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Martin Amidu[/caption] Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has been advised to pull a break on his lamentation over the constraint facing his office and rather make noise about the successes he has chalked so far. Acknowledging challenges faced by the Office of the Special Prosecutor,  Dr. Puku Adusei, Deputy Director General at the Ghana Standard Authority, however said he is privy to a number of inroads made by the establishment of the office of the Special Prosecutor. Mr. Amidu, at a National Audit Forum organised by the Ghana Audit Service in Accra last week, bemoaned: “The present situation where critical ministries…

Government is working gradually towards fulling its campaign promise of electing municipal, metropolitan and district chief executives (MMDCEs), Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, the Deputy Minister of Information, said on Thursday.  He said the New Patriotic Party’s promise to ensure that Ghana elected MMDCE’s was “a process and not an event” and so the citizens must rest assured that that promise would be fulfilled in due time. He said the Government already had a roadmap towards the election of MMDCEs, “which we are following closely”. Speaking at a stakeholder’s roundtable discussion in Accra on Wednesday, Mr Hadzide said electing MMDCEs demanded…

Mr Herbert Mensah, President of Ghana Rugby, has named a twelve-member team for Ghana, to participate in the upcoming 2018 Rugby Men’s Sevens tournament in Tunisia. According to him, Ghana would depart on October 6, for the tournament that would run from 13th – 14th October 2018 in Monastir. Ghana is in pool B, alongside Uganda and Senegal. He said, “the decision was not an easy one with so many players, who worked incredibly hard and who could probably all have represented Ghana, but we had to take a tough decision on the final list. [caption id="attachment_98362" align="aligncenter" width="614"] Herbert Mensah[/caption] “At…

File photo[/caption] A total of 138 pregnant girls wrote this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Brong-Ahafo Region, statistics from the Regional Girl Child Education Network has revealed. The network is made up of representatives from the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), Department of Social Welfare, Children’s Department and the Ghana Education Service. Seventy-four of the pregnant girls could not write the examination, said Mrs Beatrice Mamle Nkum, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinator of Girl-Child Education. Interacting with a section of the media in Sunyani, Mrs Nkum said teenage pregnancy remains a huge impediment to the growth…

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) fears over a thousand people in the beverages industry in Ghana could lose their job if the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) fails to remove compliance officers from the factories of its members in relation to the tax stamp policy. According to the AGI, it has noted with concern, restrictions on the operations of beverage manufacturers by the GRA without recourse to the tax stamp implementation arrangements. President of the AGI, Dr. Adu Gyamfi speaking at a press conference says if the situation is not resolved, some staff will go home. “We all know the…

Russian spies have been accused of involvement in a series of cyber-plots across the globe, leading the US to level charges against seven agents. The US justice department said targets included the global chemical weapons watchdog, anti-doping agencies and a US nuclear company. The allegations are part of an organised push-back against alleged Russian cyber-attacks around the world. Russia earlier dismissed the allegations as “Western spy mania”. What is Russia accused of? The Netherlands has accused four Russians of plotting to hack the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which had been probing the chemical attack on a…

Eleanor Wilson faces four counts of sexual activity with a child under 18 while in a position of trust photo: PA[/caption] A schoolteacher told police that claims she had sex with a teenage pupil in an aeroplane toilet made her “feel sick”. Eleanor Wilson is accused of having sex with the boy on the way back from a school trip in 2015. She described the allegations against her as sounding “like a porn film” and said the claims had come from the boy’s imagination, Bristol Crown Court heard. Ms Wilson, 29, denies four counts of sexual activity with a child…

Figures from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reveal that 53,114 abortions were supervised in public health facilities in the country in 2017. Unsafe abortion also recorded 13,918 in the same period as compared to 15,325 unsafe abortion cases in 2016, Mr Raphael Godlove Athena, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), a health-inclined non-governmental organisation, has said. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani in commemoration of the 2018 Safe Abortion Day, Mr Ahenu said the provision of safe and legal abortion remains essential to achieving goals three and seven of the Sustainable Development Goals…

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…