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An Appeal Court Judge, Justice Dennis Adjei, has decried the use of the word “bastard” to describe a child who was born out of wedlock as discriminatory and in violation of the Children’s Act, 1998. According to him, every child is protected by the law and for that matter cannot be described as an illegitimate child. He told The Mirror ...

Special Prosecutor (SP), Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu, has accused the Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Ocquaye, of interfering in his work of prosecuting corrupt parliamentarians who have abused their office. He explained that when he sent a member of parliament to court, the Speaker invited him (Martin Amidu) to his office, and tried to persuade him as to ...

Former President JJ Rawlings says the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is aware they cannot win the 2020 polls. Addressing the party’s Cadre’s conference at Ejisu in the Ashanti region Saturday, Mr. Rawlings claimed some people have bought leadership positions in the party when they know they cannot win the elections next year. “For a Cadres meeting to ...

The founder of the now-defunct UT Bank, Prince Kofi Amoabeng has described as unfair and unfortunate, the revocation of the licence of Ghanaian-owned Heritage Bank Ghana Limited. Asked directly by TV3’s Paa Kwesi Asare in an interview on Business Focus: ‘Do you think, as many think, that some of the decision to close down certain banks was politically motivated?’, Mr ...

Students of the Ghana School of law have announced they will embark on a demonstration Monday October 7,2019 over the persistent mass failure recorded by students during entrance exams to the school. It comes after poor results were registered for the third consecutive time by students who are seeking admission to the school. This year, only 128 students out of ...

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, has called for full disclosure on the government’s role in the controversial Aker Energy deal. The former President asked the Conference and Ghanaians to query President Akufo-Addo, why the government would renegotiate a contract to the disadvantage of Ghanaians when there was low risk to the government. “There was low ...

A former army officer, Captain Nkrabea Effah Darteh has cautioned against making light of reports of the alleged plot to destabilize the country. According to him, it will not take much sophistication to destabilize a country. “I will not take any security issue as a joke at all because history shows that most great upheavals were almost as a joke,” ...

Some 180 condemned prisoners are languishing on death row at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison because successive Presidents had, since 1993, refused to sign their death warrants. The condemned prisoners include 174 men and six women, with many of them being sentenced to death by hanging for murder. The Nsawam Medium Prison is the only prison in the country with ...

A lady has given a harrowing account of how she was impregnated by her biological father when she was 14-years-old and pushed into prostitution, MyNewsGh.com reports. Abena (not her real name) who resides in Tema shared the pathetic story of her life which has been filled with sexual assault from her father who disvirgined her. The 20-year-old is still struggling ...

The Bono Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye DC has broken his silence on viral news he is among the several persons to have failed entrance examination to the Ghana Law School. On Tuesday, results released for prospective applicants to the Ghana Law School revealed that 128 out of 1820 passed. ...