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A Police officer, Lance Corporal Henry Lamptey, popularly known as Chaka, stationed in Tepa in the Ashanti Region, has been captured in a videotape brutalising a carpenter who is also domiciled in Tepa. According to reports, the carpenter, Kwabena Boateng, was assaulted by the officer and two police assistants, for delaying in completing a task given him. A local journalist ...

The University of Ghana has rubbished reports that it has been slapped with a $160million judgement debt at an International court for unfairly terminating a contract started under the regime of the former Vice Chancellor Professor Ernest Aryeetey in 2014. In a statement, the country’s premiere university said the case has not been determined hence stakeholders should ignore “social media ...

Two experts in banking and corporate governance have questioned the basis on which the Bank of Ghana (BoG) approved Pastor Mensa Otabil as Board Chairman of the now defunct Capital Bank. A retired Deputy Governor of the BoG, Mr Emmanuel Asiedu-Mante, and a private consultant on corporate governance in banking, Dr Richmond Atuahene, said Pastor Otabil was unfit to chair ...

Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Linda Ofori Kwafo, has been made the Chairperson of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Board. This was after a meeting of the board on Wednesday. She will serve for three years. Mrs. Ofori Kwafo explained that her current position is contingent on her role in civil society. “You have to be ...

The Bank of Ghana has approved the proposal by Sahel Sahara and Omni Bank to consolidate their operations into one entity to help meet the new minimum capital requirement of GHS400 million. The approval was communicated to the two banks on August 14, paving the way for the board and management of Sahel Sahara Bank and Omni Bank to announce ...

As part of the efforts to ensure more students are enrolled in both secondary and tertiary institutions across the country, Deputy Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Aduwtwum has indicated that GETFund would be funded with $1.5 billion to expand its projected plans that aim at solving infrastructural deficit to both the Senior High School and tertiary Institutions. “Getfund is taking ...

Four persons arrested in connection with an attack on the Chief Executive Officer of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) on Monday have been released, Joy News sources say. Police in the Northern Region Capital, Tamale, explain they are unable to establish any evidence that the four suspects took part in the forced entry into Dr David Akolbila’s office. Although TTH ...

The Charismatic National Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Sammi Awuku has stated emphatically that he does not harbour any presidential ambition. Several Political watchers have described Sammi Awuku who’s an orator, humble, smart and affable politician, as a presidential material and will make a fine president for Ghana. But according to the young but astute politician, his ...

A North Carolina man who sexually abused his stepdaughter two decades ago has been stripped of his US citizenship and will now be deported to his native Ghana. Prempeh Ernest Agyemang, 58, had his citizenship revoked on August 8 for lying during his naturalization interview 17 years ago when asked if he had committed a crime for which he hadn’t ...

Calls For Dismissal Of BOST Chair Premature – COPEC The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has shot down calls for the sacking of the Board Chair of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company (BOST). A group calling itself the Africa Center for Integrity and Development petitioned President Akufo-Addo to immediately relieve Dr Kyei over what they claim is ...