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Trump says King will be ‘very safe’ during US visit after security talks
Posted on with No CommentDonald Trump has said King Charles III will “be very safe” during his state visit to the US, which is due to begin later on Monday. Further security talks took place between the White House and Buckingham Palace after a … Read more →
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COVID-19 restrictions: Normal life in sight
Posted on | CommentGhana is getting closer to full normal life, as President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced the easing of more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions. In the latest streak of easing, the President lifted the cap on the number of people … Read more →
VIDEO: Fire guts First Samuel Supermarket’s warehouse in Takoradi
Posted on | CommentReports reaching www.233times.net is that, the warehouse of popular grocery outlet, First Samuel Enterprise located in the central business district of Takoradi has been gutted by fire. According to eye witnesses, the fire started in the wee hours of Saturday … Read more →
Parliament approves $86 million loan for GAF armoured vehicles purchase
Posted on | CommentParliament has approved an $86 million loan facility from Israel for the purchase of armoured vehicles for the Ghana Armed Forces. About $80 million of the amount will go to Elbit Systems Land Limited of Israel for the supply of … Read more →
How Rawlings asked Ahwoi to “pull down” a hotel but refused – Kweku Baako
Posted on | CommentProf Kwamena Ahwoi says he was pressured into ordering the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to pull down the Pier Hotel in the Airport area of Accra. The hotel owned by Alhaji Yusif Ibrahim was pulled down by the military on … Read more →
Trump stokes Kamala Harris ‘birther’ theory
Posted on | CommentPresident Donald Trump says he has heard Democratic running mate Kamala Harris “doesn’t qualify” to serve as US vice-president, amplifying a fringe legal theory critics decry as racist. Ms Harris was born to a Jamaican father and Indian mother in … Read more →
Statistical Service postpones Ghana’s population census to next year
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has now decided to hold the 2020 Population and Housing Census (PHC) next year. According to the GSS, the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the “destabilisation of the population” by the political peak season had necessitated … Read more →
Pastor killed by robbers in Kumasi
Posted on | CommentThe Head Pastor of the Ejisu branch of the Jehovah Nisi Evangelical Ministry in the early of hours of Wednesday, August 12, 2020 met his untimely death when he was shot dead by two unidentified gun men at his residence … Read more →
Liberia’s Vice President airlifted to Ghana for treatment of COVID-19
Posted on | CommentLiberia’s President, Jewel Howard Taylor, has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Her Office has initially denied that she was covid-19 positive. But it had turned out that she is coronavirus positive. As a result, she had been airlifted to Ghana for … Read more →
Dr Ibn Chambas withdraws from AU elections
Posted on | CommentCurrent U.N Special Representative to West Africa and the Sahel Region, Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has withdrawn from the AU upcoming Chairmanship elections just two days after he was nominated to represent Ghana in the elections. He has subsequently thrown … Read more →
Missing Taadi Girls trial: Angry Judge cautions jury against absenteeism
Posted on | CommentCourt of Appeal judge Richard Adjei Frinpong, sitting in as an additional High Court judge, was not pleased with the absence of one of the seven members of the jury on Wednesday, August 12 when the case was brought before … Read more →
Prez. Akufo-Addo cuts sod for 400-bed maternity block, 101-bed urology centre at Korle-Bu
Posted on | CommentThe President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 11th August 2020, cut the sod for the construction and equipping of a 12-storey 400-bed Maternity and Gynaecological Centre, and a two-storey 101-bed Urology and Nephrology Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. … Read more →
UK officially in recession for first time in 11 years
Posted on | CommentThe UK economy suffered its biggest slump on record between April and June as coronavirus lockdown measures pushed the country officially into recession. The economy shrank 20.4% compared with the first three months of the year. Household spending plunged as … Read more →
Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as running mate
Posted on | CommentDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has named Kamala Harris as his running mate – the first black woman and South Asian American in the role. Once a rival for the top job, the California senator of Indian-Jamaican heritage had long … Read more →
12-year-old boy allegedly kills father
Posted on | CommentA 60-year-old man has died after he sustained a knife wound during a struggle with his 12-year old son at Pipiiso in the Adansi Asokwa District of the Ashanti Region. According to police, the deceased, Kwaku Akromah was cut in … Read more →
Operator of empress leak porn website arrested by CID, national cyber security
Posted on | CommentThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of the Ministry of Communications, in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and the National Cyber Security Technical Working Group, have nabbed the administrator of the notorious website, … Read more →
Kotoka International Airport is ‘not for sale’ – Ghana Airports replies Mahama
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has reiterated its earlier explanation that the Kotoka International Airport is “not for sale or being privatised” as alleged by former President John Dramani Mahama. Rather, the Ghana Airports Company Limited says “an unsolicited … Read more →
4 Children injured in ‘bomb’ explosion at La Beach
Posted on | CommentThe police have issued a safety alert for the public to be wary of strange objects people chance upon. This follows the explosion at the La Beach in Greater Accra last week which caused various degrees of injury to four … Read more →
Russia approves world’s first COVID-19 vaccine
Posted on | CommentRussia has today approved the world’s first Coronavirus vaccine. The approval is seen as a major breakthrough for the fight against the pandemic. Russian President, Vladimir Putin announced the approval on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, in a televised address monitored … Read more →
Ecobank Ghana posts GH¢444.9m profit after tax in 2019
Posted on | CommentOne of the top banks in Ghana, Ecobank Ghana Limited posted sterling financial performance at the close of 2019, with total asset size of GH¢13.229 billion, from GH¢10.455 billion in 2018. This shows an impressive 26% growth in assets between … Read more →
Stray dog who keeps visiting car dealership is adopted by staff and given a job
Posted on | CommentA stray dog who was determined to land his dream job at a Hyundai car dealership has seen his persistency pay off after he was given a job – and a home. Earlier this year, staff at a Hyundai Prime … Read more →
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