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The Board Chairman of the National Investment Bank (NIB) has resigned, Starr Business has gathered. Torgbe Afede’s resignation was as a result of internal wrangling at the state-owned bank, sources with knowledge of the development told Starr Business. He resigned last week, according to the sources after opposing moves by some elements in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to ...

GCB Bank has terminated the contracts of 56 ex-staff of defunct UT and Capital Banks for not possessing the minimum qualification required to work with the bank. The termination of their contracts was done after an audit of employees of the defunct banks exposed issues with the minimum qualification of about 160 staff. The affected staff have since been issued ...

Kennedy Agyapong has stated unequivocally he will continue to support the activities pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante groups, the Delta and Invisible Forces once the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vowed to form more vigilante groups in addition to the number they already have. His argument is that, both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the NDC must agree and ...

A judge has ruled that Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI must defend themselves in court over the human rights case brought against them by Ibrahim Sannie Daara after they sought to dodge the case by asking a lawyer to answer to the lawsuit on their behalf. The judge His Lordship Mr Justice Nicholas Abodakpi slammed Anas’defence of ...

Jeffrey Kwabena Yeboah is a part-time Ghanaian student who has found a unique way of turning Accra’s waste into furniture. The young entrepreneur uses old tires to make coffee tables and armchairs, decorating them with fabric and various coloured ropes. Yeboah told Reuters that his enterprise is part of efforts to educate people about waste management. His company Ripples Interior ...

Broadcast journalist and host of Peace FM’s flagship programme “Kokrokoo”, Kwami Sefa Kayi has lightheartedly asked astute journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni to “go and sin no more” in the manner of NPP MP, Ken Agyapong, after Mr Awuni apologized to the IGP, David Asante-Apeatu for reportedly likening the security camp’s inability to fight vigilantism as a “castrated pig”. Manasseh Azure, ...

If the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is banking its hopes on outspoken lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong to campaign for it in 2020, then it better rethink because he has served notice he would not campaign for the party either in Ghana or elsewhere outside the country. According to a radio interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com, the NPP firebrand has officially declared ...

The Director General in charge of operations at the Ghana Police Service DCOP George Alex Mensah has disclosed that police officers attached to the National security do not report to the hierarchy of the service once they are sent to their attachment. “They report to their superiors there. They are not controlled by the police, they are assigned and managed ...

There were contradictions and lack of coordination between the national security chiefs that appeared before the Commission of Inquiry investigating the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election, security analyst Adam Bona has said. The analyst told Citi News that he felt the testimonies by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery; the National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, and the Minister of state in ...

The European Commission added Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Nigeria and other jurisdictions to a blacklist of nations that pose a threat because of lax controls on terrorism financing and money laundering, the EU executive said on Wednesday. “The European Commission adopted today a list of 23 third countries with weak rules against money laundering and terrorism financing. I would like ...