NEWS

Accomplished academician Professor Stephen Adei has waded in the controversy regarding Senyo Hosi’s attack on the University of Ghana liking it to tantrums of a two-year-old kid. He said claims by Mr. Hosi that older folks should be removed from the university is complete “nonsense”. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Wednesday, the former GIMPA boss said although ...

It appears that the Otumfuo’s Asamponghene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduor, who was gruesomely murdered on Sunday, was killed in Kumasi and his body dumped on the outskirts of faraway Ejura, new reports emerging indicates. According to a source, a prospective witness in the case has told the police that the prominent chief left the house on Sunday in Kumasi and said ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has declared one Sadat Mohammed, also known as Alhaji wanted in connection with last Sunday’s murder of the Asantehene’s Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Afodour. The police has, subsequently, secured an arrest warrant for the 38-year-old suspect. Oheneba Kwadwo Afodour was stabbed multiple times last Sunday by his assailants and left to die at the back seat ...

Hoda Holdings Limited, the mother company of Unicredit Savings and Loans Company has sued the Bank of Ghana, and its governor Dr. Ernest Addison over the revocation of the company’s license. The case was filed at the Human Rights Division of the High Court on Monday. The plaintiff wants the court to quash the Bank of Ghana’s revocation of its ...

Some officials in government are sitting on tenterhooks as investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azuri Awuni airs his latest documentary ‘Contracts for sale’. It is gathered the exposé will officially drop the faces behind the wanton sale of government contracts by some top government appointees and officials of the Roads and Highways Ministry. Late last week, a teaser of the documentary some ...

Private legal practitioner Justice Srem Sai says it is possible for government to intervene and help Menzgold boss Nana Appiah Mensah retrieve his held up money in Dubai. He however noted the government will have to satisfy itself on the genuineness of the claim. “I don’t think the AG of Ghana will have to move to Dubai with her entire ...

Ghana’s first Railway University is ready and set to offer technical training and award of degree certificates for persons interested in building capacities and knowledge in the railway industry, The first batch of students, ABC News has learnt, would be admitted before the end of the year. According to Minister for Railway Development Joe Ghartey, the Government through the Ministry ...

President Akufo-Addo has told the chiefs and people of Wechianu in the West District of the Upper West Region that the Mahama government did not pay for the majority of the E-Block schools it constructed. The Mahama government had told Ghanaians that it constructed and completed some of the schools as part of its policy of progressive free education. But, ...

President Akufo-Addo has charged the management and board members of the newly created State Interest and Governance Authority (SIGA) to ensure the efficient and profitable management of State Owned Enterprises among others. SIGA also has oversight responsibility over Joint Venture Companies (JVC) and Other State Entities (OSEs). Speaking at the turn of the launch of the State Interest and Governance ...

The Bank of Ghana (BOG), has revoked the licenses of twenty-three (23) insolvent savings and loans companies and finance house companies owned by some prominent individuals in the Ghanaian society, including Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, ex-Finance Minister of Ghana and former governor of BoG, and the youngest member of the Council of State and President of Groupe Ideal; Dr. Nii Kotei ...