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The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) is unable to carry out maintenance works on its transmission lines within the Akwatia, Nsutem and Anyinam communities in the Eastern Region because of illegal mining activities (galamsey) close to the grid towers. The activities of the illegal miners have severely undermined the structural integrity of the towers that support the conductors, making them highly ...

The Alumni of the Atlantic Hall has dragged the management of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to court over its decision to suspend 22 students of the hall. Management of the university over the weekend found 22 students culpable over clashes that ensued in the university during a hall celebration by the Ogua Hall residents – leading to the ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government intends taking the fight against corruption a notch higher by naming and shaming state officials who engage in graft. Speaking at the CEO’s Summit in Accra through Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo, on Monday 22 May, Nana Akufo-Addo said he will create an office at the presidency where business people can directly report ...

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has courted the anger of journalists in Kumasi after its Public Relations Officer (PRO) Mr. Abrahma Otabil, last week Friday, May 19, 2017 made disparaging remarks about them in the Ashanti region. According to the incensed members of the inky fraternity who are considering a boycott of the ministry’s events in the region, ...

  Vandals and Associate Supporters Union performed live at the 3rd Public Lecture of the 60th Anniversary of Commonwealth Hall. The Tertiary Supporters Union rhythmically took the audience through the contemporary songs and ancient Vandals inspirational songs. The National of organizer of VANDASU, Mr. Derrick Nyarkoh, who lead the delegation lauded Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an Old Vandal for the outstanding ...

A former Minister of State and the Former Editor of the Daily Graphic, Kojo Yankah, has launched a blistering outcry against the penchant of governments to dismiss public office holders and appoint persons of their own stock to fill vacant positions. He questioned what he called “merry-go-round joke in Ghana”, where one government appoints and the other lays them off, ...

Asantehemaa, Nana Ama Konadu the III, is committing to the fight against misconception and discrimination against children with Cerebral Palsy. She says the tendency for parents to tag such children as river babies and even kill them in some instances is unfortunate. Nana Konadu made the pledge when local NGO, Kids and Single Parent Care Foundation paid a courtesy call ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is in India to attend the 52nd Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group. The meetings under the theme: Transforming Agriculture for Wealth Creation in Africa, which begins today Monday, May 22, will end on May 26, 2017. A statement from the office of the former president and signed by his aide, Joyce ...

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 ...