The Supreme Court has released a 29-paged judgment detailing the reasons behind its decision to dismiss a suit challenging the compilation of the new voter’s register. A seven-member panel of the apex court on June 25, 2020 affirmed the ECs move not to accept the old voter’s cards and birth certificates as a proof of eligibility of an applicant for ...

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has asked government to be stricter with the enforcement of laws meant to control spread of COVID-19 in the country. The GBA in a press release stated that the increasing cases of COVID-19 at the workplace are a matter of great concern, and therefore urgent action is needed to address the development. “The Ghana Bar ...

Since 1992 when the country returned to constitutional democracy and during every political season, we witness the use of intemperate languages in inter-party political discourse in Ghana. The main political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to a large extent are the main culprits. The supporters of these two political parties have often traded ...

The late Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, is said to be laid to rest in March 2021. A close source of the family told Atinkaonline.com that, the date was fixed after the family had gone to officially announce the demise of their son to the government. The reason, our ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged communicators of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to remind Ghanaians of his government’s achievements in the past three-and-a-half years as the country goes into another general election. In a virtual meeting with the party’s 2020 Campaign Communications Advisory Team via Zoom on Sunday, 12 July 2020 from the Presidential Villa where he is self-isolating over COVID-19 fears, the ...

Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, Head of State during the AFRC days of mid-1979, says he signed Lieutenant General Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa’s death warrant because he, the former, was naive, and trusted the admonition of a general who asked, “Where is the rogue?” “It must interest you to know that Afrifa was being provocative and I had him locked up, ...

Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana, has asked Daniel Yaw Domelevo, the Auditor-General not to overstep his bounds relating to his duties at the Audit Service. He said, “…You’re a great man Mr Daniel Domelevo but please don’t overstep your bounds.” He indicated further that some of the Auditor General’s actions do not speak well of a person ...

Authorities in the Netherlands have decided to keep the quarantine rule in place for nationals of the United Kingdom and Sweden, due to the Coronavirus developments, the Dutch government announced in a notice. According to the government’s notice, everyone arriving in the country from high-risk zones is urged to self-quarantine for two weeks, immediately after arrival, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. “Within the ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has strongly kicked against calls on the government to rescind its decision to reopen schools for final year students. The minister, who has recovered from a COVID-19 infection after spending two weeks on admission at the University of Ghana Medical Center, made his argument on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo monitored by GhanaWeb, Thursday. “To what ...

The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr John Boadu, has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is resisting the move by the Electoral Commission to register final-year senior high school students because the biggest opposition party sees the beneficiaries of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Free SHS policy as a threat to its electoral chances in the forthcoming ...