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An Accra High court has finally commenced trial of the substantive case involving former CEO of COCOBOD, Dr Stephen Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo, who are charged with willfully causing financial loss to the state. The trail started on Monday, 16 July 2018 after several adjournments and concerns raised by lawyers for Dr Opuni that the state had failed to ...

Details are emerging about how the committee set up by the Chief Justice to investigate complaints against top officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) came to the conclusion that the commission’s chairperson, Charlotte Osei should be booted out of office. The five-member committee, chaired by Justice Anthony Alfred Benin of the Supreme Court, recounted how the sacked EC boss, Charlotte ...

The Jejeti Health Center in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region has been temporarily shut down following a devastating flood that nearly submerged the facility. The incident occurred Thursday after several hours of torrential rainfall in the area. The flood waters entered almost every ward and department of the facility destroying medical equipment, patients folders , Health Insurance claims ...

An economist at Ghana’s premier university has blamed government’s ambitious free secondary school education policy for an imminent increase in the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT). The Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy was started in September 2017 under the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration, being a major campaign promise prior to his election as president in 2016. ...

A 9-Year-old boy has lost his life when he fell into an uncovered hole filled with water in Assin Foso bypass road- under construction in the Assin Foso Municipality. The hole is said to have been left uncovered by the Contractor and nothing indicates that there is a hole there to take a caution since work Commence, According to an ...

NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin constituency in the Ashanti Region, Eugene Boakye Antwi says he will resign from his position if it is really true that Ex-President John Mahama’s past administration built 16 hospitals that need to be commissioned. According to him no appointee in President Akufo-Addo’s government would never influence the stalling of the hospitals that need ...

citinewsroom on Thursday, July 13, 2018, published a story with the headline “Apologize for insulting me – Togbe Afede to Freddie Blay, NPP”, which was inaccurate. The report had suggested that the Agbogbomefia Togbe Afede XIV, was demanding an apology from the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), and it’s chairman Mr. Freddie Blay over some derogatory comments made by the ...

The Akufo-Addo government’s popularity is expected to take a massive nosedive in the coming days if it attempts to increase the current 17% Value Added Tax (VAT) rate. There are strong indications that government will increase the VAT rate from 17.5% to 21% when the Finance Minister presents the mid-year budget to Parliament next week Thursday. Gabby Asare-Otchere Darko, a ...

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, has described the sacked Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, as one of the most competent persons he has ever met despite her dismissal for “incompetence” and procurement breaches. President Nana Akufo-Addo removed Mrs Charlotte Osei from office together with her two deputies: Georgina Opoku Amankwah and Amadu Sulley, ...

The president Nana Akufo-Addo has courted the anger of the minority by suggesting the Eastern Corridor road left behind by Ex-president John Mahama is horribly bumpy no one could have a jolly ride on it, let alone to sleep while taking a ride on that stretch. Addressing chiefs and people of Hohoe in the Volta Region, as part of his ...