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Pius Enam Hadzide, the former Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, who is now Deputy Minister for Information, has been cleared of impropriety in the visa scandal that rocked the Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast Australia 2018. The subject that assumed an expected partisan touch fanned by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) earned the deputy minister a swift suspension from ...

A Ghanaian national Ali Hassan who has overstayed his work visa in Taiwan for 19 years has been arrested in Taipei for driving under the influence of alcohol and other traffic offences. Daan District police boss Cheng Shuo-yao confirmed the 58-year-old was arrested Sunday riding a motorbike in the wrong direction in the town in a one-way alley around 18.30 ...

Water shortage has hit Takoradi in the Western region and Tema west in Accra. Residents say their taps have not been running for days without any explanation from the Ghana water company. “On days we get water, it is not of the best quality. What we get is not clear, it is brownish and doesn’t look good at all,” a ...

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia has revealed that embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of troubled gold dealership firm, Nana Appiah Mensah is a card-bearing member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). He claims on Accra-based Power Fm monitored by MyNewsGh.com that at the peak of his Ponzi scheme, it was obvious ...

The Energy ministry has downplayed calls for a timetable in the ongoing power cuts in the country. According to the communication consultant for the ministry Nana Damoah, the demand for a schedule for Ghanaians to be able to manage the power situation is premature. “We are not yet at that phase of a load scheduling. It’s going to take 10 ...

The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has announced the posting of more than 9000 newly trained nurses to health facilities across the country. The nurses are expected to undertake their mandatory service for the 2019/2020 service year; beginning April 8, 2019. In a statement, the NSS urged “all the posted nurses to accept their placements and consider them as part of ...

Former deputy Power minister John Jinapor has challenged claims by President Akufo-Addo that Ghana is now transporting power to neighboring Burkina Faso as a result of his competent handling of the energy sector. “We have been able to handle ‘dumsor’, ” the President told Ghanaians in the USA, adding the $2.4 billion legacy debts he inherited from the Mahama government ...

Ecobank Ghana and GN Savings have signed an agreement for the establishment of a partnership between the two financial institutions. The agreement was signed on Friday, 29th March 2019 at the offices of GN Savings. The agreement will see the two institutions work together in areas that will be mutually beneficial to both entities. The agreement became necessary due to ...

Daniel Asiedu, the man alleged to have murdered the Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa-North in 2016, Mr J.B. Danquah-Adu, has pleaded with the Accra High Court to direct the Ghana Prisons Service to find him a place to sleep. At yesterday’s hearing of his case, Asiedu, aka ‘Sexy Don Don,’ claimed that there was no space for him to ...

Details are emerging as to why the owner of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, aka NAM1, was re-arrested by the police immediately after he was granted bail in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). It’s turning out that he was picked up again on the supposed request of Interpol to the police in the Emirati country. Unconfirmed reports indicated that ...