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The Ghana Report can confirm that one of the ring leaders involved in the kidnapping of the two Canadian ladies in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, worked for former president John Dramani Mahama. Following the arrest of the kidnappers a month ago, the two major political parties, the NPP and NDC, have continuously tried linking the alleged kidnapper to each ...

The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has condemned a comment by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana. The EC described some actions of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as a threat to Ghana’s democracy. Deputy Chairperson at the EC, Dr. Eric Bossman Asare had indicated that “I think if there is anyone who is becoming a ...

MP for Bantama constituency in the Ashanti region has stepped up a defence in the face of mounting opposition to Parliament’s plans for a new 450-seater chamber. “Democracy is never cheap,” Daniel Okyem Aboagye said on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Wednesday after listening to an opposition MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa call the plan needless. The Bantama MP explained, upping the seats by ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has confirmed that a new political group has submitted its application for consideration as a fully fledged political party. The new party, Ghana Union Movement, has for its slogan “Arise for Development”. The movement’s symbol has a logo which portrays a fist of a man against two hands with the name and motto of the movement ...

The Minority in Parliament is demanding an immediate apology from President Akufo Addo for drecsribing critics of the Public Universities Bill as mischief peddlers. Several members of Acaddemia such as former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ivan Addae Mensah, Prof. Akilagba Sawyerr and Prof. Ernest Ayettey and former Education Minister Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang have all kicked ...

Lawyer for the aggrieved ModernGhana journalists Samson Lardy Anyenini says the national security is on expedition for offences to hold against the media men in court. According to him, the police made him and his colleagues who are representing Emmanuel Ajorfor Abugri, Editor of online news portal ModernGhana and his colleague, wait several hours at the police station when they ...

The Ghana Network of Persons Living with HIV and AIDS (NAP+ GHANA) has debunked the assertion by a Gospel Musician named Brother Sammy who allegedly claimed to have a cure for HIV. According to a statement signed and copied to the Ghana News Agency by Emmanuel Beluzebr Suurkure, the President of NAP+Ghana, Brother Sammy’s assertion was to make a solution ...

The Power Distribution Service (PDS), in collaboration with police in Ashanti Region, has arrested a 48-year-old pastor at Donaso in the Ejisu Municipality for illegally connecting power to his church and also to his house. Rev Thomas Okine, popularly known as ‘Nyame Ye Obolo’ of the Run for Your Life Ministry, was arrested following the detection of the illegal connection ...

The President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Affail Monney has called for an independent probe of the torture allegations against the National Security by the editor of news website Modern Ghana. Speaking on Radio Ghana, Mr. Monney said the association was monitoring the progress of the case. He added that “we believe that the time has come to move it ...

A former Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Professor David Millar has argued that some public universities in Ghana including the Navrongo campus of the UDS are not growing as expected because they have been fixated on undergraduate programs for far too long period. The growth of a university according to him, goes beyond merely running undergraduate ...