The University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) has appointed renowned legal practitioner and Executive Secretary to the Emile Short Commission of Inquiry, Ernest Kofi Abotsi, as the new Dean of its Law Faculty. An announcement on the UPSA website on Wednesday, May 20 broke the news of his appointment. “The University of Professional Studies, Accra […]
Lawyers of Willaim Ato Essien, the founder of the defunct Capital Bank, who is standing trial for allegedly collapsing the bank, has told the Accra High Court that their client is willing to refund GH¢27.5 million back to the state. The amount is what the state has accused Essien of using as business promotion and […]
The General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev Cyril Fayose, says as long as the number of COVID-19 cases keep rising in Ghana, the churches should continue to remain closed. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise Show on 3FM Thursday May 21 that any decision to reopen the churches in the midst […]
The General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev Cyril Fayose, says as long as the number of COVID-19 cases keep rising in Ghana, the churches should continue to remain closed. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise Show on 3FM Thursday May 21 that any decision to reopen the churches in the midst […]
Parliament on Wednesday approved four nominees by President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo to the Supreme Court. They are Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga and Justice Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, both Justices of the Appeals Court; Mr Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, a private Legal Practitioner; and Professor Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu, a retired Law Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University […]
The general public has been urged not to misconstrue that Members of Parliament who absent themselves from the house have tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). Parliament House on Wednesday begun the mandatory testing of all the 275 MPs and parliamentary staff against the COVID-19. This follows a directive by the Speaker of Parliament on […]
The eastern Indian city of Kolkata has been devastated by a powerful cyclone. Cyclone Amphan made landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people as it lashed coastal areas with ferocious wind and rain. Many of Kolkata’s 14 million people are without electricity and communications have been disrupted. West Bengal […]
Government has stated, emphatically, that it has never requested Madagascar to supply Ghana with Covid-Organics, the supposed cure for the deadly coronavirus. Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in setting the record straight, contrary to media reports, also maintained that Ghana has not received any consignment of that medicine from Madagascar. The president of Madagascar last […]
A leading business and sports personality, whose résumé includes heading one of the best-known names in African club football, has offered the continent’s most brutally candid perspective yet over the raging global debate on the gross inequality in world rugby. Herbert Mensah, one of the most influential voices in the game today by virtue of […]
At least 300 people have been killed in a fresh wave of intercommunal fighting in South Sudan, authorities say. Dozens of homes in Jonglei state were destroyed, warehouses belonging to aid groups were raided, and women and cattle were abducted. Three aid workers were among those killed. A treaty aimed at ending the country’s six-year […]
Over 7,000 government employees were unaccounted for on government payroll system, according to the Auditor-General’s Department. The report emanated after a nationwide enumeration exercise embarked on by the Auditor-General to audit government payroll system. The figure, when quantified into monitory, runs into millions of Ghana cedis annually which goes into the pockets of what the […]
The Dansoman Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Jeffrey Darko, has discounted claims that his outfit has recorded two coronavirus cases. According to him, although blood samples of both police personnel and inmates within the division have been taken, results are yet to be delivered. “I am the District Commander of Dansoman, and I am saying […]
Assistant Headmaster in charge of Academic at the Apostle Safo School of Arts and Sciences in Accra, Hughes Lartey, is cautioning the government against the re-opening of schools in the wake of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. In his estimation, school children, especially those in the lower primary, will find it extremely difficult to cooperate with […]
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kpone Katamanso in the Greater Accra Region, Solomon Tetteh Appiah, has declared to ruthlessly deal with families that organize funerals in defiance to the ban on social and public gatherings. Mr Tetteh Appiah is livid about how bereaved families organize private burials for late relatives, totally defying the restrictive […]
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has begun investigation into a report filed by former President John Dramani Mahama against New Patriotic Party’s Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC. Mr Mahama had written to the Director General of the CID through his counsel, Tony Lithur of Lithur Brew law firm, […]
Between Tuesday, May 19 and Wednesday, May 20, 173 cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Ghana. This brings to 6,269 the total number of cases recorded in the country. The latest update was released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on its website on Wednesday, May 20. The number of deaths remains the same, […]
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