POLITICS

Chief Justice Kwesi Anin Yeboah has refused transfer the case involving former Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) CEO, Dr Stephen Opuni, who, together with Agricult CEO Seidu Agongo, is being tried for causing financial loss of GHS271.3 million to the state in the procurement of some agrochemicals, to a different judge. On Thursday, 1 July 2021, trial judge Justice Clemence Honyenuga ...

Former Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo has revealed that all the staff at the Audit Service who helped him to investigate former Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo in relation to his supervision of the payment of $1 million to Kroll and Associates for no work done, have been demoted. One of them, he said, has been transferred to the Central Region. Speaking ...

The youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has indicated that its intended demonstration and street protest dubbed, ‘A March for Justice’ scheduled for 6 July 2021 will take place as planned. The group wrote to the Ghana Police Service informing it about the march in a letter on 30 June 2021. The letter, signed by the NDC’s national ...

Ghana has been hit with another huge judgment debt as the country is set to pay over 70 million dollars to West Africa Gas Limited after a ruling by the London Court of Arbitration. The dispute came after the termination by the Claimant, West Africa Gas Limited of a Gas Sales Agreement dated 9 October 2015 between WAGL and the ...

The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has officially announced this year’s closed season for inshore and artisanal fishers along with the coastal areas of Ghana. The closed season which starts today, Thursday 1st to 31st July for canoe and inshore fishers and 1st July to August 31, 2021, for industrial trawlers was declared by the Minister ...

Former President John Mahama has said a “video circulating of my visit to injured persons in a hospital is an old one and has no link to current developments in Ejura”. Prior to the circulation of the video, the former flag bearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) had said: “I urgently call on President Nana Akufo-Addo to ...

Government has condemned the incidents of violence that claimed the lives of three persons and led to 3 persons sustaining various degrees of injury after a youth protest in Ejura in the Ashanti Region of Ghana yesterday. The youth protest was after Ibrahim Mohammed, a resident of Ejura was attacked by unknown persons last Friday and subsequently died on Monday. ...

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Adukwei Mensa, says attitude is everything and determines how far a person goes in life. “Most people who have made it in life will testify that, it is not only the degrees but the right attitude, perseverance, determination, humility, courage and resilience that took them to the top,” she said. Mrs Mensa said ...

Chief Justice (CJ), Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, has given Justice Kwasi Boakye, Presiding Judge of Cape Coast High Court II, the go-ahead to continue with the embattled Assin North Member of Parliament’s (MP) dual citizenship case. The CJ’s response followed a petition by the Assin North MP, Joseph Gyaakye Quayson, requesting that the Chief Justice compelled Justice Boakye, who is ...

Three armed robbers who were arrested following a robbery incident in Obuasi in the Ashanti region have admitted taking part in the murder of the late Mfantsiman MP, Ekow Quansah Hayford. The robbers, according to the Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP Isaac Ken Yeboah, who were arrested during a robbery incident on the ...