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Goldband data shows 98.8% of Ghana’s small scale gold exports went to Dubai and India in 2025
Posted on with No CommentData obtained by JoyNews Research from GoldBod through a Right to Information request shows that Ghana’s small scale gold exports in 2025 were overwhelmingly concentrated in just two markets. Of the 103,804 kilograms of small-scale gold exported through GoldBod in … Read more →
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WASSCE candidate delivers in exams hall, returns to complete paper
Posted on | CommentA final-year student of the Gushegu Senior High School (SHS) in the Northern Region was delivered of a baby boy Monday morning, September 13, 2021 while writing the English Language paper in the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination … Read more →
Businessman in trouble over $1m gold scam
Posted on | CommentAn Accra Circuit court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a businessman, Alhaji Siba Yahaya, for allegedly defrauding some foreign investors in a more than $1million gold scam. The bench warrant was issued after Yahaya had failed … Read more →
Owusu Bempah’s trial: Police eject journalists from courtroom
Posted on | CommentJournalists assigned to cover Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah’s case at the Accra Circuit Court on Monday morning were ejected by some police personnel when the pastor, who has been charged for threatening to kill Patricia Oduro Koranteng, aka Nana Agradaa … Read more →
Veep Bawumia’s mother Hajia Mariama dies
Posted on | CommentHajia Mariama Bawumia (alias Maame), the mother of the Vice-President Dr. Mahamamudu Bawumia has passed on after a brief illness in Accra, family sources said. Hajia Bawumia died aged 82. She had been unwell and hospitalised over the past few weeks. During her 80th … Read more →
UK must prepare for more economic shocks – TUC
Posted on | CommentThe UK needs to be better prepared for future economic shocks, says the TUC. “Covid is not going to be a one-off,” the union federation’s general secretary, Frances O’Grady, will tell its annual congress later on Monday. “Climate chaos is … Read more →
Why a year lasts 13 months in Ethiopia
Posted on | CommentEthiopians are marking the start of a new year, with feasting in many homes despite the difficulties caused by rising prices and the war and hunger crisis raging in the north. Find out more about Ethiopia’s unique calendar and cultural … Read more →
Ghana & Japan exchange notes on Tema-Motorway Roundabout, N8 Phase II projects
Posted on | CommentGhana and Japan have exchanged notes on Japanese Grant Assistance of a total of four billion Japanese Yen (approximately 37 million United States dollars) to Ghana. The exchange of notes and record of discussions was in respect of the execution … Read more →
British American Tobacco negotiated bribe for Mugabe – New evidence
Posted on | CommentA BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain’s biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. Documents show British American Tobacco (BAT) was involved in negotiations to pay between $300,000 and $500,000 … Read more →
American companies thriving in Ghana – Ambassador Sullivan
Posted on | Comment• US envoy courts more investors American companies which are new to the Ghanaian market must not lose the opportunity to invest in Ghana, the United States Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, has stated. Addressing the opening session of the … Read more →
Level 400 UEW Student dies after failed acrobatic move
Posted on | CommentMourning has taken over UEW as they remember their late colleague today, as he was billed to perform at a campus show. A final year student of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has died after a failed acrobatic move … Read more →
Govt owes contractors ¢5 billion – Road Contractors Association
Posted on | CommentThe Vice President of the Association of Road Contractors has questioned government on its directive that road contractors should return to project sites they abandoned or risk being sacked. Stephen Atatsi on JoyNews’ The Probe revealed that government owes contractors across the … Read more →
Police arrest Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah
Posted on | CommentReverend Isaac Owusu Bempah of Glorious Word Power Ministries and some three others from his church have been arrested by the police. They were picked up on Sunday (September 12) for attacking some police officers at his church premises. A … Read more →
Ras Mubarak, ex-wife fight over kids school fees
Posted on | CommentFormer Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak and his ex-wife, Portia Rasheeda Adams are at each other’s throat over the payment of school fees for their kids, sum to sixty-three thousand Ghana cedis (GHC63,000). In a Facebook post on … Read more →
3 Illegal miners die in mining pit
Posted on | CommentThree illegal miners have died in a mining pit at Akyem Apinamang a farming and mining community in the Denkyembuor District of the Eastern Region. The Assembly member for Akyem Apinamang John Boakye who went to the police station to … Read more →
2 Togolese hardened criminals arrested (PHOTOS)
Posted on | CommentTwo Togolese nationals believed to be part of a robbery syndicate operating within the Suaman, Juaboso and Bodi areas in the Western North Region have been arrested by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS). The two, Emmanuel Kombat, 21 and Lala … Read more →
Paul Adom Otchere appointed Airport Company Board Chair
Posted on | CommentThe Host of Good Evening Ghana Show on Metropolitan TV, Paul Adom Otchere has been appointed Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Ghana Airport Company Limited by President Akufo- Addo. This was contained in an appointment letter signed by … Read more →
Zimbabwe asks state employees to take a jab or quit
Posted on | CommentThe government in Zimbabwe is asking its employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or resign. It says the move is aimed at reducing the risk of spreading the virus. In an interview with a local radio station, Justice Minister Ziyambi … Read more →
Withdraw Anti-LGBTI bill – Amnesty International to Ghana
Posted on | CommentAmnesty International has urged the Ghanaian Parliament and government to immediately withdraw the proposed Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 from consideration. The human rights organisation in a public statement on Monday said the … Read more →
Canadian PM hit by stones on campaign trail
Posted on | CommentCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been hit by gravel thrown by protesters during a campaign stop. He was returning to his bus after visiting a brewery when he was struck by small stones. He was not injured. Mr Trudeau … Read more →
Police provide update on missing Lands Commission staff
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Police Service (GPS) has commenced investigations into the disappearance of Mrs Rhodaline Amoah-Darko, a staff of the Lands Commission in the Ashanti region. Speculation on social media where her “Missing Person” notices have gone viral suggested that she … Read more →
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