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An Accra High court has dismissed an application by former Cocobod Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Kwabena Opuni to have his bank account defrozen. The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) wrote to the respective banks not to allow Mr. Opuni access to his money just a day after a court ordered accounts to be released. The banks involved Standard Chartered ...

The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams has described John Dramani Mahama as an excellent candidate for the party’s flagbearership slot. The former president on Saturday declared his intention to contest the 2020 elections on the ticket of the main opposition NDC. Mr. Mahama who had been coy about his interest for the slot wrote on ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has officially declared his intention to contest again for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 presidential election. The former President’s declaration does not appear to evoke surprises because he has always been in the campaign mood ever since he was humiliated at the polls on December 7, 2016. Even though he had ...

Pollster Ben Ephson has advised members of the NDC seeking to lead the party in the 2020 elections to combine forces in order to put up a competent challenge to former President John Mahama at the party’s primaries. The call comes on the back of the declaration by Mr. Mahama that he will contest the party’s primaries scheduled for November ...

The struggling National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has been indicted for wanton financial waste and abuse of procurement processes. Audit work done by the Ghana Audit Service shows that the Authority may be losing close to 23 million Ghana cedis, plus over 3 million dollars, through duplication of contract activity and unsubstantiated payments. The Authority has also been found to ...

Vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has delivered and will continue to deliver on the promises it made to Ghanaians prior to the 2016 elections. According to Dr Bawumia, the Nana Akufo-Addo ticket has fulfilled a large portion of the social contract it signed with the Ghanaian people after 16 months in office, ...

The post-resignation utterances of Akua Blakofe are becoming unnerving, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said. The Danquah Institute founder’s anger follows claims by the resigned Deputy CEO of the Ghana Tourism Ghana Tourism Development Company (GTDC), that she no longer feels safe in Ghana, since her life is under threat for wanting to do ...

Enthused National Democratic Members (NDC) were all over the former president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama when he showed up at the final funeral rites of late actor, Asonaba Kweku Darko popularly known as “Super OD”. Some bigwigs of the NDC including Central Regional Chairman, Allotey Jacobs, former Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, Kofi Adams and Appiah Stadium among others ...

Special Development Initiatives Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson, says the government has begun implementation of the disbursement of the $1million per constituency promised in the 2016 manifesto of the governing New Patriotic Party. According to the Minister, out of the amount promised, projects such as the One Village One Dam is being executed with 570 dugouts currently under construction in the ...

The Deputy Minister for Education has described as alarming the number of students who are unable to get admission into tertiary cycle institutions across the country. Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum said the persistent poor performance of the students in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) speaks ill of Ghana’s education system, an indication that new reforms must be ...