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Blay & Associates, the law firm belong to former National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay, has explained its decision to defend four accomplices of Aisha Huang, who was arrested for her alleged involvement in illegal small-scale mining, in court. Lands For Sale On Tuesday, October 11, it came to light in court that Blay & ...

The Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has announced the judges residential complex in Kumasi in the Ashanti region is going to be commissioned next week Monday. The Chief Justice said this when he was speaking during a meeting with the leadership of Judicial Service Staff association of Ghana in Accra on Tuesday October 11. Lands For Sale Explaining why he appeared ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama stands tall to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the next general elections in 2024, an aspiring General Secretary of the NDC, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah has said. He said interested persons in the flagbearer position of the NDC are welcomed to contest but he strongly believes that John Mahama, who was the NDC’s 2022 presidential ...

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has fined nine oil marketing companies GHS2,215,000 for engaging in illicit Third-Party trading of petroleum products, and unlawful lifting of petroleum products. The companies are Bello Petroleum, Jas Petroleum, Oval Energy, Kros Energy, Safety Petroleum, Santol Energy. The rest are Riseglobe Energy, Sayon Energy and Cigo Energy. A release issued by the NPA directed that ...

The Dompim-Pepesa Chief has alleged that the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, Deputy Lands Minister George Mireku Duker, and the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Chief Executive, Benjamin Kessie, are behind illegal mining in the area. Lands For Sale Nana Nyonwah Panyin IV said he has incontrovertible evidence of their involvement in the activity in the area. As a result, he has dared ...

Some banks in the country have begun suspending loans, particularly to new customers. This follows the increase in the policy rate by the Bank of Ghana to 24.5%. Joy Business understands that some of the foreign banks operating in the country have sent emails to their Relationship Managers and Officers to put on hold lending to new customers. Lands For ...

Natural Resources Management Consultant Mr. Gideon Ofosu-Peasah has cast doubt over the claim by the National Alternative Employment and Livelihood Programme (NAELP) that about 80,000 people whose lives depended on illegal mining have been given an alternative livelihood. Speaking on 3FM Sunrise Morning Show on Monday 10 October, 2022, he told Alfred Ocansey that it is reported that about a ...

Two civil society organisations have made a passionate appeal to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to grant amnesty to all prisoners on death row. They said their judgements can be commuted to life sentences. In a media release issued on Monday, October 10 to mark World Day Against Death Penalty, the Action by Christians Against Torture (ACAT), Ghana and Human ...

Sasan Saedi has become the new leader of the International Advertising Association (IAA) following the expiration of the tenure of Joel Nettey as Chairman and world President. Joel Nettey, a Ghanaian and the first African to lead the network of marketing and marketing communications professionals was sworn in virtually two years ago. His leadership saw Accra play host to the ...

The time to pick and wear old school uniforms is here as the 2022 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) begins today with nine contests at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The contests will take place concurrently at three venues from 9 am at the Saarah-Mensah, KNUST SHS and Kumapley auditoriums. Lands For Sale NSMQ giants ...