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Former President John Dramani Mahama has admonished the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to use the 2024 elections to redeem its image given the circumstances under which the 2020 polls were held. “A lot of things didn’t go well especially the discovery of extra ballot papers,” he said in an exclusive interview with Media General‘s William Evans-Nkum on Monday, September 13. “We’ve held elections, we’ve had ...

The Founder and Leader of Glorious Word Power Ministries International, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah, has returned to police cells after spending a few hours at the hospital. The controversial man of God was taken ill Monday night, hours after he was denied bail by an Accra Circuit Court. He was then rushed to the Police Hospital in Accra for treatment ...

The Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association has terminated the appointment of Black Stars Coach Charles Akonnor and his two Assistants with immediate effect. This follows the receipt of the Technical Report from the Head Coach of the Senior National Team and the report from the Black Stars Management Committee following Ghana’s Group G World Cup qualifying matches against ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama and the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Sunday visited members of the party at the Mfrante branch in the Ejura Cconstituency of the Ashanti Region who were involved in an accident in the run-up to the 2020 elections. The November 21 accident, which occurred when the supporters were traveling to Ejura for ...

The Upper East Regional President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Amoak Afoko, has asked the government to consider putting up a school in the region that will be dedicated to legal training. In his address at the ongoing Bar Conference in the regional capital, Bolgatanga, Mr Afoko said the region can boast of many educational institutions which cover diverse ...

NDC’s South Dayi representative in Parliament Nelson-Rockson Etse Dafeamekpor has dragged government to court again. Mr Dafeamekpor, this time, wants the court to enjoin government to complete the community day senior high schools started by the Mahama-led administration but abandoned by the current government. So far, about 46 out of the 200 schools promised by John Dramani Mahama in the ...

Renowned Security Analyst Adam Bonaa has asked the Ghana Police Service to send their best investigators or prosecutors to the court to fight the embattled Founder and Head Pastor of the Glorious Word Power Ministries International, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah. The popular prophet has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court following his arrest on Sunday. The controversial man of ...

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has appealed to the Committee on Foreign Retail Trade, to as a matter of urgency resume operations to close down shops of undocumented foreign retailers. GUTA’s resolution follows a move by the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG) to reject the special dispensation granted them by the Government of Ghana despite ...

Deputy Majority Leader and MP for Efuttu Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has advised unemployed youths to change their mindsets of seeking employment in government offices and receiving monthly salaries to rather daring to be entrepreneurs. He said with the right entrepreneurial spirits, the youth can build sustainable businesses for themselves, employ others and create sustainable wealth in the process. Speaking at ...

About 2,765 girls in 10 districts across the Northern Region could not return to school when schools reopened after the COVID-19 outbreak. This is as a result of a number of factors, including teenage pregnancy, child marriage and others using the break period to work as head porters (Kayayee). Also, others learnt a trade/vocation during the locked down period and ...