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The Akyem Oda Divisional Police Command has destroyed mining equipments belonging to some illegal miners at Akyem Aboabo in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region. Kasapa News Eastern regional Correspondent Kojo Ansah reports that the equipments destroyed are Chanfai machines which were being used for alluvia mining on the Birim river. The Oda Divisional Police Command upon a ...

The Ministry of Interior has indicated that Friday, September 1, 2017, which marks the Eid al-Adha festival, is a statutory public holiday and must be observed as such throughout the country. This was contained in a statement by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, on Thursday, August 24. In the Islamic lunar calendar, Eid al-Adha falls on the 10th day of ...

The acting National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay has said Paul Afoko remains suspended from the party indefinitely. Speaking Thursday on Accra based Citi FM, the chairman of the National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) said, “I am not sure that is going to happen.” “The one who I replaced was suspended and will remain suspended so ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday inaugurated the Ghana Astronomy Radio Observatory at Kuntunse in the Greater Accra Region, describing the development as the beginning of a new era in the country’s quest to harness the potential of space science and technology for accelerated national development. The new era, he said, would not only witness the deepening of knowledge ...

In a statement, Betty Mould Issrisu revealed that the NDC party continues to remain a strong political party and that such internal wranglings are “characteristics of politics”. “All these bodies and persons meet and run the NDC on a day by day basis. I know because I am at the party office almost daily. Surely, there are disagreements sometimes publicly ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration has been commended for facilitating the upcoming paperless port system that has been in the pipeline since 2012. Project Development Manager of the Ghana Community Network Services (GCNet), Carl Sackey, said although the September 1, 2017, dateline for the implementation of the initiative is just hitting public knowledge, ground works started a long time ago. Mr. ...

An aide to the Chief Executive of Engineers and Planners (E&P), Rafiq Mahama says the statement issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on attempts by Exton Cubic Group Limited to prospect in Nyinahin bauxite deposit is needless. According to him, the company has been in talks with the EPA in a bid to acquire the necessary licenses that will ...

The Exton Cubic Group Limited has disclosed that they are losing over $40,000 daily as a result of the seizure of their equipment by government. According to Officials of the firm in a press conference, the losses started 5 days ago, when vehicles belonging to its sub-contractor, Engineers and Planners were impounded in the Nyinahin Township on the orders of ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand, Kennedy Agyapong continues to descend on some appointees of the current government observing that their actions and inactions are disgracing the party he labored for. On Oman Fm’s Boiling Point on Thursday, he alleged that a number of appointees at the seat of government are making filthy money indicating that some persons are demanding bribes ...

The fate of a three-year-old girl who suffered bruises in her private parts as a result of an alleged indecent assault on her by a female teacher at the Valley View University (VVU) Basic School hangs in the balance. The Nursery One teacher, identified as Ms Lilly Baafi, allegedly thrust a broom stick into the toddler’s private parts, resulting in ...