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A man has five senses. But when you sit in the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, you immediately gain two more. With its pedestrian object sensors, the car detects obstruction a moment quicker than a tired or distracted driver, long enough to prevent a lethal hit. Or take the speed limit function which immediately slows you down when the fun of accelerating ...

Switzerland-based gold company, Swiss Gold Global, says it is not affiliated to Ghanaian gold trader, Menzgold Ghana and has not authorised it or Menzbanc to use its name. Swiss Gold Global in an e-mail conversation with Joy News’ Manasseh Awuni Azure Tuesday, said it has no association whatsoever with Menzgold, contrary to claims by the latter. The revelation contradicts the ...

The Auditor General (AG) has uncovered a disturbing practice at the Judicial Service where various sums of money cannot be reconciled. The AG said in its 2015 report that “the service consistently failed to obtain bank statements from HFC bank, as a result it was unable to reconcile revenue totaling GHS2,969,409.39 and deposits amounting to GHS2,846,435.82 and £75,000.00” collected on ...

The Coalition of Bonded Allied Health Professionals has revealed that over 500 of its members have been notified of their employment. According to Coalition, the recruitment is the result of the protests they held at the Ministry of Health over their lack of employment. President of the Coalition of Bonded Allied Health Professionals, Solomon Yeboah, told Accra-based Citi FM that ...

GCB Bank is not under any obligation to keep employees of UT Bank and Capital Bank who may be rendered jobless after the collapse of both banks, Labour Analyst, Kofi Davor has said. At least about fifty percent of the workers of UT and Capital bank will be laid off, following the acquisition of the banks by GCB. Citi News ...

The Marine Police and personnel from the Air Force Military will soon join the Operation Vanguard Taskforce in the Eastern region to help clamp down on about 3,500 defiant illegal miners engaging in alluvia mining on the Birim River. The illegal miners popularly known as Chanfai are still working on the Apapam to Akyem Fosu stretch of the Birim River ...

A local governance expert, Issaka Amon Kotei, has kicked against the creation of new administrative regions in Ghana. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has established the Regional Reorganisation and Development Ministry to carve out new regions within the next four years. About six regions are likely to be created out of the Western, Volta, Northern and Brong Ahafo regions. ...

The deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has challenged Victor Smith to be bold and file a petition against former President JJ Rawlings. The former Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom said in a recent interview that it would be unfair for the leadership of the NDC to discipline former Attorney General Martin Amidu ...

The writing was on the wall for the collapsed Capital Bank as far back as at least 2014, according to memo sighted and published by the Insight Newspaper in January 2015, which went under the radar at the time. The Insight Newspaper obtained information indicating that the Capital Bank, then First Capital Plus Bank, was on the verge of collapse ...

An emerging youth movement of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region christened, Integrity Against Corruption (I.A.C) has condemned recent attacks on the party founder, Former President, Jerry John Rawlings for speaking about the state of the party. The former President at the recent Ada Asafotsufiame was said to have criticized the perceived corruption that has engulfed ...