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Ghana’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, today, Thursday, 21 April 2022 received the Vice President of Costa Rica, Epsy Campbell Barr (the first black Vice-President of Costa Rica), and the Executive Director of the UNFPA, Dr Natalia Kanem, at the Jubilee House. The two leaders discussed, among others, ways to deepen the bonds between Africa and her sons and daughters ...

A Constituency youth organizer hopeful of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Asuogyaman,Osagyefo Kwaku Aboagye has resigned and renounced his membership of the party stating that the party is “unattractive, unsupportive and divisive to the youth”. In a resignation letter dated April 19,2022 and addressed to the constituency chairman and the Regional executives, Osagyefo Kwaku Aboagye said “I write ...

A new survey by the Global Info Analytics has projected that former President John Mahama will win against Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia if elections were held today. According to the survey more than 50 percent of Ghanaians have positive impression of the former President as against 30% who are in favour of the Vice President. The poll also noted Mr ...

North Tongu lawmaker Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says the Minority will invite Serwaa Broni as part of their investigations into her claims against President Akufo-Addo and some officials of the national security. He said the Minority is nonetheless uninterested in the alleged affair between her and the President. “We don’t care about the moral issues and who slept with who. The ...

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said: “You don’t have to be an archbishop or a prophet or a bishop to be anointed” and also prophesy. “The Bible says in the book of Joel that it shall come to pass that in the last days, I’ll pour out my Spirit and the Spirit of God is the anointing of God upon all ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Dr Kwaku Afriyie has called on Ghanaians to stop purchasing food wrapped in plastic in order to avoid the risk it poses to one’s health. The Minister also wants laws to be put in place banning the use of plastics for selling food across the country. Speaking at the national launch of ...

Deputy Finance Minister Abena Osei-Asare has sued the editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako Jr, as well as his newspaper and one other journalist for claiming she had something to do with the demolition of a building at Roman Ridge. The story was headlined: ‘Dubai embassy demolishing spree, minister and husband fingered’. The paper first broke the story ...

An Associate Professor at the Economics Department of the University of Ghana, Professor Ebo Turkson, has noted that the government’s Nation Builders Corp (NABCo) programme is a good policy but does not have an exit plan where the beneficiaries will have permanent jobs after years of service to the nation. According to him, the claim by the government of Ghana ...

The Ministry of Energy has refuted claims by former Minister of Power, Dr Kwabena Donkor, that the country will return to the dark days of dumsor if urgent steps are not taken to address insignificant addition to the country’s generation capacity. The Energy Ministry in a statement said the pervasive dumsor which plagued the country in the past was never ...

North Tongu lawmaker Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said the Minority Caucus is ready to stage a demonstration over President Akufo-Addo’s incessant charter of an ultra-luxury US$18,000-an-hour executive jet for his foreign travels. Despite several calls on the President to resort to the use of Ghana’s presidential jet and save the taxpayer some money on his foreign travels, Nana Akufo-Addo, according ...