Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has withdrawn all his representatives from the various district assemblies in the Ashanti Region. Bantamahene Baffour Owusu Amankwatia, who made the revelation, said a circular announcing the Asante monarch’s decision has already been sent. He said the traditional council feels sidelined in the local governance process by the central government. […]
Read MoreThe United States and Ghana continue bilateral efforts in the areas of border, maritime, police peacekeeping, cybersecurity, and the administration of justice to build capable and resilient security and justice sector institutions. Three high-level officials – U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Kirsten Madison, the […]
Read MoreThe Duke of Sussex has said he is “taking a leap of faith” in stepping back from being a senior royal, saying “there really was no other option”. Speaking at an event on Sunday evening, Prince Harry said he and Meghan had hoped to continue serving the Queen, but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn’t […]
Read MoreUK companies must leap at the chance to deepen economic ties with Africa, a continent with unmatched investment opportunities, several African leaders said at a high-level panel. At an oversubscribed opening ceremony for the 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit, Monday, attended by dignitaries and delegates from 16 African countries, including President El Sisi of Egypt, British […]
Read MoreChina has widened a lockdown in Hubei province – the centre of the coronavirus outbreak – as the death toll climbed to 25. At least 10 cities in the central Chinese province, which has a population of 20 million, have travel restrictions in force. On Thursday, a coronavirus patient died in nearby Hebei province – […]
Read MorePresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the programme of economic recovery that his government put in place some three years ago, upon his assumption of office, has been significantly successful. According to President Akufo-Addo, the programme has “addressed the key phenomena that needed to be addressed, like the rate of growth of the economy, […]
Read MoreThe ongoing trial of former Ghana Cocoa Board CEO, Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo keeps getting interesting by the day. Contrary to his own claims that the lithovit foliar fertiliser purchased by COCOBOD in the 2013/14 crop year did not improve crop yield, the state’s third prosecution witness, Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah, admitted […]
Read MoreThe late former President Jerry John Rawlings must not be buried until the party he founded, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), comes to power again, the Upper East Regional Secretary of the biggest opposition party, Mr Donatus Akamugri has said. At a vigil in honour of the late military leader in Bolgatanga, Mr Akamugri said: […]
Read MoreMr Gregory Afoko, who is standing trial for the alleged murder of the Upper East Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Adam Mahama, in 2015, is not dead, his lawyer Nana Yaw Osei has said. He told Abusua FM that contrary to social media rumours that his client has passed, he […]
Read MoreA section of Ghanaians on social media have rebuked Nana Serwaa Acheampong, the daughter of late former president of Ghana, General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong over her ‘insensitive’ comments on the death of President Jerry John Rawlings. Nana Serwaa in a statement released on Thursday after news of the death of former president Rawlings hit social media said among […]
Read MorePresident Nana Akufo-Addo is doing everything to “hijack” the funeral of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings, General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said. Mr Rawlings died on Thursday, 12 November 2020 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital while on admission. After officially announcing Mr Rawlings’ funeral to the […]
Read MoreUS President-elect Joe Biden has picked veteran political operative Ron Klain to be White House chief of staff. Mr Klain has served as a top aide to Mr Biden since the 1980s in the Senate and later when he was vice-president. The ultimate Washington insider, Mr Klain was also a senior White House aide to […]
Read MoreThe former Germany international has offered his support to his current club colleague, rather than a man he earned World Cup glory alongside Mesut Ozil has picked his side in the celebration spat that has been sparked between Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Toni Kroos, with the Arsenal outcast favouring his current club colleague. A surprising war of words has […]
Read MoreThe Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is the latest to release a statement to mourn former President Jerry John Rawlings. The statement said: “We have learned, with great sadness, of the untimely death of H. E. Jerry John Rawlings, Ghana’s longest-serving President. “We fondly remember former President Rawlings as a legendary revolutionary leader, a nationalist, disciplinarian, […]
Read MorePresident Akufo-Addo has said even though he and the late former President Jerry John Rawlings had their differences in terms of a tempestuous past, they came to see value in each other at the tail end of their relationship. The President said this when he addressed the family of the late former President at the […]
Read MoreDr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, the first daughter of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings says, “My dad had quite a wicked sense of humour. He just loved to pull pranks on people.” In a video she recorded on Father’s Day, the Klottey Korle MP explained that growing up, they only saw their father mostly on […]
Read MoreThe presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has suspended his six-day campaign tour of the Ashanti Region with immediate effect following news of the passing of former President Jerry John Rawlings. A statement from the Mahama 2020 campaign team described Mr Rawlings as an “iconic” figure.https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FJDMahama%2Fposts%2F3846652378679223&show_text=true&width=552&height=186&appId Mr Rawlings was […]
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