Former President John Dramani Mahama has urged chiefs and traditional leaders in Ghana, to be fair and balanced in their reproach of politicians and call out President Nana Akufo-Addo whenever he goes wrong instead of generalising their admonition. In the view of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), chiefs in Ghana only find their voice of reproach whenever his ...
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Akufo-Addo inspects work on 500-bed Military Hospital; Kumasi Airport project
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has inspected ongoing work on the construction of a 500-bed military hospital and work on the construction of Phase II of the Kumasi Airport project. President Akufo-Addo’s first port of call on day one of his 3-day working visit to the Ashanti Region was the Kumasi Airport. It will be recalled ...
Read More »EC boss explains how some names were omitted from new voters’ register
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, has explained how some names were omitted from the current voters register. The missing names on the recently compiled electoral roll prompted the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to raise a fierce protest against the EC. In an address delivered on Monday, September 28, 2020, the EC boss said a process to ...
Read More »Going independent is like joining our opponents, don’t ever come close to us – John Boadu warns NPP members
General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party, John Boadu has sent a strong caution to its disgruntled members who have decided or harboring the idea of contesting in the 2020 general elections as independent candidates. Speaking in an interview with Kwame Nkrumah Tikese of Okay Fm monitored by GhanaWeb, the NPP General Secretary said such an action by any ...
Read More »NPP initiates dialogue with defeated parliamentary aspirants going independent in Ashanti Region
Considered its biggest stronghold in the country, the New Patriotic Party is making frantic efforts to bring back home some disgruntled members in the region, who have announced their intentions of contesting as independent parliamentary candidates in the upcoming polls. The aggrieved members who are mostly candidates disqualified from contesting in the party’s recent primaries, have chosen to contest in ...
Read More »These are all new corona measures
More stringent measures are needed to get the coronavirus under control. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said this during a special press conference tonight . We list all the new rules that will apply for the next three weeks: Simone van Zwienen 28-09-20, 19:23 Last update: 19:27 – Restaurants throughout the country must close at 10 p.m., no one is allowed in from 9 p.m. – The cabinet advises customers to ...
Read More »Nieuwe coronamaatregelen: Horeca sluit om 22.00 uur, profvoetbal zonder publiek
De horeca in het hele land moet om 22.00 uur de deuren sluiten. Er wordt geen publiek meer toegestaan bij het voetbal. Dat maakt het kabinet vanavond bekend bij een speciale persconferentie, melden ingewijden. Tobias den Hartog & Hans van Soest 28 sep. 2020 Laatste update: 15:59 Het kabinet trekt naast regionale maatregelen ook een aantal landelijke regels uit de kast. Zo wordt ...
Read More »Cash for Justice: Justice Dotse Committee submits report to Legal Service Board
The committee constituted by the Legal Service Board (LSB) at the request of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General’s Department to probe the senior state attorney implicated in the EIB Network’s investigative documentary film dubbed “Cash for Justice” has completed and submitted its report, high-level sources at the law ministry have revealed. The Minister for Justice and Attorney General, Gloria ...
Read More »Kabinet lost een oude belofte in: maximale gevangenisstraf voor doodslag wordt verhoogd
Het kabinet lost een oude belofte in: het komt met een wetsvoorstel om de maximale gevangenisstraf voor doodslag te verhogen van 15 naar 25 jaar cel. Tobias den Hartog 24-09-20, 08:42 Laatste update: 12:41 De gedachte hierachter is dat zo het verschil kleiner wordt tussen de maximale tijdelijke gevangenisstraf voor moord (dat is 30 jaar) en de gevangenisstraf voor doodslag. Ministers Grapperhaus (Justitie en ...
Read More »Confusion breaks out as new group emerges from Western Togoland
There is currently a raging confusion among the leadership of Homeland Study Group, a secessionist group claiming to have formed Western Togoland from Ghana as a new group has emerged Seth Mifetu, the who claims to be the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the latest group known as the People’s Liberation of Western Togoland has denied their involvement in the ...
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