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The Management of the Ekumfi Fruits and Juices Ltd has described comments by one Osofo Kyiri Abosom the founder and leader of Life Assembly Worship Centre on a UTV programme, “Mpu ne Mpu” and widely circulated on social media over the weekend, as malicious, blatantly false, misleading and a calculated attempt to run down a promising Ghanaian business for political ...

Former President John Mahama has been dared to publicly swear by the dreaded Antoa Nyamaa that he does not intend to cancel the free Senior High School (SHS) if voted for in 2020 as Commander-In-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. A group calling itself the Alliance Drivers of Ghana (ADG) says it would resist any attempt to either have the ...

Chiefs and people of Manhia, Oduman, Nsakina and other adjoining communities have hit the streets again to demonstrate over the deplorable nature of their roads. The  protest has resulted in hundreds of commuters stranded as all commercial buses have refused to work. The residents say they have lost count of the number of assurances given them by state authorities to ...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of persons who represented Ghana in signing the concession deal with Power Distribution Services (PDS) which has now been terminated. The PDS was finally terminated by the Akufo-Addo government in a statement dated Friday, October 18 which communicated the termination of the 25-year power concession agreement with ...

Four persons have been confirmed dead while nine others are seriously injured in a fatal accident which occurred Sunday morning at Nsutam on the Eastern Region stretch of the Accra to Kumasi Highways. Two of the deceased are males while the two are females. Two others in critical condition have been transferred to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua while ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has revealed what he describes as several attempts on his life after he handed over power to former President Hilla Limann in 1979. According to the former president, the attempts became so intense that he was persuaded to leave Ghana but he refused to do so. Speaking at the 75th-anniversary celebration of the formation of ...

The leadership of the Ghana Airport Company Limited Workers’ Unions has served notice their members are prepared to fight with their blood to stop the alleged privatisation of the  Airport. It comes after the Aviation minister Kofi Ada accused the leadership of mischief and misleading their followers. He told Bola Ray on Starr Chat that the leadership of the association ...

Government has announced 50,000 cedi cash package for thousands of persons displaced by floods caused by continuous torrential rains in the Upper East Region in the last week. Victims have since Friday been receiving various relief items from the government and a lot more are being transported to the region to ameliorate the plight of the affected whose homes have ...

A Nigerian husband and his Canadian wife of Ghanaian origin are fighting a deportation order scheduled for next week. Temitope Issac Kayode came to Canada several years ago as a refugee from Nigeria and married a Canadian woman, Doris Addo, last July. He applied for permanent residency in October 2018. Tuesday, they thought they were going for an interview about ...

The World Bank has indicated that about 87% of children in Sub Sahara Africa cannot read and understand a simple story at the age of 10. It has described the situation as a global learning crisis, adding that many children were in school but were lacking quality education. The World Bank Acting Country Manager, Dr Beatrix Allah-Mensah, disclosed this at ...