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The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) will later this year launch its industrial fund aimed at providing long to medium term financing at relatively cheaper rates to businesses. The setting up of the fund is coming at a time when most Small and Medium Enterprises find it difficult accessing credit from financial institutions. CEO of AGI, Seth Twum Akwaaboah, told ...

The Acting General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described threats by the party’s vigilante group Invincible Forces to abandon the NPP for lack of jobs as uncalled-for. At the maiden town hall meeting organized by the Information Ministry in Tema Tuesday August 2,2017, members of the group showed up to question why they had been side ...

Abelemkpe Mawarko branch manager Jihad Chabaan, who is standing trial for assaulting a caterer at the restaurant, has been found guilty of assault and causing harm. The Abeka District Court judge has sentenced him to 9 months in prison. Jihad, who is accused of dipping the face of Evelyn Boakye into blended pepper was dragged to court last March over ...

Some irate members of the NPP’s invisible forces Monday stormed the town hall meeting at Tema to threaten government of mayhem if they are not immediately given jobs. According to the group, officials of the Akufo-Addo government, who hitherto to the elections were on good terms with them, suddenly do not pick up their calls if they call them. “We ...

The President of the West African Federation of Engineering Organization, Ing Magnus Lincoln Quarshie, says recent comments by the Minister for Works and Housing against Ghanaian Engineers are in bad taste. Atta Akyea had said at a forum that priority will be given to foreign engineers on key government projects because of the inability of local engineers execute projects to ...

The Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo will today Wednesday, August 2, hold a press conference to reveal sanctions proffered against government officials who have looted state resources. “We want to give an update to fellow Ghanaians through the media on the status of implementing disallowances and surcharges as prescribed by the constitution and recently pronounced by the Supreme Court of Ghana,” Domelevo ...

The embattled chairperson of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei is being unfairly targetted because she is cleaning the rot at the commission, IMANI President Franklin Cudjoe has said. According to him, calls for the EC boss to step aside while investigations into the impasse at the commission is underway is irrational and unconstitutional. The EC chair and two of her ...

A Ghanaian pilot, Captain Charles William Minyila has been appointed as the Chief Pilot by the board of Aero Surveys, operators of Starbow airline, an indigenous Ghanaian airliner. A statement issued by the CEO, Eric Antwi, on behalf of the board of Aero Surveys, said Captain Minyila will be responsible for the supervision of flight crew training and line operations ...

Today can report that there is no end in sight on the verbal attacks on the General Overseer and founder of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Pastor Mensa Otabil. The latest to join this bandwagon, Today gathered, is the controversial pastor and leader of the Heaven’s Gate Ministry International, Nicholas Osei, popularly known as ‘Kumchacha.’ The vociferous man of ...

On the back of the Minority’s walk out of Parliament over claims of bias against the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu says the Speaker did not err in his decision to forward the motion on the AMERI deal to the House’s Mines and Energy Committee without any debate. Mr. Mensah Bonsu further described the ...