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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor, to serve as special counsel to oversee Justice Department investigations tied to Donald Trump involving the former president’s handling of sensitive documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Garland’s announcement came three days after Trump, a Republican, announced he would run for president again in 2024. Garland said Trump’s candidacy, as well as Democratic President Biden’s stated intention to run for re-election, made the appointment of a special counsel necessary. Special counsels are sometimes appointed to investigate politically sensitive cases and they do their…

Sarkodie has opened up about how fuel price hikes is impacting his movement and his finances. The rapper in an interview on Joy FM over the weekend told an audience that times are hard for him too despite his status. Asked about economic issues as pertains to recent times, he told host George Quaye: “I wouldn’t be able to have my hands on everything because at least thank God, we have moved from a certain stage where our problems may not necessarily be like the regular person on the street.” Specifically, on the fuel price hikes, he stated: “if myself I…

Venunye Dordor, a teacher at Ave-Afiadenyigba RC Basic School in the Akatsi North District of the Volta Region, has allegedly drowned three of his children in a water reservoir at his house at Ave-Afiadenyigba. The lifeless bodies of the children, two boys, and a girl, aged four, nine and 11 years respectively, were retrieved from the reservoir. Mr Isaac Sowu Newton, the Assembly Member of the area, said the Ave-Dakpa Police were called, who retrieved the bodies and had since conveyed them to the St Anthony Hospital morgue at Dzodze for preservation and autopsy. He told the Ghana News Agency…

Nollywood actress Shan George has shut down claims that fellow actor Hanks Anuku is mad and now roams the streets of Nigeria.On Monday, November 14, a video surfaced on Twitter showing a man purported to be Hanks in tattered clothes, looking homeless roaming the streets.This had led to a lot of mixed reactions in Nigeria and Ghana’s social media space. Many people had called out the Nigerian movie industry stakeholders over their inability to look out for each other.However, reacting to the claim, ace actress Shan George who saw the video making rounds on the internet posted pictures and videos…

Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, says he is pleased with the decision of the Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee on Censure to strike out Grounds One and Three from the list of seven allegations levelled against him. The Minister made the remarks when he appeared before the Committee on Friday.The Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee on Censure was set-up by the Speaker to probe the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority Caucus’ Motion calling for a vote of censure against the Finance Minister for alleged mismanagement of Ghana’s economy. The decision of the Committee to exempt Mr Ofori-Atta from responding to Grounds One and…

The Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta has apologised to Ghanaians for the current economic hardship the nation is facing. “Co-Chairs, let me use this opportunity to say to Ghanaians what I believe every finance minister around the world may like to say to their people now – ‘I’m truly sorry’,” Mr Ofori-Atta said on Friday. Giving his testimony before the Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee on Censure at the Parliament House in Accra, he said: “When we set out so purposely between 2017 and the early part 2020, we never imagined that a global pandemic such as COVID-19 with its prolonged economic…

In some homes, wives demand money from their husbands before allowing them to enjoy the warm, sweet, heavenly-curved and juicy honey pot at night or at any time of the day. A few come out t complain and even men who come out to complain are told to suffer in silence because society has raised women above men in areas of intimacy. Both men and women enjoy sex but it has become like only men are those who are in need of that. This and many more have coerced Multiple award-winning Ghanaian Gospel artist Diana Hamilton to speak up. In…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) executives in the three Tongu Constituencies and the Anlo Constituency have endorsed the candidature of Elvis Afriyie Ankrah for the position of General Secretary. In an interview with the media during a tour by the aspirant, the executives noted that there is a need for the party to have someone who has already passed through the mill and is more appealing to the constituents so as to have an easy way to victory in the 2024 elections. The South Tongu Constituency Organiser, Michael Gati noted that the plans lined up by Elvis Afriyie Ankrah on issues…

Member of Parliament for Sekondi, Andrew Egyapa Mercer has said the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta does not deserve to leave office. Speaking to JoyNews shortly after Ken Ofori-Atta had completed taking the ‘witness box’ before the Adhoc Committee hearing the censure motion, the Deputy Energy Minister said Ken Ofori-Atta, through his responses, has exonerated himself from all allegations levelled for his removal from office. According to him, he is satisfied with the responses from the Minister who testified before the Committee on Friday. “If you look at the motion that was tabled and the so-called grounds that were canvassed, clearly the Finance…

The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, says there were attempts by party bigwigs to halt Asiedu Nketia’s decision to unseat him. In a yet-to-air interview on Adom TV, he told host, Daakyehene Nana Yaw Asante, that the party’s 2020 flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, and other prominent NDC figures made efforts to stop the contest between himself and the party’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia. According to him, even though the move by Asiedu Nketia to unseat him is politically incorrect; the efforts to talk him out of the decision proved futile. “As far I’m concerned, Asiedu Nketia’s…