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A retired Military Officer, who has varied experience with coup d’états, has warned the government of Ghana and nation as a whole to handle the alleged coup attempt case with care. Captain Joel Sowu who was arrested in 1975 for an attempted coup against then head of state, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, using his experience as an example, said, the weapons ...

Popular fetish priest Nana Kwaku Bonsam has prophesied that Members of Parliament (MPs) and Ministers including those who have involved themselves in corrupt practices will die by the end of this year, MyNewsGh.com reports. The dreaded Afrancho-based fetish priest in an interview with Kumasi based Angel FM DriveTime, hosted by Ike De Unpredictable, monitored by MyNewsGh.com said, Ghanaians are suffering ...

An Accra High Court will today rule on whether it has the jurisdiction on the case brought before it by owners of defunct finance firm uniCredit. Owners of uniCredit have argued that over GHC54 million of the company’s funds were locked up in erstwhile unibank prior to revocation of its license by the regulator. Unicredit was among some 15 Savings ...

The forestry commission has indicated that efforts to enforce the ban on felling the endangered rosewood species is being thwarted by community members conniving with illegal chain saw operators. The Operations Manager of the Forestry Commission, Kwakye Ameyaw, expressed the concern speaking at a National Dialogue on Environmental Governance. Mr Ameyaw insisted that the commission stands by its argument that ...

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has petitioned the Ministry of Transport to reduce the legal age limit for the driving commercial vehicles in the country. The Road Traffic Regulations, 2012, pegs the age limit at 18 years for private cars and 25 years for Commercial Vehicles. However, according to the GPRTU, the minimum age requirement of 25 years ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo addressed world leaders at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. This year’s theme is “Galvanizing multilateral efforts for poverty eradication, quality education, climate action and inclusion”. Among other things, the President underscored the need for a fairer trading attitude among developed and developing nations. Here are 10 statements from his speech For us ...

The Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Andrew Barnes has expressed shock at the level of corruption in Ghana, a nation dominated by Christians. To Mr. Barnes, corruption should not be an issue eating up a country which Christian population constitutes approximately 71.2% of the entire population. Christianity is the largest religion in Ghana followed by Muslim that makes up ...

The Kotoka International Airport (KIA) Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service, has received 17 Ghanaian deportees from Germany on board a chartered Flight. The deportees, all males, aged between 21-60 years, were escorted by sixty 67 Police officers, including paramedics. An official statement copied to the GNA said they were deported for immigration-related issues such as overstaying their entry ...

The Bank of Ghana has stated that GhC4.6 million of depositors’ funds have been saved at the end of the Financial Sector cleanup as rightly stated by Vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. These include deposits of banks, savings and loans companies, Microfinance and Microcredit and a remittance company. The cleanup saw the revocation of the licenses of nine universal banks, ...

Cousin to President Nana Akufo-Addo, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko has questioned the motive behind Prince Kofi Amoabeng’s disclosure that he once funded the president and finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. The former Chief Executive of the defunct UT Bank, Kofi Amoabeng had in an exclusive interview on TV3’s Business Focus program on Monday said UT bank once rescued Ken Ofori-Atta’s business ...