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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has leveraged the boundless limits of technology to enhance the efficiency of passport operations in general for improved service delivery, sector minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has said on the occasion of the commissioning of the central regional passport application centre on Friday, 20th November, 2020. She said the ministry adopted government’s digitization agenda by automating the process of acquiring passports through the online application system. The online application system is an appointment-based system whereby an applicant has the liberty to select a centre of choice and a time convenient to the applicant.…

A legal practitioner and member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Godwin Edudzi Tameklo has said there was no need for the establishment of an office of special prosecutor in Ghana. He said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday November 21 that the creation of the office by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was only meant to show off and to also hoodwink Ghanaians to believe that he intended to fight corruption whereas that was not the case. “I have always maintained that from a very more personal point that there was need for an office of special prosecutor.…

A private legal practitioner and member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gary Nimako has condemned the death threats on the life of former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu. He told Abena Tabi on the Key Points Programme on TV3 Saturday November 21 that if the death threat claims made by Amidu are anything to go by, then it is bad because he served his nation and has decided to retire. “I think that basically, he came to serve his nation and at a point in time he decided to go back and take his retirement and rest, I don’t…

Deputy Special Prosecutor Ms Jane Cynthia Naa Torshie Lamptey has been asked to act as Special Prosecutor until a substantive one is appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo following the resignation of Mr Martin Amidu from the post. Ms Lamptey is a lawyer of over 30 years standing at the Ghana Bar and former acting Director of Public Prosecutions. Commenting on her new assignment, Chairman of the Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas, Dr Steve Manteaw said “Mad. Cynthia Lamptey, Acting SP I salute you. It’s a difficult task, we know, but we trust you to fulfill our…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should appoint a new Special Prosecutor before the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections following the resignation of Martin Amidu from that position, Justice Emile Short, a former Commissioner of the Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has suggested. Justice Short told TV3’s Thomas Adotei Pappoe in an exclusive interview that “My expectation is that the president might appoint someone else to replace him  before the elections.” He further indicated that Mr Amidu should not have resigned as Special Prosecutor in spite of the challenges he claimed he was facing, According to him, the Act…

A Professor of Strategy, Head of the Delivery Unit and Senior Advisor, Vice President’s Secretariat, Office of the President; Professor Kwaku Appiah-Adu, has been inducted as a fellow into the coveted learned society of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) for his scholarly prowess in the sciences and humanities of strategy. Prof Appiah-Adu was inducted on 17 November 2020 by the President of GAAS, Supreme Court Judge Justice Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu, during the society’s 61st Founder’s Week Celebrations held in Accra on the theme: “This COVID-19 pandemic”. The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded…

Accra Great Olympics continued their fine start to the 2020-2021 Ghana Premier League season after a splendid performance against Legon Cities in week two at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday November 20 . The two times Ghana Premier League winners dominated the game from the start to the end of the game and took their chances to win the game by 3-0 against the Royals. FT ✅ 3 goals ✅ 3 points ✅ Clean sheet OLY DADE HAVE THEIR FIRST 3 POINTS OF THE SEASON!#3Sports #GPLwk2 pic.twitter.com/sakQENXUNX — #3Sports (@3SportsGh) November 20, 2020 Captain Gladson Awako opened the scoring…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will resume his campaign activities Saturday, November 21. He is expected to visit Hohoe in the Volta Region on Saturday. TV3’s Presidential Correspondent Nana Kwaku Aduah reported on Friday, November 20 that the President will open a mini-hydro power station as part of the tour. He is also expected to commission several other projects. Mr Akufo-Addo suspended his campaign following the death of former president Jerry John Rawlings last week Thursday, November 12. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram Constituency Samuel Nartey George has stated that he and his constituents will resist any form of suppression from unlawful authorities in the December 7 elections. Speaking during the 3FM Constituency Debate on Friday, November 20, he alleged that there are moves by some persons to create trouble in the constituency as part of a plot to rig the elections. The member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament accused ”a gentleman who is recruiting land guards to come in and create chaos on Election Day. He poses himself as the head of security…

Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram constituency Samuel Nartey George has accused the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) of plotting to use land guards to create chaos in some constituencies including Ningo Prampram. According to him, the NPP wants to use all manner of means to snatch his seat but such move, he said will not work. Sam George said these during the 3FM constituency debate on Friday 20th of November. He said ”there is a gentleman who is recruiting land guards to come in and create chaos on Election Day. He possess himself as the head of security for…