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Acting Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Peter Abum-Sarkodie, has reportedly been fired. In a letter signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Bediatuo Asante, Mr. Abum-Sarkodie was asked to hand over to the Deputy Director of the Agency in charge of Field Operations, John Pwamang. The statement added that the decision had been taken by President ...

A private legal practitioner has taken up the case of a nine-week-old who died at the St. Gregory Hospital at Kasoa in the Central Region. Nana Obiri Boahen says he is going to offer free legal service to the parents of little Prosper, who died after a doctor reportedly pulled off the oxygen machine as a result of the inability ...

An Islamic cleric Sheikh Bagaya has welcomed the suggestion by the Science and Environment minister that Muslim leaders in the country should consider using text messages to call Muslims to prayer instead of the usual loudspeakers. In the view of the renowned heart surgeon Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, such an action will help reduce the noise pollution in Ghana. “In ...

Management of pro-government newspaper Daily Guide has said they are yet to be served with the defamation suit filed against them by the embattled former Chief Executive officer of COCOBOD. Dr. Stephen Opuni has sued the Daily Guide newspaper over a publication that suggested that he gambled with the finances of the state firm while he was in charge. The ...

Justice Clement Honyenuga, the High Court judge hearing the case involving former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has put the case on hold. This follows a disagreement between lawyers of Dr Opuni and Deputy Attorney General Godfred Dame regarding a request made by the ex-CEO’s lawyers that they be furnished with documents the state intends relying ...

Police in Somanya, the Municipal capital of Yilo Krobo in the Eastern Region, have arrested a young man (name withheld) for allegedly impersonating the Somanya District Police Commander, ASP Isaac Otsin. The suspect, currently in Police custody, who is a resident of Sra, a suburb of Somanya was grabbed at his hideout, when he claimed to be the District Police ...

The president of Accra Business School and the presiding of the Pleasant Place church, Bishop Gideon Titi-Ofei, has urged government to continue in its efforts at creating an enabling environment for business growth. According to the renowned bishop and academician, there is a direct correlation between business growth and democratic stability. He said unemployment and poverty are the main threats ...

A nine-week-old baby boy has died at the St Gregory Hospital at Kasoa in the Central Region because his parents could not afford the cost of aiding his breathing with an oxygen machine. Little Prosper’s parents tell Joy News a medical doctor on duty pulled the plug from the oxygen machine because they could not pay GHS533 to keep their ...

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and officials of the National Security have arrested five persons suspected to be part of a cartel dealing in illegal smuggling of petroleum products. The operation took place at Kpone landing beach near Tema around 10pm and lasted for seven hours. The ring leader Isaac Allotey, 34, with four others including the owner of one ...

Ghana’s liquid gold, Star Beer, has extended its on-going ‘Star Win Gold’ promotion, which was launched December 2017 to the end of April 2018. The promo, which has so far rewarded about 167 consumers with 2.5g gold bars each, is one of Star beer’s ceremonies to reward its loyal consumers with gold bars. Apart from the gold bars, the promo ...