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Some unidentified persons have been staging frequent break-ins at the offices of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General in Accra, CorruptionWatch has found. One of the topmost officers affected is the Director of Public Prosecutions, Yvonne Attakorah Obuobisa, whose office was broken into in March this year. In that incident, the burglars took away a laptop computer and a printer. ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, is currently at the Jubilee House in a historic visit to the Presidency. The Monarch is being accompanied by some 20 paramount chiefs from the Ashanti kingdom. This is the first time the Asantehene has visited the Presidency in recent history. It comes after his historic visit to the Okyenhene’s palace at Kyebi in Akyem ...

A research conducted by a group of researchers at the West Africa Centre of Cell Biology and Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) at Legon and Nougochi Medical Institute, found two children in Accra reporting to the LEKMA Hospital in Teshie Ledzokuku Krowor Municipal Assembly, to have dengue virus serotype 2, which was reported in a 2016 outbreak in Burkina Faso. Dengue fever ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for the amendment of the 1992 constitution to offer the country’s chiefs a pronounced role in the political affairs of the nation. The Asantehene observed that the fourth republican constitution is too euro-centric and that the time has come for that to change to reflect Ghana’s traditional norms. The Asantehene who was ...

A Kumasi High Court two has struck out an injunction application case seeking to restrain the management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to convert two male halls of residence of the University into a mixed one. Alumni of the Unity and University Halls had sought an injunction application against the conversion of the halls. Both ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, yesterday made history by storming the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area in a beautiful Kente cloth which is 83 years old. The ancient cloth which is sublime was first worn by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Prempeh I during the restoration of the Asante Confederacy in 1935. The Asantehene was in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional area ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed serious misgivings about comments made by a flagbearer hopeful of the NDC Alban Bagbin against the appointment of two persons with disabilities during the John Mahama administration. The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament reportedly attributed the poor performance of the previous National Democratic Congress government in the last Presidential and Parliamentary elections to ...

The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, will pay a day’s working visit to Ghana on August 30, at the invitation of President Nana Akufo-Addo. Merkel and her Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Gerd Müller are on a tour of different African countries but will meet in Ghana to round off their tour with a joint press conference with ...

Months after the latest exposé by Africa’s ace controversial international undercover journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas was premiered, it is emerging that National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu made frantic efforts at stopping the journalist from premiering the video. Dubbed “Number12”, the football-related project exposed massive corruption in the Ghanaian game, culminating FIFA suspending the President of the Ghana ...

The Truth Defence Network (TDN) congratulates his excellency John Dramani Mahama, former President of the republic of Ghana for his decision to return to run for president of this country. He has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that he has the people of Ghana at heart. Contrary to what others may think, the emergence of the former President brings to the ...