Over eighty Ghanaians who were illegally residing in Libya have been deported. The deportees arrived at the Kotoka International Airport Thursday night to go through immigration procedures. Many of deportees who looked weary claimed they were imprisoned for over 8 months by Libyan officials prior to their deportation. In April, some 300 Ghanaians who were residing in the country…
A 13-year-old boy has died in what is suspected to be a suicide at Adukrom in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The class five pupil of the local Municipal Assembly Basic School, Denis Ali, is believed to have hanged himself at home after school in the absence of parents. Relatives and neighbours were thrown into shock…
A Kumasi High Court presided over by Justice Charles Adjei Wilson on Wednesday sentenced a 24-year-old tea seller and a mother of one to death for the murder of her ex-lover’s son. This was after the seven-member jury returned a guilty verdict against her. The convict, Talata Baana, laced rice with an agro-chemical known as chlopyrifos and gave it…
A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has suggested that the government’s efforts to create a special prosecutor’s will be a wasted venture if sections of the draft Bill currently before parliament are not removed. According to him, a clause in the bill which states that the Special Prosecutor must not investigate and prosecute corruption offences relating to the Public…
After several months of denial by government spokespersons, President Akufo-Addo has finally confirmed The aL-hAJJ’s May 2, 2017, publication that he will not seek re-election after serving his first term in office. Without mincing words; leaving his Ministers and party supporters dumbfounded, President Akufo-Addo openly announced his disinterest in leading the party into the next presidential election in 2020….
The Leader and the Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Portuphy, has stated that the implementation of the Representation of the People’s (Amendment) Act 2006 (Act 699) (ROPAA) raises a lot of questions and concerns which needs to be addressed before its enforcement. Mr Portuphy said, for instance, issues with cost, transparency, polling agents among others…
A former Defence Minister and a leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is urging caution in the implementation of government’s flagship education policy, the Free Senior High School. Dr. Kwame Addo-Kufuor says a hasty introduction of the education policy could negatively affect the education quality and create setbacks. He acknowledges that the Free SHS policy is…
As Parliament readies to read the bill on the Office of the Special Prosecutor, the Speaker has cautioned that the President must tread cautiously in the creation of the office. Quoting the 1992 Constitution, Professor Micheal Ocquaye says it is only the Attorney General and Justice Minister that has the prosecutorial powers and any attempt to alter that arrangement…
Thrivent Financial donated $10,000.00 to the Asanteman Association of Chicago and Midwest when they met the Ghanaian Community in Chicago to introduce to them Affordable Life Insurance, Disability Insurance and other Investments that promote community improvement projects. Asanteman Association of Chicago organized kente dance in 2015 to raise funds to support the Komfo Anokye teaching hospital maternity ward, a…
Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Marfo has said the Akufo-Addo government is being cautious not to lose court cases against former NDC officials. According to him, that is the reason it appears no former official of the erstwhile government is facing court charges over alleged malfeasance under the administration. “We thank all of you in the Ashanti region. We are investigating…
