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A former deputy Attorney General and Minster of Justice Dr. Dominic Ayine has poopooed warnings by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) that the minority’s insistence of insider-trading and conflict of interest in the issuance of the $2.25 billion bond could spell doom for the country’s economy. The Minority Wednesday petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission in Luxembourg in its ...

The Embassy of Italy in Ghana has congratulated the Ghana government, Italian Oil & Gas Company, ENI, VITOL and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) for the first oil which has been extracted well ahead of schedule from the OCTP project. The Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy, Lorenzo Pinelli, on behalf of his Ambassador Giovanni Favilli in a press release Thursday ...

Policy think tank IMANI Ghana has questioned the Bureau of National Investigations’ motive for exonerating Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) MD Alfred Obeng Boateng of any wrongdoing in the sale of contaminated fuel ahead of a ministerial committee set up by the Ministry of Energy to investigate the matter. The MD came under attack with calls on ...

The 3rd edition of the Tatas and Friends Foundation’s biggest charity gathering; Kenkey for the Needy is slated for July 29 at the Efua Sutherland Park (Children’s Park) from 10am to 9pm. The aim of the event is to primarily raise funds for deprived schools in various parts of the country. Tatas and Friends uses the event to tackle educational ...

General Secretary of the Textile, Garment and Leather Employees’ Union (TEGLU), Abraham Koomson has said President Akufo-Addo’s nicely sewn African prints shirts are made from fake textiles. President Akufo-Addo, who is known for his sharp suits, has in the past few months developed a new love for African prints and is making waves with his new shirts, much to the ...

Female residents of Kokobeng Electoral Area, a suburb of the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region have vowed not to share a common public place of convenience with their male counterparts. The women have gone wild over sharing of a toilet facility together with men which they described as “dangerous” for their safety. According to the women, they risk ...

The founder and leader of Royal House Chapel International,Sam Korankye Ankrah has said the people of Denkyira-Boase have been cursed by God and as a result cannot produce any leader for killing Major Maxwell Mahama in cold blood. Major Maxwell Mahama was murdered in cold blood after he was mistaken for an armed robber by some youth in Denkyira-Boase some ...

Some children from slum communities in Accra and some West and Central African countries have invaded the streets of Accra, begging for alms to feed themselves and their families. While their peers are in school, some of these child beggars, with the tacit endorsement of their parents, can be found on some of the city’s major roads, including the ceremonial ...

Ghana’s youngest Member of Parliament (MP), Ms Francisca Oteng Mensah, of the Kwabre East Constituency of the Ashanti Region has graduated with a Second Class Upper Division in LLB from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). At this year’s graduation ceremony in Kumasi last Saturday, she formed part of ...

It has been revealed that a fetish priest in the Nsuta area of the Western Region forewarned illegal miners (galamseyers) in the community not to operate in the pit that caved in last Monday and killed about 17 of them. According to some of the residents, 22 ‘galamseyers’ did not heed the advice from the fetish priest and decided to ...