The petitioners challenging the results of the December 2012 elections at the Supreme Court, have amended their petition, on the grounds that they have uncovered more evidence of irregularities. The petitioners are 2012 NPP presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, his running mate Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, and NPP Chairman Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey. The petitioners earlier claimed that irregularities occurred at some 4,709 polling stations. Lead Counsel for the petitioners Philip Addision on ... Read More

Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Minister-designate for Education, has stated that the issue of exchanging sex for grade is not overriding rule in the tertiary institutions in Ghana and compromises quality of the country?s educational system. According to the Professor, young women could excel in schools, should they eschew deviant activities and study hard. The former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, taking her turn before the Appointments Committee of Parliament, ... Read More

The Minister designate for the realigned Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (nee Ministry of Women and Children?s Affairs), Nana Oye Lithur says she has no problem being the face of the debate on homosexuality in Ghana. According to Mrs. Lithur, the debate on homosexuality and gay rights is a matter of importance to the society as a whole and must be debated until a common ground is accepted constitutionally. Nana Oye Lithur was addressing controversial issues of human ... Read More

West Africa nations dominate the quarter-final cast at the 2013 African Cup of Nations with seven countries into the last eight. Togo picked the last quarter-final place, their first ever, on Wednesday at the Nations Cup to maintain West Africa's huge representation at the competition. Already into the last eight at the end of the group phase on Wednesday are Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, debutants Cape Verde, all West African nations and hosts South Africa. Togo drew ... Read More

Group D winners Ivory Coast rescued a draw against Algeria to maintain their unbeaten record in the Nations Cup. Algeria, eliminated before the match, missed a first-half penalty through Ryad Boudebouz but Sofiane Feghouli scored from a second spot-kick. Substitute Feghouli then crossed for Hilal Soudani to power home a header to make it 2-0 before Didier Drogba nodded in superbly to halve the deficit. A deflected Wilfried Bony shot completed the Ivorians' comeback. It was a ... Read More

Ghana could take a go at Cape Verde at full strength when both clash at the last eight of the Africa Cup of Nations billed for Port Elizabeth on Saturday. The Stars quest of winning a fifth Nations Cup that spans three decades have been helped by positive news on injured trio; Anthony Annan, Richmond Boakye-Yiadom and Mubarak Wakaso. Information pieced together by GNA Sports indicate that while Boakey-Yiadom and Wakaso are close to 100-per cent fitness, Annan could get a clean health bill ... Read More

President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday appealed to the newly sworn-in ministers to treat people they would be serving with respect and dignity to justify their nomination and approval as Ministers. ?Do not lord it over the people who brought you into the party, but serve them by cutting down all the unnecessary bureaucracy within the framework of the law,? President Mahama said. The President made this appeal when he swore-in seven Ministers who were vetted and approved by ... Read More

Mr Emmanuel Attah Obeng, Mpraeso Constituency Chairman of National Democratic Congress (NDC), has advised supporters of the Party to unite to enable government to implement its pragmatic policies and programmes for the country. Mr Obeng gave the advice when he addressed supporters of the party during a thank you tour, which took him to Ntomem, Kwahu Mpraeso Number One and Kwahu Besease. He said although the Party lost both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the constituency, the ... Read More

A popular fetish priest in the Eastern Region, Kwaw Simon, also known as Dzakpata, is in the custody of the Eastern Regional Police for allegedly kidnapping an 18-year-old student of the Mamfe Girls Senior High School. It is suspected that the 27-year old fetish priest kidnapped Bridget Baah for ritual purposes. According to sources who spoke to ?The Ghanaian Times?, the victim left the house last Sunday for school but was later found unconscious on Monday somewhere in Adawso. The ... Read More

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has directed the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) not to ration water during the repair works on the four of the 12 filters at the Weija Treatment Plant located at the Ga South Municipality in the Greater Accra Region. The filters remove impurities from water by means of fine physical barriers through a chemical process. Following the detection of structural defects on the filters about a fortnight ago, GWCL decided to ration water in ... Read More

Five months after an elderly woman, believed to be a royal, was buried in front of the Ayigya palace in Kumasi, the body was yesterday exhumed because the metropolitan authorities said the place of burial was not appropriate. Family members were said to have buried the body of Aberewa Tawiah, in front of the Ayigya palace after their refusal to produce a bottle of schnapp each for her one week and funeral rites to the Ayigya stool, as custom demanded to pave way for the burial at the town?s ... Read More

The first year students of the Swedru School of Business (SWESBU) are having their classes ?under trees? and in the visitors lounge, due to inadequate classroom space in the school. This came to light during a verification visit to the school by a team of journalists last Monday at the instance of both parents and students of the school. When the team got the school at about 9.45 in the morning, the Form One Arts Three students were sitting under the trees on the compound, while others ... Read More

A research conducted by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) had shown that 3,038 women are annually diagnosed of cervical cancer, and 2,006 women die from the disease every year. Globally, 500,000 new cases are diagnosed annually, and 270,000 deaths, accounting for nine per cent of female cancer, are also recorded annually. Dr Nana K.O. Antwi-Agyei, Programme Manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) of the GHS, who announced these on Tuesday at a press conference to introduce Human ... Read More

Based on a court order, the Northern Regional Police Command with assistance from other security agencies on Tuesday destroyed 85 bags of cannabis. The police in September last year, seized the cannabis on the Bole-Banboi road while the suspects; Abu Sumaila, Kwabena Bontaleba and Ibrahim Adams have been remanded in prison custody by a Tamale Circuit Court to re-appear on the February 8. Chief Superintendent of Police David Adjem, Director of the Police Forensic Unit, told the ... Read More

The Upper East Regional Branch of National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed gratitude to President John Dramani Mahama for nominating two distinguished personalities from the Region for ministerial positions. Alhaji Mumuni Bolnaba, NDC?s Regional Chairman said the President had done the Region proud and that the people could not have expected anything more. ?We are most grateful to the President for doing the Region a great honour by appointing two of our sons to serve in his ... Read More

Nana Oye Lithur, Minister-designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection, on Wednesday maintained that the rights of gays should be protected because the Constitution guaranteed it, insisting that society should debate on the acceptability or criminality of that sexual orientation. Asserting that her opinion on homosexuality and lesbianism remained personal, the renowned human rights lawyer and advocate said her calling demanded that she defended the fundamental rights of every Ghanaian ... Read More

Ghana's Coach, Kwasi Appiah has tagged Asamoah Gyan as his team's best striker despite scoring only one of his team's six goals so far at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa. Gyan's output has come under the microscope following his inability to score as frequently as expected but Appiah insists the player who is only two goals shy of breaking Abedi Pele's all time national goal record of 33 is good enough. ? Gyan is my captain and for me, I am very satisfied with all the ... Read More

Mr Solomon Addy, a Welfare Task Force Officer of the Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) said on Tuesday that commercial motorcycle riders known as ?Okada? are infringing on the duties of Union. ?They are operating illegally because the GPRTU does not recognise them, and we also doubt whether they have acquired genuine documents from the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA) to operate?. Mr Addy who was speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra, ... Read More

The out-going Central Regional Director of Education, Dr Sarfo Kantanka, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reconsider its decision on the use of computers and mobile phones by students in schools. According to him, ?to ease learning and meet the contemporary challenges of the world, it is imperative that students use computers and phones?, and therefore asked the GES to have a second look at the situation. Dr Kantanka made the call at Cape Coast last Wednesday, when the ... Read More

Famous movie actress, Nana Ama MacBrown yesterday escaped death when her newly registered vehicle was involved in an accident in Accra. The incident occurred on the Lapaz stretch of the George Walker Bush Highway at dawn, when she was on her way home from a movie location with her boyfriend, Maxwell Mensah. According to an eye-witness, Mensah was driving the Range Rover with registration number GR922-13 when an Opel Vectra Saloon car cross them at the Abeka Traffic light, resulting in the ... Read More