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Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party, Kamal-Deen Abdulai, has dared Ghanaians to show evidence that President Nana Akufo-Addo ever complained about the size of Mahama government. The NPP communicator claimed Akufo-Addo while in opposition, only raised concerns about the performance and results of Mahama’s government which he said were abysmal. “…there is no record anywhere that when he [Nana Akufo-Addo] was campaigning, he complained about the size of [Mahama’s] government,” he stated Saturday while speaking on The Key Points on TV3. He insisted that it was never a part of President Akufo-Addo’s campaign to run a lean government.…

Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has said it is inappropriate for anyone to discuss the content of a leaked audio tape of a meeting at which NDC chairman Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo was allegedly heard urging violence. The voice was heard allegedly plotting with NDC communicators to create insecurity in Ghana and unleash war against the EC chair as well. Again, among other things, the voice was heard encouraging the party members to embark on a smear campaign to paint President Nana Akufo-Addo as a violent person. NDC ‘actively weaponising’ to become terrorist organisation – NPP alleges While the New Patriotic Party…

Investigative journalists Anas Aremeyaw Anas has suggested presidential staffer Charles Cromwell Bissue cannot claim innocence in the latest exposé in which he was caught allegedly taking bribe to facilitate illegal small scale mining. Mr Bissue was secretly captured receiving wads of cash to facilitate the speedy ‘clearance’ of Orr mining company in order that it can begin mining without due process. He was heard in the video titled ‘Galamsey Fraud’, instructing his subordinates over the phone to “fast track” the processing of the company’s documents. Ahead of an investigation into the matter by government, Mr Bissue who is the secretary…

Ghana’s Independence Day celebration in all districts within the Northern Region have been cancelled for this year. This is to enable all districts and municipal chief executives, directors of education, staff, and school children to participate in the national independence parade to be held in the Northern Regional capital Tamale on March 6. Director of Operations at the Presidency and a member of the organizing committee of the 62nd Independence Day parade, Lord Commey, announced the decision which he said was taken by the regional minister and his deputy. “The Northern Regional Minister and his deputy have decided that all…

Twenty-four students who emerged as the overall best students in the 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examination have awarded by President Nana Akufo-Addo. “They have brought considerable joy and pride to their families, schools, communities and to themselves, and it is only appropriate that they receive the plaudits of the nation,” Akufo-Addo said of them. This was when he presented the awards to the students Friday at the annual “President’s Independence Day Awards” in Accra. President Akufo-Addo said he has been working, over the course of the last two years, to ensure that knowledge and skill become the backbone of the…

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) says it is ready to facilitate a dialogue between the two leading parties in the country to find a lasting solution to the upsurge of political militia. On the back of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s call to the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress to take steps towards disbanding their militia groups, the NCCE said it will extend a helping hand. Akufo-Addo wants NDC, NPP to disband vigilante groups or else… “In this regard, the Commission after multiple stakeholder engagements, is poised to facilitate a process of dialogue among the parties and…

The US is about to take a major step towards being able to fly its astronauts into space once again. California’s SpaceX firm is performing a demonstration of a new rocket and capsule combination, which, if it works well, will be approved to carry people. Routine crew missions to the space station could start later this year. Not since the retirement of the shuttles in 2011 has America been able to put humans in orbit. It’s had to pay to use Russian Soyuz vehicles instead. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon crew capsule are scheduled to lift off from Florida’s…

The Short Commission has justified its decision not to take evidence from the Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon Ms Lydia Seyram Alhassan, stating she is not a relevant witness in the investigations into the violent incident recorded in the by-election she won. Though the three-member Commission at the start of its work planned to invite the new MP and all other candidates in the January 31 by-election, but has reconsidered the decision and resolved not to invite her anymore. “Even though initially we had decided to speak to all the candidates, the Commission subsequent reassessment concluded that we…

President Nana Akufo-Addo has congratulated Macky Sall on his recent re-election as President of Senegal for a second successive term. Mr Sall who was re-elected last Sunday, will per the Senegalese contituion serve another seven-year term “It is well-deserved, and a vindication of the trust and confidence reposed in him, and in his programme of economic transformation, by the Senegalese people,” Akufo-Addo said in his congratulatory message to Sall. President Akufo-Addo observed these economic transformation programmes has seen Senegal recording strong economic growth rates and rapid infrastructural development in recent years. He expressed hope that under the Sall presidency Senegal…

Twenty-four students who emerged as the overall best students in the 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examination have awarded by President Nana Akufo-Addo. “They have brought considerable joy and pride to their families, schools, communities and to themselves, and it is only appropriate that they receive the plaudits of the nation,” Akufo-Addo said of them. This was when he presented the awards to the students Friday at the annual “President’s Independence Day Awards” in Accra. President Akufo-Addo said he has been working, over the course of the last two years, to ensure that knowledge and skill become the backbone of the…