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Mrs. Mensah-Akutteh receiving the cheque from Mr. Arthur[/caption] A number individuals and organizations continue to lend financial and material supports towards the holding of Summer Camp for Girls in Female Senior High Schools in the country, with the latest being the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO). NAFCO has presented an amount of ten thousand six hundred and sixty-two Ghana Cedis (GHC 10,662.00) to the Forum of Heads of Girls’ Senior High Schools (FOHGSHS), organizers of the Camp meetings. Additionally, NAFCO handed over assorted food items to be used to feed students who will be taking part in this year’s…

An Accra High Court has rescinded its earlier decision to grant bail to a murder suspect, Gregory Afoko who had been unlawfully held in police custody for 120 days. The decision was taken by a different judge at the Accra High Court, Justice Merley Wood, thus overturning the decision made by another High Court judge, Justice George Buadi. Justice Buadi on March 14  granted bail to Mr Afoko who is standing trial for murder of the New Patriotic Party  Upper East Regional chairman, Adams Mahama in 2015. But that order was disregarded by the state for four months, even though…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has come under fierce criticism for the continuous detention of murder suspect Gregory Afoko in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) despite an Accra High Court ordering on March 14 that he be granted bail. The latest to add his voice to the litany of criticisms heaped on the president, who has been touted as a respecter of the rule of law and a human rights advocate, is private legal practitioner Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe. Speaking on TV3’s New Day Monday, July 15, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicator made a passionate appeal…

Pupils of Kanda Basic School, within the Kanda Cluster of Schools, have benefitted from free school uniforms from Inspire To Rise, a non-governmental organisation. The gesture is part efforts by the NGO to help the country meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. It is dubbed: ‘Confidence in School’. In all, 50 uniforms were shared to the kids. They were made up of 24 shorts and shirts for the boys and 26 pinafore for the girls. Founder of Inspire To Rise Wendy Laryea disclosed how she was touched to help after a previous visit to the school witnesses one pupil…

Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni[/caption] Online news portal Peacefmonline.com has rendered an unqualified apology to the former Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Dr. Stephen Opuni after republishing a malicious story against him. “We do hereby unconditionally and unreservedly retract the republication,” it posted on its website. The online portal posted a story originally published by pro-government newspaper, the Ghanaian Observer, concerning a fertilizer involving Agricult Ghana Limited. In its Volume 14, No. 018 of Monday, 18th February – Tuesday, 19th February, 2019, The Ghanaian Observer had reported under the caption “COCOBOD FLOORS OPUNI, SEIDU AGONGO – Saves Almost $50m In Shady Fertilizer Deal”, which…

The three kidnapped girls[/caption] Families of the Takoradi kidnapped girls want the Ghana Police Service to back off from the false hope it has been giving them as they call out the security agency’s lackadaisical attitude in finding the missing girls. The families at a press conference in Accra on Monday accused the police of constantly raising their hope, and when they buy into them, the same police ends up ruing them. The three girls were kidnapped in the Western regional capital, Takoradi late last year. The first victim,  Priscilla Bentum was Kidnapped in August 2018 before the two others, Priscilla…

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is due to be questioned, live on television, at a corruption inquiry on Monday, and for the rest of the week. Mr Zuma, who has been implicated in wrongdoing by numerous witnesses, has said he is the victim of a political witch hunt. This should be a momentous week for democratic South Africa. A disgraced former president obliged to account in public, before a judge-led inquiry, for the astonishingly brazen corruption that flourished during his nine years in power. During months of televised testimony, many senior officials have directly linked Mr Zuma to alleged…

The Editor of online news portal, Modern Ghana, Emmanuel Ajarfor has sued the National Security Coordinator, Joshua Kyeremeh; the Inspector General of Police, David Asante Appeatu; and the Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo. The suit, which has been filed at the Human Rights Division of the High Court avers that Mr. Ajarfor’s rights to personal liberty, a fair trial and human dignity were violated by the conduct of the officials of National Security when they arrested him recently. His lawyers want the court to seek an order for the Attorney General to prosecute the officers who tortured Mr. Ajarfor as well…

The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the eastern city of Goma, home to more than a million people. The health ministry confirmed that a pastor tested positive for the virus in a centre in Goma after arriving there by bus on Sunday. The ministry says that risk of the disease spreading is low. More than 1,600 people have died since the Ebola outbreak began in eastern DR Congo a year ago. The pastor travelled 200 km (125 miles) to Goma by bus from Butembo, where he had been with people with Ebola. The…

Pope Francis is a cool dude. In the past two years the Pontiff has captured the attention of people around the globe by spending much of his time addressing the cruelties in the world and attempting to curtail them. He has ridiculed the Church’s obsession with abortion, gay marriage and contraception, all while he’s promoted genuine respect for all. The Pope even has a sense of humor for god’s sake (see how that’s funny?). But really, at the end of the day, he actually seems like an ideal candidate to share some wine with, and truth be told, if he…