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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson to act as caretaker of the Food and Agriculture Ministry. This follows the resignation of the sector minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a statement accepting Dr. Akoto’s resignation indicated that Madam Koomson will hold the fort until a substantive minister is appointed. The announcement was made in a statement released on Thursday night and signed by Eugene Arhin, the Director of Communications at the Office of the President. “The President of Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has accepted the resignation…

Outspoken Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency, Hon Kennedy Agyapong has said that he used money meant for the payment of his children school fees to support the New Patriotic Party (NPP) leading to the 2016 general elections.  He said the party was broke and had less support from top people, which made him to take such risk of ignoring payment of his children University fees and focus on working hard for the party to gain power. He explained his contribution to the party’s growth, both district, regional, constituency, and national base are unmatched. “So in 2016, there…

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential candidate aspirant and Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Hon Kennedy Agyapong has revealed that he once lost a woman he was dating all because of huge investment he had done in the NPP party during the 1992 general elections.  Speaking in an interview with NET 2 TV, the businessman justified why he deserves to contest the upcoming presidential primaries due to his past investment. He further indicated that, his struggle for the party in the past 30 years made him to lose his fiancé at a point, because he went broke after investing…

Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of seven of the nine charges against him. After a trial lasting almost five months, the Manchester City defender has been cleared of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. However, after 13 days of deliberation at Chester Crown Court, the jury has been unable to reach verdicts on two other charges against Mendy – one count of rape, involving a woman aged 24 in October 2020, and one count of attempted rape, involving a woman aged 29 in October 2018. The Crown Prosecution Service has seven days to decide…

Graham Potter said “the hits keep on coming” after Joao Felix was sent off on his Chelsea debut as the Blues slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Fulham on Thursday. Felix was thrown straight into the starting lineup just a day after completing an €11million loan move from Atletico Madrid and looked lively before lunging into a reckless 58th-minute tackle on Kenny Tete with the score level at 1-1. Chelsea’s injury problems deepened as Denis Zakaria was forced off with a quad problem on a night when the Blues slipped to their seventh defeat in 10 matches across all competitions,…

Lionel Messi is likely to win the Men’s FIFA Best award for a second time. This comes after winning the recently held World Cup with the Argentina national team last year in Qatar.  Messi ticked off one of the final things missing from his CV. In inspiring his country to victory in Qatar, he boosted his claims to be the greatest to have played the game. It appeared to end the debate over who is the superior of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The latter still has something over Messi, as the Portuguese has won FIFA’s Best award on two occasions to…

The Member of Parliament for the Effutu Constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has touted his constituency as an ideal place to visit, to live, to study or to invest dubbed ‘Visit Effutu’.  “Effutu is a great place to see, to live, to study and to do business. I invite all who can to come over for tourism, for business investment, for pleasure or for relaxation. We are a friendly and hard working people with a hallmark of positive optimism and a rich cultural heritage. “We invite you to experience Effutu, explore Effutu, engage with the people of Effutu and lets enjoy Effutu…

The Brock Royal Family has paid off medical bills for new mothers at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Labour Ward in Accra. The wealthy family were moved by the pathetic stories of the new mothers who have been discharged but cannot go home as a result of their unpaid medical bills totaling several thousands of Ghana cedis. A representative of the Brock Royal Family, who spoke on condition of anonymity said “The Brock Royal family has been doing such charity works on the quiet, but we decided to do this public. “We consider this as a privilege than a duty, we…

Rev. Johannes Eshun – who is a spiritual son to Secretary to the Board of the National Cathedral who is also founder and Leader of the Power Chapel Worldwide, Prophet Victor Kusi Boateng has been named as the owner of JNS Talent Centre Limited, the company at the centre of the latest expose with regards to the building of the National Cathedral.  JNS Talent Centre Limited is said to have been engaged in an alleged diversion of GHS2.6million of National Cathedral funds for no work done. Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who revealed the details in…

Director of Communications for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi has chastised the Akufo-Addo and Bawumia led administration for what he describes as been insensitive towards the cry of Ghanaians with regards to newly introduced Debt Exchange Programme.  As part of requirements for an international Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, the Government put together Debt Exchange Programme, through which domestic bondholders could lose up to 60% of their investments. This has been met with resistance from these bondholders, especially individual bondholders. Sammy Gyamfi on Good Morning Ghana, described the Programme as deceptive and further added that, it will force more…