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Parliament has passed the Public Holidays Amendment Bill to make room for new holidays in the country. The new bill under the Public Holidays Act, 2001 (Act 601) now makes provision for three additional statutory public holidays, January 7, August 4 and September 21. The Bill was passed by Parliament on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 after a motion was moved by Minister of Interior Ambrose Dery. Prior to the passage, the Minority in Parliament walked out in protest. Last Thursday, February 28, the Minority staged a walkout during an ongoing debate in Parliament over the passage of the Bill. The…

Bright Ernest Akomea aka Double[/caption] A national security operative, Bright Ernest Akomea, popularly known as Double has admitted circumventing the laws of the country to accommodate the Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George. Speaking through an interpreter, he told the Emile Short Commission investigating the violent activities at the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election on Tuesday that he, at least, broke the law twice for the MP. The Commission had earlier had testimonies suggesting that Double was in the company of the armed masked men, working for national security, who were alleged to have visited mayhem on civilians…

The Ghana Union of Traders Associations (GUTA) is urging President Nana Akufo-Addo to listen to the Council of State and act on their pleads to reduce the high rate of duties, levies and taxes on imported goods at Ghana’s ports of entry and the large volumes of tax exemptions. GUTA said businesses are collapsing because of high rate of duties, levies and taxes on imported goods at Ghana’s ports of entry. Members of the Council of State on Monday held a closed-door meeting with President Akufo-Addo on the high rate of duties, levies and taxes on imported goods at Ghana’s…

Eleven personnel from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service grilled the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, when he reported to answer questions on the leaked viral audio tape which have been attributed to him. The eleven, three of whom were lawyers from the CID, faced the six-lawyer team from the side of the accused, Mr. Ofosu Ampofo. One of the lawyers for Mr. Ofosu Ampofo, Abraham Amaliba, made the revelations on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Tuesday hosted by Bright Asempa. “Eleven CID officers, who were made of three lawyer interrogated…

The Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU/Ghana Rugby) walked away with one of the awards handed out by the Rugby Africa Executive Committee, which is the “Best Communication Strategy” at the 2019 Rugby Africa General Assembly in Marrakech, Morocco on 2 March 2019. According to Mr Herbert Mensah, President and Board Chairman of Ghana Rugby, the communication strategy of Ghana rugby is not just about press releases but about a carefully crafted strategy to put the right messages out to the right target audiences and stakeholders. “Part of our strategy from the beginning has been to put together a sound communication strategy…

A joint force of police personnel and members of the Operation Vanguard team has arrested some 47 illegal miners at Asamama in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region. The arrest was carried out on Monday, March 4, when the joint force embarked on an operation to rid the area of illegal miners as part of their operational duties. According to police reports, the illegal miners are nationals of Burkina Faso and Niger. Upon arrest, the police retrieved 48 complete set of gold-detecting machines, an amount of GhȻ6, 15,500, CFA69, 000, 30,000,00 Guinea Franc(GNF), 41 pickaxes and 8 new…

Growing up, I used to get confused about sheep and goats. I usually missed out on which was a goat and which was a sheep. I wasn’t to blame after all. They looked alike. Like an eel and a snake, you could sometimes mistake one for the other. However, an eel was never a snake… and a goat could never be a sheep. They were all distinct creatures. In the same vein, lust looks like love. In the beginning, they all speak the same language but when the tests of life start walking in, one is distinguished from the other.…

Growing up, I used to get confused about sheep and goats. I usually missed out on which was a goat and which was a sheep. I wasn’t to blame after all. They looked alike. Like an eel and a snake, you could sometimes mistake one for the other. However, an eel was never a snake… and a goat could never be a sheep. They were all distinct creatures. In the same vein, lust looks like love. In the beginning, they all speak the same language but when the tests of life start walking in, one is distinguished from the other.…

By 3news.com|Ghana

Students of the Ghana School of Law have written to the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, to intervene in the “unprecedented massive failures in the Professional Law Examinations”. Aside the 2017 results of only 91 out of 600 students passing their Professional Law Course Examinations, only 64 out of 525 students passed the 2018 exams. It is on record as the worst in the recent history of the School. 284 out of 525 LLB graduates fail final professional law exams According to the petition, which has also been sent to the Attorney General, the Chairman of the Council…