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President Rawlings with the family of Justice Crabbe[/caption] Former President Jerry John Rawlings has described late Supreme Court Justice, Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, as an institution that carried the true essence of respect and human dignity. He referred to the demise of Justice Crabbe as the falling of a great tree. Speaking during a courtesy call on him by the family of Justice Crabbe on Tuesday, the former President said he had revered the departed constitutional expert for so long and was recently honoured to have sat close to the late jurist when he led a delegation of…

Kennedy Agyapong[/caption] Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, says though he is against the methods of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, he misses him sometimes. Touting the professional prowess of the investigative journalist, the controversial legislator said he is sometimes tempted to embrace Anas’ style of investigations because of the conduct of some state officials. Anas has filed a ¢25 million against Mr Agyapong at the High Court after a series of publications by the MP which he considered were defamatory. The publications sought to discredit the investigative journalist, who has released a piece on the rot in…

Carl Wilson[/caption] Former Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicles Committee under the late former President Mills administration, Sonny Carl Wilson, is pleading with Ghanaians, especially the youth, to forgive him for misleading them. According him, he lured people to vote for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) but has regretted doing that, claiming the NPP-led government has failed the nation. Mr. Wilson said in the run-up to the 2016 elections, he openly opposed his own National Democratic Congress (NDC) party, and called on the youth to vote for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) due to some policies they promised to implement. Speaking…

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday fixed October 8 to deliver its ruling on a submission of no case filed on behalf of Lawrence Abrokwah, the former husband of Valentina Nana Agyeiwa aka Afia Schwarzenegger, a television host and a comedian. The court has however ordered Defence Counsel, Mr Anthony Naamo to file the submission of no case by October 2. This was after the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku closed the case of the prosecution. The court at its last sitting informed the Prosecution that it would close the case if they failed to produce their…

Communications Minister, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful[/caption] Ghana’s attempt to transition from analogue to digital is set to meet another major snag. This is because the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has rolled up its sleeves to resist the government’s move to commit the country’s only Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) infrastructure into the hands of Chinese pay TV, StarTimes. The deadline for the migration from analogue to digital has already suffered three postponements. Although the global deadline is 2020, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) urged governments to migrate from analogue broadcasting to digital by June 2015, which Ghana could not meet and…

The US is imposing new tariffs on $200bn (£150bn) worth of Chinese goods as it escalates its trade war with Beijing. These will apply to almost 6,000 items, marking the biggest round of US tariffs so far. Handbags, rice and textiles will be included, but some items expected to be targeted such as smart watches and high chairs have been excluded. The Chinese commerce ministry said it had no choice but to retaliate. The ministry said that it hoped the US would correct its behaviour, but did not specify what actions it would take. The US taxes will take effect…

South Africa’s police minister Bheki Cele has said a surge in murders has turned his country into a place that “borders on a war zone.” “Our bottom line is that this situation must reverse,” he said. Crime statistics released by the government show there were more than 20,000 murders in 2017, a 7% increase over the previous year. The minister highlighted that this was 57 murders every day. But was he right to compare South Africa to a war zone? The murder rate, which takes into account a country’s population, is a good way to show the scale of the…

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it is immediately withdrawing Hydrocortisone Injection from health facilities and pharmaceutical suppliers for safety reasons. The Hydrocortisone Sodium Succinate Injection B.P 100mg is manufactured by Ambica Pharma Sales, India, with batch number 5AE01007. The Authority has asked all health care professionals and consumers not to distribute, supply, use or purchase the product. “FDA laboratory analysis of the product found that there was a lack of uniformity of content and related concerns, which makes it unfit and unsafe for purpose,” a statement issued by FDA said. All health facilities and pharmaceutical companies have been…

Canadian company Vigilant Global, has donated 15 computers to Mfantsipim School. At a short ceremony at the school’s premises on Friday, a representative of the company, Mohammed Baakoe, who is a member of Mfantsipim Class of 1989 and originally hails from Cape Coast, said the donation was an initiative by the company to support educational institutions in Africa. According to Baakoe, the company is keen on supporting Mfantsipim and other needy institutions with refurbished computers on a regular basis. He said the training of the youth using relevant IT tools and equipment was key to their progress and development hence…

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs has urged government to maintain constitutional lines on the creation of new regions to avoid a flood of demands for new boundaries. He said increased demands for new regions was a situation the 1992 Constitution sought to prevent by rigidifying provisions on boundary alterations. Togbe Afede who was addressing a durbar to climax the 2018 Asogli TeZa of the Asogli State in Ho, said “if one of the issues to be decided in such a referendum is the boundary of a new region, then it is…