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Minority Chief Whip Muntaka, Mohammed has slammed the Police Service for the “ridiculous” arrest of an NDC MP Collins Dauda. “The police seems to lose their sense of judgment” whenever political power changes hands, he said accusing the service of doing the government’s bidding. The arrest of the Asutifi South MP is set to re-ignite a debate about an MP’s ...

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has revealed that minors have registered in the just ended limited registration exercise. The exercise which began on Sunday, September 16 and ended Tuesday, September 25 was in preparation towards the creation of the six proposed new regions by the government. It took place in all districts which would be located within the ...

Joy News Editor Israel Laryea has been attacked by a section of Ghanaians after running a story on Menzgold’s operations in the United Kingdom (UK). The CEO of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah insulted Laryea on Instagram for his report. Laryea responded and urged the gold dealer to remain “focused”. However, a visit by Ghpage.com to the UK office of Menzgold ...

The biggest private school in the Central regional capital Cape Coast is on the verge of collapse. For 20 years, Sammy Otoo Senior High School has been a go-to alternative for students who could not get admission into public schools to continue their education. But with the introduction of the Free SHS and the recent implementation of the double track ...

Lecturers at the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) have declared an indefinite strike following government’s failure to constitute a governing council for the school. According to faculty members, some decisions being taken by the Interim Management Committee have not benefited the university. They have, therefore, suspended all academic activities in all the school’s campuses with immediate effect, until the government ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has thrown its weight behind the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for shutting down gold-trading firm Menzgold Ghana Limited. SEC ordered the company to suspend its gold vault marketing operations over certain regulatory infractions, a situation which the legal advisor to the gold-trading firm, Kwame Akuffo, said smacked of unfairness. In a recent press interaction, ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has denied claims that it intends pumping U.S$6 million into gold-trading firm, Menzgold Ghana Limited, on behalf of the government of Ghana toward rescuing the embattled firm. “That rumour about BoG putting dollars into Menzgold, obviously, this is just misinformation and I don’t think there is any basis for that,” Governor of the BoG, Dr ...

Popular television host, Israel Laryea, has fired back at Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, following the latter’s description of a report he did on Menzgold as a mark of “stupidity and retarded mindedness”. Nana Appiah Mensah, mostly known as NAM 1 in a post on instagram accused Israel Laryea of embarking on a smear campaign against him. ...

Former Deputy Finance Minister Fiifi Kwetey has fired back at Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia over his claim that the Ghanaian economy would have been worse off under the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Dr Bawumia speaking Monday at the ongoing National Policy Summit in Tamale described as scary the performance of the NDC whilst in office, urging Ghanaians to reject ...

The implementation of the Free Senior High School policy has saved and will continue to save the parents of beneficiary students thousands of Ghana cedis, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia said. Speaking at the ongoing 4th National Policy Summit at Tamale on Monday 24th September, 2018, he said apart from making senior high school education accessible to several thousand more Ghanaian ...