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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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TTU suspends 61 Students and dismisses 1
Posted on | CommentThe Takoradi Technical University (TTU),has dismissed one student and suspended 61 others for various academic offenses. The dismissed and suspended students numbered 62 were punished for examination malpractices, misconduct and unacceptable behaviours. Mr Richardson Panyin, the Public Relations Officer of … Read more →
Ejura killings: Interior Minister to name public inquiry committee members today
Posted on | CommentThe Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery, is expected to make public the names of the committee to work on the public inquiry into the Ejura killings as ordered by President Akufo-Addo. The committee has ten days to submit its report. “The … Read more →
Police seize 2800 live ammunitions from robbery gang
Posted on | CommentThe Anti-Armed Robbery Taskforce of the Ghana Police Service on Tuesday seized 2,882 live ammunitions from a robbery gang at Ntoaso in the Eastern Region. The operation based on a tip-off, also retrieved 840 rounds of M16 ammunitions, 23 BB … Read more →
Ghana taken off financial action task force grey list
Posted on | CommentGhana has been taken off the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “grey list”. Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, announced this to the media in Accra on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. According to him, ” The FATF took this decision at their … Read more →
Crew onboard Ghanaian vessel captured by pirates released
Posted on | CommentThe five members of a crew onboard Ghanaian-registered fishing vessel Atlantic Princess captured by pirates off the Atlantic coast have been released. The five – all expatriates – were captured on Wednesday, May 19 around 7:00pm by five armed pirates. The … Read more →
People within Energy Ministry forged my signature when I was Minister – Boakye Agyarko
Posted on | CommentFormer Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has said officials within the Energy Ministry forged his signature and filled forms with it when he was at the Ministry. However, he said, he was able to detect the forged signatures due to his … Read more →
Facebook joins $1 trillion club after anti-trust victory
Posted on | CommentThe stock market value of Facebook has topped $1 trillion for the first time after the tech giant won a court victory against US regulators. A federal court dismissed two lawsuits, from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a coalition … Read more →
Takoradi: JHS Students of Rev. Cobbah Yalley under police investigation for assaulting Headmistress
Posted on | CommentTwo students of Rev Cobbah Yalley Junior High School in Takoradi are under police investigations for assaulting the headmistress of the school, the Municipal Chief Executive for Effia-Kwesiminstim Municipal Assembly (EKMA), Mr. Kojo Acquah has revealed. According to the EKMA … Read more →
Recent surge in Africa’s COVID-19 cases ‘worrying’ – WHO
Posted on | CommentThe World Health Organisation, (WHO) is warning African countries to put in place adequate measures to minimise the causalities that may result from the third wave of COVID-19 infections. A number of African countries have seen a spike in their … Read more →
Prez. Akufo-Addo commissions Toyota & Suzuki vehicle assembly plant
Posted on | CommentThe President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, commissioned the Toyota Tsusho Vehicle Assembly Plant, which is assembling some models of Toyota and Suzuki vehicles in the country. Describing the occasion as a very happy one for … Read more →
Former South African President Jacob Zuma gets jail term
Posted on | CommentFormer President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has been jailed. He had been been implicated in aiding and abetting the stealing of state funds during the nine years he led South Africa. He was sentenced to 15 months in jail … Read more →
Why Macho Kaaka was attacked – Brother offers pointer (VIDEO)
Posted on | CommentA younger brother of Ibrahim Mohammed also known as Macho Kaaka has been offering pointers as to why his brother was attacked at dawn on Sunday leading to his death on Monday. In a radio interview with Accra based Citi FM on Monday evening, … Read more →
Ken Agyapong, Anas lawyer ‘clash’ in court
Posted on | CommentThere was drama in the Accra High Court Tuesday when the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, got into an altercation with the lawyer for private investigator, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Mr Agyapong, who was being cross-examined … Read more →
Corpnation Foundation cleans Sekondi-Takoradi
Posted on | CommentCorpNation Foundation, a Western Region based NGO with slogan ‘Caring For Society’ and headed by Saviour Kwaku Adzika (aka Corp Sayvee), a staff of an oil and gas company in Ghana and doubles as a Musician, on on Saturday 26th … Read more →
‘Allow Bawumia to lead us into 2024 polls; it’s our turn’ – Bugre Naabu to NPP
Posted on | CommentA former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugre Naabu, says it will be an act of discrimination if the party fails to endorse Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the party’s flagbearer for the 2024 polls. According … Read more →
Stop demanding money from census officials – Bawumia to Ghanaians
Posted on | CommentThe Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has asked persons demanding money from census officials before being counted to refrain from doing so. According to him, such an act is unpatriotic and unacceptable. The 2021 Population and Housing Census commenced officially … Read more →
2 Held over murder of #FixTheCountry campaigner in Ejura
Posted on | CommentPolice in the Ashanti Region have rounded up two suspects in connection with the mob attack and subsequent death of Ibrahim Anyass, popularly known as Macho Kaaka on Facebook. The social media activist did not survive a mob attack on … Read more →
African Union worries about ‘two-tier vaccine system’
Posted on | CommentThere are concerns that the European Union’s vaccine passport programme could exclude people who have been given a version of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine that was made in India. Most of the vaccines supplied to the Covax scheme, intended to … Read more →
Asenso-Boakye outlines flood mitigation measures, including 19km storm drains
Posted on | CommentGovernment has invested GH?450 million in flood mitigation measures in the past four years to avert flooding across Ghana. The money was used to construct 19 kilometres (km) of drains and further excavated, re-channelled and maintained approximately 1,000km under the … Read more →
FDA Laboratory receives largest ISO accreditation scope in Africa
Posted on | CommentThe Centre for Laboratory Services and Research (CLSR) of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in Ghana has increased its ISO 17025:2017 testing scope after successfully completing an assessment by the internationally recognized National Accreditation Board (ANAB) of the American … Read more →
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