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The United States Embassy in Ghana has been invited by the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament over the recent deportation of some 63 Ghanaians from that country. The meeting is expected to come off later today, Thursday, June 22, 2017. There are reports that the Ghanaians who were deported last week were living in the US without the requisite documentations. ...

MP for Nadowli-Kaleo constituency, Alban Bagbin, has revealed he did all kinds of odd jobs including working as a farm labourer in order to survive. Recounting his childhood experience on Starr Chat with Bola Ray on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 the second deputy Speaker of Parliament said he lost his father while in Senior High School and he had to ...

The Asset Retrieval Taskforce at the Presidency yesterday seized expensive vehicles said to belong to the state from an individual. The taskforce stormed an area called Oforikrom, near Nsawam in the Eastern Region in the early hours and raided a private property, where the 37 cars, including those registered in the name of State Protocol Department (SPD), were found. Akwasi ...

Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has indicated he is hopeful Ghana will secure victory in the ongoing Maritime boundary dispute with Ivory Coast in September. Speaking at a stakeholders’ forum on Ghana’s 10 years’ experience as commercial oil producer in Accra organized by the Petroleum Commission, Mr. Agyarko believes this will help attract more investors into the oil and gas sector. ...

The board chairman of COCOBOD Hackman Owusu-Agyemang has revealed that the salary of the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, Joseph Boahen Aidoo is twice that of president Akufo-Addo. This is after he bemoaned what he described as “outrageous” the amount paid the former CEO of the state-owned company Dr. Steven Opuni – who was said to be ...

Thirty-two out of the 58 suspects involved in the lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama will face prosecution on July 6, 2017. The court which discharged 26 of the suspects were rearrested by the police as investigations continued into their alleged involvement in the case. The Accra central district court also ordered that one of the suspects who claimed to be ...

Gender advocates in the country should push for the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana, Dr Raymond Atuguba, has said. He described the bill as one with good intentions to empower women to be economically independent, adding, “This is a bill which, among others, seeks to ...

Farmers are rejecting imported seeds meant for the government’s ‘Planting for Food and Jobs programme’. According to the farmers, the imported seeds do not suit local conditions for proper cultivation. The Minister of Agriculture Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie confessed, “Government has had to import seeds for the programme due to local seed producers’ inability to meet up with demands.” On ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is ready to return to the Flagstaff House in 2020, the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin has said. His comments come days after the 13-member Committee tasked by the NDC to conduct a comprehensive review of its “planning, execution and outcomes” of campaign and participation in the election submitted its ...

Kumasi-based serial caller for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Frank Appiah, popularly called Appiah Stadium has accused the party’s National Organiser of being a chronic womanizer. “If he comes to Kumasi, he keeps changing girls at Golden Tulip City Hotel. Some with big booties and others slim. Small small girls are his taste always hiding in his car when ...