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The Chief of the Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Seth Amoama, has inaugurated a fully furnished 72-bed Sailors’ Transit Quarters at the Western Naval Command in Takoradi. The project was designed to temporally cater for the accommodation needs of both senior and junior ratings drafted to the Western Naval Command. At the ceremony, Vice Admiral Amoama assured personnel of the Ghana ...

Ghina’s Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining on Monday cancelled an agreement to buy the Bibiani gold mine in Ghana, saying it had not received timely information from the seller about the termination of the mining lease. Australia-based Resolute Mining agreed to sell Bibiani to Chifeng Jilong for around $105 million in December, apparently extending a flurry of Chinese M&A in the ...

Fire has gutted parts of the Mankessim Market destroying several properties. Information gathered by EIB News’ Yaw Boagyan indicates that the fire started from a cold store at Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. The fire destroyed over 20 containers including over five other cold stores in the process. The Director of Veronica Enterprise, Rebecca Baah, narrating ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has served notice that no one will be spared in President Akufo-Addo’s quest to ensure all river bodies and forests are not destroyed by irresponsible mining. Speaking at Daboase waterworks treatment plant of the Ghana Water Company in the Western Region, Mr. Jinapor said the government’s renewed spirit against irresponsible ...

The exercise to get traders off the streets in Accra has been given a further boost with the planting of greenery at the Madina-Zongo Junction. The exercise, which will soon be extended to the Ritz Junction and the Atomic Junction, will help enhance the flora beautification and improve the traffic situation in the area. Observations The Daily Graphic, during an inspection ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has begun a nationwide programme aimed at reorganising the rank and file of the party for victory in the 2024 election. As part of the programme, the leadership of the party has directed all executive members at the branch and constituency levels to urgently begin holding regular weekly meetings and also activate steps to mobilise ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has presented the original documents on the Techiman South parliamentary election to the Wenchi High Court. The documents have since been inspected by the parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Christopher Beyere Baasongti, who is challenging the results of the parliamentary election in the constituency. The presentation of the documents to the court followed ...

Eleven out of the 14 alleged killers of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama have accused the police of coercing them to confess to the murder of the military officer. Consequently, their lawyers have objected to the tendering of their caution statements, which contain the alleged confessions, as evidence in their trial at the Accra High Court. This came up yesterday when ...

The Ghana Eduction Service (GES) is expected to dismiss teachers who fail to register with the National Teaching Council (NTC). The National Teachers Council directed graduate teachers who want to practice teaching as a profession to register on its portal before 7th May 2021. According to a press release by the Council, all teachers who were recruited before 1st August ...

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to the 2020 general election has called for the establishment of a reasonable deadline for the ruling on parliamentary election petitions. That, it said, would increase stakeholder access to an effective remedy and increase public confidence. “Parliamentary election petitions should be commenced within 21 days after declaration of results just like presidential ...