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The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has estimated a $2.8 billion coconut revenue for Ghana by 2021 if efforts to improve production, processing and exportation of the crop are successful. As part of government’s effort to promote other cash crops in its Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD), GEPA and the African Coconut Group are organising the first-ever International ...

The prime suspect in the killing of the two policemen on the Accra-Cape Coast highway a fortnight ago, Eric Kojo Dua, has reportedly admitted to the shooting of the two unarmed peace officers. Kojo Dua, who earlier claimed only to have killed Sgt Michael Gyamasi but denied shooting L/Cpl Awal Mohammed, made the confession as he assisted investigators to reconstruct ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has served notice it remains focused to resorting to constitutionally mandated institutions in the country in the fight against corruption. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, the General Secretary of the party, John Boadu, noted the government of Nana Akufo-Addo is committed to the fight against corruption, adding no amount of ...

Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, is unhappy about the attack on the environmental and sanitation team attached to the ‘Clean Ghana’ campaign on Wednesday. Jamestown residents, led by James Addo, said to be an Assemblyman for the area, also attacked The Multimedia Group Photojournalist, David Andoh and smashed his camera. Mr. Adjei Sowah has been reacting to the ...

I just listened to John Boadu, the General Secretary of the ruling party in Ghana, the New Patriotic Party, doing the tales of Family & Friends, featuring Akufo-Addo vs John Mahama. He was trying to say that the tag “Family & Friends” started with the NDC and gave a long list to buttress the point. I am not sure if ...

It has emerged that SBC Beverages Ghana Limited, the sole franchisee and bottler of the Pepsi cola range of products in Ghana, used expired concentrate to manufacture two of its products released onto the market. Document sighted by 3news.com revealed that thousands of crates of RGB Mirinda Pineapple and RGB Mirinda Fruity which were manufactured from November 9, 2018 to ...

Voting for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives along party lines “would curb winner takes all” in Ghana’s politics, the Local Government Minister has said. Alima Mahama explained it would also help some of the smaller parties to partake in the administration of the state, albeit at the local government level. “It is good for our country’s democracy and also ...

The Lavender Hill faecal waste plant which takes fecal matter directly from the Jubilee House, Parliament House, State Protocol Department, Ministries, and suburbs of Accra including Dansoman, Adabraka among others is reported to have operational difficulties due to inadequate funds. This was discovered during a tour by MPs at the plant which included Members of the Committee on local government ...

Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has jumped to the defense of President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo who has been tagged as a clearing agent for corruption by the opposition. Allotey Jacobs, who now describes himself as a social commentator, says it is wrong to tag Akufo-Addo as corrupt. “You can’t hang corruption ...

The Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Amidu, in his capacity as a private citizen, has dragged the Attorney General and construction firm, Waterville to the Supreme Court over the nonenforcement of a judgement debt retrieval order directed at the Government of Ghana and the company in 2013. The Supreme Court made the order in the Amidu vs. Attorney-General, Waterville Holding (BVI) ...