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Share With less than 18 months to go for the 2020 general election, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is preparing to go for its primaries to elect strong candidates to lead them to victory. The National Parliamentary Vetting Committee (NPVC) of the party last Friday recommended two-hundred and sixty-six (266) persons in the sixteen (16) regions to the National ...

Center of Awareness Global Peace Mission, a non-governmental organization currently in the process of discovering a cure for HIV/AIDS has indicated that about $200 million is needed to undertake a worldwide trial of the cure, ABC News has gathered. The Executive President of the mission, Prof. Dr. Samuel Ato Duncan made this revelation on Monday at the inauguration of a ...

A founding member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has viciously slammed President Akufo-Addo over the spate of corruption allegations in his government. Describing the President’s posture towards allegations of corruption levelled against his appointees as worrying, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe said President Akufo-Ado has the worst record in the history of Ghana. The former Chairman of the ...

In spite of the change in policy by the Ghana Education Service (GES) last April that new uniforms would be introduced for junior high school (JHS) students in public schools, the fabrics are yet to be widely circulated. The few places the materials are being sold seem to be enjoying good patronage, as parents have begun shopping for their children towards ...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has invited the Registrar of the Scholarship Secretariat and the Administrator of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Secretariat to help with investigations to ascertain whether or not either of them or both have used their positions for private benefit. The two officials — Mr Kingsley Agyemang, the Registrar, and Mr Richard Boadu, the ...

It is a story that has generated intense interest across the nation and viewers of the Ghana Police Watch television series now have the chance to see a special update on the matter of the four Takoradi missing girls. The saga of the Takoradi girls started in July 2018 when 18-year-old Ruth Abakah went missing . Three other girls – ...

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has urged government to put measures in place to curb the rising insecurity in the Northern region. According to him, the people of the Northern region can no longer tolerate the gross insecurity which they are currently bedeviled with. Speaking after his confirmation in the just ended NDC primaries, Mr. Haruna implored the police and other ...

“Buying a contract from a contractor who cannot execute it isn’t a crime,” the General Secretary of the ruling NPP, John Boadu has said. According to him, it may happen that the contractor might have other things doing, therefore, selling to other equally competent persons is in the right direction just as it happens to outright sale of contracts. John ...

Mr Jonathan Holm, a Ghanaian, has prayed the Supreme Court for an order to commit the President, represented by the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, for Contempt of Court. The suit also enjoined the Lands Commission as Defendant/Respondent. The Plaintiff/ Applicant represented by Mr Bright Akwetey indicated that the demolition of government bungalows on the site unlawfully earmarked for the ...

A daughter of Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, Nana Frema Busia, has described President Akufo-Addo as being ungrateful to her father who as a prime minister bifurcated his power and ceded a ceremonial presidency to Edward Akufo-Addo, the President’s father on a “silver platter” just to ensure there is peace in the country. According to her, Nana Akufo-Addo, the President of ...