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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Wa Central constituency wants the ongoing limited voter registration exercise in the area to be aborted following the emerging reports of infraction in the process. The NDC has accused the Electoral body of colluding with the NPP to register unqualified persons. The party alleges the two have created an undesignated registration centre at ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has explained the decision to block the use of mobile phones among health workers on duty is to improve efficiency in health posts across the country. The GHS says it has received numerous complaints from relatives of patients on how health professionals spend time on their phones even when attending patients. Speaking to Francis Abban ...

The 2018 Auditor General’s report has indicted the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) for failing to remit over GH¢3.6 million of TV License collected from 1993 to 2017 into the consolidated fund. “Contrary to Regulation 15(1) and (3) of the Financial Administration Regulation 2004, the Corporation did not remit TV License fees collected from 1993 to 2017 totalling GH¢3,637,754.20 into the ...

The Manhyia Palace is on a hunt for some faceless members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region for openly invoking curses with ‘Antoa Nyamaa’, a dreaded deity in the region, during the limited voters’ registration exercise in the region. “Anyone who knows their identity should report them to the Asantehemaa’s palace and we shall initiate ...

Victoria Lakshmi Hamah, a former Deputy Minister of Communications under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) is questioning her critics if her buttocks was the main reason for her appointment by then-President John Dramani Mahama. “Yes, I have big behind I love it… it is natural. I didn’t go to buy it. If people want to buy it that is ...

The Police’s arrest of a Nigerian Professor formerly with the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has been criticised by a law lecturer and legal practitioner. Justice Srem Sai of, who lectures at GIMPA and Kofi Bentil, the vice president of IMANI Africa Vice have reprimanded the Ghana Police Service force for its “unlawful” and “emotional” arrest of the lecturer. Justice ...

The removal of heads of public corporations as a result of a change of government has been declared as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. In a unanimous decision, a seven-member panel of the court, presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo, held that per Article 190 Clause 1(b) of the 1992 Constitution, public corporations were part of the ...

A Senior lecturer at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Dr. Michael Ayamga Adongo has taken on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over his latest decision to name the Navrongo campus of the UDS after C. K. Tedam, the late Chairman of the Council of Elders of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). The Development Economist advises the President against ...

Police investigators have begun looking into how scores of investors got their monies locked up with EL Real Estates and Tikowre Capital. The owner of the two schemes, pastor Kelvin Kobiri who is the founder of the Zoe Outreach Embassy has been taken to the Police CID headquarters for interrogation. This was after scores of aggrieved customers stormed his East ...

The Auditor General has directed the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation to recover some GH¢93,203.53 from the BBC after it understated an invoice to the global broadcaster. The directive is contained in an audit report of the Auditor General into the operations of the state broadcaster. “Due to weak internal controls on revenue, Transmission Certificates were not issued for some of the ...