Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo constituency, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has revealed that there is total failure of law and order within the Ghana Police Service. The former Youth and Sports Minister said most of the officers who he claimed take instructions from politicians, exhibit high level of indiscipline within the service. Mr Vanderpuye has called for a […]
The GFA Ethics Committee has decided to ban Mr. Kofi Manu from taking part in all football-related activity for a period of one year for breaching Article 18 of the GFA Code of Ethics (2019). The GFA Ethics Committee at its meeting held on December 10, 2020, found Mr. Kofi Manu to have breached Article […]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has called on the government of Ghana to provide updates on the investigations conducted so far into the death of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale. The call was made during the Ashanti Regional Consultative Meeting held in Kumasi on Monday, 21 December 2020. The meeting was organised […]
Vice Presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party, Kofi Asamoah Siaw has described the election of John Peter Amewu as illegal. Mr. Asamoah-Siaw argues that the Electoral Commission should have divided the Hohoe constituency into two following the creation of the Oti Region. He said the laws are clear on this hence the election of the Energy Minister as […]
Things turned confrontational at the Electoral Commission‘s Headquarters in Accra when some Minority members in parliament stormed the Electoral Commission‘s Headquarters to present a petition. A number of about 50 MPs who were clad in black attire were initially stopped at the Ridge roundabout but managed to cross the barricade while they were being pushed by the […]
Members of opposition parties, including the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have warned security personnel protecting demonstrators to desist from attacking them. According to them, the security personnel, mostly members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilantes group, should not try to mar their peaceful demonstration by firing tea gas, rubber or life bullets and […]
Some concerned citizens in the Hohoe constituency of the Volta Region, have petitioned the Electoral Commission (EC) to declare the results of the constituency’s parliamentary elections of the December 7 polls in which Energy Minister John Peter Amewu was declared winner, invalid. The petitioners, Paul Dzamboe and Godfred Osei, are also calling on the EC to conduct […]
Kwesi Pratt Jnr, the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, has alleged that a soldier from Defence Intelligence of the Ghana Armed Forces was arrested at the office of former President John Dramani Mahama with a loaded weapon. According to the veteran journalist, he got a hint of this news from social media and after initial checks, […]
US-based Ghanaian surgeon, Dr. Moses deGraft-Johnson who was indicted earlier this year for his alleged involvement in fraud has pleaded guilty to 56 counts of health-care fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and aggravated identity theft. deGraft Johnson who is said to be a relative to former Vice President under Hilla Limann, Dr. Joseph William Swain […]
Lt. Col. Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, has shot down claims by Assin Central Member of Parliament of threatening the peace of Ghana. Kennedy Agyapong on his Net2 TV, told Colonel Gbevlo-Lartey to desist from any action that would undermine the peace of the country. He said he has a leaked audio recording of Gbevlo-Lartey, allegedly planning to disturb […]