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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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Error-ridden brochures: ISD staff angry over Director’s apology
Posted on | CommentWorkers of the Information Services Department (ISD), an arm of the Communications Ministry, are angry with the Department’s acting Director for apologizing for errors that were found in the brochure for Ghana’s 59th Independence Anniversary Parade, since according to them, they were … Read more →
$3.6bn of gold smuggled from January 2014 to January 2016
Posted on | CommentMore than US$3.6 billion worth of gold has been smuggled to India in the last two years, causing the country to lose about US$360 million in tax revenues to the state. Checks by the Graphic Business show that a series … Read more →
I am not NDC – Otumfuo Osei Tutu II
Posted on | CommentThe Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has dismissed rumours that he is a member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), saying he is a Ghanaian and a father figure for his kinsmen. He said he was neither a member … Read more →
GNPC blows GH¢5m on rent
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has defied the order given by Parliament and gone ahead to rent an office space costing a whopping GH¢5 million for just a year. The said office space, Dennis House, is located at Tema … Read more →
There are traitors in my government – Buhari
Posted on | CommentPresident Muhammadu Buhari says there are some persons in his administration who are not “100 percent loyal” to his government. Buhari was speaking in an interview he had with Al Jazeera during his recent trip to Qatar. He … Read more →
PHOTOS: How the press covered the 59th indece parade
Posted on | CommentThis is how the press covered the 59th Independence anniversary parade at the Black Star Square. -graphic
Former first lady of USA dies
Posted on | CommentNancy Reagan has died … TMZ has learned from a close family member. The former first lady was living in Bel Air and has been in failing health in recent years. She died from congestive heart failure at her home. Mrs. … Read more →
Man removed from UK flight over ‘prayer’ message on phone
Posted on | CommentA British man was removed from a plane by armed police at Luton airport after a fellow passenger read a message on his mobile phone about “prayer” and reported him as a security threat. Laolu Opebiyi, 40, from London, said … Read more →
Anas to provide novel training in Investigative Journalism
Posted on | CommentMr. Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Eye PI Media (Tiger Eye) and the US-based research and education think tank, Africa Center for International Law and Accountability (ACILA), will hold novel investigative journalism training programmes for practitioners in … Read more →
Gov’t to recruit 3,000 Mathematics and Science Teachers this year
Posted on | CommentThe Ministry of Education will be recruiting 3,000 Mathematics and Science teachers this year as part of efforts in improving the falling standards of the subjects in the country. Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of Education, announced this during the … Read more →
Security man remanded for defiling 12yr old girl in vehicle
Posted on | CommentKofi Appiah, 20, a security man who had sex with a 12 year old girl in a vehicle at Atomic Junction, near Madina has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. Appiah is said to have bought the victim’s sachet water … Read more →
700 Accra Psychiatric Hospital staff will not be paid February salaries
Posted on | CommentOver 700 staff including nurses and doctors of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, will not be paid their salaries for the month of February. The error has been blamed on some lapses at the Controller and Accountant General’s Department. A software … Read more →
My manhood is bigger than yours – Donald Trump
Posted on | CommentDonald Trump assured a national television audience on Thursday night that he’s not lacking in the manhood department. Marco Rubio has suggested that Trump has ‘small hands,’ and that it could indicate another body part could be undersized. -Dailymail.co.uk
Monday declared public holiday
Posted on | CommentThe Ministry of the Interior has declared Monday 7th March, 2016 a public holiday. A statement signed by Prosper Bani indicated that since 6th March 2016; Ghana’s 59th Independence celebration falls on a Sunday, President John Dramani Mahama by an … Read more →
Prez. Mahama has performed “above average” – Rev Sam Korankye Ankrah
Posted on | CommentRoyalhouse Chapel International founder, Rev Sam Korankye Ankrah has commended President John Dramni Mahama’s style as leadership in an interview with Starr FM. Rating the president’s performance – he said he [President Mahama] has performed “above average” – adding that … Read more →
PHOTO: Lecturer canes KNUST Students?
Posted on | CommentThe whole student body of KNUST was in disbelief and shock when at around 10:40am a picture went viral. The picture came as a great shock and to some disbelief when in the picture was seen a lecturer holding a … Read more →
Cedi to depreciate by 15% in 2016
Posted on | CommentGHANA’S currency the cedi which depreciated by about 18.75 per cent against the US dollar in 2015 is expected to depreciate by about 15 percent this year. This means the cedi which has been battling instability against the American currency … Read more →
Students deboardenised for stealing housemaster’s goat
Posted on | CommentThree final year students of the Adventist Senior High School (SHS) have been withdrawn from the boarding house for stealing their headmaster’s goat. The students, Kwarteng Edward, Osei Kwabena Afriyie and Oppong Davis Owusu of the Paul Nsiah House according … Read more →
FPSO Kwame Nkrumah to shut down; Ghana to lose 250 megawatts power
Posted on | CommentThe country’s power generation could go down by 250 megawatts if the Jubilee Partners’ scheduled shutdown of the Floating, Production Storage and Offtake vessel, FPSO Kwame Nkrumah, for planned maintenance is done on March 20. The maintenance works which would … Read more →
PHOTO: 2 arrested for snatching policeman’s money
Posted on | CommentTwo persons who allegedly snatched GH¢7,700 from a policeman and sped away on a motorbike were arrested after a private vehicle driver chased and knocked them down from the motorbike. Michael Diala, 43, and Godfred Nwaiwu, 22, the two Nigerian … Read more →
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