POLITICS

The Vice Chairman of the Conventions People’s Party (CPP) Onzy Kwame Nkrumah has filed an interlocutory injunction against his party Chairperson Nana Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankuma seeking to stop her from performing her leadership duties. The application filed by the son of Ghana’s first President Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah is seeking for six reliefs. Onzy Nkrumah per his statement of claim ...

Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has wondered why the government has paid GHS100 million to a private waste company to dredge the Odaw river when the same water body was dredged for free by former President John Mahama’s brother, Mr Ibrahim Mahama, a few years ago. He wrote the following on Facebook: GHANA IS NOT BROKE! THIS IS HOW THEY ...

Assin North MP James Gyakye Quayson’s application challenging the High Court’s ruling that declared his election as null and void has been thrown out by the Court of Appeal. This effectively nullifies his stay of execution application. Presiding judge Irene Charity Larbi said on Tuesday, 22 March 2022 that Mr Gyakye Quayson did not comply with the court’s directive that ...

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has commissioned the 5th and 6th Distribution Centres for Zipline Ghana at Anum and Kete Krachi. “When the government, led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo satisfied itself with the knowledge behind Zipline’s innovation and how it will improve access to vital medical supplies, we became interested and more eager to ensure that ...

Tullow Oil plc, an independent oil & gas, exploration and production group, quoted on the London, Irish and Ghanaian stock exchanges, has said it has completed the pre-emption of the Deep Water Tano component of Kosmos Energy/Occidental Petroleum Ghana transaction. The Group, which has interests in over 30 exploration and production licences across eight countries, said in a statement dated ...

Samuel A. Jinapor, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and member of Parliament for Damango says the ongoing implementation of the digitalization of records at the Lands Commission is to among others promote transparency and inject a high level of efficiency in the Land services delivery of the country. The Hon. Minister said this when he led a team from ...

The Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr. Alan Kyerematen has attributed the delay in the payment of interest subsides to de-risk loans for Pharmaceutical Companies participating in the 1-District-1-Factory Programme to delay in release of funds from the Ministry of Finance. According to the Trade and Industry Minister, another reason for the delay in the payment of interest subsides can ...

The hearing of Interlocutory injunction filed by Michael Ankomah Nimfah, a private citizen against the Assin North Member of Parliament from performing his parliamentary duties has been blocked by lawyers of the embattled lawmaker. This was after lawyers of the MP led by Tsatsu Tsikata filed two motions – a Review application against the court’s ruling on March 8 and ...

US-based Ghanaian professor and private legal practitioner, Kwaku Asare has called for the amendment of Article 96 to allow the recruitment and appointment of career civil servants to serve as deputy Speakers in Parliament. This follows the ruling by the Supreme Court that says Deputy Speakers of Parliament have the right to vote while presiding over the House. In a ...

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has described President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s comment on the recent Supreme Court ruling that Deputy Speakers of Parliament can vote while presiding over the House as “myopic and unfortunate”. Nana Akufo-Addo had said the decision of the Supreme Court on the voting rights of Deputy Speakers cannot amount to judicial inference in the work ...