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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it will not prevent anyone, including foreigners, who wish to pick nomination forms and contest the party’s upcoming parliamentary elections slated for April 25. General Secretary of the party John Boadu in a press conference last week warned party executives have no power at the point of forms purchase to make a determination on who qualifies. “No aspiring parliamentary candidate shall be denied access to purchase of nomination form. At the point of purchase of nomination form is not the point for vetting so you have no reason whatsoever, so if the person…

Steel and iron manufacturing magnate, B5 Plus Company Limited and Delhi Private School (DPS) International have joined the Indian community in Ghana to celebrate the 71st Indian Republic Day. In India Republic Day is a national holiday. The Day marks the date on which the Constitution of India came into effect on January 26, 1950. The Constitution replaced the Government of India Act as the governing document of India and subsequently turned the Asian populous nation into a newly formed republic. Annually, Indian communities around the world rallied to celebrate Republic Day. The Celebration in Ghana has been an annual…

Had eligibility rules been as relaxed as in the modern era of international rugby, Herbert Mensah would probably have joined the great Richard Tsimba in Zimbabwe’s squad to the inaugural World Cup in 1987 as one of only two black players in the entire tournament. A dashing winger who thrilled crowds in his prime, Mensah believes there are now more opportunities than ever before in a game trying to rid itself of its aristocratic reputation. Now one of the most powerful men in the sport on the continent, an executive committee member of Africa Rugby, the business tycoon from Ghana…

A communicator of the governing New Patriotic Party in the Agona West, Central Region, was allegedly beaten by a parliamentary aspirant, Evans Addison Coleman, popularly called Onomah, for criticizing the latter’s ethnocentric comments. Idriss Ali Musah popularly known as Mallam Iddi who reported the issue to the Swedru Division of the Ghana Police Service was issued with a medical form and treated at Swedru Government Hospital. It all started when Mr. Onomah, a former constituency chairman of Agona West, allegedly incited residents to chase out persons he considered strangers from the area. “The so called centre will never hold until…

Imprisonment, in recent times, has moved from the era of human warehousing to that which seeks to correct the offending behaviour of offenders. The shift in focus, undoubtedly, requires from the Ghana Prisons Service newer treatment modules which focus on filling behavioural and intellectual gaps of offenders to empower them for fruitful and law abiding lives upon discharge to keep the revolving door of crime shut. An emerging module employed by the Ghana Prisons Service in this regard is formal and non-formal education. The drive seeks to provide opportunities for prisoners who desire to continue their education or receive literacy…

Ghana Rugby has issued a reminder of the World Rugby “Code of Conduct” to the Ghana Rugby Family following the stiff sanctioning of a club coach for misconduct because he neglected to accept and observe the authority and decisions of a referee during a Ghana Rugby Women’s Club Championship match in Accra. According to the statement issued by Ghana Rugby, the coach was not happy with a decision by the match official early in the match, and from that point onwards he challenged most of the Match Official’s calls from his position in the technical area. In issuing the sanction…

An Accra High Court has adjourned, until further notice, the perjury case brought against the third prosecution witness in the trial of former COCOBOD boss Dr. Stephen Opuni and CEO of Agricult Ghana Limited Seidu Agongo. Dr. Yaw Adu-Ampomah who is a former Deputy Chief Executive at COCOBOD in charge of Agronomy and Quality Control is to justify why he should not be imprisoned for committing perjury after counsel for Dr. Opuni, Samuel Cudjoe cited him for “deliberately lying” under oath. Perjury is a quasi-criminal offence which the Cambridge dictionary defines as ‘the crime of telling lies in court when…

Ekua Mends Bannerman, winner of Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) 2019 has rallied the support of all residents in the Cape Coast Metropolis to tackle the menace of increasing drug abuse among the youth. The 23-year-old entrepreneur, who is also the third person from the Central Region to win the crown since its inception said the move seeks to disengage the youth from drug abuse and it’s dire health related physical and psychological implications. Ghana needs to renew its commitment to fighting drug abuse and trafficking if it is to protect the youth and the survival of the country. She indicated…

A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries from the public purse. It has therefore asked the affected employees to make themselves available for enumeration from January 28 to February 11, 2020 at the Audit-Service Headquarters (Payroll Audit Branch), Accra to avoid disallowance and surcharge. This was contained in a press statement signed by Mr. George Swanzy Winful, the Deputy Auditor-General of the Central Government Audit Department. It said: “Notice is hereby given that, the Auditor-General intends to disallow the continuous existence of all…