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The Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST) is reeling under massive debts, compelling it to run to the capital market to borrow a “whopping” $120,000.000.00, the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana has alleged. The said amount, according to COPEC in a statement it issued on Thursday April 5, is being sourced from the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB). Last ...

Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has condemned the circulation of images about travel details contained in the passport of former President John Dramani Mahama. Abdul-Hamid said certain information about public officials and individuals need not be brandished in the public space since it does not augur well especially when the individuals involved are high ranking Ghanaian officials. “When I said that ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has cautioned heads of Senior High School (SHS) to desist from preventing final year students who owed school fees from writing the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). A memo signed by the Director General of the GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa to the Regional Directors of the GES said it had come to ...

New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong claims 80 percent of custom officers in Ghana are members of the opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC). The maverick politician who was speaking on Adom TV’s “Badwam” program revealed the officers have been sabotaging activities of the Ghana Revenue Authority. According to him, though the Commissioner of Ghana ...

Deputy Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has hit back at the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) over their intended strike, describing it as pointless. According to the Member of Parliament for the Ofoase-Ayirebi constituency, Government has already released GH40, 368,203 to pay the arrears, therefore, there was no need for the strike. NAGRAT declared a strike effective Wednesday, 4 ...

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has stated emphatically that free Senior High School (SHS) beneficiaries are not paying school fees. He has therefore dared anybody who has evidence that headmasters are charging school fees from beneficiaries of the free SHS programme to produce it. According to him, some fiendish people, who are not happy with the good works ...

Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has denied ever saying in an interview that President Nana Akufo-Addo cannot build all the 216 factories that the New Patriotic Party promised in the lead-up to the 2016 general elections. Mr Abdul-Hamid was quoted as saying on Wednesday, 4 April in an interview with Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen political talk show that: “…President Akufo-Addo was ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asunafo North, Eric Opoku, has warned that it will be very difficult for anybody to stop him when he starts to retaliate to all the attacks committed against him by main political opponent, George Boakye, and his thugs. He said he has intentionally kept quiet and placed surveillance on the Police with the hope ...

The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has suspended two of its officials who were allegedly involved in keying in names of 50 ‘fake’ journalists who traveled to Gold Coast, Australia. According to media reports, the two – Hussein Addy Akwetey and Christine Ashley – are employees of the National Sports Authority (NSA) who were engaged by the GOC on a temporal ...

The Tema West chairman of New Patriotic Party, Dennis Amfo Sefah, has implored President Nana Akufo-Addo to forgive Mr Koku Anyidoho over his alleged coup rants. Mr Amfo Sefah who is popularly known as Nana Boakye said the NDC Deputy general secretary had been cut to size already and did not need the President to soil his impeccable reputation to ...