Former President John Mahama has announced the suspension of his campaign in the Bono region over the reported irregularities in the ongoing voter’s exhibition exercise. According to the NDC flagbearer, the party does not have confidence in the voter’s register and doubts the December polls will be credible. “There is …

THE HIGH High court in Cape Coast has ordered the Electoral Commission to register and issue a voter’s ID card to Dr Kwamena Mintah Nyarku, the Cape Coast North National Democratic Congress’ Parliamentary candidate. The Court in a judgement on Tuesday September 22, held that the Applicant has made a …

Even as dealmakers bicker over who will actually own TikTok Global, another question emerged after President Donald Trump agreed over the weekend to keep the wildly popular video-sharing app running in the United States for another week: how can they possibly create 25,000 new jobs in the United States? That …

PRESIDENT DONALD  Trump raced on Monday to cement a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court before the Nov. 3 election, telling reporters he planned by Saturday to reveal his pick to succeed liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Democrats’ hope of keeping the seat empty faded when two Republican senators, …

THE GHANA  Health Service has appealed to striking nurses to call off their strike and return to work to help in the fight against COVID-19. Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, stated that the nation was on the verge of winning the war against COVID-19 and …

THE EUROPEAN  Union has imposed sanctions on three companies for violating the UN arms embargo on Libya. A meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels resolved that the sanctions imposed include an asset freeze for the three companies. Two individuals were also sanctioned for human rights abuses in Libya. “These …

A NIGERIAN  commander named as Colonel DC Bako has died after an ambush on his convoy by Boko Haram militants in the north-eastern Borno state. The colonel’s convoy was ambushed by militants on Sunday near Damboa, a few kilometres from Maiduguri, the main city in Borno state. He was evacuated …

ITALIANS HAVE  voted in a referendum to cut the size of the country’s parliament by more than a third. Almost 70% of people voted in favour of the change, with almost all votes counted. The number of MPs in the lower house will be reduced from 634 to 400. The …

WHAT DOES a female President or Vice President mean to the girl child in Ghana? It means a lot. Generally, it means the same thing that the male Presidents and Vice Presidents have meant and still mean to our boy children: a role model they can identify with through gender …

THE GHANA  Medical Association (GMA) has called on the National Labour Commission (NLC) to apologise to the striking nurses and midwives over the decision to block their industrial action in court. According to the GMA Chairman of the Ashanti region, Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo, the move by NLC has the …