Parliament has appealed to citizens to be mindful of the rules and regulations governing the conduct of the public in its gallery, even as they express their grievances over the planned construction of the luxurious $200 million Chamber for lawmakers. The House made the appeal in a statement signed by its Acting Director of Public Affairs, Kate Addo, in reaction ...

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) is calling for criminal charges against former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Betty Mould Iddrisu, for her involvement in the payment of GH¢51.2 million as judgment debt to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. The party also wants some other former appointees of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who, somehow, facilitated the erroneous payment to ...

Some 180 girls from selected Basic Schools in the Kotei community, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, have been exposed to the study of science-based courses at the tertiary level. They were also taken through basic scientific experiments to understand the theories they learnt in school. The two-day seminar was organised by DANIDA Alumni Network Ghana (DAN-G), in collaboration with the ...

MP for Suhum, Frederick Opare-Ansah, is to replace MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, as Chairman of Parliament’s Committee on Communications, the Committee of Selection of Parliament has announced. Mr Agyapong will now head the Committee on Local Government. The changes, which are part of a re-composition of the Select and Standing Committees of the House, according to a ...

Ghana is to soon sign onto the Council of Europe’s Convention 108+ – also known as Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data – Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced. The Vice President, in a speech read on his behalf by the Minister for Planning, Prof. George Gyan-Baffour at the 1st Africa ...

Deputy Attorney General and Minster for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has disclosed that Alfred Agbesi Woyome faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty of the criminal charges against him in court. According to him, it is a second degree felony and a perjury which if found guilty will end up in jail for more than 10 years. ...

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has dismissed the case filed by businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, against the state. The court said Woyome’s right to non-discrimination, right to equality before the law, equal protection before the law and his right to be heard by an impartial tribunal had all not been violated. Below is a summary of the ...

The Black Stars will have an opportunity of giving Ghanaians hope in their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) bid when they engage the Squirrels of Benin in their Group F opener at the Ismailia Stadium on Tuesday. Coach Kwasi Appiah’s side are bent on beginning their campaign on the high by beating Benin as they chase an end to a ...

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has approved an 11.17% tariff increase for electricity from July 1. PURC explained in a press release on Friday that the increase is for the recovery of total electricity revenue requirement for the regulated electricity market. “In taking the above decisions, the Commission received and considered tariff proposals from stakeholders including the following utility ...

THERE IS a wild hunt to identify and possibly punish some National Democratic Congress (NDC) members who openly invoked curses with ‘Antoa Nyamaa’, the dreaded deity in the Ashanti Region, during the limited voters’ registration exercise in the region. The NDC members, who covered their faces with green leaves and clothes like Boko Haram terrorists, invoked the curses on Wednesday. ...