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American business magnate and Co-founder of Microsoft, William Henry Gates, popularly known as Bill Gates, has, lauded Ghana for showing exemplary leadership and making strides on several fronts. Mr Gates made the remarks when Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia held a meeting with him via Zoom, to discuss three pertinent issues affecting Ghana. They discussed Ghana’s progress on immunization against the ...

WiLDAF Ghana has congratulated Ms Brigitte Dzogbenuku, for being nominated as the Presidential candidate for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) for the upcoming election. “Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF) Ghana, congratulates Brigitte Dzogbenuku on her selection as the flag bearer and presidential candidate for the Progressive People’s Party to contest in the 2020 general elections,” WiLDAF stated. ...

Over 750 residents of the North Gonja District of the Savanna Region have been rendered homeless following the spillage of the Bagre Dam, reports Class News’ regional correspondent Zion Abdul-Rauf. Nine communities, namely: Dambolto, Wawato, Lingbinsi, Disa, Singa, Tari, Mankargu, Yagbon, Sekpala and Sakpege have been cut off from the district capital of Daboya alongside farmlands, while occupants of the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo–Addo says Ghana cannot afford ethnic agitation and sectarian pronouncements. He has therefore asked citizens to conduct themselves in a manner that would keep them united in respective of ones gender, ethnic or political affiliation. President Akufo-Addo was speaking at the Ghana Bar Association (GBA)’s Webinar held at the Law Court Complex on Monday on the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the conduct of a free, fair, and transparent election, one whose result is beyond dispute, forms a good basis for strengthening cohesion amongst the Ghanaian citizenry, and preventing needless disputations. Speaking at the Annual Conference of the Ghana Bar Association on Monday, 14th September 2020, President Akufo-Addo explained that from 1992 to date, the conduct of ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated government’s absolute commitment to construct the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam to serve as a permanent solution to the perennial flooding experienced each year in the North. Addressing separate gatherings as part of a tour to the flood affected communities in the Upper East Region, Dr Bawunia said when the project was completed, it would harvest the ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has asked chiefs in Ghana to be assertive and play the role expected of them in national development as custodians of the land. Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who was speaking at the commissioning of the refurbished offices of the National House of Chiefs in Kumasi, said chiefs must not renege on their responsibility of providing wise ...

Details are emerging about the possible murder of Prof Emmanuel Yaw Benneh, a senior lecturer of Law at the University of Ghana.He is said to have been killed at his home in Accra. While details of his death and possible murder are sketchy at this moment, his colleague at the Faculty, Poku Adusei, has given a chilling account of the ...

The state of the roads in the Sissala East Municipality will determine how and for whom the people there will vote in the 7 December 2020 polls, the paramount chief of the Tumu Traditional Area, Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton IV, has said. At a durbar to welcome Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who is touring the Upper West Region, Kuoro ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has berated the US government for shooting itself in the foot following the latter’s disinterest in the fight against climate change. More than 100 wildfires are currently scorching 12 western US states. The worst affected are Oregon, California and Washington, where entire towns have been destroyed. Commenting on the incident, the former Ghanaian leader said ...