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An alleged sale of one of the digital channels of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has triggered a simmering tension among some staff of the state broadcaster. GBC announced weeks ago that it was merging two of its channels – GBC Govern and GBC 24 – to create what it now calls GBC News channel. It explained the merger was ...

Emmanuel Ajafor Abugri, editor of Modern Ghana has refuted suggestions that his detention by national security personnel was over hacking suspicions. There were some reports their arrest was connected cybercrime being perpetrated by Mr. Ajafor and one other Modern Ghana reporter against some other media organisations. But on the Citi Breakfast Show, the editor said he had no ties to ...

Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, has been appointed as the new Chairman of Parliament’s Committee for Local Government and Rural Development in the latest reshuffle of Committees of Parliament. Until his appointment, the businessman and New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand was the Chairman of the Communication Committee of Parliament. He has been replaced on the Communication Committee by ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that the activities of lawyers who engage in fraudulent means to procure judgment debts against the state were a dent on the law profession. He described as “sad truth” how, a few years ago, such lawyers succeeded in fleecing the state through dubious payments of judgment debts. “It is not surprising, therefore, that ...

Ghana’s campaign at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations is set to continue with a possible win over Guinea-Bissau in their final group match. The Black Stars are tipped to win Tuesday’s match. The latest to add his voice to the call is the Founder and Leader of the Glorious Word and Power Ministry International, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah. He ...

The Presiding Judge in the Case of the Republic verses Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie and four others, Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, has cautioned lawyers for the first accused person, not to prostitute Court processes by filing applications that are aimed at delaying the speedy determination of the case. Justice Kyei Baffour made the assertion when he delivered a ruling in yet another ...

Multimedia Group employee Manasseh Azure Awuni has said the Akufo-Addo government, compared to the erstwhile Mahama administration, is very hostile and intolerant of journalists and critics. “The government appears very intolerant and there appears to be a coordinated attempt to crush those who speak up”, the award-winning investigative journalist said in a social media post, adding: “My candid view is ...

The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region has charged its agents resist manipulations and fictitious registrations in the ongoing limited registration exercise in the New Juaben South Constituency in particular. According to the NDC, people are being bussed from their original electoral areas into other electoral areas to register, manipulating the outcomes of elections in the process. ...

Scores of residents at Akyem Kukurantumi embarked on a demonstration last Friday against their Chief Daasebre Boamah Darko II for allegedly attempting to lease 6000 acres of land to supposed investors without compensating its owners. The disputed farmlands lying behind St. Paul Technical School to the boundaries of Akyem Maase, Akyem Adokwanta, Akwadum and Suhyen has allegedly been leased to ...

The management of Ghana Exim Bank has debunked a publication in The Herald which suggested that an amount of GH¢33 million had gone missing at the bank. The bank has labelled the publication an untruth, saying it lacks basis and only aims at malice towards its Chief Executive Officer and the bank. The Herald publication focused on the Ghana Exim ...