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Member of Parliament for Bongo in the Upper East Region Edward Abambire Bawa says President Akufo-Addo’s performance at the Tuesday’s media encounter clearly shows he is not on top of issues in the country. He argued answers given by the President at his maiden media encounter Tuesday is a clear indications that he is not on top of issues, claiming some of those answers were untrue. “The President was not on top of the issues because some of the issues he spoke about were blatantly untruth” he said on the newspaper review segment on TV3’s New Day Wednesday. According to…

A technical committee is to be set up to look into the cause of the Tuesday night fire outbreak at the 10th floor of the Job 600 building, offices for parliamentarians, in Accra. The said committee is expected to issue a report on the incident by Monday, July 24. Chief Fire Officer, Dr Albert Brown Gaisie, who revealed on TV3 New Day Wednesday morning, explained “give us up to Monday, we should be able to come out with something”. Prompt response from personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service saved the entire building from going up in flames Tuesday night.…

South African parliament and police are to provide security for an ANC MP after a number of death threats against her. Parliamentary spokesman Moloto Mothapo said the decision followed a security assessment that confirmed “a security threat existed” against Makhosi Khoza. Ms Khoza has been a prominent critic of President Jacob Zuma and corruption within the governing ANC. Last week she received a death threat saying she had 21 days left to live. On Tuesday, at a ceremony to mark Nelson Mandela’s birthday, Ms Khoza, 47, called President Zuma a disgrace. He has faced numerous allegations of corruption, all of…

Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Ms Charlotte Osei, faces impeachment over allegations of abuse of office, causing financial loss to the state and breaches of the country’s procurement law. Some staff of the Commission who are making the allegations have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to cause the Chief Justice, Ms Sophia Akuffo, to initiate impeachment proceedings against Ms Osei. READ: EC commissioners don’t trust each other – Parliament told The staff are claiming Ms Osei without recourse to laid down administrative structures and the Public Procurement Act, singularly abrogated contracts, secured a V8 Land Cruiser for her use, and awarded contracts…

One would have expected to see Nana Boafo by the roadside, assuming a posture that elicits sympathy from passersby, with cup in hand begging for alms like most blind people do in the big cities. But no, Nana is a different ‘breed’ of his kind; a visually impaired man who has refused to live by alms. He has chosen to live by the work of his own hands; the kind of blind men who are rare to find these days. Nana is exemplifies the saying “disability is not inability”. He’s a motivation to others in similar challenged situations to forge…

One would have expected to see Nana Boafo by the roadside, assuming a posture that elicits sympathy from passersby, with cup in hand begging for alms like most blind people do in the big cities. But no, Nana is a different ‘breed’ of his kind; a visually impaired man who has refused to live by alms. He has chosen to live by the work of his own hands; the kind of blind men who are rare to find these days. Nana is exemplifies the saying “disability is not inability”. He’s a motivation to others in similar challenged situations to forge…

Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta says the three-year extended credit facility (ECF) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Ghana will end in December 2018 as scheduled, just that Ghana will not enter into another deal after that. Mr Ofori-Atta’s latest remarks come in the wake of media reports that government is ending the programme forthwith. At the maiden media encounter at the Flagstaff House on Tuesday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo mentioned that the 2018 budget statement will be the last under the ECF, which began in April 2015. The programme was contracted by the John Mahama-led government. While…

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested 117 suspected criminals in Alaba, Tinka, Asafo, BB, TUC, Mayanka and surrounding areas in the Ashanti Region. The suspects were arrested on Monday in a swoop within the metropolis. They were arrested with an adulterated drink popularly referred to as “Laka”, a local gin laced with substances suspected to be Indian hemp. In a press statement signed by Assistant Superintendent of Police Juliana Obeng, who is the Regional Public Relations Officer, the confiscated substance will be taken to Accra for a forensic examination. The swoop was part of a nationwide operation sanctioned by…

Kaneshie-based physically challenged musician Pazzo Joe says he feels dejected seeing movie scenes that mock and mimic people with disabilities. The up-and-coming musician, real name Shaddrack Kojo Menimbere, lamented the torture the disabled are exposed to by the mimicking, despite the humour it adds to movie scenes. After years of seeing such scenes repeated in movies, the ‘Ayele’ composer is convinced they are intended to make mockery of the physically challenged, a trend he finds not too professional. The rapper expects movie makers to be professional with their work and spare them the torture and also called on Ghanaians to…