The professionalism and ethical conduct of the Ghana Police Service is being called to question following a twitter user’s terrible experience at a police check point at Dzorwulu in Accra. The user in a series of tweets on Monday [MArch 27, 2017] narrated how a police officer at the Dzorwulu check point made his way ...
The Chinese illegal miners and their Ghanaian accomplices who were arrested on River Ankobra in the Western Region last Friday, appeared at the Sekondi High Court on Monday [March 27th 2017], where they were remanded into police custody to reappear on April 10, 2017. The accused miners were first sent to the Sekondi Magistrate Court immediately ...
The organizer of the Delta Force, a pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group in Kumasi, has apologized to President Nana Akufo-Addo and members of the party following its assault on the newly-appointed Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, George Agyei. The organizer, Kwadwo Bamba, who was arrested on Saturday for leading about two hundred members of his group ...
Forty (40) former Members of Parliament, who served under the Kufuor Administration, have sued the Attorney-General and the Ministry of Finance over pensions owed them, demanding at least GHc 233,495 each. Among the plaintiffs are the Senior Minister in the Nana Akufo-Addo administration, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, and the acting New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman, Freddie Blay and ...
The Attorney General has been dragged before the Supreme Court by two persons over the allocation of a portion of the District Assembly Common Fund to Members of Parliament, and Regional Coordinating Councils. The plaintiffs, John Ndebugri Awuni and Richard Kwadwo Nyarko, are law students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC). According to them, ...
Ghana is practically begging China to help in the fight against Chinese nationals who are contributing to the destruction of its environment through illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, today [Monday], held an emergency meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, and the Mayor of China’s Guangxi ...
Economist, and Head of Finance Department at the University of Ghana Business School, Professor Godfred Bokpin has criticized the Bank of Ghana for delaying in announcing a reduction in the policy rate. The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana today [27/3/2017] reduced the policy rate by 200 basis points to 23.5 percent from ...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has charged tertiary institutions across the country to produce more ‘graduate entrepreneurs’ instead of students who depend solely on government for jobs. According to the President, these institutions are graded by the ability of their students to easily penetrate the job market. Speaking at the International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Business and Technology ...
Aid agencies say the “shocking” killing of six aid workers in South Sudan on Saturday is causing them to re-assess how and when they can deliver supplies. The victims were ambushed by unknown attackers when travelling between Juba and the town of Pibor to the northwest. Oxfam said the attack “demonstrates how dangerous it is ...
Even before the backlash she’s receiving for suggesting that wearing of miniskirts could attract rapists hence the need for girls to dress decently, the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa-Djaba, is in the news again for stating that, although Albinos are considered as disabled persons in some countries, Ghana recognizes people’s abilities, ...
The case involving the five Chinese nationals and their five Ghanaian accomplices who were arrested for illegal mining, have been transferred from the Sekondi Magistrate Court to the Sekondi Circuit Court. The illegal miners were arrested on March 24, 2017, in a swoop by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Rapid Deployment Force of ...
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana has reduced the policy rate to 23.5 percent. This represents a 200 basis point reduction from the previous figure; 25.5 percent. Governor of the Central bank, Dr. Abdul Nashiru Issahaku disclosed this at the press briefing to conclude the second MPC meeting for 2017. Dr Issahaku ...
A labour division of the High Court has adjourned the hearing of an application seeking to place an injunction on the management of the National Service Scheme (NSS), from going ahead to dismiss workers recruited during the transition period. The adjournment followed the inability of the Attorney General’s office to file a response to the ...
Newly elected President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Ahmad Ahmad will begin work today. The Madagascan chaired a meeting on Sunday with staff of the organization at the CAF Secretariat in Cairo, Egypt. “This house belongs to you. CAF is yours. Let’s protect our institution. We politicians are just passing by but you ...
Former Black Stars assistant coach Gerard Nus left Accra on Sunday to his native Spain after clearing his hotel bills. Nus missed his flight on Saturday night after failing to settle bills incurred during his seven-week stay. According to reports he was involved in a melee with the hotel staff as he insisted his host ...
The twenty biggest banks in the eurozone booked over a quarter of their 2015 profits in tax havens, with Luxembourg and Ireland the favourite destinations, a report by Oxfam said on Monday. The findings come as the tax affairs of major multinationals are under the microscope after revelations in the LuxLeaks and Panama Papers scandals ...
Rap star Nicki Minaj is reportedly re-shooting her latest music video after the terrorist attack in London last week. Nicki Minaj is reportedly re-shooting her latest music video following the terrorist attack in London last week. The rap star filmed scenes for the ‘No Frauds’ video on Westminster Bridge just a day before three people ...
Twitter has begun surveying members on a paid subscription service that would give frequent users more tools for using the social network for marketing, journalism and other fields. The survey this week showed Twitter is looking at building a more powerful version of Tweetdeck, the dashboard that many use to manage their accounts. An upgraded ...
The sacked President of the Korle Bu Senior Staff Association (KOSSA), Charles Offei-Palm, has been reinstated. A letter intercepted by citifmonline.com said, Mr. Offei-Palm is to resume work “with immediate effect”. Mr Offei-Palm was interdicted in April last year for flouting the hospital’s media policy and making some offensive comments against the management in a ...
A total of 2,214 students who pursued various post-graduate programmes at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) graduated at the 49th congregation on Saturday. They included 51, PhD, 266 MPhil, and 1,719 MBA, MSc, MEd, MA as well as Post-Graduate Diploma and Post Graduate Certificate in various disciplines including nursing. Addressing the congregation, the Vice ...
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