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Happening now at the Information Ministry is Energy Minister, Peter Amewu explaining and giving details of why government suspended its concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS). Earlier, the minister said government was unable to detect the alleged fraudulent act because they were under pressure to meet the deadline. However, upon probing further, government realised that the document presented by ...

Monday, August 5, 2019, has been declared a public holiday to cater for the August 4 Founders’ Day which falls on a weekend. A statement signed by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, said in view of the day falling on a Sunday, the President has by Executive Instrument (EI), declared Monday, August 5, as a public holiday “to be observed ...

A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Obuasi East has revealed that the government ignored his warnings not to sign the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS). Edward Enin claimed his warnings were ignored and they “squeezed the necks of someone just to favour a Ghanaian. “PDS from beginning was not clean technically, financially but ...

Sheikh Alhaji Aremeyaw Shaibu spokes person for the National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu has said Apenkwa Community should use the rules set for the construction of Astro Turf so that the Turf will last long for the community. He was speaking at the sod cutting ceremony at the Apenkwa Junior High School today Thursday 1st August, 2019. ...

The Abeka District Court in Accra has granted bail of GH¢ 5,000 to a resident of Akweteman in the greater Accra Region, an Electoral Area within the Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly. The Court on Thursday 25th July, 2019 granted bail to a resident of Nii Boi Town for contravening the Public Health Act. Moses Ansah resides at Nii Boi Town, ...

The Abeka District Court has fined a man GH¢600 for accumulation of refuse in containers and on bare ground exposing residents to health danger. A resident of Akweteman in the greater Accra Region, an Electoral Area within the Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly appeared in the District Court at Fadama on 9th July, 2019 for sanitation indiscipline on bench warrant. The ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Bongo has said government’s suspension of the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS) is a major dent on parliament’s ability to diligently scrutinise agreements. PDS took over ECG on March 1 after its major shareholder Meralco Consortium from the Philippines won the Millennium Challenge Power Compact Two from the U.S.A. However ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah is still being held in police custody despite being granted bail by an Accra Circuit court last week. This is because he has not been able to meet the GH¢1 billion bail and related conditions given by the court. The court, as part of the bail conditions, said he was to present five ...

Details are emerging about how the missing three Takoradi girls were kidnapped by their Nigerian captors. The court in Takoradi heard how Samuel Udoetuk Wills, the 28-year-old Nigerian, suspected to have kidnapped the three girls, admitted that he conspired with John Oji, 29, to escape with the girls who are yet to be found. According to a Chief State Attorney, ...

The State of Israel has honoured the late Maj Gen Francis Vib-Sanziri, the former Head of Missions and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). A road on the Golan Heights in Israel has been named after him. The road is now ‘Vib-Sanziri Route’. This was contained in a statement issued to the Ghana News Agency by ...