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Airbus scandal: Fixing The Country Movement writes to Mahama over planned picketing

Airbus scandal: Fixing The Country Movement writes to Mahama over planned picketing

Pro-government pressure group, Fixing the Country Movement has written to former President John Dramanai Mahama officially informing him of their planned picketing to his office on Thursday 16th, November 2023 over the Airbus scandal. In the letter, Covener of the Fixing The Country Movement, Ernest Owusu-Bempah said they have been on the heels of the...

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Family of murdered businesswoman calls for expedited hearing

Family of murdered businesswoman calls for expedited hearing

The family of the 35-year-old businesswoman who was killed by her house help at Sokoban in the Ashanti region has called on the Attorney General to offer advice on the case as a matter of urgency and ensure an expedited hearing of the matter. This comes after the prosecutor handling the case disclosed in court...

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OSP petitions Chief Justice, wants new judge to handle Cecilia Dapaah’s case

OSP petitions Chief Justice, wants new judge to handle Cecilia Dapaah’s case

The Office of Special Prosecutor (OSP) is asking the Chief Justice to task a new judge to handle the Cecilia Dapaah case. The case is currently being handled by Justice Edward Twum who previously ordered the OSP to release cash seized from the residence of the former Minister. The OSP complied but on the same...

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Xavier Sosu petitions Akufo-Addo to commute death row sentences to life imprisonment

Xavier Sosu petitions Akufo-Addo to commute death row sentences to life imprisonment

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Madina constituency, Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu, is calling on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to commute the sentences of persons on death row to life imprisonment. In a petition to President Akufo-Addo dated October 11, the MP charged the President to exercise his prerogative of mercy to move...

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Akufo-Addo announces decision to give Theresa Kufuor state funeral Nov 16

Akufo-Addo announces decision to give Theresa Kufuor state funeral Nov 16

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he has resolved to give former First Lady Theresa Kufuor a state funeral on Thursday, November 16. He said without recourse to what could be in the protocol books designed for deceased former Ghana First Ladies, he has taken the decision to give the second First Lady of the...

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University of Ghana to sack students with CGPA below 1.00

University of Ghana to sack students with CGPA below 1.00

The University of Ghana (UG) have introduced stringent modifications to its regulations governing the progression and withdrawal processes for undergraduate students setting a minimum of 1.00 CGPA as the requirement to remain a continuing student. These changes, while aimed at upholding academic standards, come with a stark warning of potential student status loss. In a...

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JHS student beaten with iron rods for allegedly stealing GH¢50

JHS student beaten with iron rods for allegedly stealing GH¢50

A first-year Junior High School (JHS) student of the Koforidua Sarkodea Basic A school has been assaulted by his guardians for allegedly stealing GH¢50. The boy, Samuel Agyei Tawiah, is said to have forcefully admitted to stealing the money to end his ordeal. The student who lost his mother at birth has been staying with...

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Nana Addo justifies Ghana’s approval of malaria vaccine

Nana Addo justifies Ghana’s approval of malaria vaccine

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given details of Ghana’s decision to approve the new malaria vaccine developed by scientists at Oxford University. The malaria vaccine- R21 which will be administered to newborns and kids up to three years will help fight malaria which has become a killer disease among children. Speaking at the inauguration of...

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Reinstate Ghanasco head immediately – GNAT bares teeth at GES

Reinstate Ghanasco head immediately – GNAT bares teeth at GES

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) is calling on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reinstate the Headmaster as well as Senior Housemaster of Ghana Senior High School (Ghanasco) without delay. GNAT General Secretary Thomas Musah Tanko said GES should rather be concerned with paying Capitation Grant, which has been in arrears for over two years,...

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IGP to NPP, NDC: Do your politics and allow us to do our police work

IGP to NPP, NDC: Do your politics and allow us to do our police work

The Police Administration has told the two main political parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to concentrate on their politicking and allow the police to also concentrate on its policing work. At a meeting on Monday (17 April 2023) with the leadership of both political parties in attendance, they were told by the...