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Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, nephew to President Nana Akufo-Addo, has said he is not stupid enough to undermine Asante monarch Otumfuo Osei Tutu II as being alleged by the revered traditional leader. At the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi recently, the furious Asante monarch is said to have specifically named Mr Otchere-Darko and the president’s Executive Secretary Nana Asante Bediatuo, as ...

A 53-year old Apostle of the church of Pentecost has been elected chairman to replace Apostle Opoku Onyinah who retires in June. At the church’s 43rd General Council Meeting, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, who is also the Koforidua Area Head passed a two-level electoral test to emerge the sixth leader of the largest pentecostal movement in Ghana. He was presented to the ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi), has denied reports that President Nana Akufo-Addo’s nephew, Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, is undermining Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. Chairman Wontumi and other leading figures of the NPP, including Acting General Secretary John Boadu; Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah, as well as the Regional ...

The Head of Corporate Affairs of Groupe Ndoum, Frank Owosu-Ofori has reiterated the plans and good intentions of President and Chairman of the group, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom who has given a sum of GHC80,000 to some students of the Nduom School of Business and Technology (NBST). According to him, the money given to the first eight (8) students is ...

Bishop Charles Agyinasare, has, through the miracle working hand of God, restored hearing to several Pakistanis who were hard of hearing as well as many others who could not walk. On Day One of a three-day Festival of Miracles in Karachi, the Ghanaian founder of Perez Chapel International (PCI) worshipped with a mammoth crowd and imparted healing unto them. A ...

JoyNews reporter, Latif Iddrisu, says the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called to find out his state of health following an attack on him by uniformed police men. Speaking on the commemoration of World Press Freedom Day, Latif told Roland Walker on the AM Show that Dr Bawumia who doubles as Chairman of the Police Council, called personally to find out how ...

Government has admitted that some of the jobs listed in the 1,096,404 it says have been created under President Nana Akufo-Addo, are not new. This follows questions raised by Minority legislators including Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, on the jobs government says were created in some sectors like the Ministry for the Interior and the National ...

An economist at the University of Ghana Business School Professor Godfred Bokpin has expressed worry over the seeming attempt by government to lead job creation drive in the country. According to the economist, the ideal situation is to have the private sector lead efforts to create jobs in the economy. The comments come on the back of the launch of ...

The government would today begin engaging investors outside the country over plans to raise some $2.5 billion. Unlike previous engagements on the Eurobond sale, the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta and his team are planning to raise the targeted amount by next week. Details Sources say the engagement would start with investors in London, the team will then move to ...

Although the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is not even halfway through its first term, the campaign promise of road construction in the Ashanti Region seems to be on course. Eight out of 30 urban roads projects have been awarded to contractors for work to begin within the next three months. Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, who announced this at ...