POLITICS

An Accra High Court has set May 16, 2017 for selection of jurors for the trial of Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bossu, accused of murdering Abuakwa North MP JB Danquah-Adu. The two on February 2016 allegedly stabbed the legislator to death at his Shiashie residence. The family of the murdered MP last month served notice it will resort to an ...

The Northern regional minister  Salifu Saeed on Thursday  led Regional Security Council members to troubled Sayeegu and Sambiluk villages in Bunkprugu/Yunyoo district where renewed land dispute has claimed four lives, including a chief and his potential heir. The entourage traveled by helicopter to the ravaged communities and met with chiefs and elders in a routine attempts to awaken a collapsed ...

As part of efforts to decongest the prisons, three judges Friday sat at the Nsawam Prison and heard the cases of some inmates who have been on remand for years. The Chief Justice (CJ), Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood, the Danish Ambassador and the Director of Public Prosecutions were also in the prisons as the CJ witnessed her last Justice For All ...

NDC Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has refused to throw support for names mentioned in the race for the 2020 NDC presidential candidate. Adopting a ‘wait-and-see’ posture towards growing interest for the position, the Asawase MP wants to see party energy concentrated on re-organising the party following its worst defeat since it was founded in 1992. In a ...

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu appears to be under some pressure from some persons within the party to run as flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the 2020 general elections or make his stance of who he will support public. Whereas many including former ministers and diplomats are still yearning a return of former President John Dramani ...

The state transporter, Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMTL) is reportedly on the heels of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over buses the party rented whilst in government but allegedly failed to pay for the services the company rendered to it. According to a pro forma invoice issued to the NDC after it had lost the general elections on December ...

The Western regional Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Japhet Baidoe, has sued his regional chairman, Michael Aidoo and two others – Famous Tumi Acquah, the western regional communication officer and a party member, Kwesi Dick – for defamation at the Sekondi High Court. In his statement of claim, the plaintiff, Japhet Baidoe claims on Sunday April 28, ...

Ghana and Togo have resolved to deepen co-operation, as well as strengthen the ties of friendship that exist between them in the sectors of security, immigration, agriculture and water, health, trade, digital economy, environment, energy, transport and the issue of maritime borders. A communiqué issued at the end of the official visit of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo ...

An opinion leader in Bole, hometown of former President John Dramani Mahama, Mallam Mohammed Hudu has said that the gods of the traditionalists and the God of Muslims and Christians will continue to guide Ibrahim Mahama with the current high level of hatred for him by some elements in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. Speaking on the morning show ...

The Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah-Dame has revealed that the public will in the next few days be informed about what he describes as ‘good news’ about the famous Alfred Agbesi Woyome GH¢51.2m Judgment debt case. According to him, the Akufo Addo led-government remains resolute in its commitment to get back the tax payers hard earned money which was wrongfully ...