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Goldband data shows 98.8% of Ghana’s small scale gold exports went to Dubai and India in 2025
Posted on with No CommentData obtained by JoyNews Research from GoldBod through a Right to Information request shows that Ghana’s small scale gold exports in 2025 were overwhelmingly concentrated in just two markets. Of the 103,804 kilograms of small-scale gold exported through GoldBod in … Read more →
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Prez. Mahama to commission Komenda Sugar Factory today
Posted on | CommentPresident John Dramani Mahama will today commission the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region. The project came alive after government secured a thirty five million dollar Indian Exim Bank loan facility to revamp it. Currently Ghana’s annual sugar requirement … Read more →
Sustainable natural resource management; Could Ghana be ‘Resource-Cursed’?
Posted on | Comment‘Where is the Wealth of Nations?’ This question is asked by the World Bank in its 2006 Report because it admits revenues generated from natural resources in many countries have escaped the people; those who see and bear the negative … Read more →
Consumers owe ECG GH¢1.6bn
Posted on | CommentThe government, private institutions and individuals owe the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) about GH¢1.6 billion in electricity bills as of 2014. The acting Director of Finance of the ECG, Mr Frank Anokwafo, told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) last … Read more →
Zimbabwe slashes retirement age as cash runs out
Posted on | CommentZimbabwe is so desperate for cash it has cut the retirement age for members of its enormous uniformed forces from 60 years to 50. Only those who fought in the 1970s liberation struggle are allowed to remain in service until … Read more →
Apple fights call to block facetime
Posted on | CommentA patent-licensing firm is seeking to force Apple to suspend its Facetime and iMessage services claiming it has suffered “irreparable harm” as a result of the tech giant’s actions. VirnetX was awarded $625m (£426m) in February after a jury found … Read more →
6 die in Volta Lake boat accident
Posted on | CommentAt least six persons are feared dead after a boat they were travelling with capsized on the Volta Lake on Sunday. The deceased were among over 60 persons travelling on the lake from Nankyeikura to Yeji. According to survivors, the … Read more →
Shipwrecks ‘kill up to 700 migrants’
Posted on | CommentOver 700 migrants are feared dead in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days as they tried desperately to reach Europe in unseaworthy smuggling boats, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday. Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman for … Read more →
Allotey Jacobs not arrested for cocaine – UK High Commission
Posted on | CommentThe British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin has denied reports that the Central Regional Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Allotey Jacobs has been arrested in the UK. Reports of Allotey Jacobs busted at the Heathrow Airport … Read more →
Dangote invests $100 million on new cement plant in Takoradi
Posted on | CommentMulti-billion dollar company Dangote is investing over $100 million in the construction of a new cement plant in the Western regional capital Takoradi by the end of this year. The facility which will be the second by the company since its … Read more →
Block social media on election day? Don’t try – GJA
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has appealed to the police service to rescind its decision to shut down social media platforms during the 2016 elections. The umbrella body of journalists in the country said the idea will adversely affect the … Read more →
Gov’t owes ECG GH¢1bn
Posted on | CommentAvailable statistics indicate that government owed the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) about GH¢1 billion while individuals and corporate institutions also owed the company a little over GH¢600 million as at the end of 2014. Government’s indebtedness to the ECG … Read more →
Northern Region: Teachers use mobile phones in teaching ICT
Posted on | CommentInformation Communication Technology (ICT) education is said to hold the key to the country’s economic transformation and a tool for effective teaching and learning. But teaching of the subject in many schools remain a big challenge, mainly due to the … Read more →
Constitution causing leadership crisis in Ghana – Dr. Armah
Posted on | CommentExecutive Director of VIAM, a Civil Society Organisation, Prince Armah has opined that Ghana is currently suffering from leadership crisis as a result of too much power assigned to our leaders by the Constitution of the Republic. Speaking in an … Read more →
PHOTOS: Pastor caught pants down with another man’s wife
Posted on | CommentWonders, they say, will never end indeed, as we have started experiencing diabolic and shameful act we only used to experience and watch in movies right in the church of God in this endtime. How else could someone known as … Read more →
Girls smuggled into China to be sold as child brides
Posted on | Comment“When I woke up I didn’t know that I was in China.” Lan remembers the night that changed her whole life. While preparing for university along the border in northern Vietnam, a friend she met online asked her to a … Read more →
VIDEO: 3 children burnt to death in Volta Region
Posted on | CommentResidents at Nkwanta in the Volta Region are in a state of shock after three children were burnt beyond recognition when fire razed their home, Wednesday. The fire which started this morning is suspected to have been fuelled by gallons of pre-mix … Read more →
PHOTOS: 19-yr-old gives birth to heaviest baby ever born
Posted on | CommentA mother in India has given birth to a 15-pound baby girl, believed to be the heaviest female infant ever born. The child weighs the same amount as the average six-month-old and is reportedly twice the size of the average … Read more →
Court remands 22-yr-old for attempting to rape 45-yr-old woman
Posted on | CommentA 22-year-old unemployed has been remanded into prison custody for attempting to rape a 45-year-old woman in her farm. The accused, Vincent Donkor’s plea was not taken and would re-appear on June 13. Meanwhile, the docket of the case has … Read more →
Let’s get rid of AU holiday – Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom
Posted on | 1 CommentThe Founder of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom says he will ‘get rid of’ the African Union holiday when he becomes President. Today, Wednesday May 25 marks the AU Day commemoration and the day is observed … Read more →
Africa marks AU day
Posted on | CommentAfrica Day is the annual commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), presently recognised as the African Union (AU). Africa Day 2016 is being celebrated in furtherance of the AU’s theme for this year: “Human … Read more →
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