A judicial officer has been dispatched to ‘police’ 3rd witness of petitioner in the Election Petition hearing, Robert Joseph Mettle Nunoo. This follows some concerns raised by counsel of the 2nd Respondent, Akoto Ampaw who sought to establish the need for the presence of a judicial officer at his location, to ensure fairness. “My Lords, my first concern is whether ...

The Supreme Court will resume the 2020 Election Petition case filed by the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama today Friday, February 5. This follows the adjournment of the hearing on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. The case was adjourned after the lawyers for Mr. Mahama requested an in-camera hearing on the status of one of their witnesses ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, must boycott a news analysis program on Accra-based Metro TV. This is the view of South Dayi Member of Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor. According to him, the host of the show has turned the program into propaganda machinery to churn ‘non fa.’ “I think we (Ndc) must boycott Good Evening Ghana. It’s now a key ...

Ghana’s COVID-19 death toll has now hit 440, according to the latest figures by the Ghana Health Service. A total of 697 new COVID-19 cases have also been recorded, shooting up the active cases to 6,086. 497 persons have also recovered from the disease bringing the total number of recoveries to 62,340. Currently, Ghana has 126 and 46 persons in ...

Robert Joseph (Rojo) Mettle-Nunoo, one of the representatives of the petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition at the ‘strongroom’ of the Electoral Commission (EC), has disclosed that he was misled by some officials at the EC office to sign collation sheets which were certified by his party’s polling agents. In his witness statement submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday, February 4, ...

The last two games of the Ghana Premier League week 12 were played on Thursday with Legon Cities and Karela United engaging each other while Medeama SC hosted Accra Hearts of Oak. Having last downed Heats of Oak 375 days ago playing for Asante Kotoko, Justice Blay helped Medeama picked all three points at home over the Phobians. The Mauve ...

Fifteen members of parliament have tested positive for the deadly covid-19 so far since mass testing began last week. Also, 56 parliamentary staff have contracted the virus. The revelation comes after the speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin directed all MPs and staff to mandatorily test for the virus. Following hesitation from some MPs, some of them had their test done ...

“Having regard to her earlier reference to the meeting between the Peace Council and the Petitioner, which she had obviously been briefed about, I took seriously what she said,” Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, the petitioner’s third witness has said in a witness statement to the Supreme Court dated 4 February 2021. Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo, one of the witnesses testifying for Petitioner John ...

When everyone thought the allegations of pornography projecting, homosexuality, sleeping with people’s wives, including having sexual affairs with a top lady in President Akufo-Addo’s office have died, Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has finally explained his side of the story resurrecting the matter all over again. The then Information Minister, became the object of serious speculations on all social media ...

The country manager for Asky Airline, Worlanyo Afadzinu, has confirmed that one person has been picked up and handed over to the Police over the fake covid-19 test results handed over a traveller on the Nigerian-bound flight. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Thursday, Mr Afadzinu said investigations are still underway to arrest the perpetrators at the Kotoka International Airport ...