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‘Stop shouting over 1-week dumsor; you gave us 3-years’ – Minister to NDC

A Deputy Minister for Energy, William Owurako Aidoo, believes that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has no right to comment on the recent power outages because they presided over a worse power situation. According to him, the NDC cannot continue to comment on the “one week” old power challenges when power challenges persisted for more than 3 three years ...

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EOCO, CID hunt for crypto-currency kingpins; over 3,000 depositors set to lose millions of cedis

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) are on a manhunt for the directors and operators of a cryto-currency syndicate who have allegedly swindled more than 3,000 people of their deposits. Operating under an unlicensed company name, the Global Coin Community Help (GCCH), a deposit-taking institution, the directors and owners are said to have ...

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Amewu admits return of dumsor, promises to end it ‘gradually’

Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu has admitted that the country is currently faced with challenges in the power sector attributing the cause to an incomplete project that is meant to allow gas flow into the country. According to him, the incomplete project is due to a disagreement over tariffs between the Energy Ministry and the regulator; West African Gas Pipeline; ...

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Rope us into PFFJ Programme – Commercial Farmers to Akufo-Addo

National Farmers and Fishermen Award Winners Association of Ghana (NFFAWAG), and Commercial Farmers in the Country have appealed to President Akufo-Addo to find innovative ways to rope Commercial Farmers into his administration’s flagship programme, Planting for Food and Jobs (PFFJ). Chairman of NFFAWAG, Davies Narh Korboe, made the appeal when he led the Association to pay a courtesy call on ...

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Bawumia celebrates Kakube Festival with Nandom

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Sunday 25th November, 2018 joined the Chiefs and people of Nandom Traditional Area to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Kakube Festival at Nandom in the Upper West Region. The Kakube festival is celebrated to mark the end of the farming season each year and to show appreciation to the Almighty for His guidance ...

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KATH to launch endowment fund to support operations

The Management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching hospital (KATH) in Kumasi is set to launch an endowment fund to help run the facility. The endowment fund seeks to raise funds from corporate organisations, philanthropists, and government institutions to enable management procure new equipment for the hospital. Management revealed that majority of equipment at the facility are over-aged and are not ...

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I have been betrayed – Anas Aremeyaw Anas

Anas Aremeyaw Anas has admitted to several journalists in the line of his work as undercover journalists revealing that he has been betrayed by some persons he refused to name. “If you do this work for 20 years and you have not been betrayed then you are joking”, he revealed at the weekend during the Media Festival in Takoradi organized ...

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European Union poised to improve Ghana’s fisheries sector

The European Union(EU) says it is poised to giving the required support to the fisheries sector in a bid to contribute to food security, nutrition and improvement in the livelihoods of fishing communities in Ghana. To this end, the EU has rolled out certain mechanisms to combat all forms of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities in the country under ...

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$97m lost to cybercrime as of August 2019 – Kwaku Kwarteng

Government has revealed it will launch a cyber security fund in 2019 to ensure there is enough funds to fight the menace. This comes on the back of the roll out of the Cyber Security Guidelines for the financial sector by the Central Bank. Statistics from the cybercrime unit of the CID revealed that the country has lost about 25milllion ...

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