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A former Minister for Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda, has died. Mr. Adda was also a former Minister for Sanitation and a former Member of Parliament for Navrongo in the Upper East Region. He died at the age of 65. Reports say Mr. Adda died in the early hours of Thursday, October 14, 2021, on arrival at the Legon Hospital. He...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has once again defended the controversial mineral royalties deal, Agyapa, saying it is in the best interest of Ghana. Addressing the Board of the Minerals Incomes and Investment Funds (MIIF), Mr Ofori-Atta said government has taken note of concerns raised against the bill and the Attorney General will address them before taking it back to Parliament. “You...
Whilst Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia is openly embracing lepers, John Mahama is rather using their weakness to insult others, Ishaq Kyei-Brobbey has observed. The 2020 flagbearer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Mahama claims his party members in the Ashanti region are being treated like lepers. But his comment received condemnation from Mr. Ishaq Kyei-Brobbey who claimed...
Former President John Dramani Mahama has labelled President Nana Akufo-Addo of focusing more attention on cutting sod for his Agenda 111 hospital projects than paying attention to the several hospital uncompleted projects and others that his government inherited from the previous administration. Speaking during a courtesy call on the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs in Koforidua on Tuesday, 12 October...
MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has donated an amount of GHS 50,000 to the second wife of slain investigative journalist, Ahmed Hussein Suale, Net2 TV host, Kweku Annan has confirmed. The donation comes after the woman sought for help publicly from a social group, Iqra. The woman claimed on Iqra that Anas Aremeyaw Anas had abandoned her and her...
The Controller and Accountant General’s Department has cautioned all government workers to register for the Ghana card by December 1. According to them it will be a key requirement to receive salaries effective December. “Effective December 1, workers on the government of Ghana Payroll who have not registered with the NIA will not be paid,” a statement from the Controller...
A Circuit Court in Sunyani has remanded a farmer, aged 26, into prison custody for stealing a goat worth GHC600.00 at Wawasua, in the Sunyani West Municipality of the Bono Region. Kofi Kuol-Tunati, also known as Atta, the accused, was charged with stealing and causing unlawful damage to two persons. He admitted the charge of stealing, but pleaded not guilty to...
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal Frank Hanson, is expected to appear in court later today over contempt charges. The case of contempt against the senior military officer was heard at an Accra High Court and adjourned to today, October 13, 2021. The judge decided to adjourn the case after the counsel of the accused filed a written request for...
A leading Member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Member of Parliament (MP) for Adansi Asukwa, Mr KT Hammond has refuted claims by some Ghanaians that they ( NPP MPs) are against the LGBTQI+ Bill. He observed that a section of the public were accusing the NPP MPs of being against the Bill due to their silence in the...
The Omanhene of Dormaa Traditional Area in the Bono Region, Osagyefo Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu II has sent a strong warning to Parlimant not to play jest with the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill currently before the House. He said any attempt to reject the anti-LGBTQI Bill will be resisted at all cost. The Omanhene has threatened to storm Parliament with over 10,000 Ghanaians to...

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