The acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay has urged the president, Nana Akufo-Addo to prioritize loyalists of the NPP in the government’s programs. According to him, it is “only fair that those who worked for the government to be in power” to be first time beneficiaries of the government’s policy ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has defended its decision asking Exton Cubic Group to halt prospecting of Bauxite in the Tano-Offin Forest Reserve in the Ashanti Region. EPA insists that Exton breached the agency’s requirement during the exercise. Exton Cubic which is prospecting Bauxite in the Forest Reserve together with Ibrahim Mahama’s company; Engineers and ...
The First Lady Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called for the full support and participation of men in addressing the problem of mother-to-child HIV transmission as well as breast cancer in Ghana. Speaking at the launch of the National Acceleration Plan for Pediatric HIV Services at Ho in the Volta Region, Mrs Akufo-Addo said that though ...
The Madina Divisional Police Command has arrested about 26 Nigerians suspected to be fraudsters. The suspects are aged between 19 and 36. They were arrested in a swoop carried out by the police at Ashaley Botwe on Friday. According to the police, they seized 36 laptops, 26 mobile phones and a number pen drives in ...
Friday, September 1, has been declared a statutory public holiday by the Ministry of the Interior. The holiday is to enable the celebration of the Eid ul-Adha. A statement signed by the sector minister, Ambrose Dery entreated the public to observe the holiday throughout the country. The Eid ul-Adha is an Islamic religious festival to ...
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has hit back after James Cameron called the film a “step backwards” for women. The Titanic director has called Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot, an “objectified icon”. Patty Jenkins has responded saying “there is no right or wrong kind of powerful woman”. She pointed out the film’s “massive female ...
Some leading members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been spotted at the New Patriotic Party’s ongoing National Delegates Congress in the Central Region. The NDC’s Deputy General Secretary Koku Anyidoho and its Central Regional Chairman, Allotey Jacobs, are leading some members of the NDC to solidarize with the governing party at its historic ...
Some leading members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been spotted at the New Patriotic Party’s ongoing National Delegates Conference in the Central Region. The NDC’s Deputy General Secretary Koku Anyidoho and its Central Regional Chairman, Allotey Jacobs, are leading some members of the NDC to solidarize with the governing party at its historic ...
Ousmane Dembele has the potential to be as good as Neymar and could be a future Ballon d’Or winner, says ex-England and Bayern Munich player Owen Hargreaves. Dembele is set to join Barcelona for a fee that could rise to £135.5m from German club Borussia Dortmund The fee is second only in value to the ...
A court in South Korea has sentenced Samsung’s billionaire heir-apparent Lee Jae-yong to five years in prison for corruption. Lee was convicted of bribery in a scandal that also saw the impeachment of South Korea’s former president. The case has gripped the public amid growing anger against South Korea’s biggest companies, known as chaebols. Lee, ...
Hurricane Harvey has slammed into Texas with winds of up to 130mph (215 km/h) battering coastal areas. The storm, which has even stronger gusts, is the most powerful to hit the US mainland for 12 years. Up to 40in (1m) of rain is expected to fall. President Donald Trump has signed a disaster proclamation for ...
Former Volkswagen engineer James Liang is taking the fall for his employer’s sins. Liang has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison and has been ordered to pay a $200,000 fine for his part in the German automaker’s deception about diesel emissions. That fine is 10 times the amount prosecutors were seeking, according to Reuters. While his defence ...
Lawyer for Exton Cubic Limited, Reindorf Twumasi Ankrah has served notice of a suit against the state over what he describes as the unlawful seizure of Ibrahim Mahama’s Engineers and Planners (E&P) vehicles and mining equipment. Vehicles and equipment belonging to Exton Cubic’s sub-contractor, Ibrahim Mahama’s Engineers and Planners (E&P), were impounded in the Nyinahin ...
Members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) will today, Saturday, converge at the Central Regional capital, Cape Coast to take part in the party’s national delegates conference. The conference is to help the party to among other things take stock of its achievements in the last few years. The event will be in two ...
The MP for Sagnarigu, A.B.A Fuseini has accused the New Patriotic Party government of engaging in “nepotism, cronyism and selective politics” following the new guidelines for the selection of caterers for the School Feeding Programme. The School Feeding Programme has earmarked 30 percent of the schools in each district as a protocol allocation for the Minister ...
The Eastern Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Felix Okyere Addo has lamented the financial and human resource constraints confronting his outfit. Speaking at a meeting between the Eastern Regional Security Council, the anti-galamsey task-force Operation Vanguard, and other stakeholders, he called on the government equip the EPA for them to effectively carry out ...
Struggling Ghanaian students on Ghana Education Trust Fund scholarships abroad have given themselves a much bigger voice by utilising two of the world’s most popular social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook. The account names, ‘GhanaStudentsAbroad’ on Twitter, and ‘SOS ghanascholarshipsecretariat’ on Facebook have been highlighting struggles of the students and the apparent neglect by the ...
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