, and Morocco without Visa, MyNewsGh.com has learned. Parliament approved the visa waiver deal on Friday before MPs took a weekend break. Minister of Foreign Affairs submitted the paperwork to parliament for approval. This comes after South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs added ...

The Chamber of Independent Power Producers, Distributors and Bulk Consumers (CIPDiB) has urged the government to ensure the payment of a $1.5 billion debt owed them to guarantee regular power supply. In a statement, CEO for CIPDiB, Mr Elikplim Kwabla Apetorgbor, stated that they expected delays in payment to end with the introduction of private sector participation in the distribution ...

A 29-year-old woman, Lucy Nkansah, has disclosed that she is on the verge of losing her marriage because her husband suspects she is intimate with his nephew. In an interview on Nhyira FM’s Obra show, monitored by Adomonline, Miss Nkansah said her husband, Asare Aikins became suspicious after he claimed she was mentioning his 17-year-old nephew’s name in her dream. ...

The National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku, has hit hard at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for being behind a letter circulating on social media platforms that was purportedly written by Mr Awuku on the training of ‘thugs’ for 2020. Mr Awuku believes the letter, which he described as a fake, is only to ...

Lawyers of the nine persons who have been charged with treason felony for plotting to destabilise the state have accused the military High Command of invasion of privacy. According to the lawyers, who have some of their clients with the Ghana Armed Forces remanded at the Military custody, anytime they have conferences with them, persons with the Defence Intelligence Unit ...

Rotational nurses doing their national service around the country are protesting the government’s delay in paying them their monthly allowances adding that the government is making a move to reduce their due stipends. The members numbering about 8000 said they are owed up to seven months of arrears with government varying their payment grade, reducing the amount due them. The ...

The US Embassy has explained why it insisted on Ghana keeping the Power Distribution Service (PDS) deal despite the government’s claim that the consortium lacked a valid demand guarantee. A spokesperson at the Embassy Naomi Mattos told JoyNews’ Kojo Yankson that the first statement issued by the American government established that Meralco be maintained in the deal was the outcome ...

The Kaneshie District Court has dismissed an oral application by Lawyer of Eric Kojo Duah, the prime accused person charged for the murder of two police officers at Kasoa for him to be mentally examined. The court while dismissing the application said the accused person who has appeared before the court twice already has not demonstrated to be insane. In ...

Some unpaid workers of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) have threatened to stage a demonstration if the government fails to pay them their allowances. The threat follows several demands made by the trainees to their employer for the release of their allowances which they say have not been paid since May this year. The group earlier petitioned their employer to ...

Former President John Mahama is set to select a running mate for the 2020 elections early next year and numerous names have come up. Among them include Dr. Johnson Asiama, Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, Hannah Tetteh, Marrietta Brew Appiah Oppong, Prof. Jane Naana O. Agyemang, the youngest of the Ahwoi brothers among others. There have been speculations and unconfirmed rumours about ...