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Ghanaians desirous of travelling to the United States of America (USA) face a daunting task as President Donald Trump has endorsed a legislation that will abolish Visa Lottery, as well as curb the level of legal immigration using skills-based immigration system. Analysts say if the bill is passed and implemented, it could cut legal migration to US by some 50%. ...

Two people have not been accounted for after a tow truck managed to pull out a mini bus that plunged into the Kpesie Lagoon along the La-Teshie beach road in Accra, police have said. “The brief information we have received is that this particular vehicle was coming from La Palm Hotel and heading towards the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping ...

Embattled businessman in the controversial GHc51 million judgment debt case, Alfred Agbesi Woyome has filed a case at the African Court on Human and People’s Rights, a day after his petition at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) was thrown out. The ICC rejected Woyome’s petition citing Article 6(4) of its Arbitration Rules and also the lack of establishment of ...

An Accra High Court Presided over by Justice Kwaku Ackaah Boafo has ordered for the release of the Indian businessman, Ashok Kumar Sivaram, who has been in detention at the Airport for two days. The judge, however, ordered his passport be retained by the Ghana Immigration Service. Mr. Sivaram, the judge added, should report to the Immigration Service Tuesday August ...

Five houses have been demolished at Adentan Frafraha in the Greater Accra Region. The homes, flattened by bulldozers in the company of soldiers early Friday morning, included a four-bedroom facility, an uncompleted storey building and a single room. A church in the community is also said to have been downed. The soldiers said the land on which the buildings were ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has made a recommendation to the government to increase the 17.5% VAT by 1 percent to cater for the free Senior High School (SHS) project. According to the Institute, the move will provide a sustainable source of funding for the project internally. The implementation of free SHS is expected to cost Ghana about 400 ...

The Vice President, Dr Mahamamudu Bawumia has left Accra for a three-day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dr. Bawumia is going to that country to attend the inauguration of Dr Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who has been re-elected for his second term in office. Whilst there, Bawumia will explore areas for further ...

Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has said a decision by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce to decline to proceed with an arbitration he filed in connection with attempts by the government of Ghana to retrieve GHS51.3m from him was apt and unsurprising. A statement issued by Mr Wyome’s aide Reginald Seth Dogbey said it “is ...

Adom News is reporting that the mother of an eighteen-year-old Benedicta Mensah Denkey who has threatened to commit suicide after her nude pictures were leaked on social media has encouraged her to commit suicide because she is fed up with her daughter. The website said the 18-year old indicated that she playfully took the picture with a colleague at school ...

Embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome has said he anticipated the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (“court”) will throw out his petition filed to the court. According to him, the court’s decision is right and he expected it, although it came at a substantial cost ($5,000 ) to him in terms of legal fees. Mr Woyome ...