The Supreme Court of Ghana is unable to set a date to continue hearing of petitions filed against the passage of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill also known as the anti-LGBT Bill until all parties have completed filing of the individual or joint Memorandum of Issues, a statement from the Judicial Service has explained. The statement explained that “as at 31 July 2024, when the Supreme Court went on recess, neither Parliament (1st Defendant), nor the Attorney General (2nd Defendant) had filed a defense to the Plaintiff’s action in the form of their…
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A court in Accra, last Friday September 13, remanded into Police custody, Mohammed Ibrahim – the man who introduced himself as ‘Commander Kanawu’, the NDC Revolution Commander and threatened to shoot to kill some public officials. He remains in custody until September 26. The Ghana Police Service on September 11, arrested Mohammed Ibrahim after he publicly threatened to shoot to kill and harm some public officials. The suspect, was declared wanted on 9th September, 2024 after the video in which he was seen issuing the threats went viral. Commander Kanawu, in the said viral video, said he swore by his…
The National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Salam Mustapha has disclosed that a vote for the Bawumia-Napo ticket is a vote for the progress and development of the youth of Ghana. “A vote for Bawumia and Napo is a vote for the young people of Ghana. A Vote for John Mahama and Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang is a vote for their End of Service Benefits. The choice is yours and I know you will choose for your future.” He urged at a press conference at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. According to him, the NPP…
The Progressive People’s Party has missed the deadline for submitting their nomination forms for the December 2024 presidential elections. Reports indicated that the party submitted their forms after the 5 p.m. deadline on Friday, September 13, 2024, set by the Electoral Commission (EC). Reacting to the incident, Dr. Bossman Asare, the Deputy Chairperson of the EC, stated that the EC’s office is not the appropriate location for completing nomination forms. Despite the late submission, Dr. Bossman confirmed that the commission would receive the forms, but the final decision on their acceptance would be communicated later. Dr. Bossman emphasized, “We are…
The Circuit Court in Kwabenya has postponed Newwel Gavu’s case to September 18, 2024, following a request from the Attorney General. This extension allows time for the filing of Gavu’s mental evaluation results. Gavu faces charges related to vandalism after a video showed him damaging the effigies of the Big Six at the Kotoka International Airport roundabout. The court ordered a mental examination on September 2, 2024, but the results had not been submitted when the case was called at 8:32 a.m. on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. According to reports from Citinews, the state attorney, Natalie Korkor Hammond, addressed the…
A man with a red beret on his head who introduced himself as ‘Commander Kanawu’ and prides himself as the NDC Revolution Commander has sworn by his late father’s corpse and also by the God he serves that he and his men would shoot to kill Interior Minister Henry Quartey, the Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central Constituency ahead of the December general elections. “Henry Quartey, the Interior Minister, be careful. I am warning you strong warning; you are huge and when the fight starts, we would shoot you in the stomach and kill you’, the Revolution Commander who is…
Ursula Gifty Owusu-Ekuful, the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West Constituency in the Greater Accra Region is an inspiring testimony of women’s participation in political and public life at the local and national level; her quest for yet another four-year term as a member of Ghana’s Legislature certainly deserves the support of all well-meaning persons. Her achievements and legacy as a Member of Parliament travels way beyond the funding of the provision of the tall list of critical social amenities in her constituency or lobbying for the facilitation of same. Her legacy, most importantly, is evidenced in the iconic personality…
All 16 Regional Ministers are to converge at the conference room of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources in Accra by 10 o’clock in the forenoon of Wednesday September 11, 2024 to take decisions to comprehensively tackle the challenges of illegal small scale mining with a sense of urgency, this portal has gathered. The meeting, insiders hint, would take a review of initiatives implemented by successive Governments over the years and draw lessons from whatever shortfalls may be contained in the implementation of the said initiatives. This would be followed with ho-brutally frank deliberations to come up with practical…
While the corpse of the 18-year old O’Reilly Senior High School student stabbed to death last week is still in the mortuary, another student of the school has been captured on video with a machete stashed into his school uniform and boldly displaying the weapon and daring anyone to try him and see. Circumstances under which the ‘try me’ video was taken and went viral is still sketchy but the content has drawn condemnation and worry. The video captured the student raising his school shirt to display the machete stashed in his school shorts and held firmly with the belt…
On Friday, 6th September, 2024, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Flagbearer of the NPP, as part of his nationwide Constituency Campaign Tour, visited the Adentan Constituency. During the visit, he engaged in what he calls a “Meet-and-Greet” session from Ashaley Botwe New Town Junction to Nmaidzorn School Junction to interact with traders, drivers and their passengers as well as passers-by. He also engaged in a meeting with the Clergy and Traditional Leaders at the Victory Presby Church and later held a Community Connect event at the Adentan Lorry Station. In his speech, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia highlighted the achievements of the NPP…