The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has sent the strongest signal to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly that his stool will not hesitate to withdraw its financial support to the Assembly if it continues performing abysmally in the delivery of its mandate. This was contained in a fiery address delivered by the Bantamahene Baffour Amankwatia VI at the swearing-in ceremony of ...

Son of Dr Kwame Nkrumah founder of the Convention People Party (CPP) Sekou Nkrumah is calling on his father’s legacy CPP to dissolve itself because it has become irrelevant. “I think it is time the CPP party fold up and allow members to join the NDC!” He wrote. According to him, the CPP is irrelevant and miserable after more than ...

Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, the first accused person in the National Communications Authority (NCA) case involving the purchase of an Israeli spy device, has petitioned the Chief Justice, Kwesi Ani Yeboah, to remove the trial judge, Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, because he is afraid the judge, will not give him a fair trial. In the petition dated January 20, 2020, Mr Baffoe-Bonnie, ...

The Dutch Ambassador to Ghana, Ron Strikker has lauded Ardhi Investment Group, a wholly Ghanaian owned agribusiness startup for investing into Greenhouse farming which is already making waves, providing jobs for the people and producing more vegetables to feed the nation. “I think what you did here today, started your own company in exactly along the lines of experience, being ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) risks suffering massive voter apathy in the Ashanti Region if Bernard Antwi Boasiako otherwise known as Chairman Wontumi and MP for Subin, Eugene Boakye Antwi are not called to order, Evangelist Obeng Mensah Gyataba has warned. In a recent sermon delivered in Kumasi, the preacher man said both men have turned themselves into “demi-gods” ...

The Accra High Court has ordered the prosecution in the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), trial to produce the originals of the memos and supplementary documents in evidence by January 27. The Court presided over by Justice Mrs Afia Serwaa Asare Botwe said the materials would be inspected by the defence and then tendered in evidence by the Prosecution ...

Lead defence lawyer in the case of the Republic versus Fredrick Mac Palm and nine (9) others, Victor Adawudu, today extended an invitation to police prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Slyvester Asare, for a fight outside the Court if he claims “he is a man”. The invitation of the defence lawyer was made right before the District Court Judge ...

Economist Kwame Pianim has said the banking and financial crises that have caused customers to either lose some or all of their deposits and investments as a result of the Bank of Ghana’s revocation of the licences of nine local banks, 347 microfinance firms, 23 savings & loans and some finance houses, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ...

The Finance Ministry last week set up a 38-member body named Foreign Exchange Development Committee. The committee is charged with the responsibility of reviewing the existing forex regime and recommend workable solutions for a stable exchange regime. The formation of this committee was greeted with mixed reactions from a cross section of the Ghanaian populace. Some say the committee is ...

Leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC], Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh has denied strongly inciting his party foot soldiers to go all out for a ‘bloody election campaign’ ahead of the 2020 general polls. He claimed he is for ‘peace’ and will not call for ‘war’ as purported – “Anyone with evidence of the allegation should bring it out.” ...