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Officers of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have been interdicted for allegedly causing a huge financial loss to the state. The interdiction of the officers, comprising four females and eleven males followed their purported connivance with certain companies to evade duties and taxes. President Akufo-Addo’s government has been waging war against pilfering at the port carried ...

Joy News has intercepted an investigative report which alleges that former Executive Director of the Ghana Standards Authority Dr George Crentsil received a $1.2million kickback from a contractor. Lemet Construction Company is said to have worked on a new block of the Standards Authority Training School at a cost in excess of GHC15 million. The contractor did not state why ...

Prosecution was unable to produce their next witness in the matter in which Bishop Daniel Obinim, the Founder of God’s Way International Church and two of his pastors are being tried for abusing two teenagers. According to prosecution they have not been able to summon the witness who is a medical officer to appear to testify. DSP George Amegah, the ...

More than 17, 000 unregistered workers on government payroll remain unpaid as the government continues its exercise of ridding the state’s payroll system of ghost names. This was revealed in a statement by Chief Director of the Finance Ministry, Patrick Nomo, who has asked affected workers to head to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to get registered. ...

Mr. Randy Boitey, the Eastern Regional Cocoa Extension Service Officer has said 400,000 hectares of cocoa farms are to be irrigated, this year, under a pilot project, launched by the government to boost cocoa production. The programme to begin with the 27 cocoa centres across the nation and some selected farms could help to significantly raise crop yield and promote ...

It could have been mistaken for a political convention of some sort as members of the two major political parties, the NPP and NDC converged at the Dabala Parish of the Global Evangelical Church in the Volta Region. They were there to mourn with the famous businessman Alfred Agbeshi Woyome and his siblings as they bid farewell to their late ...

Over four hundred Allied Health professionals will today, Monday May 22, begin picketing at the Health Ministry to demand clearance for their posting. The irate health workers completed their studies in August 2016. They claim they were deceived by the Health Ministry that clearance had been secured for their posting as far back as February this year. The latest protest ...

A lady believed to be in her late 20s is in the grip of the Tesano Police in the Greater Accra Region, for circulating on social media naked pictures of an actress, Destina Tata. The suspect who identifies herself as Shanti K is reported to have photoshopped pictures of the actress and shared them on Facebook. The victim’s pictures were ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has urged small-scale miners in the Ashanti Region to comply with government’s ban on all forms of small scale mining. According to him, the ban is a step in the right direction and will help curb the menace, as every Ghanaian has to accept that “this is being done to save Ghana from extinction.” ...

The Police in Tarkwa in the Western Region have arrested a four-member syndicate said to be behind the car thefts in the area. The four suspects were arrested following a midnight operation by the police Wednesday. They are Samuel Nana Kwakye, 38, Mamoud Abdullah, 38, Joseph Osei alias Joe, 36, and Godfred Kwadwo Kwakye, 43. The four suspects Regional Police ...