The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has recorded a total 39,217 air traffic movements last year. The figure represented 7.9 per cent increase over last year’s 36, 354 movements, Managing Director of GACL, Mr John Dekyem Attafuah has stated. He attributed the growth to the increase in both international and domestic movements in 2017, explaining that the entry of Air [...] The post GACL
Kusasis residing in the Tema Metropolis and its environs have installed a chief to serve as a custodian of their culture and traditions as well as their traditional leader in their adopted home. Naaba Apas-Sugru I, who is the third person to be installed chief of the Kusasi community in Tema, replaces Naaba Ibrahim Awuni, who died four years ago. [...] The post Kusasis in Tema install chief appeared
The Ministry of Finance has repudiated claims by the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) that the ministry could not account for GH¢403.7 million of Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA). The Ghanaian Times on Monday, reported the PIAC Vice Chairman, Dr Thomas Stevens, as saying that out of an allocation of GH¢736.03 million to support the ABFA, only GH¢332.29 million was [...] The post Finance
AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine, in collaboration with African Mining Services (AMS), on Tuesday, donated a Toyota Hilux Pick up to the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Health Directorate, to facilitate to monitoring and supervision of its activities, to improve health in the area. Iduaprim Mine also presented six desk top computers, four printers and four external hard drives to support the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal [...] The post 2
AS of yesterday, there were a total of 15,094 prisoners held in custody across the country’s prisons in excess of the authorised capacity of 9,875, the Director of Prisons at the Ghana Prisons Service, DOP Sylvester K.B. Rabbles, has revealed. This means that the prisons are overcrowded by 5,219 representing 52.9 per cent, DOP Rabbles added. According to him, 87 [...] The post Ghana’s prisons choked
The various assemblies across the country, must as a matter of concern, disclose projects being funded with petroleum resources, the Public Interest and Accountability Committee, (PIAC) has urged. That PIAC explained would enhance transparency and accountability on how the country’s oil funds have been utilised. “Where petroleum revenues are the only source of funding, the projects should be branded as [...] The post Disclose
Ghana has won the bid to host the 22nd Association of Insurance Supervisory Authorities for Developing Countries (AISADC) and the Association of Insurers and Reinsurers of Developing Countries (AIRDC) Biennial Educational Conference in 2020. It won the bid to host the event, which is aimed at strengthening the insurance market of developing countries, and fostering inter-regional cooperation within the international [...] The post Ghana
The Amasaman Divisional Police yesterday arrested 21 suspected criminals, believed to be Nigerians, in a swoop on identified criminal hideouts within Pokuase District. The Police retrieved 29 laptop computers, 30 mobile phones, 17 pen drives and 95 SIM cards for different networks. They were arrested in a three-bedroom apartment around Pokuase ACP area. Two other suspects were [...] The post Amasaman
The Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Ron Strikker, has paid a courtesy call on the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, on Tuesday, in Accra. The visit was to afford Mr Strikker the opportunity to interact with the minister, and discuss pertinent issues bothering on sanitation, including progress made in the implementation of the Water, [...] The post Netherlands
Turkish media outlets have published CCTV footage which they say shows evidence of a plot linked to missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It shows purported Saudi intelligence officers entering and leaving Turkey via Istanbul airport. Mr Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi monarchy, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 and has not been seen since. Turkish authorities [...] The post Turkish
A man has been arrested in Germany in connection with the rape and murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova. Bulgarian officials say a man named Severin Krasimirov has been detained at their request. The country’s Interior Minister, Mladen Marinov, said the suspect was a DNA match for evidence recovered at the crime scene. Current evidence does not suggest the attack [...] The post TV
The Indonesian government is planning to build a mass grave monument in western Palu’s devastated village of Balaroa as chances to retrieve more bodies from muds mixed with debris of houses are running slim. The Balaroa village was sucked down into the earth due to liquefaction following the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that hit the Central Sulawesi’s provincial capital of Palu [...] The post Indonesia
Tenants at the premises of the Ghana Trade Fair Development Company (GTDC) have kicked against moves by authorities to evacuate them by December this year. According to them authorities should find “better means of engaging them” in the redevelopment of the site instead of bullying them out “of a place where we have traded and stayed for the larger part [...] The post GTDC tenants kick against
Dr. John Yaw Akparep, a lecturer of the School of Business and Law, University for Development Studies (UDS), has advocated a serious national campaign to fight the menace of illegal felling of trees which remains a major threat to the country’s forest cover. He explained that such a campaign should be similar to the current fight against illegal mining (galamsey), [...] The post Illegal
Two promising Ghanaian bantamweight boxers, Isaac Sackey and Wasiru Mohammed will go at each other’s throat on Saturday for the WBO Africa bantamweight title at the indoor hall of the Bukom Boxing Arena. The hunger, grit and determination shown in the build up to the fight clearly manifest their resolve to the hold of the belt that was relinquished by [...] The post Wasiru, Sackey face-off
The much-anticipated clash between Ghana’s Black Stars and the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone has been cancelled by the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF). Ghana was hoping to use the double-header billed for today at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium and the return leg on Monday in Sierra Leone to breathe life into their qualification quest to AFCON 2019 [...] The post AFCON qualifier off appeared first
The Deputy Coach of the Black Stars, Ibrahim Tanko has explained the reasons behind the call-up of the team’s captain, Asamoah Gyan ahead of the ill-fated 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Sierra Leone. Gyan, 32, was excluded from Kwesi Appiah’s 21-man Black Stars squad that suffered a shocking 1-0 defeat to Kenya last month. The former Al Ain [...] The post Tanko explains Gyan’s
PAUL Pogba says he would love a Frenchman to win the Ballon d’Or, but does not believe it should be him. The Manchester United midfielder was named on the 30-man shortlist for the award for the best player of the year, with the winner to be announced in Paris on December 3. There were seven Frenchmen named on the list [...] The post Pogba: I don’t deserve Ballon d’Or appeared
MANCHESTER City have an edge on their rivals if they ever try to re-sign new England star Jadon Sancho. The Blues sold the 18-year-old winger to Borussia Dortmund for around £8million in the summer of 2017, after the Londoner decided against signing a lucrative new deal. City had offered him the biggest deal in the history of their academy – [...] The post City lead chase for Dortmund star
The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) confirmed the Irishman is suspended from fighting until November 6, with no contact allowed until October 28. McGregor, who has called for a rematch with Khabib Nurmagomedov following his fourth-round tap-out loss, will not take part in any action until his medical suspension, which is routine in UFC, is over. Saturday’s controversial fight in [...] The post McGregor
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