It appears most media practitioners have failed to make the best out of the growing freedom of the press in Ghana, and are rather practicing with reckless abandon, a former Editor of the Daily Graphic, Ms Elizabeth Ohene has assessed. This could explain why support for unfettered media has declined in Ghana and other parts of the continent, she suggested, ...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, has issued a defamation writ for $20 million against Africawatch Magazine and its editor, Steve Mallory, over a publication accusing her of inflating the cost of the Oslo Chancery being bought by the Government by $16 million. Joined to the suit is Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament (MP) ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has sued the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, publishers of the Africawatch Magazine, General Media Strategies Inc. over the publication of some alleged defamatory piece against her with regards to the newly opened Ghana’s Embassy in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Joined to the lawsuit is the editor ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo is happy over Parliament’s decision to suspend the building of a new parliamentary chamber complex. This comes after the massive pressure from Ghanaians for Parliament to boycott the decision. Some groups had even planned to stage a demonstration to express their displeasure over the decision. Speaking on the issue for the first time when he addressed the ...

An Accra High Court has dismissed a case filed by a former board member of Ghana National Gas Company, Dr. Valerie Sawyerr, seeking to set aside adverse findings made against her by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO). Dr. Sawyer in October 2018, dragged the Attorney-General (AG) and the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) to court, after a ...

One of the two Modern Ghana reporters, Emmanuel Britwum, who denied an allegation of torture, has exposed the sessions of ‘coaching’ and encouragement to ‘lie’ about their brief period of detention to embarrass the National Security Council Secretariat and its operatives. Soon after the ill-fated ‘torture story’ pushed by his colleague Emmanuel Ajarfor Abubakar Abugri was downloaded onto the media ...

Sources inside Jubilee House tell the Daily Statesman that President Akufo-Addo is set against moves by Parliament’s leadership and other senior figures in the House to embark on building a new debating chamber for MPs. The proposed chamber, which parliamentary leaders hoped to build within three years, was expected to cost US$200 million. They argued that the present chamber in ...

The Minister for foreign affairs and Member of Parliament for Anyaa-Sowutuom Shirley Ayorkor Botchway has obtained leave from the high court presided over by justice Samuel Asiedu to issue and serve notice of a writ of summon out of the jurisdiction on Africawatch magazine over a defamatory publication accusing her of inflating over 16 million dollars in the Oslo scandal. ...

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday opened the Ghana Diaspora Celebration and Third Homecoming Summit, with an assurance that the government would soon place before Parliament a bill that would allow Ghanaians with dual citizenship to hold public office. “The question of the political rights of dual citizens is a matter for Parliament and an opportunity is going to be ...

The United Kingdom High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Iain Walker, has pledged the UK government’s support to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to make Kumasi a leading industrial hub of West Africa. He said Kumasi occupied a very important place in Ghana’s development for which reason the UK would continue to put the city’s development in focus. Mr Walker said ...