POLITICS

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, says Members of Parliament are willing to suffer the consequences from the passage of the anti-gay bill. His comments come after a leading member of the New Patriotic Party based in the United States, Arthur Kobina Kennedy revealed that some members of Parliament are being denied visas and being warned to ...

The Council of State Member representing the newly-created Oti Region, Richard Kings Atikpo has expressed his gratitude to government for the creation of the Guan District in the region. The district which comprises the areas of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe has been in the works since the creation of the region and was finally inaugurated last Friday October 8th,2021. ...

Social commentator Akwasi Adoma Jr has revealed that he is forced, as a parent, to inspect the bottoms of his children anytime they return home from school due to the high prevalence of LGBTQI+ activities in Ghana. Mr Adoma Jr told the Accra100.5FM’s morning show (Ghana Yensom) on Monday, 11 October 2021, that the LGBTQI+ activities in Ghana are becoming ...

Seasoned Journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has asked Ghanaians to keep their religious sentiments away from the anti-LGBTQ+ bill which seeks to criminalize homosexual acts in Ghana. Kwesi Pratt threw his support behind Majority Leader of Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu who has made similar appeal. The Majority Leader, in an interview with Okay FM on the bill, said; “I will rather ...

Some Kenyans have taken to social media, particularly Twitter, to vent their spleen on Larry Madowo, their fellow Kenyan journalist who works with Cable News Network (CNN) for his pro-LGBTQI+ stance during his recent contentious interview with Ghanaian legislator Sam George – one of the promoters of an anti-LGBTQI+ bill in Ghana. The angry Kenyans have warned Mr Madowo against ...

Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng has dropped the case involving Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga, saying it will be a waste of the state’s time. “It will be a complete waste of time if we were to open this case further and go to a length where it will only be dismissed on the submission of no case to answer,” Mr ...

The Herald newspaper has reported that Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has empanelled two new judges to join the Supreme Court’s ordinary bench for the hearing of the attorney general’s review application through which the state is praying the apex court to overturn its own earlier decision to remove one of its colleagues, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, from the Stephen Opuni-Seidu ...

Kwabena Jumah, the son of the Chief Executive officer of GIHOC distilleries, Maxwell Kofi Jumah tied the knot with President Akufo-Addo’s daughter, Edwina Nana Dokua Akufo-Addo over the weekend. The private event strictly held with limited guests happened at the Presidential Villa on Saturday, October 9, 2021. In attendance were the Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, and wife, Samira Bawumia, NPP ...

Ghana must do away with the death penalty, Madina MP Francis-Xavier Sosu has said in a statement to mark World Day against Death Penalty, which was commemorated on Sunday, 10 October 2021 on the theme: “Women and death penalty, an invisible reality”. The human rights lawyer said: “For the women on death role, the death penalty has been imposed mainly ...

A presidential hopeful of the governing New Patriotic Party, Mr Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, has donated about one thousand bags of cement estimated at a cost over GHS40,000 to the Bono Regional Wing of the party. The gesture is in support of a project to construct an ultramodern office complex to serve as the Bono regional secretariat of the party. ...