Ursula Owusu-Ekuful The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma West Constituency, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has added her voice to the call on government to arrest and prosecute government officials who were involved in the payment of GH₵ 51.2 million judgment debt to business man Alfred Agbesi Woyome. “Government must not shield officials who aided or were […]
Kwabena Kesse The Chief Executive Officer of Kessben Group of Companies, Kwabena Kesse, has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court, Thurday. The Kumasi based business man is being held for two counts of money laundering and forgery of documents, charges he pleaded not guilty to. He is accused of illegally transferring $127,931,727.65 out of […]
Justice Apau The Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) has tendered in evidence at the ongoing Commission of Enquiry investigating the payment of judgement debts, more payment certificates issued to Messrs Construction Pioneers (CP) for the construction of roads in the country. The company was said to have received £85.2 million, in addition to a previous sum […]
Dumega Raymond Okudzeto The penchant to destroy initiatives, especially on the business plane, continues to trigger telling repercussions in our body politics. It has been many years now, and there appears to be no end in sight for the absurdity under the incumbent political administration. With its genesis in the PNDC era when identifiable businessmen […]
Betty Mould-Iddrisu Tough-talking Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central in the Central Region, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has begun another crusade for the arrest of former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, for authorising the fraudulent payment of GH¢52million to Alfred Agbesi Woyome. Madam Betty Mould-Iddrisu was the Attorney-General who ordered the payment of […]
Moro Issah, Tofic Mohammed and Ali Mohammed The Dansoman Divisional Police Command has arrested three out of six suspected armed robbers who raided a house and raped a victim in the process. The lady victim, aged about 30 years, was raped by three of the suspected armed robbers in turns at gunpoint after succeeding in robbing her […]
The arrest of Kumasi-based business mogul, Kwabena Kesse, CEO of Kessben Group of Companies, by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) officials, has angered his legal team. The business man was arrested on Monday by the BNI for allegedly indulging in fraud and money laundering. Mr. Kesse was reportedly picked up at the Kotoka International […]
Nana Akufo-Addo (2nd left), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (3rd left) with the Upper West Regional executives Nana Akufo-Addo’s entry into the Upper East regional capital did not only charge the political atmosphere in the Bolgatanga Municipality, but also brought along a boost in economic activities, with the sale of New Patriotic Party (NPP) paraphernalia leading the […]
Some Assembly members walking out of the venue. Members of the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly last Wednesday boycotted the 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the 4th Session due to the failure of the assembly to execute some projects in the municipality. The aggrieved members, who have about four months to end their term, said they would continue […]
Opagyakotwere Bonsra Afriyie II (in cloth) and Mr. Alex Kyeremeh THE PARAMOUNT Chief of the Adansi Traditional Area, Opagyakotwere Bonsra Afriyie II, has called on government to make Senior High School (SHS) education free for all Ghanaian children, particularly those from poor homes.  According to the traditional ruler, education has a wide range of benefits, especially […]
Economic policies are normally contained in the annual Budget Statement presented to Parliament or National Assembly. They are formulated in response to the development needs of a country. These policies could be reactive or proactive depending on the exigencies of the moment. The socio-economic dynamics of a country is a critical factor that influences the […]
The market women with ‘proverbial stones’ Traders at the Makola, Kantamanto and Okaishie markets in Accra have hailed Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as ‘prophets’, as the warnings they proffered regarding the consequences of voting for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have all come to pass. Carrying stones of all shapes and […]
An unnamed Black Stars player has abandoned plans to marry a woman in Tamale after pornographic videos and photos involving his future wife was leaked to the Ghanaian public on Wednesday. The family of the Black Stars player whose name GHANAsoccernet.com is withholding have reacted angrily to the sex video and photos and have shelved […]
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie According to former General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), all the presidential hopefuls apart from Nana Akufo-Addo will be deluding themselves if they believe delegates will vote for them to lead the party in 2016. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie has therefore urged some ‘over confident ‘aspiring flagbearers of the party to […]
Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, EC Boss and Abu Ramadan The Supreme Court yesterday unanimously granted an order restraining the electoral Commission (EC) from using National health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) identity cards in the impending voter registration exercise. The EC had scheduled a revision of the voters’ register for last week to register citizens who had recently turned 18 and sought to use the NHIS cards […]
Kwaku Mensah, one of the plaintiffs A total of 74 former employees of Scanstyle Mim Limited, a timber and wood processing company at Mim in the Brong-Ahafo Region, have dragged the company and the National Labour Commission (NLC) to court. The plaintiffs are among 205 workers laid off by Scanstyle in 2008 after they had […]
Sammy Dakwa Binfoh Leaders Of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) have appealed to teacher unions in the country to control the frequency of strike actions embarked upon in attempts to compel government to response to their grievances. The union has stated that although lecturers may have legitimate concerns, they should endeavour to rescind their decisions in certain instances due to the consequence of such industrial actions on students. […]
Mona Quartey The Ghana cedi’s abysmal performance on a daily basis against major foreign currencies has earned it notoriety as the worst performing currency in the world. Even though Government, at the beginning of the year, was considering going for a bail-out from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it has now turned around to announce it is no longer interested in any IMF support. Government has […]
(From right to left) Gabriel Edgal, Karen Akiwumi Tanoh, and Mr Amakye at the launch of the Airport branch recently Gabriel Edgal, Managing Director /Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of First Atlantic Bank, says his outfit intends to support Ghana’s productive sector, especially businesses that generate foreign exchange to reduce the recurrence of trade deficits. According […]
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