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The convicted former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli has been arrested and could be deported to Ghana in the next few days, he has said. Adoboli was taken into custody after attending a regular reporting session at his local police station in Livingston. He is in a holding centre in Glasgow and has been informed that he is to be taken ...

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh had some tough moments in Tamale last Friday when he visited some headmasters of public senior high schools in the regional capital ahead of the opening for students placed in the second batch of the double track system (Gold Track). From verbal disagreements at some point with some of the headmasters, to commending others, ...

The hullabaloo surrounding the banking crisis in Ghana has taken a new turn with information from YEN.com.gh sources suggesting that the problem with the now-defunct Capital Bank may be worse than earlier feared. YEN.com.gh has information that breaks down the amounts of money borrowed by the shareholders of Capital Bank. It is thought these debts were the chief factors that ...

A Ghanaian citizen by name Mensah Thompson has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the first step to have the Chief Justice, Sophia Akufo, impeached. He is citing “stated incompetence” as the grounds to have the head of the judicial arm of government removed from office. Article 146 (6) of the 1992 Constitution states that if the president is ...

Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has called on Ghanaians to learn lessons from the recent riots and demonstration at Adentan in the Greater Accra Region, over carnage on the Madina-Adentan Highway due to lack of footbridges. The killing of an 18-year-old first-year student of West Africa Senior High School (WASS) on Thursday, 8 November 2018, sparked spontaneous riots on the ...

Some residents of Adenta have expressed worry over the decision of the National Identification Authority (NIA) to insist on their digital postal address before issuing them with the National ID cards. The NIA chose Adenta in Accra to begin the mass distribution of the Ghana card after several postponements. So far, officials at the Presidency, Parliament, former presidents as well as ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana wants Parliament to approve an increase in end user tariffs of at least 37.6 percent to cover the losses it is making on electricity sales under the current tariff structure which has been in effect since April this year. This year’s edition of the annual major review of electricity tariffs is currently ongoing, under the ...

The founder and Head Pastor of the Action Chapel, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams, has expressed dismay at the seemingly opposing concerns by Christians as regards to the building of the National Cathedral. Archbishop Duncan Williams said some Christians are opposing the intervention because it is not their political party that is building it. Speaking to his congregation on Sunday he ...

Deputy Education Minister, Yaw Osei Adutwum, has defended the posting of ‘weak’ students to category ‘A’ schools. Dr Adutwum told patrons at the Graphic Business/Stanbic Bank Breakfast Meeting, Monday, that when the ‘weaker’ students who are mostly from the deprived areas and the public schools, are all sent to the so-called weaker schools, it just repeats the same circle. He ...

Two women are reported dead an illegal mining pit collapsed on them at Aniammoa near Adubeywura in the Ashanti region, Director of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) Mr Kwabene Nsenkyire. The deceased persons have been identified as Yaa Nyankoa, 25, and Obaa Yaa, 26. According to the NADMO director, the two met their untimely death on Saturday, 10th November ...