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The family of the late UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has expressed disappointment over the fact that no Ga Chief attended the burial service for the departed global icon despite the event being held in Accra. According to the Head of the Kofi Annan’s family, Nana Kofi Brewuo III, who is also Otumfuo’s Tudwene, they find it very difficult to ...

The Ghana Battalion in Lebanon, as part of its humanitarian assistance to civilians has organised free medical and dental care for some residents of Marwahin, a town in South Lebanon. The outreach was to assist the local populace with some medical care. The exercise was also aimed at strengthening the relationship between the residents and the battalion. In an interview, ...

Stacy Offei-Darko, the late the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship Innovation Programme (NEIP) had visited the Advanced BodySculpt Centre, Obengfo Hospital twice before her demise, the hospital’s chief executive officer, Dr Dominic Obeng Andoh has revealed. Dr Obeng Andoh has therefore refused to take any blame for the late Stacy’s death because according to him, the liposuction ...

A Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Dr Said Boakye, has expressed confidence in the managers of the economy, allaying fears the recent depreciation of the local currency will lead to economic meltdown. The Ghana Cedi in recent times has depreciated marginally against major international currencies, especially the US dollar causing fears within the business community. ...

In a rare protest against the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), members of a group calling itself Volunteer Media Communicators for NPP their mobile phones ablaze in Kumasi. The move, according to the serial pro-NPP callers, is to get party leadership to reward them for their loyalty. The communicators, drawn from various constituencies in the Ashanti Region, converged ...

Renowned legal practitioner Tony Forson has been elected new President of the Ghana Bar Association. Mr. Forson beat stiff competition from his colleagues Efua Ghartey and Peter Zwennes who garnered 315 and 215 votes respectively. He takes over from Benson Nutsukpui whose tenure has come to an end. The elections which took place Thursday in Koforidua where the GBA is ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo will from today embark on a 4-day tour of the Central Region. The tour scheduled to end on Monday, September 17, 2018 forms part of the President’s ongoing nationwide tour, which has seen him visit the Brong Ahafo, Western, Ashanti, Volta and the 3 Northern Regions. The President is expected to interact with Chiefs and people of ...

President of policy think tank IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has called on President Akufo-Addo to immediately resolve the impasse between the Auditor-General and his board. Daniel Domelevo is accusing his board chairman Prof. Edward Dua-Agyeman and the board of the Audit Service of “unlawful interferences and violations” of his constitutional mandate. He has since petitioned President Akufo-Addo to intervene over ...

Menzgold has accused the Bank of Ghana of deliberately aiming to destroy their business. According to lawyer for the firm Kwame Akuffo, the Central bank has directed local banks not to do business with the gold trading company. “I know for a fact that the Central Bank is telling banks not to do business with us, that wouldn’t be proper ...

Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS banker jailed in the United Kingdom (UK) for fraud, has said deporting him to Ghana is a worse punishment than being jailed in the UK. “I did four years in prison for a non-violent act,” he said in an interview with the Guardian from the detention centre. “I’ve served my time, but I’m being given ...