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The Office of the Special Prosecutor is set to benefit tremendously from the 2019 budgetary allocations that will be announced by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta. Citi News is in possession of a letter from the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, in which he expressed appreciation to the finance minister for an apparent pledge for a budgetary allocation in the ...

The MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has waded into the Menzgold brouhaha again, this time around, lashing it out on customers of the company who have decided to migrate their investments unto their online platform, Menzgold Global. Kennedy Agyapong who said this without fear on Adom TV’s ‘Badwan’ posited that the online platform introduced by Menzgold is another clever ...

The Ghana Journalists Association has referred a case of extortion and blackmail by a Journalist to the Police CID for further investigations. The Journalist of Accra FM, Nana Okyere Gyampa, is reported to have persistently demanded five million cedis from the Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as a condition for dropping a “negative story” against the ...

Former senior governance advisor at the United Nations, Prof Baffour Agyeman Duah has described the outcome of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) impasse as a victory for good governance. Mr Agyemang-Duah commended stakeholders of the university, especially the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), for the remarkable role they played. “I appreciate the fact that UTAG ...

In a matter of weeks, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to probe the seven collapsed banks will be in the news, as prosecutorial action is taken against those responsible for the financial mess. A source close to the team while disclosing this to DAILY GUIDE anonymously regretted that some Ghanaians are exerting what he said ‘undue pressure’ on the ...

Mobile money data has become a source of a feud between the Communications ministry demanding it and the Central Bank which is keeping it. Letters from the Communications ministry contain requests wrapped in strong words asking the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to release the data to a private contractor, Kelni GVG, tasked to verify revenue generated by telcos. One of ...

The Vice Chancellor of Central University has stressed the success story of the University is enough reason to prove that the university is not collapsing as is being speculated by a section of the media. Professor Bill Buanar Puplampu says, “A lot is happening here, and I would crave Ghanaian indulgence to understand that this is a significant initiative and ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama missed the point when he said he would restructure all small-scale mining activities in the country should he win the next general elections, Mr Charles Bissiw, Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on Illegal Mining, has said. According to Mr Bissiw, the current administration has already started implementing a comprehensive roadmap that is shaping and ...

The Education Minister, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has told the Students Representative Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to brace itself to face the consequences of their actions. According to the Education Minister, any student found culpable in the destruction of university property will be held responsible and punished accordingly. “It is the view of government ...

Receivers of defunct UT Bank have dragged embattled businessman, Alfred Woyome, and his two companies to the High Court over unpaid loans. Vish Ashiagbor and Eric Nana Nipah want the Court to cause Mr Woyome’s company, Anator Quarry Company Ltd. to refund the sum of GH? 9,461,505.81 being the total value of loans granted the company in 2014. They also ...