National Women’s Organiser-elect of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hannah Bissiw, has urged party members not to downplay the importance of her office and that of the National Youth Organiser. “We have our vision, we have our mission, we have our strategy, and we have our goals, disregard for the two wings of the party is partly to blame for [...] The post ‘Don’t underrate Women’s,
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has begun initiating moves to break the political dominance of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Krobo enclave. The NDC has over the years enjoyed massive support in three Krobo Constituencies, Yilo, Upper Manya and Lower Manya Krobo in both parliamentary and presidential elections touting the area as part of its political world bank. [...] The post NPP
Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS) has held a training workshop to build the capacity of some excluded groups in the Northern Region to empower them participate in decision-making at the local governance level. It formed part of the Enhancing Social Inclusion in Local Governance (ESILG) project being implemented by RAINS with funding from STAR-Ghana. The excluded groups that [...] The post CSO
Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, founder of Action Chapel International, has stated that Christians pumping their financial resources into politics, ahead of the 2020 presidential and legislative elections to gain favours for themselves and others in the event “gambling” their pays off, will be disappointed by God. “Somebody said to me papa, what do you perceive about 2020? And I said [...] The post Duncan-Williams:
Edmund Quaynor, the Eastern Regional Coordinator of the Right to Information (RTI) Coalition, has urged Members of Parliament (MPs) to demonstrate their desire to contribute towards minimising corruption, the reduction of poverty and respect for the electorate by passing the RTI bill into law. He explained that the skewing of all the arguments on RTI to political benefits of the [...] The post ‘Passage
The Jirapa Constituency Executives of the Upper West Region have disregarded a petition by some Assembly members for the removal of the Municipal Chief Executive, Christine Bonbanye-Amadu. According to the them, the petitioners are acting on their own parochial and selfish interest which have generated out of hatred and an agenda set to mare the reputation of the Municipal Chief [...] The post Jirapa
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said Sunday it has developed an effective framework for the gradual transition of security responsibilities to Somalia’s security institutions. The AU mission said the Concept of Operations (CONOPS) 2018, once approved by the African Union and senior defence officials of troops-contributing countries will be crucial for the mission’s quest for a peaceful [...] The post AU
Egyptian Christians buried six members of the same family on Saturday who were shot dead while returning from a baptism at a Coptic monastery in Egypt’s Minya province. Two buses were attacked on Friday near the Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor in Minya, 260 km (160 miles) up the Nile from Cairo. Seven people were killed and 18 wounded, [...] The post Egypt’s Christians bury
Dozens of people, mostly school pupils, have been kidnapped from a school in the west of Cameroon. At least 78 students and three others, including the school principal, were abducted on Monday morning in Bamenda, the capital of the North-West region, a government official has told the BBC. Regional Governor Adolphe Lele L’Afrique blamed separatist militias. Cameroon’s North-West and South-West [...] The post Dozens
Government has reaffirmed its position not to include old members of the dissolved governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)in the yet-to-be-reconstituted council. The government’s position was premised on the fact that all parties involved in the impasse would be a subject of full investigations when the council is reconstituted and in line with the [...] The post Don’t
Pastor, Mensa Otabil, and the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) are among 15 shareholders and directors of defunct Capital Bank sued over the collapse of the bank, in 2017. The Plaintiffs Messrs Vish Ashiagbor and Eric Nana Nipah from PricewaterhouseCoopers, said the bank’s collapse was a “direct result’ of defendants’ “‘misgovernance” and “willful” breaches of banking regulations. The writ [...] The post Pastor
An Accra High Court has ordered that the passport of Caleb Kweku Afaglo, one of the accused in the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) case, be released to him by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). Mr Philip Abaidoo, his Counsel, had filed a motion for an order directed at Mr K.K Amoah, the Executive Director of [...] The post SSNIT financial
A 46-year-old businessman was granted GH¢78,000.00 bail with two sureties by the Accra Circuit Court “4” yesterday for receiving a stolen car from an alleged armed robber. The accused, Mr. Abdulai Yahaya, denied any wrong doing when his charge or offence of dishonestly receiving was read to him by the court clerk. But the person who committed the [...] The post Businessman
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