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The Eastern Regional Police Commander DCOP Edward Johnson Akrofi-Oyirifi has charged security personnel deployed to various polling stations in the Eastern Region to act professionally in the discharge of their duties particularly during and after December 7 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. The Regional Police Commander cautioned that any Police officer who misconducts himself will face administrative sanctions “Please go there ...

The Parliamentary candidates of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) and the New Patriotic Party(NPP) in the Banda Constituency of the Bono region have committed themselves to peace before, during, and after the elections. The candidates have revealed that they are ready to ensure a violence-free election in the constituency on December 7. Speaking at a sensitization programme organised in the Banda ...

An American Businessman and Managing Director of Alafei Foods Company Limited, Claude D Convisser, has alleged that between eight to ten government officials are demanding bribes from him. According to him, many businesses in Ghana do not survive for a long term because they spend huge sums of money to pay bribes before they get assistance to develop. He added ...

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will tomorrow Thursday, November 26, 2020, deliver a major address on the future of the country’s economy as part of the Nation Building Updates. In a press statement issued on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, and signed by the Deputy Minister for Information, Pius Enam Hadzide, the event will be held at the Cedi Conference Centre, ...

Philip Addison, a leading lawyer for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is under investigation by the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) for his alleged role in defrauding a gaming company. In a letter signed by the first directors of Merlin Gaming Ghana Limited, Eric Gbeho and Peter Nkegbe on Monday, they told the police that the renowned lawyer was involved ...

One of Ghana’s innovative Insurance Companies, Old Mutual has launched the Black and White Family Plan, what it calls a revolutionary digital funeral policy aimed at offering a seamless solution to ease the financial burden felt by grieving families. For most Ghanaians, funeral payments are one of the big expenses in life. They create severe financial stress for families trying ...

Security analyst Adam Bonaa has berated the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission following her rejection of reports of challenges with data of security personnel who submitted their details for special voting. Mr Bonaa was first to raise the alarm over the failure of the EC to compile the data of all security officers who were billed to vote under special ...

Madam Freda Darko, a businesswoman has made a passionate appeal to President Nana Akufo-Addo to stop one of his bodyguards, Prince Mohammed, from bullying her. According to the businesswoman, Mohammed is trying to forcibly take her land at Shiashie, which she bought about 21 years ago. In the petition, she said after she heard that Mohammed has sent land guards ...

Government has dispelled assertions that 2021 will be a difficult year for the Ghanaian economy. It follows warnings from economists for Ghanaians to brace themselves for a difficult year due to the rise in debt levels and the impact of government’s freebies to mitigate the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. An economist and Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business ...

A political gaffe by a former General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwabena Adjei Agyapong has shocked supporters and executives of the party in the Eastern Region. While addressing teeming supports of the NPP at Aburi in Akuapem South Constituency during President Akufo Addo’s tour of the Eastern region on Monday, Mr. Agyapong inadvertently praised the opposition ...