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President Nana Akufo-Addo has dismissed three local government chief executives and replaced them with new appointees, a statement from the sector minister, Hajia Alima Mahama has announced. They are Metropolitan Chief Executive of Secondi-Takoradi in the Western Region, Anthony Kobina Kurentsir Sam, District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Amansie South District in the Ashanti Region, William Asante Bediako and Akwapim ...

President Akufo Addo yesterday commissioned the Main Campus of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development in Somanya in the Eastern Region. Hours before the commissioning the NDC in Yilo Krobo issued a statement asking the President not to re-visit his usual habit of taking credit for what he has no hand in and to appreciate the efforts of his ...

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has said the near-ending voter registration exercise is the best-ever Ghana has had in her history. “Let me say that this registration exercise has been the best so far in terms of the conduct of our officials”, Acting Public Affairs Director of the election management body, Mrs Sylvia Annor, told Benjamin Akakpo on Class91.3FM’s Executive ...

A reporter with the Daily Graphic in Koforidua, Damalie Emmanuel Pacome, has been attacked by students of Bright Senior High School in Akyem Kukurantumi. The students holding Knives, cutlasses, sticks and stones chased the Journalist who was in the school to verify reports of attacks on invigilators by the students. They reportedly accosted and seized his mobile phone in the ...

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress Sammi Gyamfi has filed a complaint with the Police over what he says are threats directed at him by Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong. Mr Agyapong is reported to have threatened to organise an attack on the NDC executive during an interview with Accra-based Asempa FM Wednesday. Lawyers of the outspoken ...

Late Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, K.N Arkaah could not resist young beautiful girls according to Professor Kwamena Ahwoi latest book, “Working with Rawlings”, which has ruffled feathers within the opposition NDC. According to the book, Veep Arkaah, who had a frosty relationship with his boss, Rawlings, had a very “slippery zip” and therefore couldn’t resist young beautiful ...

Some candidates of the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination have clashed with invigilators at Bright SHS in Akyem Kukurantumi over alleged intimidation. The Swift intervention by Armed Police Personnel from Akyem Tafo and Some BNI officials helped restore calm Thursday Morning. According to the students, the special deployment of external invigilators supervising the examination have been very strict ...

The old voters register which is about to be discarded by the Electoral Commission (EC) on account that it is over-bloated with names of non-Ghanaians, dead people and been overstretched still appears to have some staunch defendants. One of such defendants is policy think tank Imani Ghana, which in spite of the EC’s near completion of the compilation of a ...

Government is seeking parliamentary approval to borrow a total of $166,120,000 for the purchase of armoured vehicles. The three separate agreements were laid in parliament Monday and referred to a joint committee on Finance, Defence and Interior. The first facility is between government of  Ghana (represented by the Ministry of Finance) and Israel Discount Bank Limited for an amount of ...

The Electoral Commission has revealed that the mop up exercise scheduled for the 8th and 9th August will take place at its District Offices and not registration centres as expected by the public. Speaking on the Morning Starr Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs for the Electoral Commission, Sylvia Annor said the EC has taken the decision to conduct the ...