The Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Middle East branch, Isaac Osae has clarified that not all the 245 Ghanaians who were brought to Ghana from Kuwait on Saturday are deportees as published earlier. According to him, only 10 out of the 245 were deportees who were ready for deportation before COVID-19 while the rest of them were brought ...
Read More »Author Archives: edwardkanawu
Only 10 out of 245 Ghanaians from Kuwait are deportees – NPP Middle East Chairman
The Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Middle East branch, Isaac Osae has clarified that not all the 245 Ghanaians who were brought to Ghana from Kuwait on Saturday are deportees as published earlier. According to him, only 10 out of the 245 were deportees who were ready for deportation before COVID-19 while the rest of them were brought ...
Read More »Govt to site Military Base at Agogo to check illegal activities of Fulani herdsmen
As part of measures in curbing the increasing insecurity in the area such as illegal activities of nomadic Fulani herdsmen and other heinous crimes, the government plans to build a military base in Asante Akim North District capital, Agogo in the Ashanti Region. “There have been a number of consultations and engagements with the chiefs and the government to get ...
Read More »Insistence on compiling new voters’ register a product of bigotry – Kwakye Ofosu
A former Deputy Minister under the Mahama administration, Felix Ofosu Kwakye says insistence on the part of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Electoral Commission(EC) to compile the new voters’ register is a product of bigotry. Some Executives of the NPP have insisted that the current register contains names of Togolese who are not supposed to be in Ghana’s voter ...
Read More »British actor Philip Middlemiss wanted in Ghana over alleged £5m airbus bribery scandal
The Ghana Police Service has declared British television and radio actor Philip Middlemiss wanted over the role he played in the alleged £5 million airbus bribery. Ghana’s special prosecutor Martin Amidu since February launched a full scale investigation into the Airbus scandal and has released the passport details of the actor and four others online as wanted for questioning. He ...
Read More »Tema Motorway Interchange: Mahama or Akufo-Addo legacy? – Here are the bare facts
The newly constructed Accra-Tema Motorway Interchange was opened to traffic on Saturday, May 16, 2020. Since its completion, the airwaves of traditional media, as well as social media space, have not known peace as the two main political parties engage in a fierce battle over who takes credit for the project. While members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are ...
Read More »GNA Ghana’s maternal and child health undesirable – Bagbin
Health Minister Alban S.K. Bagbin on Thursday said despite the gains in infant and child survival, the country’s maternal and child health left much to be desired. He noted that the major obstacles to maternal health and reduction of maternal mortality were shortage of skilled personnel at point of delivery, avoidable human factors such as attitude to work, punctuality, a ...
Read More »uniBank case: Give Duffuor’s legal team all documents by mid-June – Court orders AG
An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Philip Bright Mensah, a Court of Appeal Judge sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court Judge, has ordered state prosecutors to furnish the defence team in the case of the Republic versus Dr Kwabena Duffuor and eight (8) others with all documents they intend to rely on in the trial by ...
Read More »Capital Bank saga: Ato Essien willing to refund GH¢27.5m to the state – Lawyers
The founder of the now-defunct Capital Bank, Mr William Ato Essien, has told an Accra High Court, through his lawyers, that he is willing to refund GH¢27.5 million to the state, and, thus, demanding the dropping of some of the charges levelled against him in connection with the collapse of the bank. Among other charges, the state accused Mr Essien ...
Read More »We won’t have more than 25 people at a registration centre – EC
The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has said not more than 25 people, including EC officials, will be allowed at a registration centre within a time when they start the mass registration exercise. According to the Communications Director of the commission, Sylvia Annor, the commission would institute all necessary safety protocols to protect Ghanaians against the pandemic while undertaking the ...
Read More »