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Niger‘s military coup leaders announced the appointment of Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as prime minister on Monday evening in a statement read out on national television, at a time when the international community is seeking to restore constitutional order. “Mr (Ali Mahaman) Lamine Zeine has been appointed Prime Minister”, Colonel …

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has notified sporting and lottery companies of the 10% tax on all winnings from sports betting and lotteries set to kick in effective August 15. This forms part of the government’s efforts to expand the tax base and increase domestic revenue. According to the authority, …

A multi-million dollar Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) center with 25 computers, accessories, a server, a printer, a projector, a remote-controlled automated electric projector screen, and internet access has been commissioned and launched at Akyem Asuboa North basic school in the Akyemansa District of the Eastern Region. The facility, which …

Mrs.Irene Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu,the wife of Majority Leader of Parliament, has lamented about the alarming teenage Pregnancy figures across the country. She has therefore called on all stakeholders to work hand in hand to create a society that cherishes and uplifts its young people. According to her,comprehensive sex education, improved access to …

Reverend Professor Emmanuel Kingsley Larbi, Founder and Chancellor, Regent University, Ghana, says, Africans need a mindset that sees leadership as rendering selfless service and using the resources to develop the greater good. He said Africa still remains poor because the people including our leaders who had been entrusted with resources …

A former Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, has ridden a bicycle to submit his nomination forms to contest in the New Patriotic Party primaries in the Tempane constituency in the Upper East Region. Flanked and cheered by his supporters, the legal practitioner, rode the bicycle for about seven kilometres …

In a surprising turn of events, the medical community at Kumasi South Hospital also known as Agogo Hospital in the Ashanti Region finds itself embroiled in a controversy over the appointment of Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso, the retired former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). The …

Had it not been for the intervention of certain senior figures, the trajectory of Johnson Asiedu Nketiah’s journey within the National Democratic Congress and Ghana’s political landscape would have been markedly different today. In a conversation with Captain Smart on Onua TV, the current National Chairman of Ghana’s leading opposition …

Some Concerned Assembly Members of the Birim Central Municipality in the Eastern Region have invoked the RTI bill on the ongoing Akyem Oda central market reconstruction, believing that some NPP high-profile individuals in the constituency are withholding detailed documents from the assembly members and the municipal assembly as a whole. …

NPP’s Director of Communications, Richard Ahiagba, questions former President John Mahama over the allocation of $200 million for the construction of 1500 apartments under the Saglemi Housing Project. Ahiagba finds it perplexing that Mahama, as the former president, failed to achieve the intended 5,000 apartments, deeming the project scandalous. Ahiagba …