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The Vice President and flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is expected to submit his nomination forms today, June 16, 2023. Top officials of the party including former Vice Chairman of the NPP, Fred Oware and former National Organiser, Sammy Awuku picked up the forms on behalf of Dr. Bawumia last month. One of his contenders, …

Parliament has clarified that the Speaker’s reference to former President John Dramani Mahama and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia during his visit to Yagbonwura in Damongo was not a prediction of the 2024 polls. “We wish to place on record that although the speaker made reference to the two politicians at the said event, it was not an exercise of prediction,” …

Parliamentarians before the commencement of public business in the August House are calling for appropriate treatment to be given to elderly women in the country. Their call follows an official statement delivered by the Mp for Ketu South ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE on the 2023 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Hon. Abla Dzifa Gomashie – MP, Ketu South The theme for …

The Bank of Ghana has warned the public against dealing with some 97 unlicensed entities that advance loans to prospective clients through mobile apps. The central bank said in a statement that further to its notice number BG/GOV/SEC/2022/10 on Unlicensed Entities Engaged in Lending, it has observed the “persistent operation of unlicensed entities that are engaged in the provision of …

Parliament has directed the Defence and Interior Committee and leadership of constitutional, legal, and Parliamentary Affairs committees to investigate the shooting incident which happened at Birtianor Hill last Friday. The second deputy Speaker, Andrew Amoako Asiamah who was presiding at the time gave the committee up to the end of this month June 2023 to complete their work and submit …

Minister of Trade and Industry, Kobina Tahir Hammond, has revealed that no private sector investor has shown interest in establishing a factory under the government’s flagship program, One-District-One-Factory (1D1F), in the Sissala West constituency. According to him, the 1D1F initiative which aims to facilitate the establishment of at least one factory in each of Ghana’s 261 districts is driven by …

Emmanuel Sakyi Afriyie, a 25-year-old contract employee of one of Ghana’s biggest banks, has recently been arrested by security agencies for allegedly stealing approximately GH¢1.2 million from clients’ bank accounts. Among the accounts he pilfered are those belonging to a deceased judge and a former Inspector General of Police. Afriyie is said to have transferred some of the stolen funds to his …

A member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) legal team, Edudzi Tamakloe has called on Ghanaians to treat the lawsuit by Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, Kenneth Kuranchie with disdain. Managing Editor of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, Kenneth Agyei Kuranchie has dragged the former president to the Supreme Court challenging Mr. John Mahama’s validity to contest in the …

John Jinapor said the NPP is partly to blame for the losses accrued in the energy sector.

Head of Diaspora Relations at the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, Richard A. Gyamfi, says the Secretariat cannot be blamed for the delay in the payment of stipends and tuition fees of Ghanaian medical students studying in Ukraine. He said the Secretariat is helpless if the Ministry of Finance fails to release funds for the students on time. Some Ghanaian medical students …