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US charges 6 over car theft ring shipping stolen vehicles to Ghana
Posted on with No CommentSix individuals have been charged in the United States over an alleged international car theft syndicate that smuggled stolen vehicles to Ghana, following a year-long investigation by federal authorities. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, … Read more →
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Ghana may import water if …
Posted on | CommentThe Director for Natural Resources at the Environmental Protection Agency, Carl Fiati, has warned that Ghana may soon import drinking water from neighbouring countries if government does not curb illegal mining. He made the claim in an interview on the … Read more →
TV3 fires 32 staff
Posted on | CommentThirty-two staff of TV3 Network Limited have summarily been dismissed from the company for engaging in a series of action which management described as a “breach of the ethics and legal requirements” regarding the employer/employee relationship. A statement signed by … Read more →
Veep to Investors – Your business is safe with us
Posted on | CommentVice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has assured the international business community that Ghana is a safe, investor friendly country for business. The Akufo-Addo government, he said, is looking to empower and partner the private sector to be the engine of … Read more →
Takoradi: TTI Student brutally assaults female Teacher
Posted on | 2 CommentsTension is mounting on the Campus of Takoradi Technical Institute (TTI) following a brutal assault of a female Tutor by a final year student on Tuesday, February, 28, 2017, Deep throat source tells Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson the Tutor was … Read more →
PHOTOS: Accra Dubai flooded
Posted on | CommentLast Sunday’s heavy downpour which resulted in the flooding of the entire space of the newly commissioned Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, has made many Ghanaians to describe the entire project as lacking any proper engineering merit. The entire ground space of … Read more →
Govt recruits 1,000 agric extension officers
Posted on | Comment-To support ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ policy THE Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has embarked on a process to recruit 1,000 agriculture extension officers by end of March to augment the woefully inadequate officers in the system to … Read more →
Tomb of Atta Mills in bad state
Posted on | CommentTHE tomb of late President Professor John Evans Atta Mills, is in a bad state, five years after he was buried at the Asomdwe Park in Accra. A visit to the Park by Citi News revealed that the well-crafted metallic … Read more →
Power supply: Ghana owes Cote d’Ivoire $60m
Posted on | CommentIT has emerged that Ghana owes Cote d’Ivoire $60million as at the end of December 2016 for power purchased. Despite this, government sent a delegation to that country which successfully negotiated an increase in power supply to minimise the impact … Read more →
I’ll demolish houses to fix Accra flooding – Atta Akyea
Posted on | CommentThe Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea has stated that he is ready to demolish buildings identified to be on water way by the Town and Country Planning Department in order to deal with the perennial flooding in Ghana’s … Read more →
Gov’t to abolish payment of utility bills in public tertiary institutions – Education Minister
Posted on | CommentThe Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku-Prempeh, has announced that government would soon abolish the payment of utility bills in public tertiary institutions. He has also announced government’s intention to increase the amount of loans under the Student Loan Scheme … Read more →
Government releases GH¢55m for book and research allowance
Posted on | CommentDr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister for Education has announced the release of GH¢55 million to pay state owned university lecturers as their book and research allowance. He said in addition to the book and research allowance, government would also establish … Read more →
Nokia’s 3310 relaunched 17 years after its debut
Posted on | CommentNokia’s 3310 phone has been relaunched nearly 17 years after its debut. Many consider the original handset iconic because of its popularity and sturdiness. More than 126 million were produced before it was phased out in 2005. The revamped version … Read more →
South Africa: Zuma condemns violence against foreigners
Posted on | CommentSouth Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has condemned acts of violence between citizens and non-nationals, his office said on Friday. Anti-immigrant violence has flared sporadically in South Africa against a background of near-record unemployment, with foreigners being accused of taking jobs … Read more →
Police investigate death of KNUST Engineering Student
Posted on | CommentCrime scene detectives from the Ashanti Regional Police Command, have visited the Independence Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), to investigate circumstances leading to the death of a first-year female Chemical Engineering Student. The deceased, … Read more →
STATEMENT: GOIL board challenges Prez. Akufo-Addo
Posted on | CommentThe chairman of the GOIL Board of Directors is accusing president Nana Akufo-Addo of breaching procedures in his appointment of a new Chief Executive officer of the company. In a statement issued today, Board Chairman, William Asumaning noted that the president … Read more →
SA xeno attacks: No Ghanaian affected yet – Foreign Affairs Minister
Posted on | CommentNo Ghanaian has yet been affected in the ongoing xenophobic attacks in South Africa, Foreign affairs minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has said. “Our checks in the country indicated that no Ghanaian national or their businesses have been affected in the … Read more →
A year and months in UK, Sekondi-Tadi I left and the Sekondi-Tadi I came home to
Posted on | 4 CommentsDuring one of our (Effe Sackey Barnes, Ekow Mbroh and I) usual weekend hang outs at Justice Mill (on the Union Street) in Aberdeen, Scotland, I met a white man who lived in Takoradi for 2 years (from 2011 to … Read more →
DISTURBING PHOTO: Robbers rape and kill 12-yr-old girl
Posted on | CommentA 12-year-old Primary 5 pupil has allegedly been raped and killed by suspected armed robbers at Kpalsi, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region. The Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, who confirmed the incident … Read more →
Pursue GH¢51m Woyome cash – Mahama to Prez. Akufo-Addo
Posted on | CommentFormer President John Dramani Mahama has tasked his successor, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to pursue Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the beleaguered National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, to retrieve the GH¢51.2 million unlawfully paid to him. Woyome was dubiously paid GH¢51.2 … Read more →
Western Region deserves 15% oil cash – Regional Minister
Posted on | CommentTHE long-standing agitation by some chiefs and people of the Western Region for the allocation of 10 percent of oil revenue has received a renewed sense of hope with the newly-appointed minister for the region himself a firm believer of … Read more →
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