The Minority in Parliament has slammed the Majority over threats to invoke the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to declare the Dome-Kwabenya seat vacant. Adansi Asokwa MP, KT Hammond, has hinted that the Supreme Court may be called upon following the decision by the Speaker to defer the determination of the matter referred to the Privileges Committee until when Parliament returns from recess in October.

The coastal of Tema and its environs will tonight experience a total blackout as part of the funeral rites for the late Tema Mantse, Nii Adjei Kraku II. Due to this, Tema residents have been cautioned to stay indoors today as the said blackout is reportedly scheduled to last from 7:00 pm to 12:00 am as part of a Ga custom to honour dead chiefs.

The Police have arrested suspects Nana Owusu Banahene and James Quainoo in connection with some disturbances at Dzorwulu Accra, over disputed land. The suspects allegedly organised some thugs with an excavator to demolish a four-bedroom apartment building at Dzorwulu on 24th October 2022.

Controversial man of God, Prophet Kofi Oduro, has criticised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for what he described as the President’s recent arrogance. According to the founder of the Alabaster International Ministries, he [Nana] has departed from the humility that endeared him to voters in his bid to be president.

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The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, says Ghana cannot achieve a middle-income status as a country when 80 per cent of businesses are managed by foreigners.

Some irate youth of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Pru East Constituency of the Bono East Region have locked up the party office in Yeji. The youth angered by the disqualification of two constituency executive aspirants in their numbers stormed the party office on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, and braced the doors.

Members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) will from Wednesday, October 19, 2022, close down their shops in a nationwide protest. The decision, according to the aggrieved traders, is to halt commercial activities based on the killer tax rates and the continuous depreciation of the cedi against the US dollar.

Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources has disclosed that the success or otherwise of the country’s war against illegal mining now rests on the Ghana Armed Forces. He said the Ministry has been instructed to wage an independent war against galamsey operators across the country.

The Divisional Senior and Junior Staff Union of the Metro Mass Transport Limited has declared a strike in protest against the Managing Director (MD), Albert Adu Boahene. The staff union is also demanding the removal of two other top executives, arguing their continuous stay in office will collapse the company.