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In an effort to overthrow Bola Tinubu’s election as the president-elect, four opposition parties in Nigeria filed legal complaints on Tuesday. Hours before a constitutional deadline to contest the election results expired, Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Solomon Okangbuan of the Action Alliance, and Chichi Ojei of the Allied People’s Movement all submitted petitions to the Presidential Election Tribunal. According to local media, the two leading opposition leaders, Mr. Abubakar, and Mr. Obi demanded that the tribunal rule that Mr. Tinubu was not legitimately elected by a majority of the lawful…
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has announced that it will no longer require the filling of embarkation and disembarkation cards by travellers at the Kotoka International Airport. According to the GIS, the new directive is in line with the government’s digitalisation agenda. A statement issued on March 20 and signed by the Director General of the GIS, Charles Kraikue indicated that ” a traveller will, instead, be required to provide key information(listed in the Public Notice) on presentation at the immigration processing booth.” These details include the traveller’s address in Ghana and abroad, telephone numbers, flight details (including airline and…
The Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG) says it is building dockets on those involved in power theft. Managing Director of the company, Mr Samuel Dubik Mahama said anyone caught in the act will be put before the newly introduced Utilities Court. According to him, they will aim for full custodial sentences for people engaging in power theft against the current fine regime, arguing that power theft is theft and should attract equal punishment. “Now with the Chief Justice helping us with the Utility court which will be sitting on Saturdays, we’re piling up the dockets now. What we just decided to…
The Suaman Dadieso District Police command has intercepted 336 bags of cocoa beans being smuggled to neighbouring Ivory Coast for sale. A Daewoo Kia with the registration number AS 3513-19 loaded with bags of cocoa in jute sacks was intercepted by a police team set up to monitor the activities of smugglers in the Dadieso-Enchi forest reserve. As part of the efforts to bring cocoa smuggling activity to an end, the Suaman Dadieso District Chief Executive, Philip Kwabena Boahene, formed a task force to monitor the activities of those smugglers. After some investigations, it was disclosed that the Daewoo Kia…
The woman alleged to have murdered one Frank Kofi Osei, the Canada-based Ghanaian who returned for holidays, has been charged with murder. The suspect, Safina Mohammed Adizatu, also known as Safina Diamond is standing trial with Micheal Fiifi Ampofo Arku, a Technical Officer at the Adentan District Court. With regards to her accomplice, the Attorney General’s Department says they are still doing forensic analysis so they can’t bring charges against him for now. This comes after weeks of careful study of the case docket submitted by the prosecution. The facts before the court indicate that on Sunday, July 24, 2022,…
The Water Resources Commission (WRC) has called for an attitudinal change to help protect Ghana’s water bodies. According to the commission, this will boost the availability of treated water for domestic and commercial use, especially in the northern parts of the country. In an interview on World Water Day, March 22, 2023, the Director of Planning at the Commission, Dr Bob Alfa, said human activities such as sand winning, rampant felling of trees and illegal mining are affecting the constant supply of water in the country. Mr Alfa added that this is reversing the commission’s gains in providing potable water…
Vice President Dr Mahamud Bawumia and former President John Dramani Mahama have hailed the peaceful enskinment of new Yagbonwura and the peace and unity rooted in the Gonja Traditional Kingdom. The duo made these comments at the outdooring of the new King of Gonja in Damongo in the Savannah Region on March 21. The new monarch, Bikunuto Jewu Soale becomes the 34th Yagbonwura at Nyanget, the ancient capital of Gonja. The former President speaking at the ceremony expressed his pride in being a Gonja and was happy that his tribesmen undertook the enskinment process peacefully. He, therefore, appealed to the…
Journalists across Ecuador have been targeted by explosive devices sent through the post. One presenter, Lenin Artieda, was injured when he opened the envelope in the middle of the newsroom. He said the explosive device looked like a USB drive. He plugged it into his computer and it detonated. The Ecuadorean attorney-general’s department confirmed it had opened a terrorism investigation into the letters on Monday. It did not name the specific news outlets targeted. However, at least five different organisations across Ecuador were sent the letters. The government has condemned the attacks, describing freedom of expression as “a right that…
Israel’s parliament has voted to allow Israeli citizens back into the sites of four settlements in the occupied West Bank which were evacuated at the time of the disengagement from Gaza in 2005. There has been international criticism of the bill, as the settlements were built on what the High Court of Justice ruled was private Palestinian land. It still has to be signed by an Israeli military commander to be enforced. But it risks further inflaming tensions with Palestinians ahead of Ramadan. Some 600,000 Jews live in 140 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East…
At least two people have been killed and hundreds injured in northern Pakistan after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit areas across Afghanistan and Pakistan, with tremors felt as far as the Indian capital New Delhi. The earthquake’s epicentre was 40km (25 miles) south-southeast of the Afghan town of Jurm, near the borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Tuesday. Separately, Pakistan’s Meteorological Department put the magnitude slightly higher at 6.8, and later reported a 3.7 aftershock in the Hindu Kush region along the country’s border with Afghanistan. At least two people, including a child,…
