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Samia Nkrumah, former Member of Parliament for Jomoro has pleaded with President Akufo-Addo to not assent to the recently passed Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill which proscribed various jail terms for members of the LGBT community in Ghana and their allies. Samia Nkrumah, daughter of Ghana’s first President Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah described the Bill as harsh and unfair and stood on these as her reasons for telling President Akufo-Addo to not sign the Bill into Law “I pray the President does not sign, does not assent to it.  I believe it is a brutal, harsh, unjust…

Apostle Lilian Kumah, grieving wife of the late Hon. John Ampontuah Kumah, on Friday, March 9th, 2024, bravely stepped into the somber halls of the Accra Central Police Headquarters to lodge a heart-wrenching complaint against Captain Smart, a radio and TV presenter with Media General for callously insinuating that her beloved husband died of food poisoning. Lilian Kumah expressed deep concern over the damage these unfounded accusations are causing her husband’s reputation and the family’s well-being, particularly amidst their grieving process. With tears welling in her eyes and her voice trembling with anguish, she beseeched the Ghana Police Service to…

Director of Special Projects and Investor Relations in the Office of the President of Ghana, Dr Mutaka Alolo has declared that the New Patriotic Party(NPP) has what it takes to be victorious in the upcoming General Elections if unity continues to reign in the party as exemplified through the show of unflinching support shown to Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. During a Get-together and Thanksgiving Programme in support of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia organized by the UK Branch of the NPP, Dr Alolo was profoundly impressed that persons who strongly opposed Dr Bawumia’s quest to become flagbearer of the NPP presidential primaries have…

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Samuel Nartey George’s view on members of the LGBT community in Ghana and their allies during former President Mahama’s regime in 2012 differs from current stance in 2024 which aims to challenge the current economic system under a different administration. During an interview in 2012 on JoyNews about the politics of gay rights, he stated emphatically that, the Ghanaian constitution enjoins that everybody has rights on their preference and whatever they believe to engage in. As to why he has had a change of mind, eagerly pushing for such a controversial Human Sexual Rights and…

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has come under rising pressure from faith-based organizations and a large section of the Ghanaian public to assent to pass into law the recently passed Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill which proscribed various jail terms for members of the LGBT community in Ghana and their allies. Rights groups and some Civil Society Organisations have equally called on the same President Akufo-Addo to not sign the Bill into law, citing clear infringements of human rights and press freedoms. The President and his office have remained mute. Checks show the Bill has not yet reached…

Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has expressed surprise about continuous media reports that the Office is about to commence a life style audit target at the country’s celebrities within the creative arts and entertainment sector. Executive Director, COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has described the nature of the reports as exaggerations and misinformation. She also challenged anyone who claimed EOCO had announced plans to go after celebrities to produce such audiovisuals, rubbishing such claims being peddled in the media. READ ALSO: Fix our deplorable roads instead of going to EOCO – Yaw Tano to Kwasi Amoako-Attah A recent interview…

FIVE SOULS have been lost in two separate road crashes in a period of 48 hours at Akomadan in the Offinso North Constituency in the Ashanti Region. The first accident happened when a tipper truck, surprisingly, crashed head on with a tricycle also known as ‘Pragia’ at Akomadan on Thursday at 6pm. In that fatal crash, three people, including a pregnant woman, were said to have perished right at the accident scene, drawing uncontrollable tears from eye witnesses. Just as the people of Akomadan were trying to overcome the pain and sorrow that they endured during the first accident, another…

Construction Project Manager and Painter, Sharon Dede Padi, also known as Padiki has asked Ghanaians and people all over the globe to collectively help her attain the goal to break her upcoming Guinness World Records (GWR) Paint-a-Thon record in projecting Ghana. Setting of the record scheduled to take place from March 15 to March 21, 2024, at the Ghana Village, it is aimed to paint more than 168 hours, seeking to break the current 100-hour Paint-a-Thon record held by Chancellor Ahaghotu. READ ALSO: At a point I didn’t know which day it was – Afua Asantewaa speaks after ending GWR Sing-A-Thon…

President Akufo-Addo has owned up as the individual to be held responsible for all decisions taken by the Government he leads and has said there should be no ambiguity whatsoever about who the buck stops with in a constitutional administration. “Under the Constitution, the Executive power of the State is vested in the President of the Republic. He or she is the executive. There’s no ambiguity about where the buck stops when it comes to responsibility for what happens in government. It stops with the President,” Nana Akufo-Addo said while delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament…

Ghanaian entrepreneur and media personality, Afua Asantewaa Aduonum has explained that, the last thing she would do is to be dishonest and hide such an important result from her Guinness World Records attempt despite it being positive or negative from her fans, Ghanaians and people across the globe in general. She explained in an interview on the Breakfast Show on GTV on Monday that, she has been very honest to Ghanaians regarding the results, adding that, she lost her login details to her GWR account for which reason she could not break the news of the outcome of her attempt.…