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The University of Business and Integrated Development Studies has been named after former leader of the Northern People’s Party Dombo. This was after Parliament passed the bill that allows the school to be autonomous having been an outlet of the University of Development Studies. The Minority in Parliament questioned President Akufo Addo’s decision to rename the after Dombo. During the ...

The Operation Vanguard Taskforce has arrested 37 suspected illegal miners in the Western and Ashanti regions. Thirty Ghanaian suspected illegal miners were arrested in the Western Region within the general area of Mpohor-Adum Banso in the Mpohor District on Tuesday, 30 July 2019. The suspects are currently in Mpohor Police custody. Two excavators that were seized from the site have ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, alias NAM1, is still in police custody for failing to meet his bail conditions. The Accra Circuit Court last Friday granted him bail in the sum of GH¢1 billion, with five sureties. Per the bail conditions as ordered by the court, three of the sureties must be justified, while NAM 1 ...

Special Prosecutor, Martin ABK Amidu, has given Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency in the Central Region seven days to render an unqualified apology and retraction for comments he considers defamatory on his hard-won reputation. According to him in a letter copied to GhanaWeb, Mr Amidu said the Finance Minister on July 12, 2019, ...

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) will on Tuesday launch a new exciting game onto the market. The game dubbed: “Super 6 Game” would be launched alongside the VAG Lotto in order to boost the revenue generation capacity of Government through the NLA as well as create jobs. The Super 6 is a dividend game where players have the opportunity to ...

The Minority in Parliament has accused the Akufo-Addo administration of fudging the original Power Compact II agreement to handover the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to surrogates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). “This project was expected to significantly improve access to electricity, ensure operational efficiency, turn around ECG, increase their profitability and have a sustainable, reliable ...

You see a male fowl? (I don’t want to mention its real name so that you start insulting me). When a male cock, ooo, sorry a male chicken wants to have fun with ‘his wife’, he doesn’t just go like that; he finds a very sexy way of opening one wing in a stylish fashion and then approaches the hen ...

Exclusive documents secured by Joy News reveal that Power Distribution Services (PDS) paid the required $12.2 million premium to secure guarantee to finalise the takeover the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). However, the documents again reveal that the money never got to the reinsurers in Qatar. In the letter dated February 21, 2019, Cal Bank writes to the Millenium Development ...

The headquarters of the Ghana Police Service, yesterday, dispatched a team of crack detectives, backed by heavily armed personnel, from the operations unit to the Northern Region to fish out the gunmen who shot and killed a policewoman on duty. The detectives, drawn from the Police Intelligence Unit, Homicide Unit, and Crime Scene Management Experts, the latter to handle issues ...

The Minority in Parliament is currently addressing the media on the concession agreement between government of Ghana and Power Distribution Services (PDS) which has been suspended. Government of Ghana in the late hours of Tuesday, July 30 announced the suspension of the contract with Power Distribution Services barely six months after the company took over from the Electricity Company of ...