POLITICS

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for the Effutu Central Constituency, Alexander Afenyo Markins says the Ghana Police Service is mixing facts to create confusion over the on-going Ofosu Ampofo case and needs to come clear in its communication. Mr Afenyo-Markins’ comments follow an invitation extended by the CID boss, Maame Tiwah Addo-Danquah, to Mr Ampofo on May 8, ...

A Kumasi high court, presided over by Justice Charles Wilson, has granted bail to three persons suspected of their involvement in the fatal shooting incident at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regional office in Kumasi. Dauda Ibrahim also known as Wayo, 40, Abdul Ganiyu (Petit), 37, and Agyin Samuel (Rock), 32, had earlier been declined bail and remanded into prison ...

Former President John Mahama has warned the New Patriotic Party government to remember that they are setting a precedent with the regular invitations of the NDC’s national chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo to the Police CID. He however noted the ‘intimidation’ will not stop the NDC from winning the 2020 elections. Mr. Ofosu Ampofo is to report to the CID today ...

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr., has dismissed reports that the National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah facilitated Manasseh Azure’s ‘exile’ from the country. According to him, even though the state is providing the investigative journalist with some form of security, it didn’t aid in helping him to his hideout out of the country. Manasseh ...

The National Identification Authority has called on politicians to desist from ‘needlessly’ politicising the national registration exercise fraught with delays. Its Chief Executive Prof. Ken Attafuah has singled out NDC deputy General Secretary – who claims ‘massive fraud’ in the process to grant Ghanaians a biometric identity to access several social services – for caution. Peter Otokunor has alleged, the ...

President Akufo Addo says a process has been initiated to revamp the intelligence gathering capabilities of the Ghana Police Service and other Security agencies of the State aimed at ensuring a more efficient approach in dealing with security threats in and against the country. Addressing the Council of Independent Churches at the Jubilee House when they paid a courtesy call ...

The Coalition of Volta Youth, a youth group based in the Volta Region, has criticised the government’s handling of attempts by the Homeland Study Group Foundation to secede from Ghana. The group of secessionists is campaigning for the creation of an independent state called Western Togoland. An Accra High Court on Wednesday remanded into police custody seven members of the ...

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Alex Mould, has blamed the number of dormant contracts Ghana has with some oil exploration companies on the protracted maritime dispute between Ghana and Ivory Coast. The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, K.T Hammond had earlier called on government to cancel some oil exploration contracts signed under the ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that the disbursement plan for Senior High/Technical Schools’ incentive package had been revised. It said 80 per cent of the total amount would be allocated to teaching, while the 20 per cent goes to the non-teaching staff. These were contained in a release signed by Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo, the Head of the ...

President Akufo-Addo has approved the Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2019, (Act), on 16th April 2019. In December 2018 a bill was laid before parliament to amend the Public Holiday Act 2001 to provide for three different holidays. These new holidays were 7th of January which will be observed as the Constitution Day, the 4th of August will be described as ...