A civil rights group has filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully deporting migrants through Ghana as a “transit hub” to circumvent protections granted by American immigration judges. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia by Asian Americans Advancing Justice, alleges that non-citizens who had been granted…
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has reiterated his stance on ex-gratia payments to Article 71 officeholders, insisting it no longer serves its intended purpose. According to him, the original intention behind ex-gratia payments for certain public servants and political officeholders was to combat corruption, but this is no longer the case in the…
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, has hailed the bloc’s Trade Liberalization Scheme as a game-changer for economic integration, revealing that over 15,000 companies are currently benefiting from duty-free access across the region. Speaking at the launch of the ECOWAS at 50 celebrations in Accra, Dr. Touray said the scheme, which…
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has urged the Minority in Parliament to resist any attempt by the government to impose more hardship on Ghanaians ahead of the December polls. Mr. Mahama says the Minority remains the only force capable of stopping the government from imposing hardship and draconian policies…
The Chairman of Parliament’s Select Committee on Environment, Science, and Technology, Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi, has hinted that he will be raising the issue of illegal mining on the floor of Parliament next Tuesday, October 15. He contends that the government’s deafening silence on the menace, commonly called galamsey is a cause for concern. Parliament is…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has advised Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to reconsider their decision to leave the regional grouping. It said the three countries that withrew from ECOWAS earlier this year to form the “Alliance of Sahel States” (AES), can automatically rejoin ECOWAS if they change their minds by July…
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), Isaac Amoo, has issued a stern warning to the agency’s staff, instructing them not to participate in the nationwide strike action called by Organised Labour. Speaking at a staff event at GMet’s headquarters in Accra on Wednesday, October 9, Mr. Amoo cautioned that any employee who…
The Developer of the Saglemi Affordable Housing Project, Quarm LMI consortium, has clarified that the fire outbreak at the project site did not affect any of the housing units or documents relevant to the project. The consortium says that as part of preparatory measures to develop the abandoned project, some labourers set up a fire…
The Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says the decision by the Supreme Court on Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin’s ruling which declared four parliamentary seats vacant is “extremely strange”. Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe told Channel One TV in an interview that Ghana’s democracy is in ‘danger’. “First of all, this ruling is extremely…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s sister, Ann Altman, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he regularly sexually abused her between 1997 and 2006. The lawsuit, which was filed on 6 January in a US District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri, alleges that the abuse started when she was three and Mr Altman was…
