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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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Ex-NCA board member cleared by Court to travel
Posted on | CommentThe Accra High Court has given the green light for Nana Owusu Ensaw, one of the National Communications Authority (NCA) ‘gang’ of five standing trials over an alleged $4-million scandal, to travel abroad for a medical check-up. Ensaw, a former … Read more →
Parliament approves $2bn barter deal with China
Posted on | CommentParliament last Saturday approved a $2-billion Master Project Support Agreement (MPSA) between the government and Sinohydro Corporation Limited of China for the construction of priority infrastructure projects in Ghana. The MPSA is essentially a barter facility under which Sinohydro will … Read more →
Midland presents house, cash to assaulted customer
Posted on | CommentAdversity rarely brings joy, but Ms. Patience Osafo, a victim of police assault, has been compensated with a house by Midland Savings and Loan for her ordeal. Ms. Osafo, the woman who was battered by a policeman at the Shiashie … Read more →
Chiefs urged to step up fight against ‘galamsey’
Posted on | CommentThe Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mr. Samuel Kofi Dzamesi, has asked chiefs to step up the fight against ‘galamsey’ operations in their jurisdictions. Mr. Dzamesi made this known when he addressed separate durbars of the paramount chiefs, queens, … Read more →
Gov’t lauded for providing Prestea inner city roads
Posted on | CommentMembers of the Prestea Communicators for Development (PCD) have commended the government for making provision for the Prestea inner city roads in the mid-year review of the 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy presented to Parliament by the Minister of … Read more →
NACOB calls for decriminalisation of narcotic drug use
Posted on | CommentThe Deputy Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Mr. Michael Addo, has called for the decriminalization of narcotic drug use. According to him, suppliers and producers of narcotic substances should rather be punished under the law. Speaking in … Read more →
ECG to take custody of all PPAs
Posted on | CommentThe Ministry of Energy has commenced an arrangement to make the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) the custodian of all Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in the country. In this regard, the current PPAs held by the Volta River Authority (VRA) … Read more →
How ‘Wise Vagina’, ‘Penis is a Fool’, ‘Testicles are Sad’ became village names
Posted on | CommentLast week, Members of Parliament in Ghana lost their composure in fits of giggles and horselaughs, when the Member for Abirem in the Eastern Region, John Frimpong Osei listed out the names of towns in the Birim North District that … Read more →
Deputy Minister – Private SHS teachers not qualified for public schools
Posted on | CommentA Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum says the government will not send qualified Senior High School (SHS) students to private SHSs as part of measures aimed at solving the huge infrastructural deficit in public schools. This is … Read more →
Logging and charcoal production in Damango Banned
Posted on | CommentThe Gonja Traditional Council in the Northern Region has banned commercial charcoal production and logging activities in the West Gonja District and its environs following the massive destruction of the environment by the activities of illegal loggers and commercial charcoal … Read more →
Two TaTU students who murdered pastor sentenced to death
Posted on | CommentThe two students of the Tamale Technical University (TaTU) who murdered the head Pastor of the End Time Believers Bible Fellowship in Tamale have been sentenced to death by the Tamale High Court. The convicts, Kwame Dogyi and Obio Akwasi … Read more →
Unemployed remanded for defrauding 25 people
Posted on | CommentAn Accra Circuit Court has remanded one George Darko, an unemployed, for defrauding 25 people in Accra, Kumasi, and Kasoa by false pretenses. He pleaded not guilty to all 22 charges of fraud and was remanded by the court to … Read more →
Four million people risk losing India citizenship
Posted on | CommentIndia has published a list which effectively strips about four million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove they came to the state … Read more →
U.S. confirms deployment of armed drones in Niger
Posted on | CommentU.S. forces started deploying armed drones in the west African country of Niger earlier this year to attack Islamist militants, the U.S. military said on Monday. Niger’s government granted American forces permission last November to arm their drones but neither … Read more →
Over 100 volunteers evacuated by Spanish Embassy after suspected charity scam
Posted on | CommentHundreds of young Spanish volunteers were last Thursday evacuated from Ghana after a disagreement with an aid project they signed up for via Instagram descended into chaos. Yes We Help, founded by self-styled entrepreneur Yago Zarroca, signed up more than … Read more →
Nevada delegation calls on President Akufo-Addo
Posted on | CommentThe Governor of the State of Nevada in the United States of America (USA), Mr. Brian Sandoval, has expressed the interest and readiness of entrepreneurs, educationists and scientists from the Nevada State to collaborate with their counterparts in Ghana for … Read more →
Victims of human trafficking get state shelter
Posted on | CommentThe only public shelter with the capacity to house 40 trafficked children at a time has been re-inaugurated in Accra. The shelter has been non-functional for the past eight years due to non-maintenance and lack of funds to run it. … Read more →
Australian archbishop accused of abuse cover-up resigns – Vatican
Posted on | CommentAustralian Archbishop Philip Wilson, the most senior cleric found guilty of concealing child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, has resigned, the Vatican said on Monday. Wilson, 67, the archbishop of Adelaide, was convicted in May of failing to … Read more →
Speaker – We’ll speed up passage of RTI bill at next sitting
Posted on | CommentThe Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, has expressed confidence in the ability of the house to pass the Right to Information (RTI) bill in the next meeting which would begin in October 2018. According to him, the considerable work … Read more →
Nana Addo Approves ‘New AMERI’ Deal By Executive Order
Posted on | CommentPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has by executive order approved the renegotiated AMERI deal which is currently awaiting Parliamentary approval. A statement by the President’s secretary, Nana Asante Bediatuo stated that “the President of the Republic of Ghana has granted … Read more →
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