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Kofi Abotsi explains the law allowing police officers to demand drivers licence

Kofi Abotsi

Former Dean of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Kofi Abotsi has explained the law that allows police officers on traffic duties to demand drivers licence. Speaking on Joy FM as part of the Constitutional Day celebration and to explain some constitutional provisions to Ghanaians, Kofi Abotsi said all Ghanaian drivers are required by law to at all ...

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Prioritise youth inclusion in decision making processes within the NRE sector, Youth-NREG tells Government.

The Youth in Natural Resource and Environmental Governance has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to “exemplify leadership in the adherence of the ‘Leave No One Behind’ principle as the co chair of the eminent group of Sustainable Development Goals by prioritising and fast-tracking actions for active youth inclusion in the governance of the NRE sector”. In a communique released by ...

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Akufo-Addo prepared to address infrastructural challenges facing judiciary

President Nana Akufo Addo

President Akufo-Addo has expressed his preparedness to support the judiciary in improving the infrastructural challenges faced by the third arm of government in going about their activities. He made these comments at the swearing-in ceremony of the new Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah at the Jubilee House, Tuesday. The President pledged the government’s support in removing barriers that militate against effective justice delivery in the ...

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Wenchi residents stage demo over bad roads

Resident of the Wenchi Municipality have embarked on a demonstration to register their displeasure over bad roads in the area. Youth of the town on Monday, blocked the main road leading to Wa in the Upper West Region as they staged their protest. The demonstrators burnt tyres amidst chants, in an attempt to notify authorities of their plight. Some demonstrators ...

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Maame Tiwaa removed as CID boss in latest police shakeup

The Director-general of the Criminal Investigative Department of the Ghana Police Service COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has been removed from the position in the latest shakeup to hit the service. She is now the director-general in charge of welfare for the service. She is to be replaced by COP Isaac Ken Yeboah who was director-general in charge of administration. ...

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Fight against oppression – MFWA to journalists

Sulemana Braimah

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has charged African Journalists to continue their fight against the oppression that they face in their respective countries. In a statement issued by Sulemana Braimah, the Executive Director, the Foundation stated that African journalists have for the past decade experienced much torture and abuse in their respective countries but this should not deter ...

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Akufo-Addo launches ‘Beyond the Return’ initiative

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the “Beyond the Return, The Diaspora Dividend” Initiative, at a brief ceremony at the Kempisnki Hotel, Accra. As the ‘Year of Return’ draws to a close, President Akufo-Addo stated that the rationale of ‘Beyond the Return’ is to “engage Africans in the diaspora and all persons of African descent more positively in ...

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Make Africa the Place for Investment – Akufo-Addo to Diaspora Returnees

President Nana Akufo Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to foreigners of African origin who have heeded to “Year of Return” initiative and have visited Ghana to help make Africa the place for investment and economic development. Addressing attendees of an event organized by the British High Commission for all people who are in Ghana as part of the “Year of Return” ...

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Traditional leaders can help curb rural-urban migration – Alhassan Andani

Alhassan Andani

The Chief Executive Director of Stanbic Bank, Alhassan Andani, says he is hoping to employ the services of various traditional leaders in North to help halt the rural-urban migration of young people from there. He said many of the brilliant young people from the North end up doing menial jobs for survival in the south because of the drift. Speaking ...

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Parliament considering bulletproof curtains to protect MPs

Speaker of Parliament, Mike Oquaye

Speaker of Parliament, Aaron Mike Oquaye says the House is considering putting up bulletproof curtains to protect Members of Parliament. “It will interest members to know the Board [Parliamentary Service Board] is seriously considering a bulletproof glass curtain to block the chamber for the upmost protection of Members in and out of the Chamber,” he said. The debate on security was reignited following ...

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