Patrons of local airlines are expected to from Saturday, 1st April 2017, enjoy 17.5 percent slash on air tickets they purchase with the passage of the Appropriation Bill by Parliament. This is the indication from the Aviation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah. The Bill which is expected to be passed today (Friday), will give approval to ...
An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday remanded one William Kwasi Okyere, a driver into police custody for defiling a 14 year-old girl at Teshie in Accra. William pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded by the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku. The facts of the case as presented by Detective ...
As part of activities to mark the 20th anniversary of Scancom Ghana’s operations in Ghana, the company is constructing a 4.2 million Ghana cedis maternity block for the Tema General Hospital. The 40-bed maternity block would comprise of a 20-bed first stage ward, and another 20-bed lying in ward with one theatre. It would also ...
The Human Rights Division of the High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP), to reinstate DSP Gifty Tehoda. The case involving DSP Tehoda began on September 27, 2011, when one Nana Ama Martins was arrested for possessing large parcels suspected to be cocaine, which later turned into bicarbonate or baking soda. DSP ...
The Chief Executive Officer of Prime Hedge Investments Limited, Richard Appiah, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Financial and Economic division of the High Court, for defrauding 154 persons and companies under the pretext of investing their monies for them. Appiah is said to have collected over GHc 5 million and other ...
Members of the pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, the Delta Force, have pledged support to Mr. George Adjei, the Ashanti regional Security Coordinator they initially attacked. This follows an intervention by the National Executive Council of the NPP. The Delta Force Security Coordinator, Kwadwo Bamba, speaking to Citi News affirmed his group’s commitment to the ...
Do you intend to live for a thousand years? Upload your mind to a machine? Augment your abilities and supplement your skills with electronic implants? Are you looking forward to the coming “singularity” when artificial super-intelligence will surge far ahead of human brainpower and computers take over the world? If you answered any of those ...
The African Business Center for Developing Education (ABCDE), on Thursday 30th March 2017, demonstrated its commitment to mentorship and the development of the education and growth of the continent, as it held its first Annual Forum on Government, Industry and Academia Collaboration. The event, which focused on ways to champion and forge collaborative efforts between ...
The Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has been accused of igniting the confusion that broke out in Parliament on Thursday evening after the Joe Ghartey committee presented its report on the bribery allegations. According to the Member of Parliament for the Ningo Prampram Constituency, Sam George, Opoku Prempeh who is also the MP for ...
120 million Africans are on social media. 1.5 million of them are in Ghana. That is power. It connects us, engages us and enables us to share information, tell stories and totally reimagine our continent. I call it the four Ps of the world of online media: power, protest, profit and pain. The power comes ...
Two Nigerians, Ify Mba, and Ammanda Eze Chioma, both unemployed on Thursday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly trafficking six women from Nigeria to Ghana for commercial sex work. The two pleaded not guilty to the charge and were both granted bail in the sum of GHc70,000.00 with three sureties each, one of ...
Two Nigerians, Ify Mba, and Ammanda Eze Chioma, both unemployed on Thursday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly trafficking six women from Nigeria to Ghana for commercial sex work. The two pleaded not guilty to the charge and were both granted bail in the sum of GHc70,000.00 with three sureties each, one of ...
It was an interesting spectacle in Ghana’s Parliament on Thursday evening when some Members of Parliament nearly traded blows over the report of the Joe Ghartey committee investigating a bribery scandal that rocked the House in January. The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mahama Ayariga, who ...
The Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery, has hailed the media for its efforts in the fight against illegal mining through reports that exposed the alarming rates of destruction by the miners. Speaking at a meeting with retired Police officers, the Minister said the huge media coverage, coupled with public education, has changed people’s perception on ...
A Project Management Expert and a Leadership Consultant, Dr Donald Senanu Agumenu has called on the youth to take up entrepreneurial skills in order to improve their lives and drive the country’s economic growth. Dr Agumenu observed that entrepreneurship is a backbone of every successful economy and it helps citizens to develop themselves. He underscored ...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan after days of speculation that rocked the country’s markets and currency. Mr Gordhan will be replaced by Malusi Gigaba, said a statement issued late on Thursday by the president’s office. Earlier this week, President Zuma recalled Mr Gordhan from planned events in the UK. ...
Fifa is proposing a six-nation play-off tournament to decide the last two slots at the 48-team World Cup in 2026. Football’s world governing body has revealed its plans for how the 48 places will be allocated, with 16 Europeans teams set to qualify. The proposals – approved by Fifa’s president and his counterparts at the ...
Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been arrested and taken into custody over a corruption scandal that led to her dismissal. The 65-year-old was driven to a detention centre south of Seoul after a court approved her arrest. She is accused of allowing her close friend Choi Soon-sil to extort money from companies, including ...
Since the inception of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards eighteen (18) years ago, no Gospel musician has won the ultimate award before; and this has been the bane of Gospel musicians and their fans. The closest they have ever come to winning the prize, is to get nominated and, as usual, there is one Gospel ...
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