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The contempt case against Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has been adjourned to Friday, September 25. This comes after his lawyers filed an application at the Supreme Court to prohibit the High Court from sitting on the contempt charges leveled against him. The lawyers have also filed an order of certiorari to further quash the High Court’s summons issued to question the lawmaker on why he should not be punished for scandalising the Court. The Court presided over by Justice Amos Wunter Wuni, in stating the reasons Kennedy Agyapong was summoned, indicated that the Member…

Asante Kotoko have officially announced an eight-member management team to help in the daily running of the club. Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Premier League side Nana Yaw Amponsah made the list public on Friday, September 18. Mr Amponsah described Asante Kotoko as a gold mine and added that the newly formed management has the skills to mine the gold within. The list comprises two females. The members of the committee are: • Emmanuel Newton Dasoberi (Administrative and Operations Manager) • Moses Antwi Benefo (Communications Manager) • Eric Amoako Twum (Commercial Manager) • Thomas Sevordzi (Finance Manager) • Dentaa…

Lawyers for the Member of Parliament (MP)for the Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, have filed an application at the Supreme Court to prohibit the high Court from sitting on the contempt charges leveled against him. The MP wants the Supreme Court to stop the High Court from hearing the contempt case brought against him in the High Court and an order to quash the summons. It is the case of the Assin Central MP that the court which summoned him (Land Court 12) lacks jurisdiction to do so. The MP avers in his affidavit in support, that his comments were not…

Ghanaians are advised to ignore claims the government has reportedly suspended the implementation of the law banning the importation of salvaged cars into Ghana. Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, said such claims are propagandist in nature, explaining the government has no such powers. The Act which was passed in March 2020 amended the Customs Act 2015 (Act 891) and will take effect on November 1, 2020. However, the Tema Regional Chairman of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), Alex Asiamah, disclosed to the media that the Customs Commander at the Tema Port announced the law had been suspended by the…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has already recaptured 47 out of the 55 parliamentary seats the party lost in the 2016 general elections, Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has revealed. Speaking in an interview with Berla Mundi on the New Day on TV3 Wednesday September 16, the Tamale South lawmaker said the NDC has been able  to work on the challenges that it encountered in the last elections which led to the party’s defeat. “The NDC in 2016 lost 55 parliamentary seats. By my assessment and going into 2020 we already secure, subject to the elections, about 47 of those seats…

Dreams Football Club attacker, Abel Manomey, is in full hopes that Ghana’s biggest opposition political party, NDC’s policy of paying each Ghana Premier League player Ghc 1,500 as minimum wage will help minimize player exodus. According to Abel Manomey in an interview with Connect FM, the days of players playing for passion alone is over and now they play with the aim of making money to cater for their families in the end. He said, “Local players don’t play for just passion anymore but rather for money “In Nigeria, it is the federal government that pays the players; they pay…

The Public Relations Officer of the Volta River Authority (VRA), David Prah, has revealed that the Authority is currently putting in place plans to enable it relocate settlers along the White Volta in the North East Region to protect them against floods and also the spillage of the Bagre Dam. He announced this after officials of the VRA donated relief items to victims of the Bagre Dam spillage and floods in the Northern Region on Thursday, September 17. Reports indicate that the spillage from the Bagre Dam coupled with torrential rains in northern Ghana has so far killed 11 people.…

Member of Parliament for Kumbungu Constituency Ras Mubarak has described the recent flood in the North East Region as a calamity of Biblical proportions, following the level of destruction the floods have caused to lives and properties. He told journalists that farm lands and about 47 homes have been destroyed by the floods, a situation he had never seen before. “I am close to tears because I know these particular communities very well.  We are seeing a calamity of Biblical proportions. “There are people who were born here  who are adults today who have never  seen anything like this in…

The journey for the highly fancied reality show, Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB), crowns its winner on Sunday, September 20, 2020 at TV3’s Studio B. Co-host of the show Johnnie Hughes has advised fans of the finalists to vote for their favourite to stand a chance of winning the crown. “It’s a reality show and this time the fans or viewing public of all the contestants get the chance to be part of the decision-making process, so it’s not just the judges entirely. “And with this grand finale, the stakes are high. So, I would advise them to vote. He added:…

Former workers of the banks that collapsed during the banking sector clean-up exercise undertaken by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) are now better of after receiving their severance packages, a Deputy Minister of Finance, Charles Adu Boahen, has said. He explained that although the banking sector looked rosy before the clean-up exercise, a lot of the workers were actually suffering because they had gone months without being paid salaries. Now, they have been paid their severance packages after the receiver had made available GH¢150 million to pay them, he said. He revealed that the payment is ongoing. Mr Adu Boahen…