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Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has donated a Public Address (PA) system to the Gbewaa Palace. The donation was in fulfillment of a promise Mr. Nkrumah made to the Overlord of the Dagbon Traditional Area during a working tour of Northern Ghana earlier this year. The Director of Finance and Administration at the Ministry Of Information, Madam Patricia Dovi-Sampson ...

Seventy-nine per cent of all the new COVID-19 cases fuelling Ghana’s third wave are of the Delta variant, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has revealed. The total tests done so far is 1,459,845 with an overall positivity rate of 7.3 per cent, Dr Kuma-Aboagye told journalists at a press briefing organised by the Information ...

The Privileges Committee of Parliament will today, August 5, 2021, hear the case brought against the Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong for threatening a journalist. The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin referred Mr Agyapong to the Privileges Committee of the House over threats on Multimedia reporter Erastus Asare Donkor. He will be investigated to establish whether he was ...

A 47-year-old Pastor, Francis Hammond has committed suicide by hanging at Etii Sonkwa in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region over alleged threats by his wife to divorce him. Information gathered by EIB Network’s Central Regional Correspondent Yaw Boagyan indicates that the deceased went to his hometown at Etii Sonkwa Wednesday Morning to tell his father that ...

Ghana will from October this year, export Gold with its own embossment and signature. This follows the ongoing works on the State Gold Refinery by the government through the Precious Minerals and Marketing Company (PMMC), a project which is 90 percent complete. A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. George Mireku Duker disclosed this to journalists when he ...

Former President John Mahama has expressed his appreciation to the people of the Volta Region for the support he received from them during the 2020 elections. According to Mr. Mahama, the region known, as the World Bank of the opposition NDC, did not disappoint him in spite of his defeat to President Akufo-Addo in the polls. Addressing residents of Agavedzi ...

The owner and CEO of Holiday Inn Hotel, Mr Patrick Fares, has reiterated that his facility has not be sold or bought by Nana Asante Bediatuo, the Executive Secretary to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Although Asante Bediatuo has denied buying the hotel for himself or any member of his family, the management of Holiday Inn says the rumour continues ...

The Univesity Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has refused to call off its strike despite a directive from the National Labor Commission for it to do so. UTAG began an indefinite industrial action Tuesday over poor conditions of service and the failure of the government to resolve long-standing grievances. The NLC however says the action is irregular especially since the ...

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has asked parliament to approve a loan of $1.65 billion for the state oil company to buy two stakes in Ghana’s offshore fields. Energy Minister Mathew Opoko Prempeh submitted a memorandum to that effect to the legislature. In the memoranda, GNPC said it seeks approval to purchase a 70% stake in the South Deep ...

The Member of Parliament for the Damongo constituency, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor has announced a GHS10,000 bounty for information that will lead to the arrest of the suspect of the gruesome murder of the female police officer, late Constable Asiedu Sandra in Damongo yesterday. This was disclosed by the Savannah Regional minister Saeed Jibril Muhazu on behalf of the MP ...