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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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Turkish school leader abducted, and released in Mongolia
Posted on | CommentA Turkish educator in Mongolia was briefly abducted on Friday, in what appeared to be the latest episode of a global campaign by Turkey’s president to capture suspected allies of the exiled cleric accused of plotting a 2016 coup attempt. … Read more →
Retailers of LPG Threatens Demonstration Against CRM
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana LPG Retailers Association has warned of a demonstration against the implementation of the Cylinder Re-circulation Module (CRM). The implementation of the CRM, the group says would render more than 7,000 of its members jobless, a claim the National Petroleum … Read more →
Auditor General – Removal of ghost-names on payroll ‘slow’
Posted on | CommentThe Auditor General, Daniel Yaw Domelovo, has reiterated his department’s commitment to clean the nation’s public sector payroll system of ghost names. The Auditor General’s Department is currently on a nationwide exercise to ensure that undeserving person found on the … Read more →
Indonesia earthquake: 13 dead on tourist island of Lombok
Posted on | CommentA powerful earthquake has struck a popular tourist destination in Indonesia, killing at least 13 people. The 6.4 magnitude quake hit the central island of Lombok just before 07:00 local time (00:00 GMT) on Sunday. The island attracts tourists from … Read more →
Parliament To Law Students – Give Us Evidence To Probe Exam Leakage
Posted on | CommentThe Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament Ben Abdallah has urged angry law students to provide evidence of the alleged exam leakage to his committee in order for them to probe their claims. Some students … Read more →
Gov’t to raise GH¢300m from tax on luxury vehicles
Posted on | CommentThe government is to rake in at least 300 million cedis in revenue from taxes on luxury vehicles by the end of this year. The tax, which forms part of the new policy measures introduced in the midyear budget review, … Read more →
CID stops GH¢326m bank theft and grabs 12 suspects
Posted on | CommentThe Financial Forensics Unit (FFU) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, has arrested 12 suspects in the biggest ever cybercrime burst in recent history. A circuit court last Friday remanded 11 out of the 12 … Read more →
Akufo-Addo – Free SHS Has Come To Stay
Posted on | CommentPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says contrary to what the motivated propagandists and the professional naysayers would have the Ghanaian people believe, the Free Senior High School policy, implemented by his administration in September 2017, has come to stay. According … Read more →
LLB Students Want Law School Exams Cancelled Over Leakage
Posted on | CommentSome LLB graduates who wrote the recent exams for admission into the Ghana School of Law are demanding the cancellation of the paper following reports of massive leakage of the exams hours before it started. The aggrieved students allege that … Read more →
Egypt Sentences 75 To Death Over 2013 Protests
Posted on | CommentAn Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death for their role in the violence that erupted after President Mohammed Morsi’s removal in 2013. The group, including leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a mass trial of … Read more →
Two Arrested as Police Clash With Highway Robbers
Posted on | CommentThe Kwahu Mpraeso Police in the Eastern region has arrested two highway robbers, Ibrahim Sambo, 31, and Suleman Sambo, while they were robbing passengers at Kwahu Tafo to Pitiku. The two suspects are all Fulani herdsmen. According to the Public … Read more →
Lawyer – GhC100k Compensation For Midland Assault Victim False
Posted on | CommentLawyers of the lady, who was allegedly assaulted within the banking hall of Midland Savings and Loans, have denied a GhC100,000 compensation for their client Patience Osafo. Osafo was allegedly beaten to the pulp by a police guard Lance Corporal … Read more →
GMA To Strike Over NHIA Levy
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has called on the government to consider transferring the National Health Insurance Levy directly to the NHIL account at the Bank of Ghana and desist from the current practice where the levy is paid to … Read more →
I will use education as a springboard to get Ghanaians out of poverty – President
Posted on | CommentCape Coast, July 29, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has resolved to use education as a springboard to get Ghanaians out of the trap of poverty. He said though a government might not be able to make every … Read more →
€93m for Kumasi Central Market approved by Parliament
Posted on | CommentParliament last Saturday approved €93 million loan facilities for the redevelopment and modernization of the Kumasi Central Market. The facility agreement of €81 million and tied commercial facility of €12.3 million are between the government of Ghana, represented by the … Read more →
Julian Assange must eventually leave London embassy, says Ecuador
Posted on | CommentWikileaks fugitive Julian Assange must eventually leave Ecuador’s embassy in London, the country’s president has said. Lenin Moreno confirmed he had spoken to the British government about the situation, amid speculation that the long-running stand-off is coming to a head. … Read more →
Methodist Bishop – Amissah-Arthur Didn’t Milk Ghana
Posted on | CommentThe Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, the Most Reverend Titus K. Awotwi Pratt has described late former vice president Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur as “truly incorruptible.” “He never did politics that stole, never did politics that milked the national … Read more →
Local gov’t – We need more staff to enforce sanitation laws
Posted on | CommentThe Local Government Service says it requires more staff to enforce the country’s sanitation laws. It says although it has received clearance to recruit over 1,000 staff, very few of them are sanitation officers who will be deployed to various parts of … Read more →
[Full text] Matilda Amissah-Arthur’s tribute to her late husband
Posted on | CommentMatilda Amissah-Arthur, the wife of late former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, gave an emotional and unusual tribute to her late husband during a state funeral service in Accra on Friday. The widow also used the opportunity to take on critics … Read more →
Caterer in court for sodomizing 9-year old hearing-impaired boy
Posted on | CommentA 19-year-old caterer was on Wednesday put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly sodomizing a nine-year-old hearing impaired boy at Agbado in Accra. Reginald Annan, charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty. The court presided over by Mrs. Abena Oppong … Read more →
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