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A defeated National Organiser aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Yaw Boateng Gyan, has said he is done with running for party positions. Mr Gyan told Kwabena Prah Jnr. (The Don) on Accra100.5FM’s Ghana Yensom on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 that: “I will not contest for any position in the party again”, after the party’s just-ended 9th National ...

A powerful member of the Freemason movement and a former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, James Emmanuel Kwegyir Aggrey-Orleans has died, MyNewsGh.com reports. He passed away at dawn yesterday, Monday November 19, 2018, a statement from the Foreign Affairs Ministry said. He was Ghana’s envoy to the UK from October 1997 to March 2001. J.E.K Aggrey-Orleans served in a ...

Parents whose children have been enrolled under the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme risk being exempted from the Policy starting September 2019 if they fail to register for a Tax Identification Number (TIN). Additionally, they would not be able to register for the National Health Insurance Scheme, acquire a passport, register their vehicles and land, open bank account and ...

The Attorney-General (AG) has tendered a document as evidence to prove that two residential properties at Trasacco Valley in Accra belong to the embattled National Democratic Congress (NDC) bankroller, Alfred Agbesi Woyome and not the defunct UT Bank. Both houses have become a subject of litigation in the ongoing trial of Woyome who has been accused of ‘defrauding’ the state ...

Ghana U23 coach Yusif Abubakar is reported dead after a short illness. The former Ghana Premier League winning coach with Aduana Stars was taken ill and died after being rushed to the hospital. He was recently named the head coach of Ghana’s U-23 side ahead of the Olympic Games. Abubakar is expected to be buried today at 14:00 GMT according ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has left for Lebanon to witness the award of United Nations Medals to Ghana’s contingent attached to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). This is the first time in history that a Vice President has visited Ghanaian troops in Lebanon, although Ghana has supported UNIFIL with troops since the inception of the mission ...

The Medical and Dental Council of Ghana has disclosed that the owner of the Advanced Body Sculpt Centre, otherwise known as the Obengfo Hospital, Dr Dominic Obeng-Andoh is operating illegally in the country because he has not held a valid registration to practise medicine since 2013. The Council has therefore advised asked the public not to seek medical care from ...

At least 10 people have sustained severe bodily burns following a gas explosion that occurred on Tuesday morning at Trinity Gas Stations in Krokrom in the in Kumasi Metropolis. Several cars in and around the station were also burnt down to ashes, including the station, following the inferno, that also spread to a nearby car fitting shop. Some residents, as ...

Fire was detected at the Terminal 2 of the Kotoka International Airport Monday evening. The company announced the development on Facebook but noted damage was controlled immediately. Below is a post on the Facebook wall of the company Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) wishes to inform the general public that, at about 6.50pm today, fire was detected at the server ...

The Organising Committee of the 9th Congress of the National Democratic Congress is to probe the playing of John Mahama campaign songs at the latter part of the congress. It comes after a flagbearer aspirant Sylvester Mensah expressed concerns over the development and noted the move gave the former president an undue advantage over the others. Reacting to the development, ...