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The Minority in Parliament has accused the government of discriminatory attempts to prevent the people of the Volta Region from registering for the national identification card (Ghana Card). It said the government had ordered the suspension of birth and death registration in the region and selectively transferred the two directors of the Births and Deaths Registry in the region. Speaking ...

A group of irate youth in Sawla, in the Sawla-tuna-Kalba district of the Northern Region, have threatened to burn down the Sawla Police station. The angry mob wielding sticks and cutlasses stormed and attacked the police station Wednesday night after a local executive of the ruling New Patriotic Party was arrested and taken into custody following a confrontation with an ...

The High Court has appointed the Registrar of Companies as the official liquidator of the Ghana Football Association (GFA). The court decided this after it granted an injunction application by Attorney General to restrain the GFA and all it assigns from carrying out any official work. The decision of the court means the registrar of companies, Jemima Oware, will manage ...

A petition submitted to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) by NDC-affiliated group Coalition for Social Justice (CSJ) has received a reply from the body. The response from CHRAJ signed by its Secretary Afetsi Daniel Annan sighted by MyNewsGh.com said “the petition is receiving attention”. The CSJ has contends that Mr Blay is a “public officer” by ...

Veteran politician Joseph Henry Mensah, aged 89, has died, myjoyonline.com has confirmed. J.H Mensah, a Gold Coaster born in October 1928 is a founding member of the governing New Patriotic Party and served in three different ministerial positions under the John Agyekum Kufuor administration. He was a former Minority leader and a Majority leader and held his last top government ...

Embattled Hot FM host, Justice Annan has suggested maverick politician, Kennedy Agyapong is part of a cabal of powerful people teaming up to bring down Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Justice Annan hinted in a secret recording that he, together with Kennedy Agyapong and some others, had a strategy to discredit Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI team using media ...

The public accounts of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for the financial year ended December 31, 2017 have revealed that the overall financial impact of weaknesses and irregularities discovered by the Auditor-General amounted to over GH¢892 million. The breakdown is: tax irregularities GH¢655 million; cash irregularities GH¢190 million; stores/procurement irregularities GH¢41 million; payroll irregularities GH¢1.7 million; outstanding loans/advances GH¢2.6 million ...

Two siblings have drowned in the Kpong Irrigation Canal at Asutsuare in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region. The two drowned following an attempt by the boy- Obed who is seven years old, to rescue his nine-year-old sister, Yamo. The unfortunate incident occurred when the children went to the canal to fetch water, Superintendent Asare Nyarko of ...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) says lack of investments in the health sector should be blamed for the ‘no-bed syndrome’ and lack of efficient emergency services system in the various hospitals across the country. It said the health sector is currently reliant on old systems to function despite population growth. “Over the last 15-years, Ghana has not made any investment ...

The National House of Chiefs has denied media reports suggesting that the President of the House, Togbe Afede, has called for investigations into the purchase of some 275 buses by the Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The reports suggested that Togbe Afede questioned the source of funding for the buses purchased by the NPP Chairman, Mr Freddie Blay ...