Two excavators seized by the District Chief Executive for Ellembelle in the Western region have disappeared from the custody of the Ellembelle Police Command. The excavators were seized on the orders of the DCE on Wednesday, this week, for engaging in illegal mining, also known as galamsey. The excavators were subsequently handed over to the Police, but could not be found since yesterday, when the DCE decided to check on the seized equipment. Speaking to news men at the site where the equipment were
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has assured the international business community that any investment they will make in Ghana especially in the mining sector will be safe because country has stable democracy and good corporate governance. According to the Minister, it was not for nothing that Ghana earned the enviable accolade, “the beacon of democracy in Africa.” He indicated that Ghana has for the past thirty years conducted successful elections and handed over
The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, says he is mesmerised by documents challenging his claim on the 200 ambulances procured by the erstwhile Mahama government to boost the fleet of the Ghana Ambulance Service. According to him, he was not privy to those contract documents between the Ministry of Health and Big Sea General Trading LLC that the Government of Ghana bears the financial responsibility to clear the medical accessories of the ambulances at the Tema Port. Prior to the evidence,
The Chief of Klagon, Nii Bortey Klan I, a.k.a. Samuel Nii Bortey Kofi, together with 10 others,are being held liable for the alleged murder of one Ibrahim Mohammed Abass over land issue. Abass, who was once a close confidant and very instrumental person in Nii Bortey Klan I’s traditional administration, was allegedly killed by land guards on the instructions of the Chief on November 15, 2020 in Accra. Nii Bortey Klan I,and his alleged group of land guards, namely Hamidu Fuseini alias Sankara,
The rate of unemployment in the country is very worrying, to say the least. Governments have over the years worked to reduce the country’s high unemployment rates, particularly since the establishment of the second republic. Ghana’s population increased to 30.8 million in 2021 from 24.7 million in 2010, according to the census. The 2021 population and housing census reported by the Ghana Statistical Service on its website, shows that more than 1.55 million people, or 13.4% of the country’s
Dear Senior Opupulepu, How are you do? As for me and my mine, we are all do fine. Senior, I wonder if you are still a Roman Katholici. Even if you have stopped, I still believe that you remember what members of this church do during Lent and Good Fridays, which they call, the Stations of the Cross. Senior, I am not referring to a trotro station or thief slappers’ station. To refresh your memories, it is that holy ritual, where these Katholico people will kneel down fourteen times during fourteen
Mr. Elijah Adansi-Bonah, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Obuasi, has heaped praises on Persons Living with Disability (PWDs) who had benefited from the Assembly’s share of the Disability Fund for the productive use of the items given them. Speaking at a short ceremony to handover the items to some of the beneficiaries in Obuasi, the MCE indicated that reports from the Monitoring Team assigned by the Assembly to assess how the items were being used by the beneficiaries, pointed to the fact that
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has announced that it is fast recovering from the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the hospital, Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso, stated that the evidence was in a rebound of its operations at the 2022 Mid-Year Performance Review Conference of the hospital in Kumasi on Wednesday. The Head of facility said Specialised Outpatient Department attendance recorded 125,897 cases against 114,783 for the same period in 2021,
The Rivers State Governor, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, has threatened to help the Peoples Democratic Party lose the 2023 presidential election. The governor issued the threat at the commissioning of the internal road in Omerelu community in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers on Thursday. The governor who was responding to recent comments by the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu said the chairman is exhibiting arrogance. He said “Doctor Ayu said we are children. Yes, the children brought you
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo. He was arrested around 9 am on Thursday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Sources told Channels Television’s judiciary correspondent, Shola Soyele, that he was picked up by officials of the EFCC to answer questions bordering on alleged financial crimes. The leadership of the Commission has kept mum over the arrest but they are expected to issue a
Defaulters of the ban on commercial motorcycle operators (Okada) in Lagos State risk a three-year jail term as enforcement for the phase two ban starts on Friday. This is according to the Lagos State Commissioner for Transport, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, who spoke during a news conference in Ikeja. He said the phase two okada ban was in four local government areas and six local council development areas (LCDAs). “We implore the general public to comply, as both the rider and passenger are both liable
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections, Bola Tinubu, has said that Nigerians appear to be in confusion about the state of the nation. He stated this on Wednesday in Abuja during the 70th birthday celebration of Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto. “I listened to the panelists, we appear to be in confusion about our nation,” the ex-Lagos State governor said. “We inherited speaking in tongues from the Bible but
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. – Proverbs 1:7 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take. – Proverbs 3:5-6. INTRODUCTION Proverbs 16-18 are part of a larger division of the book of Proverbs that contains wisdom for everyday life. Three of the most well-known proverbs are found in these chapters: “Pride comes before destruction,
A 26-year-old aluminium fabricator, Seidu Misbow, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Hohoe Circuit Court for stealing an electric meter. Misbow pleaded not guilty with an explanation, but his explanation could not exonerate him after full trial by the court, presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey. Pronouncing judgment, the court noted that the sentence would serve as deterrent to others, who intended to commit similar offences. Chief Inspector Charles Aziati, the prosecutor, told
The war in Ethiopia, between the federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has resumed at full scale. The route back to negotiations is uncertain at best. The two sides agree that the first shots were fired in the early morning of 24 August on the southern borders of Tigray, where it adjoins the neighbouring Amhara state at the town of Kobo. Each side blames the other for firing those shots. What is clear – from information obtained from Western diplomats –
Red Devils, Gunners renew their rivalry SuperSport viewers on DStv and GOtv can look forward to a classic Premier League rivalry, as Manchester United welcome Arsenal to Old Trafford on the evening of Sunday 4 September 2022. DStv and GOtv is the only true home of football in Africa, offering a range and depth of action that no other rival can match – it’s literally ‘Unbeatable Football’! If you’re going to spend your money on something, it may as well be on the best football in the world.
The mortal remains of Nana Yaa Ofosuhemaa Agyeman, wife of Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Haruna Attah, was laid to rest on Wednesday August 31, 2022 after a private funeral and burial service held at the Lashibi Funeral Home in Accra. Nana Yaa, a warm and sweet person, passed on while on admission at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in Accra, on Wednesday 17 August 2022. She worked at the Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation (GBC) and then as Editor of the defunct Accra Daily Mail (ADM), a private newspaper,
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