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The Minority Group in Parliament has urged President Akufo-Addo to instruct the Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu Ekuful to extend the deadline for the SIM card re-registration exercise. The call comes three days to the deadline of July 31. Addressing the press in Parliament on Thursday, Deputy Ranking Member on the Communications Committee, Sam George explained...

  How long will Boris Johnson stay in power? In the past, prime ministers choosing to step down have usually stayed in office until a successor is found. That means he would stay in office until the Conservatives choose a new leader, as his predecessors Theresa May and David Cameron did when they resigned. It's been suggested that...

Some protesters in the ongoing Arise Ghana demonstration have asked President Akufo-Addo to step down if he cannot govern the country anymore. The demonstrators who lamented the worsening economic difficulties asked the President to institute measures that will immediately bring relieve to them. Some of them said, they cannot afford to eat twice a day, which is causing misunderstandings...

  The Russian government has accused the UK of "provoking" Ukraine into attacking Russian territory. Russia's defence ministry said it was ready to hit "decision-making centres" in Kyiv should such attacks occur. The presence of Western advisers at such centres might not affect its decision to retaliate, it added. It comes after a UK defence minister said it...

Viola Davis has appeared in films ranging from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to Suicide Squad Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis has hit back at critics over her portrayal of Michelle Obama in the new US TV drama series The First Lady. Some viewers said Davis was overly pursing her lips, with many complaining her facial expressions were distracting and...

The latest Auditor-General’s report has revealed a ¢230 million debt owed the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) that experts say may be responsible for recent major national power cuts. GRIDCO and other players in the power sector came under intense pressure and public backlash following intermittent power outages some weeks ago. The President’s representative at the Finance Ministry,...

The leaders of the LGBT+ community in Ghana have urged their members not to panic and that they will triumph despite a raid of their office. National Security operatives raided the newly-opened office space of the group in Accra today, Wednesday, 24 February 2021. Reacting to this, the group, in a Facebook post, said: “While this unfortunate incident...

The Bolgatanga Technical Institute in the Upper East Region has been shut down following ethnic clashes between two student groups. This is, however, not the first time the school has recorded such an incident. Although it is unclear what sparked the clashes Tuesday night, the principal of the school, Zakariah Yorose believes it was a mix-up between the...

Kwabena Darko-Mensah is the CEO of Bluegrass Limited The Chief Executive Officer of the Bluegrass Group Ltd, Kwadwo Darko-Mensah popularly referred to as Onasis has been arrested by officials of the National Investigations Bureaus (NIB) to assist in an ongoing investigation as a suspect, MyNewsGh.com can confirm. The NIB, formerly the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) arrested the...

The Central Region Police Command has arrested more than 85 persons for allegedly violating the Covid-19 safety protocols in the Cape Coast Metropolis on Thursday. The arrests were made at Abura and Kotokoraba, suburbs of Cape Coast. The move follows President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s directive to the security services to collaborate and enforce the Covid-19 safety protocols...