1,514 The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has voiced its disapproval of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s use of its conference platform to engage in political campaigning against former President John Mahama. The GBA’s Public Relations Officer, Saviour Kudze, said: “What the president said today is rather unfortunate and we condemn it. The aspect we condemn […]
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Zimbabwe President names son in cabinet
1,567 Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of nepotism after naming his son in a new cabinet following his controversial re-election last month. Mr Mnangagwa on Monday named his son, David Kudakwashe, as deputy finance minister as part of the parliament’s youth quota. He also appointed his nephew, Tongai Mnangagwa, the deputy tourism minister, […]
Sammy Gyamfi fumes over delay in hearing injunction application against EC
1,384 The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has described as unacceptable the decision of the registrar at the Supreme Court to wait for the Chief Justice to provide or certify a date for the hearing of the party’s injunction suit against the Electoral Commission. Speaking on PM Express on JoyNews, […]
Burkina Faso, Togo exporting cocoa produced in Ghana as intensified smuggling leaves COCOBOD with $600m loss
1,466 The finances of Ghana COCOBOD is in dire straits requiring urgent surgery to revive the once vibrant entity. JoyNews is learning COCOBOD lost almost 600 million dollars representing 150 thousand metric tons in the last crop season due to the smuggling of cocoa beans to neighboring Burkina Faso and Togo which made them exporters […]
Joyce Bawa Mogtari ‘descends’ on Akufo-Addo over Bar Conference comments
1,428 An aide to the former president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, has gone wild in her language, while replying to some comments made by the sitting president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at the Ghana Bar Conference 2023. Taking to Twitter to vent her spleen, Joyce Bawah Mogtari described the comments made by Nana Akufo-Addo, […]
Volta Region: 64,000 slabs of suspected marijuana seized at Atikpui
1,507 The Nyive sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and the Customs division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have seized a total of 64,000 pieces of packs suspected to be marijuana in Atikpui, a border community within the Ho municipality of the Volta Region. The seized items were found on Thursday, September […]
Sir John Donates Ghc2k To Support Intensify Education On Limited Voter Registration Exercise, 2023
1,127In the Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency of the Ashanti Region, Vice Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hon. John Kwame Duodu, popularly known as “Sir John, made a donation of 2,000 Ghana cedis (GH 2,000) to the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipal National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) Directorate. INCENTIVE Sir John, who is also […]
Protest Against The Bank Of Rescheduled To October 3rd
1,539 The Leadership of the National Democratic Congress ,headed by Johnson Asiedu Nketia, together with its Caucus in Parliament, have rescheduled the planned protest against the Bank of Ghana and its senior management personnel from tomorrow the 12th of September, 2023, to Tuesday, the 3rd of October, 2023. The change in the date has been […]
Court sentences thieves who stole Vodafone Ghana cable 7 years each
1,452 Mathias Duayin and Albert Edor, two individuals arrested on charges of cable theft in Akosombo, have been found guilty and each sentenced to a prison term of seven years by the Odumase Krobo Circuit Court. The theft involved cables with a combined length of 2,600 metres. The estimated damage caused by the theft is […]
Open Defecation:A threat to public health-World Vision Technical Specialist
1,437 Mr Yaw Atta Arhin, Water ,Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)Technical Specialist, World Vision Ghana, has stated that open defecation is a threat to public health and urged stakeholders and policy makers at the Water and Sanitation sector to put pragmatic measures in speeding up the progress in the fight against open defecation, as a […]









