Claims of alleged corruption in Qatar’s successful 2022 World Cup bid have been published in the German media. Bild newspaper says it has obtained the “suppressed” 2014 report authored by former Fifa independent ethics investigator Michael Garcia. Bild’s report includes details of a $2m (£1.6m) sum allegedly paid to the 10-year-old daughter of a Fifa official. Garcia quit in December ...

The Greater Accra Regional Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has threatened to quit politics if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is able to build a single factory during the next four years. Anthony Nukpenu said the Nana Addo administration lacks the ability to deliver on one of its key campaign promises. “I will quit politics if Nana ...

CropLife Ghana, in collaboration with the Chemical Control Management Centre (CCMC) of EPA and Plant Quarantine Officers of MoFA/PPRSD, has organized a one-day anti-counterfeiting sensitization workshop for agrochemical dealers and importers. The workshop which was held in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital emphasized on the identification of illegal agrochemicals and all those vices that affect the quality of agrochemicals that ...

The Queen is to receive an 8% increase in income from public funds, after the Crown Estate’s profits rose by £24m. The Sovereign Grant, which pays for the salaries of her household, official travel and upkeep of palaces, is to increase by more than £6m in 2018/19. It comes as accounts revealed the Queen’s official net expenditure last year increased ...

Incarcerated medical doctor, Sulley Ali-Gabass has said he yearns for the day he will celebrate the Eid-ul-Fitr festivities with his family back home. The disgraced medical doctor, who is serving a 25-year jail term for defilement broke his silence for the first time, since he started doing time some two years ago at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison. An Accra ...

Political Science Lecturer with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Richard Amoako Baah has challenged the ruling of the Supreme Court on the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees for the treaty to either be sent back to parliament for ratification or government deports them. “All that Supreme Court has to do is to look at that law ...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers is demanding for the prosecution of officials of BOST over the sale of some 5 million liters of contaminated fuel. BOST had earlier sanctioned the sale of the contaminated fuel out of a number of options after considering that to be economically prudent. According to the Petroleum Chamber, a meeting convened by the National Petroleum ...

Ten people are feared dead in a gory accident on the Winneba – Cape Coast highway in the Central region Monday night around 7:30pm. The accident occurred Monday night specifically at Okyereko in Gomoa West near Winneba. Several others also sustained various degrees of injuries were rushed to the Winneba government hospital and the trauma and specialist centre for treatment. ...

The woes of the man behind the importation of the controversial 43, but now 55 armor-plated fleet of vehicles for the presidency, Kwabena Boateng Aidoo, is far from over in spite of President Akufo-Addo’s directive that, government takes delivery of the vehicles. Intelligence picked by The aL-hAJJ indicate that the contract for the importation of the vehicles is likely to ...

Russia’s FSB security agency has said the Telegram mobile messaging app was used by a suicide bomber who killed 15 people in St Petersburg in April. Authorities have already threatened to block the app, founded by Russian businessman Pavel Durov, for refusing to sign up to new data laws. Mr Durov has refused to let regulators access encrypted messages on ...