Accra Feb. 7, GNA – The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) has responded to Alfred Agbesi Woyome’s writ that sought to restrain it from continuing with investigations in the judgment debt saga. At the Fast Track High Court on Tuesday, Ms Doris Nortey who represented Woyome indicated that she had not been served with [...]
A deputy Information Minister, James Agyenim Boateng, has hinted that given the instrumental role played by Former Education, Youth and Sports Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo in the erstwhile Kufuor government on the Woyome saga, he (Osafo Maafo) could be arrested by the police. Agyenim Boateng said Osafo Maafo cannot exonerate himself from the circumstances leading [...]
Government has appealed to organized labour to exercise restraint as the latter threatens to hit the streets next week. The Ghana Trades Union Congress which is leading the demonstration is unhappy about government’s handling of their demand for the restoration of fuel subsidies following the recent increase in prices of petroleum products. It will be [...]
Deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has served notice the arrest and detention Friday of businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome by the police is only the beginning of a series of actions Ghanaians must be looking to in connection with the judgment debt payment scandal. Ablakwa told Joy FM President John Mills has ordered the actions [...]
The Police have arrested National Democratic Congres financier Alfred Woyome, and is being held at the Police Headquarters in Accra. Joy News reporter Evans Mensah reporting from the Police Headquarters said scores of NDC supporters have besieged the police fortress and demanding the immediate release of Woyome. At least three of them, all women, have [...]
President John Evans Atta Mills Ghana will not be forced to legalize homosexuality despite pressure from the international community, President John Evans Atta Mills has stated. President Mills reaffirmed the government’s position in reaction to a call by the UN Secretary General for the recognition of gay rights in Africa. Ban Ki-Moon told African leaders [...]
President John Evans Atta Mills at the weekend unveiled the statue of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President at the forecourt of the new African Union (AU) building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was assisted by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, out-going Chairman of the AU, and Dr Jean Ping, Chairman of the African Union [...]
Accra, Jan 24, GNA – President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu as Minister of Education. Mrs Mould-Iddrisu is said to have tendered her letter on Monday, January 23, 2012. Her resignation is believed to be in relation to issues surrounding the payment debt of GH¢ 58 [...]
President Mills meets Council of State Members, Ministers and officials of the Presidency Peduase (E\R), Jan. 24, GNA – President John Atta Mills on Tuesday met Members of the Council of State, some Ministers and officials of the Office of the President at the Peduase Lodge to deliberate on issues of national concern. In attendance [...]
Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako is asking the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to focus its investigations on National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome for his role leading to the state paying him GHS58 million in judgment debt. According to Kweku Baako, this is because Alfred [...]