A tax expert, Ali Nakyea has called for the recovery of money reportedly lost by the country due to the non-repatriation of proceeds made on the export of about $2.3 billion worth of gold from Ghana. He also called for those responsible for the loss of revenue to the country to be named and punished. The ...

Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Ron Strikker, has renewed his government’s commitment to support development partners in Ghana to fight against forced marriages and premature pregnancies prevalent in deprived communities. He described the practice as outmoded customs which required collective responsibility to tackle head on. H.E Ron Strikker was addressing a durbar of chiefs at ...

Information available to the Daily Statesman indicates that the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service is probing the circumstances under which Ghana was robbed of huge sums of revenue as a result of the non-repatriation of gold export proceeds of over $2.3 billion into the country. Information available to the Daily Statesman indicates ...

A Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced a 30-year-old small-scale miner to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling an 8-year-old school girl. The convict, Augustine Afrifa, pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement and was sentenced on his own plea. The Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mrs. Juliana Essel-Dadzie, told the court that ...

Uber says it will stop operating in the Canadian province of Quebec if authorities push forward with plans to demand additional training of its drivers. Last week, the Quebec government announced legislation that would require Uber drivers to undergo 35 hours of mandatory training – an amount in line with taxi drivers in the province – ...

The Ghana Nurses-Midwives Trainee Association (GNMTA) is unhappy about the exclusion of final year Nursing Assistant Clinical (NAC) and NAP students from the ongoing allowance registration process, essentially, disqualifying these categories of students from the receipt of any allowance. In a Citi News interview, the Greater Accra Zonal President, Biney Ibrahim, said the situation contradicts ...

Ghanaians commuters who risk their lives on the Tema motorway because of the absence of streetlights may have to do so for some 15 more months. The Roads and Highways Minister, Kwesi Amoako-Atta, has said erecting new streetlights will be a waste of resources because they would eventually be torn down for the expansion of the ...

Massive explosions and a blaze at a military ammunition depot in central Ukraine have forced authorities to evacuate 24,000 people and close airspace over the region, officials have said. The blasts occurred late on Tuesday local time at a military base near Kalynivka in the Vynnytsya region, 270 kilometres west of Kiev, Ukrainian emergencies service ...

U.S. Republicans on Tuesday fell short yet again in their seven-year drive to repeal Obamacare, in a bitter defeat that raises more questions about their ability to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda. The party was unable to win enough support from its own senators for a bill to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act and ...

Harry Kane scored a hat-trick as Tottenham maintained their 100% start in the Champions League with victory over Apoel Nicosia. Kane – who also scored twice in Spurs’ opening win over Borussia Dortmund – put his side ahead in the 39th minute, slotting into the bottom-left corner from Toby Alderweireld’s pass. The England striker then ...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as holders Real Madrid maintained their 100% record in Group H by beating Borussia Dortmund. The former Manchester United man took his tally to 109 in the competition by converting from Gareth Bale’s cutback and lashing in Real’s third. Welshman Bale had opened the scoring with a superb volley, while Pierre-Emerick ...

Energy Policy Think Tank, the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), is confident the recent judgment by the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) will boost investment opportunities in the oil sector for Ghana. According to its Executive Director, Ben Boakye, West African countries must take the matter of demarcating their boundaries seriously ...

Social media site Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users “easily express themselves”. Twitter currently limits tweets to 140 characters, but has doubled that to 280 characters for a small group of users. The current character limit was “a major cause of frustration” for some users, the firm said in a blog post. The ...

Chaotic scenes broke out in Uganda’s parliament as MPs debated the contentious removal of the presidential age limit. Tempers flared and lawmakers were filmed brawling after it was alleged an MP had brought a gun into the chamber. The speaker ordered a search but no gun was found, local media reported. The age-limit issue is ...

Some Ghanaian artistes have been shortlisted for the 2017 All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) scheduled for 12th of November, 2017 in Lagos, Nigeria. Suave-singing music sensation Rebecca Acheampongmaa Acheampong, popularly known as Becca, has been nominated in the “Best Female Artiste in West Africa” and the “Best African Collaboration” categories, which also has another Ghanaian-born UK-based ...

Andre and Jordan Ayew were not included in Kwesi Appiah’s 26-man squad named on Tuesday for Ghana’s next 2018 World Cup qualifier against Uganda on October 7. The brothers missed Ghana’s trip to Congo Brazzaville in the last round due to injury and ill health. Kwesi Appiah gave first-time call-ups to Hearts of Oak’s Vincent ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced that a government delegation from the Ivory Coast will be in the country on Thursday to confer with him on the recent maritime dispute judgment solidifying Ghana’s claim to the oil-rich area at Cape Three Points. In 2007, Ghana discovered oil and gas in commercial quantities, and this was followed ...

A former minister of state in John Mahama’s administration, Rashid Pelpuo, has suggested that the arrest of National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicator, Appiah Stadium, is politically motivated. He said the manner in which the arrest was effected, and how the opposition activist was treated suggests it had political undertones. Speaking on Eyewitness News, he said ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso, has announced plans to deploy a new software to make its operations paperless and bring more efficiency. The Hospital Administration and Management Software (HAMS), he said, could begin operating before the close of the year. He was speaking at a ...

Sometime in 2015, I banned my mother from talking to me about Ghana. Since I work as a journalist, I’m the go-to news source for my family and friends. Every day, I’m called upon to do three things; to affirm or deny something they heard on the news, provide more details of a particular story ...