ModernGhana News

Government will absorb the shortfall in the lump sum payment by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to public sector workers who retire this year, President Akufo-Addo has announced.

The Senior Programmes Officer of the National Commission on Small and Light Weapons, Leonard Tettey, has said investigations ongoing into the illegal shipment of pistols and ammunition to the Tema Port will yield positive results.

The Supreme Court has asked the Attorney General rsquo;s Department to handle Kennedy Agyapong rsquo;s application pending against High Court Judge, Amos Wuntah Wuni. Mr. Agyapong rsquo;s lawyers on September 17, invoked the supervisory jurisdiction of the Apex court to stop Justice Wuni rsquo;s contempt trial involving the Assin Central Member of Parliament, and to quash all orders made by the Judge in that respect.

The Ministry of Interior has with immediate effect, deployed 200 police officers to serve as guards to Members of Parliament (MPs) till the end of the year 2020. The officers will operate under the Parliamentary Protection Unit.

Some Members of Parliament are hopeful of increased security following the killing of their colleague Mfantseman MP, Ekow Hayford. The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, is to make an in-camera statement on enhanced security for MPs later on Tuesday.

Cape Coast, 4th October, 2020, Popular lawyer, Maurice Ampaw has advised all men to treat women well if they want to prosper in life. Any man who doesn 39;t treat women well would find it very difficult to prosper .

President Akufo-Addo has joined hundreds of world leaders to wish the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his wife, Melania Trump, well after both tested positive for the coronavirus. President Akufo-Addo wished Trump speedy recovery in a tweet.

The police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of chief at Kaneshie on October 2. The chief, Nana Ndoli Panin III, the Baamuhene of Enchi Kramokrom, was found dead in a pool of blood in a hotel room.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has rectified the issues preventing some frontline doctors of the Korle bu Teaching hospital from their receiving their extra allowance package. These frontline doctors have been lamenting that they have not received the package promised to them by the government despite the risks involved in their work.

Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo, a legal practitioner and member of the opposition National Democratic Congress is suggesting that the state opts for public treason trials as it deals with separatist violence in the Volta Region.

The Inspector General of Police(IGP), Mr James Oppong-Buanuh, has paid a working visit to the Western Regional Police command to assess their preparedness for the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in December.

A 45-year-old man Emmanuel Kwakye has committed suicide after allegedly murdering his girlfriend, Georgina Sayel. Deputy Superintendent of Police, (DOP) Irene Serwaah Oppong, the Regional Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency.

Mr Justin Kodua Frimpong, the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has said head count and electronic validation conducted in 2017 revealed that 17,607 non-existing beneficiaries under the Agency were receiving monthly stipends during the previous Mahama administration.

Chris Tamakloe, one of the star performers on Citi TV 39;s Keyboard Idol talent competition, met his untimely death on Saturday, September 19, when a vehicle in which he and his father were travelling was involved in a road accident, at Asutsuare Junction.

Some members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) at Keta Municipal Hospital continue to render services to pregnant women due for deliver despite the Association 39;s strike action.

President Akufo-Addo is expected to address the nation tonight on new measures taken by the country in the fight against COVID-19. This will be his 16th national address on the subject since Ghana recorded its first two cases of the virus in March 2020.

It appears the practice of lynching old women labeled as 39;witches 39; is getting out of hand as new events of such barbaric acts rage on. Not too long ago, it was Akua Denteh, this time around, it is Madam Meri Ibrahim, a 60-year-old alleged witch who has been attacked and butchered by residents in Sumpini near Busunu in the West Gonja municipality of the Savannah Region.

Some 87 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Ghana pushing the country rsquo;s cumulative case count to 44,205. Furthermore, the number of persons who have recovered currently stands at 42,777 while the number of active cases is 1,152.

The controversy surrounding the Agyapa Royalties deal is not resting any time soon as the debates and scrutiny continue. The latest to wade into the matter is Private Legal Practitioner, Yaw Oppong, who has argued that the Agyapa Royalties Limited agreement is no cast in stone, hence any future government can abrogate it.

As President Nana Akufo-Addo engages the public tonight for the 16th time on measures taken to deal with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is high anticipation among Ghanaians looking forward to the reopening of the country 39;s airports and borders post-lockdown The president has been engaging the public through LIVE nationwide broadcasts ever since the country recorded its first COVID-19 case.