425 Amnesty International has condemned the sentencing of two TikTok stars in the northern Nigerian state of Kano for defaming the state governor Abdullahi Ganduje. The TikTokers, Mubarak Muhammad alias Unique Pikin and Nazifi Muhammad, had pleaded guilty and asked for leniency. But the judge ordered them to be given 20 lashes each, to pay […]
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Gov’t Not Training Mercenaries – Nitiwul
445 The Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, has rubbished allegations made by the Minority in Parliament that the government is training mercenaries at the Presidency to disrupt 2024 polls. This follows allegation first made by social media commentator, Kelvin Taylor, that some mercenaries were being trained by a top security officer at the seat of government. […]
Economic Hardship: Gov’t urged to cushion citizens with affordable transport services
375 Dr Priscilla Twumasi Baffour, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Ghana (UG), has asked the Government to retool various State transport systems to lessen the economic burden on the travelling public. In October alone, drivers increased transportation fares three times to a cumulative 39 per cent after separate announcements in hikes […]
NDC dissolves Bono East regional elections committee
406 The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dissolved the Bono East Regional Elections Committee with immediate effect and put the region’s executives’ elections on hold. The decision by the NDC comes months after police arrested five people in connection with the attack on the Bono East NDC party office […]
Chinese ‘illegal miner’ said Aisha employed him- witness
358An immigration officer has testified that when he and other officers arrested some Chinese illegal miners in 2017 at Bepotenten in the Ashanti Region, they claimed they were working for En Huang a.k.a. Aisha Huang. He, however, said he did not see Aisha Huang at the mining site or saw her engaging in illegal mining […]
Environment Ministry defends 350 delegates participating in COP27
682 The Chief Director of the Ministry of Environment Science Technology and Innovation, Mrs. Cynthia Asare Bediako, has defended the number of registered Ghanaians participating in the ongoing Conference of Parties (COP 27) in Egypt. The number of participants at the ongoing climate conference got social media users and Ghanaians talking with some alleging 270 […]
Lotto Operators,Writers Reject NLA’s 20% Commission
376Lotto operators, agents and writers across the country have kicked against a decision by the National Lottery Authority (NLA) to reduce commissions paid to lotto writers from 30 per cent to 20 per cent. The lotto operators, writers and agents said the reduction in the commissions would make life difficult for them, especially in the […]
Reduce Your Ministers To 40 -Prof.Bokpin To President Nana Addo
503 An economist, Professor Godfred Bokpin, has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to cut the number of Ministers in his administration to 40. According to him the number of Ministers, coupled with other costs of operationalizing Ghana’s democracy such as maintaining 275 Members of Parliament and other Presidential appointees was too expensive for the […]
Kufuor denies forfeiting six months salary
500 Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has denied social media reports suggesting that he has forfeited six months of his salary to the State. In a statement, the former President described the reports as fake news and called on the public to completely disregard them. “The attention of the Office of former President John Kufuor […]
Gov’t still committed to probing deaths recorded during 2020 polls – Ambrose Dery
409 Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery says government is committed to justice for the victims and families of those who died during the 2020 elections. At least five people died in separate violent incidents across the country during the election that saw president Akufo-Addo win a second term. Two years after the incidents, there have been […]