The Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has described as “premature”, the decision by some NDC MPs to go to court over the passage of the Electronic Transfer Act, 2022 (Act 1075). The Minority MPs, Bawku Central’s Mahama Ayariga and North Tongu’s Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, led by Leader of the Caucus, Haruna Iddrisu, are...
The Owoo family which is said to be the custodial owners of lands presently serving as the Achimota forest says it has suffered grave historical injustice over the non-payment of compensation to it for the State’s acquisition in 1927. The family said it has consistently requested that successive governments enable it to repossess the land,...
Five residents of Dodowa, a suburb in Accra are standing trial at the Dodowa District court for allegedly assaulting two staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The accused persons, Patrick Dugbatey- (first accused), Nii Reagan – (second accused), Ransford Nartey – (third accused), Paul Stratton –(fourth accused), and 2PAC (fifth accused) who is...
The e-levy is now serving the purpose that the Agyapa deal would have done therefore, the government must abort the plan to collateralize the mineral resources, a Professor at the University of Ghana Business School, Lord Mensah, has said. Prof Mensah explained that as of the time the Agyapa deal was being introduced, Ghana was not...
The Member of Parliament for Wa West, Peter Toobu, has urged the Police Administration to win public confidence with a high level of transparency in the chaos at Nkoranza. “You need to draw a thin line and create a balance that you need to build police morale and also win back public confidence. And it’s...
The trial Judge presiding over the case of Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and two others has expressed surprise at “sick” Opuni witness who “looks energetic two days ago” in court. Samuel Torbi, a farmer at Assin Fosu, last Monday, May 16, gave his Evidence-in-Chief as the Second Defense Witness (DW2) for Dr. Opuni, the former...
The Greater Accra chapter of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it has not lost sight of the internal political tensions simmering in the Dome Kwabenya Constituency. Regional Chairman of the party, Divine Otoo Agorhom, believes the continuous absence of the Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo from party business is a development that...
Three students from Akyem Wenchi Salvation Army Senior High School in the Denkyembour District of Eastern Region have been hospitalized after a torrential rainstorm Tuesday evening. They sustained severe injuries and are currently at the Akyem Wenchi Health Clinic. The headmaster of the school, Isaac Owusu Agyemang, narrated that the three students were returning from...
The management team of the St. Theresa’s Hospital in Nkoranza in the Bono East Region where the mayhem is occurring, says one person confirmed has died, three have been discharged with four still on admission. This brings the number of casualties to 8 instead of the 6 reported earlier by the Public Affairs Directorate of...
Uncle of 27-year-old man who was murdered in Nkoranza, Reverend Father Mathias Sarkodie has threatened to invoke a curse onto the police for what he described as a fabricated story to frame up the death of his nephew, Albert Donkor. While speaking on Akoma FM‘s current affairs and political show GhanAkoma on Wednesday, 18 May told...