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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly and the police will from next week wage war on traders and hawkers on the streets of Accra as part of a major decongestion exercise. From Monday, January 8, 2017, a taskforce made up police and personnel from the AMA will forcefully evict hawkers and traders who have encroached on pavements, footbridges, other open sources and ...

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has urged authorities to resort to prosecution as a measure in stopping the incessant harassment of female students in the country’s basic and secondary schools. Such a measure, GNAT says will not only save the future of such girls but also help restore the lost glory of the profession as many Ghanaians are ...

The bravado exhibited by one Mr Attakura Aaron Joseph, head of Micro Finance, Atwima Mponua Rural Bank, Abuakwa branch has led to the death of a suspected armed robber who on Tuesday dawn broke into his house to rob him. The masked criminals numbering three, were reported to have gone to house number plot 32, Block C, New Sensu Toase ...

I make no apologies at all for returning to the subject of galamsey, much as I would have liked to talk about other issues in my column today. For I once heard my elders demand, rhetorically: “kokoram aye wo a na woosu atipayier?” [If an unmentionable and calamitous disease (such as cancer) has caught you, do you cry over a ...

Vice president of Group Nduom, Papa-Wassa Chiefy Nduom has urged the Bank of Ghana to diversify its investment by placing some of its funds in bitcoin. He urged the central bank to invest about one percent of Ghana’s reserves in bitcoin. Mr Ndoum said, “I don’t think it’s a gamble, I think every investment is a gamble, getting out of ...

The Convener for Media Coalition Against Galamsey (MCAG), Kenneth Ashigbey is demanding commitment from the Attorney-General’s (A-G) Department to ensure ongoing fight against succeeds. Mr. Ashigbey is unhappy the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Gloria Akuffo, has not responded to a petition the Coalition sent to her office in October 2017, regarding the poor handling of cases of illegal mining ...

Parliament has been recalled to attend an emergency sitting on Friday to consider a motion for a parliamentary probe into the purported sale of seats at an event for participants to sit close to the President. A statement signed by the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, said: “In pursuance of Article 112 (3) of the Constitution of the ...

President Akufo-Addo has assented to five Acts including that of the Special Prosecutor which were passed by Parliament last year. The others are Northern Development Authority, Middle Belt Devt Authority, Coastal Development Authority, and the Zongo Development Fund. Addressing a brief ceremony attended by the Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, the Minister for Information, Mustapha Hamid and his deputy Kojo Oppong ...

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, on Monday, said the government will this year take delivery of about 275 new ambulances for use in all the districts across the country. He said the procurement of the ambulances is factored into the one constituency, one million dollars agenda promised by the government, and was meant “to ensure that each district has ...

The Chief Imam, Sheik Dr. Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, has called on government to address the high unemployment rate in the country. According to him, the current levels of unemployment in the country are worrying and must be dealt with swiftly in 2018. Speaking to Citi News, spokesperson of the Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu also asked the government to prioritize ...