The 2022 edition of ‘Made in Ghana UK Festival’is scheduled to take place in London on June 25 and 26.The event will bring together leading Ghanaian and international brands under one roof to exhibit their various products as well as broker business ties and relations. It is being held under the patronage of Ghana’s High Commissioner, His Excellency Papa Owusu Ankomah, Thomas Mbomba, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, His Majesty Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi VII, Omanhen of Abeadze Traditional Area,

The wife and children of Mr. Kofi Dua-Adonteng, one time Managing Director of Ghana Post Company Limited and now a private legal practitioner,organised a grand reception to celebrate the 70th birthday of the head of the family last Sunday. The event, which coincided with the commemoration of Father’s Day, was attended by close friends and family members at the residence of the Dua-Adontengs, at Dome in Accra. Explaining the rationale for the event, Mrs. Doris Dua-Adonteng, wife of the celebrant,

The Accra Central Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service has been presented with six new TruCAM II speed detection devices to enforce law on the speed limit in Accra.  The devices would also help identify other traffic violations such as aggressive driving, misuse of designated lanes, distracted driving, obstructing traffic, and seatbelt violations, among others. The items were made possible through the initiative of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) with support

For more than two decades, governments, industry organisations, and NGOs have intervened in Ghana with the explicit aim of eliminating child labour. Some of their actions have been brutal. Parents and caregivers have been arrested, property has been damaged, and children have been taken from their families at gunpoint. Those causing this turmoil justify their actions by alleging that the villagers are trafficking and enslaving their own youth. Ghanaians in rural and impoverished areas don’t dispute

Francis Adedokun, a Bolt driver, has explained why he returned $4,050 (about N1.6 million) belonging to a passenger. Mr Adedokun in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja said the passenger, Mrs Tajudeen Toyin-Oke, was involved in a traffic accident and he offered to take her home. “Mr and Mrs Toyin-Oke had an accident with their car along Airport Road, at the roundabout before Gossa Market, I was driving behind them when they had the accident,” he said. According

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, has responded to a protest letter sent to him by 14 Justices of the Supreme Court complaining of poor welfare conditions and the deplorable state of the court. PREMIUM TIMES reported that the leaked memo chronicling the operational challenges that have almost crippled the efficient adjudication of cases at the court was the first of its kind in the 58-year history of the court. Mr Muhammad responded to the leaked memo in a statement issued on

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the effectiveness of major toilet wash products in the market. The resolution to embark on the investigation followed a motion moved by Sergius Ogun from Edo State. In his motion, Ogun argued that toilet cleaning disinfectants such as harpic and hypo used in most households in Nigeria are ineffective, poor quality and leave much to be desired. The lawmaker expressed concerns that the advertisement and reality are contradictory, hence, the companies

The House of Representatives has rejected a motion seeking to cause the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the amendment made to Section 84(8) of the Electoral Act 2022. The House at plenary presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase, directed the mover of the motion, Hon. Ben Igbakpa, from Delta State to “follow proper procedure.” Recall that the honourable members, shortly after the primary elections, had criticised the amended Section 84(8) of the

Fuel queues hit major cities of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun on Monday, forcing motorists to spend hours at filling stations. In Lagos and Ogun states, The PUNCH witnessed long queues at several filling stations such as Mobil, Capital, Fatgbems, Enyo, Total Energies and NNPC. Though there were products at these filling stations, which also sold at N165/litre, motorists struggled to get gasoline with which to run their economic lives. There were also queues in states bordering the FCT, including Nasarawa

Dmitry Muratov, the Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, has auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize medal for a record $103.5m to help Ukrainian children displaced by the war. The gold medal was sold to an as yet unidentified phone bidder at the sale in New York, which was organised by Heritage Auctions. The sale was spirited, with lots of applause and bidders egging one another on to increase the total. Muratov was seen recording videos of the bidding screen and those

The Sri Lankan cabinet has approved constitutional reforms that will limit the powers of the president in a move aimed at appeasing the protesters calling for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to quit over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. The decision to amend the constitution to clip the president’s wide-ranging powers was taken in a cabinet meeting on Monday, Dinouk Colombage, media adviser for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. A draft of the so-called

A floating restaurant that was a famous Hong Kong landmark has sunk, days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years. The Jumbo restaurant capsized in the South China Sea while on its way to an undisclosed location, its parent company said. Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises said it was “very saddened by the incident” but that no crew members were injured. The restaurant closed in March 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic hit. More than 3 million guests are

Tens of thousands of the UK’s railway workers began the network’s biggest strike action in more than 30 years, leaving commuters facing chaos. About 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers and station staff were holding a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, with two more planned for Thursday and Saturday. The dispute centres on pay, working conditions and job security as the UK’s railways struggle to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. There were almost 1 billion train journeys in the UK

French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected a resignation offer from the prime minister he appointed, saying instead that the government must “stay on task and act”. Elisabeth Borne was criticised by some commentators after Mr Macron’s coalition lost its majority on Sunday. Her future looked under threat after the result, which left the president needing to secure support from rivals. He is set to meet his political opponents for rare talks on Tuesday. But neither Marine Le Pen’s

The head of the Kremlin’s security council has threatened the “population of Lithuania” in an escalation of the row over Lithuanian railway’s refusal to allow some goods to cross the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. After a meeting in the region, which is wedged between Lithuania and Poland, 800 miles from Moscow, Nikolai Patrushev upped the rhetoric by threatening “serious consequences”. “Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions,” Patrushev said. “Appropriate measures

The 2022 World Cup is right around the corner.  The tournament gets underway on November 21, with the final taking place under a month later on December 18, 2022. The group stage draw has come and gone, with eight sets of four teams set to compete, with a 32-team format at the World Cup. Here are all 32 teams as the competition edges closer, and we analyze which nations are the favourites to win, who are the star players and managers to watch out for; Group B: England, Iran, USA, Ukraine/Wales

The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has appealed to the Bench not to spare anyone who attacks journalist(s) in their line of duty, no matter the attacker’s political affiliation and social standing. This, he argues, was the only way the Bench could also help to stop attacks on media practitioners in the country.  The Minister, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ofoase-Ayirebi, was speaking at the opening ceremony of a training workshop for judges on the need to protect

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), now basking in a bolstered logistical support, has switched to inland checkpoints as a second layer to clamp down on illegal migration. Under a highly security collaboration, personnel of GIS are assisted at these checkpoints by other security agencies to leave no room for complacency. The Chronicle understands that these initial inland checkpoints are mounted in the Upper East, West and the Northern corridors, bordering Togo and Burkina Faso respectively, which

The Head of Economic Regulation at the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mr. Abass Ibrahim Tasunti, has said the authority does not determine the price of fuel in the country, as was being perceived by Ghanaians. According to him, the NPA was responsible for regulating the prices of petroleum products to ensure that suppliers and consumers get value for money. He also dismissed suggestions that oil prices should come down because the country was also an oil producer, saying we consume more than

The Western North Regional Security Council, chaired by Richard Ebbah Obeng, at its second quarter meeting has constituted a Special Joint Anti-Galamsey Taskforce to wage a war against illegal mining in the Region. The Special Joint Anti-Galamsey Taskforce comprises of the Regional Police Command, the Regional Immigration Command, the Military, the National Investigation Bureau, the National Security, and the Fire Service Command. The taskforce has been tasked to wage a sustained war against illegal