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During the first quarter of 2020, the Asanko Gold Mine (AGM) sold 67,820 ounces of gold at an average realized gold price of US$1,542/oz. Revenues totalled US$104.8 million, an increase of US$37.8 million from Q1 2019. The increase in sales proceeds was a function of higher sales volumes and higher average realized gold prices in Q1 2020, the company said. ...

Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Editor-in-Chief of the Insight newspaper, has extolled the respective contributions of Lawyer Akoto Ampaw and Dr Charles Wereko-Bobby, some of the members of the group Alliance for Change, in the run-up to the mammoth anti-government protests, “Kume Preko” in 1995. Pratt Jnr. told Paul Adom-Otchere on Good Evening Ghana (GEG) last Thursday that, the private legal practitioner, ...

125 Covid-19 cases have been recorded between Sunday and Monday dawn in Ghana raising the country’s case count to 6,808. The figure stood at 6,683 as of Sunday morning. The recoveries now stand at 2,070 while the death toll remains at 32, according to the Ghana Health Service data. Below is the regional breakdown of cases Greater Accra Region – ...

The 245 Ghanaians deported from Kuwait over the weekend are being quarantined at the Ghanaman soccer centre of excellence at Prampram, Starr News has gathered. They are the first batch of people to be taken to the centre since the Ghana Football Association (GFA) offered the facility to government for use in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Starr News ...

Dr Sekou Nkrumah, one of the sons of Kwame Nkrumah, has explained why there is bad blood between him and his siblings – Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah and Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah. According to him, his siblings never communicated with him on any decision they intended to take regarding reviving their father’s political party Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the continuation ...

Thank you Mr. Speaker for your audience, and for this opportunity to address the house on the need for a TRANSFOMATIVE EDUCATION POLICY which will forever change lives of many Ghanaians. It is a good time to be a Ghanaian. Before I continue my presentation, Mr. Speaker, permit me to sing this marching song we sang in 1992 when I ...

President Akufo-Addo says consultations for easing up coronavirus restrictions in the country will be concluded this week. Addressing Muslims in a virtual message on Eid-ul-Fitr Sunday, the President said he is looking forward to announcing the roadmap towards easing the restriction which has seen churches and schools shut for over two months. “Stakeholder consultations are taking place on the way ...

Renowned Ghanaian investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo have been named among top 50 Africans who are ‘shaking up the status quo’ on the continent. Anas was ranked 19th on the list for his bravery in naming and shaming corrupt officials of government. “The Disruptors”, according to the African Report, are African women and men ...

Executive Director of ‘We the People Matter Movement’, Dr. Sa-ad Iddrisu, has donated about 500 protective nose masks to the residents of Tamale. The distribution covered various market men and women, taxi drivers, yellow yellow drivers, street hawkers and shoppers within the central business district of Tamale. ‘We The People Matter Movement’, a Northern base Non-governmental organization donated the over ...

A lady in her teens by name Esther Morrison allegedly inflicted her fellow lady with cutlass for allegedly chasing her boyfriend at NralekpoIe in the Ellembelle district of the Western region. Esther lives in Baaku in the Ellembelle district of the Western region but dwells with her boyfriend Kaku at Nralekpole in the same district. According to the source, Esther ...