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The Executive Chairman of the McDan Group, Dr Daniel McKorley has backed claims that President Akufo-Addo was misled into granting executive approval to the controversial novation and amendment AMERI agreement. The novation and amendment agreement, seeking to buy out the $510million deal Ameri Energy has with the government and be handed over to a third party Mytilineos for 15 years ...

The policies and programmes being implemented by the Nana Akufo-Addo government are meant to address the age-long issues of geographical exclusion from national development, the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated. According to Vice President Bawumia, these policies, such as the Free Senior High School, national roll-out of the Ghana Card, Digital Property Addressing System and the establishment of ...

The Police officer who assaulted a woman at Midlands Savings and Loans, Lance Corporal Godzi Frederick Amanor, has been granted a Ghc60, 000 bail with two sureties by an Accra Circuit Court. Three others Joycelyn Kukua, the operations manager of the company, Shirley Portia Anaman, customer care officer and Prince Ayensu, a driver of the company were also granted bail ...

The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has chastised a group that has declared its support for the former Trades Minister to lead the party in 2020 Presidential polls. Joseph Ade Coker said he does not know the group which has described itself as branch executives of the NDC in the Greater Accra Region and ...

Perhaps tired of being a Savings and Loans company after three years, ambitious shareholders of First Capital Plus planned to become a bank but they needed ¢60m. It has turned out they did not need ¢60m, they needed the BoG to just look the other way. And in December 2013, they did. According to an exclusive report, the central bank ...

A group calling itself the United Krobo Foundation has embarked on a massive demonstration in Somanya Thursday morning against what they describe is a grand scheme by the NPP Government to relocate the main campus of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development from Somanya to Bunso in the Akyem Abuakwa area. Hundreds of residents clad in red and black ...

DON’T TREAT DIABETES @ HOME,COME TO THE HOSPITAL – IMAGHE INC ADMONISHES A Medical Doctor at the Swedru Municipal Hospital, Dr. Paulette Brown is advising people with Diabetes not to treat the disease at home but seek immediate medical attention. She explained that Diabetes is a serious complex condition which can affect the entire body especially when treatment is ignored.Dr. ...

The University of Ghana 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. The ruling dismissed the two claims by University of Ghana and awarded termination costs of more than $160 million to the project developers – Africa ...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has charged the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu to investigate the impasse at the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited (GCMCL). The CEO of the GCMCL, Frances Essiam is being accused of awarding several contracts worth millions of Ghana Cedis without recourse to the governing Board of the GCMCL—an allegation she vehemently denied. The allegations ...

The 2018 list of the world’s 100 most influential people in digital government has placed President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo among the first 20 names. The 2018 list is the first of its kind to show the international spread of the field and includes individuals from every continent. Nominations were drawn from over 100 expert contributors to make the list, including ...