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Bank Crisis: Your Deposits Are Safe, Ignore Rumours – UniCredit To Customers

The Management of uniCredit has called on its customers to remain calm and ignore rumours that the firm is facing challenges following the consolidation of its sister company – uniBank- with others into the Consolidated Bank of Ghana (CBG). The BoG merged uniBank, Sovereign bank, Beige bank, Royal bank and Construction bank under the new name CBG. The merger, according ...

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Name Foreign Ministry building after Kofi Annan – Minority in Parliament

As the nation pays her last respects to the memory of one of the greatest Ghanaian and African of all time, His Excellency Kofi Atta Annan – an iconic global statesman and international diplomat par excellence, the Minority Caucus in Parliament joins his family, Ghanaians home and abroad, the African people, the United Nations and the international community in bidding ...

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Liberia President George Weah Plays Friendly Against Nigeria

Liberia president George Weah played in an international friendly for his country on Tuesday – at the age of 51. Weah, the first African footballer to win Fifa’s World Player of the Year award, featured for 79 minutes of a 2-1 home defeat by Nigeria in Monrovia. Liberia arranged the friendly to retire their number 14 shirt, worn by Weah ...

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SEC stops Menzgold from gold investment trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has written to gold-trading firm, Menzgold Ghana Company, to stop forthwith, all trading in gold without licence. In the 3 September 2018 letter signed by Deputy Director General, Paul Ababio, the SEC said: “In September 2017, the SEC issued a public notice indicating that it does not regulate Menzgold. The SEC began further investigations ...

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Samira Donates Books On Int’l Literacy Day

The Second Lady Samira Bawumia has donated books to schools in the Wenchi and Techiman Municipalities in the Brong Ahafo region. Ten schools benefited from her benevolence under the auspices of her not-for-profit organization – the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP). Announcing the package to the schools during the celebration of International Literacy Day, Mrs Bawumia was optimistic it ...

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Auditor General fights Board Chair; petitions Akufo-Addo

The Auditor General Daniel Domelevo is accusing his board chairman Prof. Edward Dua-Agyeman and the board of the Audit Service of “unlawful interferences and violations” of his constitutional mandate. He has since petitioned President Akufo-Addo to intervene over what he described as “manipulation” of procurement processes. According to him, procurement decisions have been taken in his absence among other decisions ...

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Govt Slashes Allowance For Youth In Afforestation Staff Over NABCo

Government has slashed the allowances of the staff of the Youth in Afforestation program in order to accommodate the cost involved in paying workers of the newly introduced Nation Builders Corps (NABCo). The allowance for supervisors, according to Starr News sources, has been slashed from the monthly GHC1,200.00 to GHC700.00. A statement from the Director Operations of the program Hugh ...

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Global hunger increasing, UN warns

The number of people suffering from hunger has increased during the past three years, after years of decline, a UN report suggests. According to the analysis, 821 million people globally were undernourished in 2017 – about one person in every nine. And nearly 151 million under-fives – 22% of the global total – have their growth stunted by poor nutrition. ...

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