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Air fares soar by nearly 25% as Iran war forces flights to re-route
Posted on with No CommentThe war in the Middle East has helped to trigger a surge in air fares, with the lowest-priced economy tickets costing 24% more on average than they did a year ago, according to new research. The report, from the consultancy … Read more →
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Gov’t owes 500 SHSs Gh¢150,000 each
Posted on | CommentPresident of Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Mrs Cecilia Kwakye Coffie has bemoaned the huge debts which have engulfed the activities of Secondary Schools in Ghana due to the current administration’s failure to fulfil its financial obligation. … Read more →
Melania Trump Speech: Writer apologizes after accusations of plagiarism
Posted on | CommentWith Donald Trump’s campaign reeling from charges of plagiarism, a speechwriter for his company took the blame and offered to resign over nearly identical passages from Melania Trump’s Republican convention speech and Michelle Obama’s remarks eight years ago. The speechwriter, … Read more →
Asantehene blasts Bank of Ghana
Posted on | CommentOtumfuo Osei Tutu ll, the Asantehene, has registered his displeasure over the issuance of excess licenses to micro-finance institutions by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) at the expense of the growth of such micro and small scale enterprises. He said, … Read more →
Woman kills boyfriend’s daughter (PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentThe East Legon Police have arrested a 20-year-old woman for allegedly beating the three-year-old daughter of her boyfriend to death at Aboadae Street, Mempeasem, near East Legon in Accra. The suspect, who has been identified by the police as Judith … Read more →
Trader beats wife to death (PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentThe Dansoman police are currently having a 38-year-old man in their custody for allegedly beating his wife to death at Dansoman, a suburb of Accra. The 48-year-old woman, who was a trader at the Dansoman market – Beatrice Ama Osaah … Read more →
3 years of Woyome cash – €25m yet to be retrieved
Posted on | CommentThree years after a Supreme Court judgement, government is still unable to retrieve more than €25m it illegally paid to National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier Alfred Woyome. A disappointed New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa South constituency … Read more →
Big drop in foreign currency deposits
Posted on | CommentMore Ghanaians and businesses could be keeping their foreign currencies particularly US dollars outside the banking sector, the latest Macroeconomic and Financial Data of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) suggests. According to the data, foreign currency deposits recorded a negative … Read more →
DISTURBING PHOTO: Suspected thief lynched at Inchaban
Posted on | CommentLifeless body of a man believed to be in his thirties have been found at Inchaban in the Shama District of the Western Region. The body was seen lying naked at a spot near a refuse dump off the Dwomo … Read more →
PHOTOS: 4 arrested for using IGP’s credentials to dupe Police Officers
Posted on | CommentFour persons who created a parody Facebook account with the credentials of the Inspector General of Police John Kudalor, and used it to dupe two police officers have been arrested by the Police in Accra. The four – Haruna Danlad … Read more →
450MW power barge coming
Posted on | CommentState-owned electricity distributor, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Karpower Ghana Limited have reached advanced stages of negotiations to increase Karpower’s generation capacity to 675 megawatts (MW) before the end of this year as part of steps to resolve the … Read more →
I still stand by social media ban – IGP
Posted on | CommentThe Inspector General of Police, John Kudalor has reiterated his earlier call for a complete social media ban during the November 7 general elections.The Police administration had earlier hinted in June this year that it was considering shutting down all … Read more →
Takoradi: 4 Students declared wanted for ‘shit bombing’ Alma mater (DISTURBING PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentFour immediate past pupils of Anglican Junior High School at Kojokrom in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis have been declared wanted after being suspected of vandalising properties of their Alma Mater. The suspects, Emmanuel Essuman, Amos Afful, Isaac Ennin and John Nkrumah … Read more →
Police hospital to embark on mass burial
Posted on | CommentThe Police Hospital in Accra has announced plans to embark on a mass burial exercise to help decongest the hospital morgue. A statement signed and issued in Accra by DCOP Dr Samuel Amo-Mensah, Medical Director of the hospital said: “As … Read more →
VIDEO: Melania Trump accused of plagiarising Michelle Obama in convention speech
Posted on | CommentDonald Trump’s wife, Melania, has taken centre stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention but faced accusations a portion of her speech plagiarised Michelle Obama. Commentators noticed similarities with Mrs Obama’s 2008 convention speech. Mrs Trump’s speech … Read more →
Takoradi: Weak Effia bridge replaced with wooden structure
Posted on | CommentBARELY a week after the publication by your authoritative The Finder of the weak and dangerous nature of a bridge linking Effia to Effiakuma and other communities, the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has moved swiftly to provide a temporal wooden … Read more →
PHOTO: Father sells 4 kids for GH¢500
Posted on | CommentA 46-year-old-man, Bright Agyepong is in the grips of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Police Service for selling his four children into slavery on the Volta Lake for GH¢500. All four children have been rescued along with another boy … Read more →
Nice attack: Lorry driver who killed 84 named as convicted criminal born in Tunisia
Posted on | CommentA terrorist who used a hired lorry to kill at least 84 people in a rampage during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice has been named as a convicted criminal well known to the police for armed attacks. Tunisian-born Mohammed Lahouaiei Bouhlel, a 31-year-old … Read more →
PHOTOS: 10-year-old is world’s fattest boy at 192 kilos
Posted on | CommentA morbidly obese ten-year-old, who is reduced to wearing just a sarong as clothes do not fit him, has been put on a crash diet over fears he may die. Arya Permana, named the world’s fattest child, weighs an eye-watering … Read more →
Nana Addo was my personal Lawyer – Otumfuo Osei Tutu
Posted on | CommentThe Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu has revealed that the flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party Nana Akufo-Addo was his personal lawyer, before he ascended the throne. According to the Asante monarch, the former attorney general never charged him legal … Read more →
Cedi to trade at GH¢4.10 against dollar
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana cedi could trade between GH¢3.97-4.10 to the US dollar in the next two months, Ecobank Research has predicted. In its latest Ghana Economic Strategic Report for Quarter 3, the renowned research institution based in London said the dollar … Read more →
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