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A former Deputy Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in charge of operations, Joseph Yamin has stated that the very day a portrait of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was brought to his office was the day he quit. “I could not have sat down in that office for Nana Addo’s picture to be hanged over my head…Never ...

Embattled Chinese galamsey queen, Aisha Huang may not be the real kingpin of illegal mining activities in Ghana after all if what the Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Mr Kenneth Ashigbey said is anything to go by. “I know of one man who has got over 1,000 excavators. He owns a Chinese restaurant in Accra but ...

?Former President John Mahama’s Advisor on Governance and Corruption, Mr Daniel Batidam, has said he will be happy to see the Akufo-Addo government prosecute and jail former officials of the Mahama administration for corruption. The Executive Director at African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption (APNAC) told Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Friday, 26 May that if such prosecutions ...

A ravaging fire has razed down a six bedroom house of a teacher while in church at Somanya in the Eastern region. The fire which reportedly started in one of the single rooms, rented to a tenant, destroyed several properties including, academic certificates, cloths and a cash amount of GHC10,000. The fire quickly spread to other rooms burning all properties ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must stop politicising projects in the road sector and complete those started by the previous administration, Amasaman MP Emmanuel Nii Laryea has said. According to him, governance is a continuous process, therefore, Mr Akufo-Addo should halt the partisanship. His comments follow a demonstration by residents and drivers at Manhean, a community in the Amasaman constituency, ...

A former Deputy Coordinator of the National Disaster management Organisation (NADMO) in charge of operations, Joseph Yamin has stated that the very day a portrait of president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was brought to his office was the day he quit. “I could not have sat down in that office for Nana Addo’s picture to be hanged over my head…Never ...

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has revealed plans to set up a fund to address financing challenges of researchers in universities and other institutions. Sector Minister, Professor Kwabena Frimpong- Boateng, says a bill to that effect is currently being drafted for subsequent passage into law. “We have to create a vehicle that will allow this fund to be ...

Of course there are varieties of ways people/decision makerscan use to size upunfolding eventsin an attempt to understand and if necessary devise action plan(s) to address those critical emerging issues. From personal observation,one of the most effective means to connect, gauge, or figure out an unfiltered mood of the Ghanaian society isto ridein taxi quite often. Perhaps every Ghanaian knows ...

The devastation caused by fall armyworms has affected 18,219.07 hectares of maize farms as at Friday May 26, 2017. So far, nine regions have been affected with farmers losing hundreds of thousands of Cedis of investment. Most of the affected farmers have abandoned their farms as there is nothing left to be salvaged. The pests were detected, last year, and ...

The Minister for monitoring and evaluation Dr. Anthony Osei Akoto has for the de-politicisation of discussions on the seeming impasse between IT firms WestBlue Consulting and the Ghana Community Network Services Limited, GCNet. There is uneasy calm and a turf war between the two entities especially since the inception of WestBlue, who are technical partners of the Customs Division of ...