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For consistently championing the progress of the indigenous people of Adabraka, the chief of the area, Nii Agyabeng Tetteh II has conferred on GN Bank, a citation to show his palace’s and people’s appreciation. Speaking at the presentation, Nii Agyabeng expressed his delight with the manner in which GN Bank conducts its operations in the locality, stating that his palace ...

A 46-year-old illegal miner, Kwasi Antwi has been found dead in a mining pit at Akanteng in the West Akyem district of the Eastern region. The body of the deceased has been retrieved and deposited at the Morgue of St. Dominic Hospital Morgue. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Eastern regional Police Command, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh the incident ...

The Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga is being investigated by the Special Prosecutor on suspicion of corruption and abusing his office. This is after he is said to have imported three Toyota Land Cruiser V8s into the country, according to a statement by the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, sighted by citinewsroom.com. “After undertaking preliminary investigations into the suspected commission of ...

Chief Executive Officer Menzgold Ghana Company Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah has described the Bank of Ghana (BoG) as a ‘joke.’ His remark followed a public notice by the central bank indicating that it was moving against Menzgold. According to the regulator, Menzgold, which is known as a precious minerals trading company, is carrying out unlawful transactions by taking deposits. But ...

Immediate past General Secretary of the Christian Council, Revered Opuni Frimpong has cautioned government to be mindful of the kind of legacy it will be leaving with their handling of the country’s educational sector particular implementation of Free SHS. His comments come on the back of government’s decision to introduce a system that according to them will accommodate the huge ...

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, cousin to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has denied reports circulating on social media that he was involved in the controversial Ameri deal renegotiation. In a disclaimer regarding a picture that captures him, his cousin and now Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko, in a meeting with some officials of Ameri, Mr Otchere-Darko said: “Yes, I am aware of ...

The Okyehene Kyeame, Nana Kwadwo Antwi Boasiako, has said five homes at Kibi around the Ofori Panin Fie, palace of Okyehene Amoatia Ofori Panin II, have been earmarked for bulldozing to pave way for the palace’s expansion project, and not 500 as was earlier claimed by Mr Daniel Aboagye, Convener of a group called Concerned Citizens of Okyeman. Nana Kwadwo ...

The Energy Ministry has said President Akufo-Addo was not misled into approving the controversial Novation and Amendment Ameri deal as being claimed by some people. 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, received an executive approval from ...

A US-based Ghanaian law professor, Kwaku Asare, has waded into the controversies surrounding the Ameri deal renegotiation. In a Facebook post on Monday, 6 August 2018, Prof Asare wrote: “I want to know what happened in the renegotiated AMERI. Who was on our team? Did our team lack the knowledge, preparation, expertise? Did AMERI mislead or bribe our team? Was ...

The Tamale Technical University has been plunged into confusion after two staff of the school are indicted by the institution’s interim management body for supervising illegal abortions by students. The two staff; Mohammmed Alhassan Kamaldeen, the payroll officer and Yakubu Abdul Jalel, Manager of the school’s hospital, were indicted after two separate committees found them culpable of multiple allegations including ...