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It has emerged that a former Deputy Interior Minister serving under former President Mahama, wrote letters to warn the government against the resettlement of the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees. James Agalga is said to have written at least three letters to strongly oppose the resettlement of Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby in Ghana. Veteran journalist, Kweku Baako made the above disclosure on Joy FM’s news analysis programme Newsfile on Saturday. According to documents he said were available to him, the negotiations to host the two persons considered “low risk” by the US government in Ghana started…

Air Force One is primed to receive an upgrade that will include new refrigerators expected to cost American taxpayers nearly $24 million. The US Air Force awarded Boeing a $23.6 million contract in December to replace two of the five “cold chiller units” aboard the aircraft used by President Donald Trump. “The current rear lower lobe cold chiller units being replaced are the original commercial equipment delivered with the aircraft in 1990. The units were based on the technology at the time and designed for short-term food storage,” Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek told CNN. “Although serviced on a regular basis, reliability…

In a strong worded statement, government has condemned the office of former President John Mahama for leveling “a number of baseless allegations” against the sitting president, Nana Akufo-Addo. The former president’s office had accused President Akufo-Addo of “orchestrating attacks” on the person of John Dramani Mahama “based on lies and pedestrian propaganda”. READ MAHAMA’S STATEMENT “President Akufo-Addo is busy fixing the mess and rot that was bequeathed to him by the Mahama government, and, therefore, does not have the luxury of time to indulge in orchestrations of lies and propaganda,” Information Minister Mustapha Hamid responded in a statement on Friday.…

Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Georgina Opoku–Amankwaah says she is yet to be cleared by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) on the EC missing fund. Speaking with Bright Kwesi Asempa on Onua Fm morning show on Tuesday, Madam Georgina Opoku–Amankwaah said she has been in Kumasi over the weekend and the news about her clearance by EOCO came through the media, adding that “as we speak, I’m on my way from a function I attended in Kumasi and nobody has informed me of anything like that”. Three top officials of the Ghana’s electoral body, Madam Georgina Opoku-Amankwaah,…

The US has approved controversial tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels. The move is in line with President Donald Trump’s “America First” trade policy, which aims to protect local manufacturers from foreign competition. A spokesman said the administration would “always defend American workers, farmers, ranchers and businessmen”. But China and South Korea, whose manufacturers will be most heavily affected, criticised the move. US officials said more trade enforcement actions would follow. Mr Trump has talked about taking the action ever since coming to office. In his inauguration speech a year ago he promised to protect US borders from…

President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed that his government is close to clearing all the debts owed contractors which he inherited from the Mahama-administration. “I have been urged to pay contractors, I am paying them. In 2017 nearly 1 billion cedis of which the government of Ghana provided 305 million and the road fund provided some 660 million of the 1.6 billion owed contractors was cleared,” he stated. The president was addressing journalists in his second media encounter at the Flagstaff House on Wednesday. This appears to be an indirect response to former President Mahama who accused him of reneging on…

The NDC Minority in parliament has condemned  the “completely unjustifiable” attempt by EOCO to “forcibly evict ” the deputy EC chairperson Georgina Opoku Amankwah out of her office on Monday. Madam Opoku Amankwah clashed with officials of EOCO after she disregarded an order by the anti-graft agency to stay away from her office. She was asked by EOCO to step aside in July 2017 to enable the latter commence investigations into some GHc480,000 believed to have gone missing from the EC’s Senior Staff Endowment Fund But Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, Minority Ranking Member, Communications Committee, issued a statement on Tuesday expressing…

The Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant-General Obed Akwa says the security agency is determined to employ force to bring a closure to the menace caused by nomadic herdsmen at Agogo. He reiterated that the military cum police detailed to the area would increase the force that ought to be applied if they face any resistance. Lieutenant-General Akwa was  addressing the Agogo Traditional Council in the Ashanti region on a fact-finding mission to end the conflict between nomadic herdsmen and farming communities at Asante Akyem North and Sekyere Afram Plains Districts. “We need to make this point very, very clear, that no…

President Donald Trump has denied that he is racist, after a row broke out over his alleged use of the word “shithole” to describe African nations. Mr Trump reportedly used the term last week during a bipartisan Oval Office meeting on immigration reform. He has now told reporters: “I am not a racist. I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.” It is the first time the president has responded directly to the racism accusations. He made the denial to White House press pool reporters at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach in Florida on Sunday…

Liberia’s outgoing president has been expelled from her own party, for allegedly failing to support its candidate to succeed her. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is accused of encouraging people to vote against her vice-president, Joseph Boakai. Former footballer George Weah won the presidential elections in December, defeating Mr Boakai. Ms Sirleaf, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Africa’s first elected woman president, could not stand again. A spokesman for the governing Unity Party said Ms Sirleaf had violated the party’s constitution as she was seen campaigning with Mr Weah, who was running under the Coalition for Democratic Change banner.…