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Popular Ghanaian millionaire Ibrahim Daouda is reportedly in the grips of the police for defrauding a friend to the tune of $400,000. Daouda is alleged to have received a bank transfer on behalf of one Heloo and has refused to give the money to the owner. However, the young millionaire isn’t ready to go down alone. He has thus threatened ...

A UN human rights expert has commended Ghana as a champion of African democracy and a country which has achieved some important development milestones. But says unless growing inequality and continuing high poverty rates are addressed the country will fall far short of meeting the key UN Sustainable Development Goals, including the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. “Ghana is ...

Some four officials of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) including the former Director General, Ernest Thompson have been charged with wilfully causing financial loss to the state. Their indictment is as a result of an investigation by EOCO on the procurement of an ICT Software costing $72 million. The Company Secretary of SSNIT speaking during a press ...

President Akufo-Addo today [Wednesday)], held a meeting with the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Williams at the Buckingham Palace, to discuss issues of trade and cooperation among Commonwealth countries. The two discussed the Syrian crisis and the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting underway in ...

The United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Prof. Philip Alston has described Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, as deluded over his comments on gay rights. Prof. Oquaye has on several occasions expressed his reservations about promoting gay rights in Ghana. Addressing a group of religious leaders who paid a courtesy call on him in ...

Three persons suspected to be Ghanaians have been arrested in Britain for being part of a 13-member drug syndicate that smuggled £32 million (GH¢203,001,958.59) worth of cocaine and cannabis into the country. The three, Felicia Kufour, Mark Agoro, 52 and Wilfred Owusu, 30 were arrested in separate raids across the southern part of England with other members of the gang ...

The lawyer for some former Ministers and Members of Parliament accused of taking double salaries; Victor Adawudu has debunked claims that the Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene in the matter. The Majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu alleged that the Minority Leader asked the presidency to mediate in the ongoing investigations. “The Minority Leader ...

A Ghanaian living in the UK has been jailed 20 years for the prominent role he played in a cocaine smuggling deal at the Heathrow Airport in the UK. Wilfred Owusu, 30, was part of a 13-member drug smuggling syndicate busted in December 2016 at the busy airport and were jailed for a total of 139 years on Tuesday, April ...

Former workers of defunct domestic banks, Capital and UT, are rejecting claims that they pledged their End of Service Benefit (ESB) and Provident Fund (PF) for loans at the banks while working. The former workers in a statement argued that the funds must be released to them since it is their personal contributions made through an arrangement for monthly deductions ...

A former Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo, has called on flagbearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Joshua Alabi to ensure unity in his constituency before seeking the top position of the party. According to Mr Afotey Agbo, Professor Alabi hasn’t done much in his own constituency in Nungua to vie for the flagbearer position of ...