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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it is yet to release the results for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School Candidates. A message from the council said it “would duly make an announcement when the results are released”. It, therefore, asked the public to ignore messages on social media platforms that the results had been released. ...

As part of the processes initiated by the President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom (GN), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom through the Gold Coast Fund Management (GCFM) in court to recover investment funds and pay aggrieved customers of their locked-up investments, a list of companies and individuals indebted to GCFM has been released. The list includes construction companies and top firms ...

Four (4) University of Ghana students comprising two males and two females have been awarded full scholarships by Ernst and Young Ghana (EY) at a short ceremony held at the Student Financial Aid Office, University of Ghana main campus. In a short address, Mrs. Christine Baning, Head of the Student Financial Aid Office (SFAO) welcomed all to the function and ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused President Akufo-Addo of coverup in his handling of the contracts-for-sale scandal that rocked the Public Procurement Authority (PPA). President Akufo-Addo suspended the CEO of the PPA, Mr AB Adjei, last week after allegations of conflict of interest among other infractions were broadcast in an investigative documentary conducted by journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni – ...

The National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak, is unhappy that he lost in the party’s parliamentary primary held over the weekend but will not take on the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, who claimed he orchestrated the defeat. Mr. Mubarak in response to questions posed him by ...

The government has dismissed assertions that Ghana’s debut 20-year bond issued last week flopped after receiving low bids from investors. In a press statement issued by the Public Affairs Department of the Ministry of Finance Wednesday, August 28, 2019, the government said although the amount received in bids was less than the targeted amount, the nature of the issue did ...

Member of Parliament for the Effutu Constituency in the Central Region, Alex Afenyo Markin has launched a programme dubbed ‘One private school teacher, One laptop’ project in his constituency. He said the programme is to improve ICT education in the constituency. Under the programme, each private school teacher in the Effutu Constituency will get a brand new HP laptop. Already, ...

Seven Chinese nationals suspected of mining illegally in the Western region have been arrested. The Operation Vanguard team picked up the seven in a day-long patrol conducted Monday in the general area of Aniamote in the Wassa Akropong District. Li Jiaming, 45, Qin Weida, 45, Yang Rong, 37, Lixu Rong, 46, Lee Tong Lin, 23, Qin Weic, 41 and Bi ...

The two men nabbed by police operatives for allegedly engaging in a recruitment scam into the police service have pleaded not guilty to three counts of defrauding by false pretence. Bernard Kwesi Amanor-Wayo, 47, and Emmanuel Sackey, 55, were arrested on August 23, 2019 at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra for allegedly collecting money from unsuspecting job seekers under ...

Thomas Lanzana of South Carolina, USA was indicted on Tuesday on charges that he defrauded at least 20 people by soliciting investments in a bogus FX trading scheme, Attorney for the United States Rachael Honig announced. Lanzana was charged by indictment with two counts of wire fraud and one count of commodities fraud. He was previously charged with the same ...