[ads3] Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive coronavirus vaccines under the World Health Organization-backed Covax facility for low- and middle-income countries, marking the beginning of what has been called the largest vaccine procurement programme in history. “With the first shipment of doses, we can make good on the promise of the Covax Facility to ensure people from less wealthy countries are not left behind in the race for life-saving vaccines,” Unicef executive director Henrietta Fore said in a statement. Poor and lower-middle-income countries will not pay for doses secured through Covax. However, officials in several…
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[ads1] Former President John Dramani Mahama has urged the Supreme Court to uphold his presidential election petition and nullify the Electoral Commission’s (EC) declaration that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, won the December 7,2020 presidential election. In a closing address to the apex court, lawyers for the petitioner argued that the evidence on record including the EC’s own declaration on December 9 clearly showed that no candidate obtained more than 50 per cent of the valid votes cast to be declared President -elect as prescribed by Article 63 (3) of the 1992 Constitution.[ads2] The lawyers therefore urged the court to…
[ads1] A group of Ghanaian feminists have declared their support for LGBT+ Rights Ghana and persons advocating for the rights of queer and transgender people in the country. The group, in a statement jointly signed by more than 100 persons, said the public reaction that has greeted its opening of an office in Ghana goes to reiterate what it describes as the “vitriolic conditions under which queer Ghanaians live.” They expressed regret and condemned attacks by a section of the public against LGBTQI persons. In their statement, they said public comments of criticisms and threats against LGBTQI persons are harmful…
[ads1] The 8th Council of State at its maiden meeting on Tuesday, 23rd February 2021, pursuant to Article 89(3) has unanimously elected Nana Otuo Siriboe II, Omanhene of Asante Juaben as its Chairman. Nana Otuo Siriboe II who was the Chairman of the 7th Council had previously served as a member of the Council of State between 2001 and 2009 during the Presidency of His Excellency John Agyekum Kuffour.[ads2] The Chairman of the 8th Council of State is an Electrical Engineering by profession. He graduated from the then University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, in 1969 with a Bachelor’s degree…
[ads1] The Supreme Court has set 4 March 2021 to determine the final outcome of Election 2020 petition hearing, president of the seven-member panel sitting on the case, Chief Justice Anin Yeboah, on Monday announced. Prior to announcing the judgement date, a nine-member Supreme Court review panel dismissed an application by the petitioner praying the court to reopen his case in order to subpoena chairperson of the Electoral Commission Jean Mensa to testify as a hostile (adverse) witness.[ads2] The Supreme Court in its ruling on 16 February 2021 dismissed the petitioner’s application to reopen his case on grounds that he…
[ads1] Amidst the raging controversy regarding the opening of an office by members of the Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Transgender Queer and Intersexed community (LGBTQI), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ordered for the swift closure of same at Tesano in Accra. A combined team of heavily armed police accompanied by armed National Security officials in mufti trooped the alleged LGBTQI premises and ordered all operations and activities to cease with immediate effect.[ads2] Additionally, all persons occupying the building were also asked to vacate the premises. According to mynewsgh, the closure was confirmed by ardent critic of the LGBTQ community who is the…
[ads3] When the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) signed agreements with the football federations of Burkina Faso, Gambia, Rwanda and Burundi back in 2015 , few would have guessed that this was the start of an era of football diplomacy that will result in the transformation of the beautiful game on the continent. Six years since those agreements were signed, more than 40 such deals have been concluded with federations from across the continental, distinguishing Morocco as a leader in progressive foreign policy on the continent. While Moroccan football is always looking for friends within the family of nations that…
[ads3] Ghana ought to as a matter of importance and urgency take steps to resolve challenges with the export of goods into Benin. This admonition is coming from the NPP Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah. “I am urging the Ministry of Trade and policymakers and implementers to ensure that whatever it takes for them to have negotiations with colleagues or trade partners in Benin has to be done immediately to protect Ghanaian jobs and safeguard Ghanaian industries,” he said.[ads4] According to him, due to the decision of that country to withdraw from the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation…
[ads3] Gloria Assan Arhin, the wife of acting Director of Communications at the presidency Eugene Arhin has amended her initial divorce suit, withdrawing several claims in the petition regards to properties supposedly owned by her husband. Mrs Arhin is now claiming in the amended petition filed at the Accra High Court on Monday February 15, 2021 that there is only one property belonging to her husband which is an uncompleted 5-bedroom house in Santor in the Kpone Katamanso District that she is contending for. She has removed some other properties in her initial divorce suit which she claimed belongs to…
[ads1] Former President John Dramani Mahama has filed an application urging the Supreme Court to put on hold his petition in connection with the 2020 presidential election. Mr Mahama wants the court to halt the proceedings until it makes a determination on a review application challenging the court’s refusal to compel the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa, to testify in the petition. It is the contention of the petitioner that the review application was likely to succeed, and, therefore, failure to halt the trial would cause him an “irreplaceable harm”.[ads2] Suspend orders Per the application…