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Suame lawmaker and minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei-Mensa Bonsu has urged the parties in the impasse over the new governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to shift from their entrenched positions. Government and labour unions at the school have been at loggerheads over the composition of the council, a development that has put ...

The appointment of Ghana’s former Electoral Commission Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, as deputy head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has exposed the Akufo-Addo led-government. This according to General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia. Mr Nketia said Charlotte Osei was one of the most competent persons he has ever met despite her ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has met his waterloo in the former Auditor General, Edward Dua-Agyeman, who has slapped him with a gargantuan defamatory suit. Prof Dua-Agyeman, Board Chairman of the Audit Service, has dragged the General Secretary of opposition NDC before an Accra High Court over comments he made on radio intended to damage his ...

The suspended Eastern regional director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Fred Dzeny, was today interrogated by a high-powered team of officials at the anti-graft agency, Starr News has learnt. The team met Mr. Dzeny following a deluge of criticisms directed at EOCO by anti-corruption agencies in the country after he was suspended without hearing. Starr News sources ...

Civil Society organizations in the country have roundly slammed the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) for suspending its Eastern regional Director, Fred Dzeny, over his comments on corruption. Mr. Dzeny in an interview with Starr News said government must have the political will to prosecute corrupt officials within its government before prosecuting others in the opposition. “The ruling government ...

Police in the Northern Region have begun investigations into an alleged attack on some National Democratic Congress (NDC) executives, by an affiliated youth group in the area. The attack resulted in the regional Secretary, Sualisu Be-Awuribe and Treasurer, Kassim Bakari, sustaining injuries. Although details of what triggered the incident remain sketchy, the Regional Secretary has accused the Chairman, Alhaji Ibrahim ...

The Criminal High Court has ordered the release of the passport of Caleb Kwaku Afaglo, the former head of Management Information System (MIS) at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT). The Court presided by Henry Anthony Kwofie, an Appeal Court judge sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court judge gave the order after lawyers of Mr Afaglo ...

Apple briefly lost its $1tn valuation on Thursday when its shares fell 7% in after-hours trading despite posting record results. The tech giant’s strategy of charging more for its phones has paid off, with revenues jumping in the last three months despite relatively flat sales. Revenues rose 20% to $62.9bn year-on-year, and profits rose 31% to $14.1bn. But a warning ...

A mother and her two daughters were set to spend the next three months in prison for collecting leftover corn estimated at GH¢10, MyNewsGh.com has filed. According to Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng of Crime Check Foundation, a court found them guilty and consequently sentenced all three including a lactating mother after they were unable to raise GH¢360 slapped on them. He, ...

Members of the Public Accounts Committee, Tuesday, August 14, 2018, had a shock of their lives when they were hit with the news that the Ministry of Finance in the year 2015 secretly caused the Bank of Ghana to transfer an amount of GH? GH?226, 390, 383.98 from the account of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) with the knowledge of ...