President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been asked to sanction the Minister of State in Charge of National Security, Bryan Acheampong, for operating outside ‘his mandate’. Mr Adam Bonaa, a Security Analyst says the mandate of the National Security is not to assign officers or distribute arms, but once Bryan Acheampong did that he moved out of his jurisdiction and ...

Minister for Railways, Joe Ghartey last week paid a day’s working visit to Paga and Navrongo to brief the chiefs on progress so far made with regard to the extension of railways to Paga and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and to seek the blessings and support of traditional authorities, as consultants prepare to come round for the engineering works. The ...

Former President Mahama’s threat to mobilize members of the NDC to unleash violence during the 2020 general elections has attracted tacit responses from some leading members of the main opposition party who are ostensibly unhappy about the utterances. They include the NDC founder and former President Jerry John Rawlings, who has warned: “Those who are bent on using violence to ...

A former National Security Minister under the Jerry John Rawlings’s administration, Kofi Totobi Quakyi, has described as “traitors” persons who have counselled President Nana Akufo-Addo on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. The former minister has also condemned the incidents of violence which occurred at the residence of the NDC candidate, Delali Kwasi Brempong, and the La Bawleshie Presby School ...

Outspoken member of parliament(MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has fired back at the family of late undercover journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale for organizing a press conference with the intention of tarnishing his reputation. At a press conference to address some assertions reported in the media on Suale’s death in Accra yesterday, a spokesperson for the family, Mr Mustapha Iddrisu, ...

Dr Sekou Nkrumah, the youngest son of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, has said Mr Totobi Quakyi lacks the moral right to write to President Nana Akufo-Addo to condemn the violence that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon by election on Thursday, 31 January 2019 because similar violence occurred under the then National Democratic Congress (NDC) government in the 1990’s ...

A former Minister of National Security, Mr Totobi Quakyi has said the response by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Jean Mensa to some observations of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) as far as the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election was concerned, shows her degree of “political immaturity”. The EC Chair disagreed with CODEO’s observations at the close ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit by Editor in- chief of the Crusading Guide, Mr Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Junior, challenging the impeachment of former chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Ms Charlotte Osei. Mr Baako argued that Mrs Osei was not impeached based the performance of her core functions as the EC Chairperson. He, therefore, wanted an interpretation ...

Liverpool’s Joe Gomez is to undergo an operation in the hope of aiding his recovery from a lower leg fracture, the Premier League leaders announced Monday. Gomez suffered the injury in a 3-1 victory at Burnley early in December. Liverpool’s initial assessment was that Gomez might be sidelined for six weeks, but have now refused to set a specific timescale ...

The family of Ahmed Suale has slammed the decision by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyepong, to place a GHc100, 000 bounty on the killers of Suale. According to the family, the MP – who they blame for Suale’s death – is attempting to thwart and undermine the ongoing investigations. We regret that in this difficult moment…we ...