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Recent happenings in the two political parties which have managed the state of affairs in our country between them since 1993 confirm my intellectual argument that our politicians require some training in Emotional Intelligence (EI). The Otiko-Bugri Naabu recent spat showed that the politician could lose his or her head under any provocation. Indeed, the internal wrangling within the NPP in the run-up to election 2016 which led to the suspension of Messrs Afoko, Sammy Crabbe and Kwabena Agyepong and the kinds of verbal exchanges which followed painted a certain picture of the emotional imbalance of some of the actors.…

On the occasion of Mother’s Day, the second Deputy Minority Whip, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe Ghansah has asked Ghanaians to fight against factors that are militating against women in the country. She observed one serious thing that affects women and threatens their existence is maternal mortality, which has become topical in Ghana in recent times. Ms Ghanasah who is the Member of Parliament for Ada explained delays in seeking appropriate healthcare and reaching health facility as well as obtaining timely and effective care at health facilities have been the key contributor to maternal mortality in Ghana. She said it thus behooves…

President Akufo-Addo’s nominee for the Bawku West District Chief Executive post, Mrs Victoria Ayamba, was on Saturday given a massive endorsement by the assembly members despite earlier protest against her nomination. Of the 49 assembly members who voted in the confirmation election, 35 representing 71 percent, endorsed her with only 14 against. Mrs Victoria Ayamba who is the current constituency organizer of the New Patriotic Party, is a teacher by profession. Some party youth had earlier opposed her nomination claiming she lacked leadership skills to head the district. A protest against her nomination days ago resulted in destruction of party and…

An acute shortage of medicines has hit infirmaries of Prisons across the Ashanti Region, Chaplin of the Kumas Central Prison, Rev. Canon Paa Kwesi Ansah, has revealed. The situation, which he said has been frequent, is affecting healthcare delivery to inmates of prisons in the region. He blamed the shortage on insufficient budgetary allocation from the government. Speaking at a short ceremony to receive foodstuff and cosmetics from a philanthropist, Rev. Kwasi Ansah revealed officers are sometimes forced to use their own money to buy drugs for the inmates whenever the need arises.The items worth GHC30,000 was donated by the…

A criminal defense lawyer, Martin Kpebu, is advocating the fading out of police prosecutors in the cities to rural communities. He explained that there cannot be development in the judicial system when persons who are not lawyers serve as prosecutors in court. Across the country’s courts, police officers who have not been trained as lawyers are at the forefront of criminal prosecutions especially in the lower courts. Speaking on the topic ‘the challenges of the criminal defense lawyer to all indigent defendants’ Mr. Kpebu observed criminal procedures have not seen any improvement because nonprofessionals are engaged in justice delivery. Currently,…

Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Mustapha Ussif, has pledged to ensure that the scheme’s Agriculture Project is supported to enable it to contribute to the Planting for Food and Jobs Policy. Mr Ussif said this when he paid a working visit to the Nungua and Papao farms of the Scheme to inspect the delivery of 15,000 day-old chicks and Guinea fowls to the farms. He was accompanied by Dr Gifty Oware-Aboagye, the Deputy Director in Charge of Finance and Administration, NSS, Madam Anas Zanoo, the Greater Accra Regional Director, and some staff of the secretariat. Mr Ussif…

Two people have been confirmed dead and seven others injured in a renewed violent chieftaincy confrontation in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. Several houses and properties have also been burnt in the incident which started Saturday evening at a funeral grounds at Atulbabisi community in the Bolga municipality. It is not clear exactly what triggered the clash between the two royal gates which are caught up in a protracted chieftaincy dispute over who is the rightful chief to succeed the late Paramount chief of Bolgatanga Traditional area, Naaba Martin Abilba II. Two chiefs are currently laying claim to the…

Deputy Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Paul Essien, has appealed to the chiefs and people of the Nkonya-Alavanyo Traditional areas in the Volta Region to smoke the peace pipe. Mr Essien made the appeal to Nana Otubea II, the Paramount Queenmother of Nkonya Traditional Area, and Mamaga Ametor II, the Paramount Queenmother of Alavanyo Traditional Area, at the graduation ceremony of the Otumfuo Centre for Traditional Leadership (OCTL) of the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) Accra. He said peace and stability were critical for the socioeconomic development of the nation and, therefore, there was the need for the chiefs…

Residents of Tsetsekasum community in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region have fled the community to seek refuge in neighbouring communities following attack on them. A protracted land dispute has led to the burning of houses including the palace of the Chief of Tsetsekasum by some members the feuding faction in the area on May 7. Tsetsekasum is a farming community with Citrus being the main cash crop cultivated in the area. With a population of more than 500, the once bustling community has now turned a ghost town as the usual bustling, especially in the morning,…