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The Chairman of Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Ben Abdallah, has said the backlog of qualified persons struggling to get into the Ghana School of Law is a potential security threat. Speaking at a CDD Ghana roundtable discussion on the draft Legal Profession Amendment Bill 2018, Ben Abdallah said his committee is helpless on the matter, but called...
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has declared his commitment to plant and manage 2.5 million trees around Lake Bosomtwe. The project, which will span five years, is in line with the Asantehene’s move to provide protection for water bodies in Asanteman. A statement from the Manhyia Palace said Otumfuo Osei Tutu made this known during the celebration of...
The Government of China has agreed to provide a batch of scanning equipment for some airports in Ghana. A letter dated June 25, 2019 from the Vice Chairman of the China International Development Cooperation, Deng Boqing, and addressed to Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Finance, Charles Adu Boahen, said the equipment are valued at RMB 94,600,000 Yuan. The above amount includes insurance...
The Electoral Commission says a total of about 1.2million new voters were registered under the limited voter registration exercise which ended last week. Out of that number, the registration of 8,500 new voters were challenged. According to the commission, the 1.2million figure was provisional since it was still checking the actual figure with the Voter Management System (VMS) to delete multiple...
The soldier in a viral video campaigning against the new Parliamentary complex has been sentenced to 90 days detention with hard labour in the guardroom. A board of inquiry set up by the military hierarchy has also stripped Lance Corporal Wassah Lincoln Isaac of 2 Recce Squadron in Sunyani of his rank. The military locked up the officer after a video...
The family of a deceased police officer stationed at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region says it suspects the police administration has a hand in the circumstances that led to his death MyNewsGh.com reports. Forty-two (42) year-old Lance Corporal James Yaw Appiah, alias “Antoa Cupers” was found dead in his tent at a police duty point near the Bawku Government...
A year on after the killing of some seven men from the Zongo community in Asawase, families of the bereaved say they are being deprived of justice. The families and the Zongo community are questioning why the police officers who killed the men have not been sanctioned despite their recommended indictment. A seven-member government committee was tasked to investigate the shooting...
Security sources in Tema have concluded that the occupants of a Toyota Corolla, who shot the dispatch rider of former president Flt-Lt Jerry John Rawlings, were the same people who robbed the Tema Motorway Roundabout Shell Station. The outrider, Sgt Atsu Sekeh of the Central Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) in Accra, who is assigned to the former president,...
Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho has slammed politicians for not living up to expectation. He noted that politicians have failed Ghanaians and this situation which could have been solved with fulfilled promises, has angered a chunk of the citizenry. Speaking exclusively to Kwame Tutu Tuesday on Accra based Kingdoms FM’s Anopa Nkomo, Koku Anyidoho...
Independent Presidential Candidate hopeful, Jacob Osei Yeboah, has said Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Aaron Oquaye and members of the Parliamentary Service Board should  be arrested and prosecuted for earlier planning to build a new 450 seater Parliamentary Chamber. The proposed chamber, which parliamentary leaders hoped to build within three years, was expected to cost US$200 million. They argued that...

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