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A flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, has downplayed suggestions that Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Alan Kyerematen are the frontrunners in the flagbearership race of the NPP. According to Mr Agyepong, the two candidates have been projected as the favourites by the media but his tours and engagements with party members across the country have revealed that the two are not the preferred candidates of the delegates. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday, Mr Agyepong said Ghanaians are yearning for a new kind of leader who is trustworthy and has the political will…

Some parents at Senya Bereku, in the Awutu Senya District of the Central Region, have confessed that abject poverty influenced their decision to trade their children to Yeji, in the Volta Region for employment and survival. They said their inability to provide basic needs such as food and education among others compelled them to agree to the terms and conditions of perpetrators of human trafficking. “Most often, our husbands refuse to care for us after giving birth and we are left with no option than to send one or two of our children to Yeji to work to feed other…

A former Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Emmanuel Appoh, says it is illegal to either cut down or prune your own tree in Ghana without a permit from the EPA. He has, therefore, urged the public not to disregard the essence to obtain permit before felling any tree in Ghana. He said when you plant a tree, it does not belong to you anymore, hence the need to get permit before doing anything to the tree. “There is the need for people to plant trees in their house and when you plant a tree, it doesn’t belong…

Samuel A. Jinapor, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources says the ecological integrity of Ghana’s Forest Reserves has, largely, been maintained despite several threats which impact negatively on the all-important resource. Some of these threats he said include bushfires, illegal mining and logging, agricultural expansion, and settlement, among others. Responding to a question on the floor of Parliament on the State of Forest reserves, the Lands Minister said the Forestry Commission has put in place several measures to protect Ghana’s Forest Reserves from various drivers of deforestation and forest degradation. Among them are “regular patrolling of the Forest Reserves,…

The Agona Swedru District Police have launched a search for one Kobina Appiah, 32, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his two nieces at Agona Abodom in the Agona West District of the Central Region. The victims are said to be 14 and 16 years old. The mother of the underaged girls explained that she left her daughters in the care of her younger brother to undergo emergency surgery. According to her, she had no idea of the ordeal until the 14-year-old was confirmed pregnant. Her daughter pointed fingers at their uncle, Kobina, and narrated the multiple times he had sexually…

Sponsors of the Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values bill are hopeful the legislation seeking to proscribe activities of members of the LGBTQ+ will soon see the light of day. The sponsors and the Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame met the committee on constitutional, legal and parliamentary Affairs yesterday to thrash out some misunderstandings on the bill. Speaking to the media on behalf of the sponsors of the bill Ningo-Prampram MP, Sam George disclosed the Attorney General categorically stated the bill does not infringe the constitution as claimed by opponents of the legislation. “On behalf of…

Parliament has requested that Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu appear before the House to answer questions about the country’s current vaccine shortages. For the past few months, the Northern Region and other parts of the country have been experiencing vaccine shortages, with no solution in place. The concerning situation has piqued the interest of the Chairman of Parliament’s Health Committee, who sees the need to call the Minister of Health and other agency heads to an emergency meeting on Tuesday, February 28. “I have the direction of the Chairman of the Committee on Health to invite you to an emergency…

Michael Blackson has opined that Ghana can boast of a few superstars unlike Nigeria where one may lose count.Buttressing his point, the Ghanaian-American comedian, identified only four Ghanaian music superstars namely; Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy, Sarkodie, and Black Sherif.He made this statement in a discussion with the ‘Drink Champs’ podcast, where he introduced his first act, Gambo, and predicted that he is going to be the fifth.Blackson said although Ghana is the hub of tourism in Africa, (the Dubai of Africa), the country has lost the ‘hub of afrobeats music’ title to Nigeria.“Nigeria has all the stars. Nigeria is like the…

Bernie Sanders has warned that the UK should not try to emulate an American healthcare model built on private insurance companies. The leftwing senator and former presidential candidate told LBC’s Andrew Marr that Britain should try to fix the NHS, which he labelled an “extraordinary achievement”, rather than change to another healthcare model. It comes after waves of strikes among NHS staff, who claim they are overstretched and underpaid, although nurses have recently paused planned industrial action. Meanwhile, as NHS waiting times spiral, former health secretary Sajid Javid, advocating for a system where some people would pay to see their…

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has hinted that a planned high-level government delegation to China has been postponed to late March 2023. This is owing to the upcoming National People’s Congress of China meeting scheduled for early March. However, the Finance Minister said bilateral talks will continue ahead of this important mission. The government is seeking under the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatment to get debt forgiveness from some bilateral and multilateral partners. Key among them is China, whom Ghana is indebted to the Far East country to the tune of over $1.7 billion. This is compared with $1.9 billion…