BUSINESS

JUST IN: MTN slapped with over GH¢100K fine

Mobile network operator MTN has been sanctioned by the National Communications Authority (NCA) over the recent challenges with its data bundles to customers. Despite MTN compensating affected customers, NCA handed the telecommunications firm with an initial fine of GH¢10,000 for failure to submit a report on the challenges within 24 …

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Leave LBCs alone – farmers fume at COCOBOD

Some Cocoa farmers have warned Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to stay away from Licensing Buying Companies across the country following a directive by COCOBOD to LBCs to desist from providing some incentives to farmers. Days ago, COCOBOD announced it has noted with concern that some LBCs are engaged in unethical …

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GNAT, NAGRAT, CCT declare strike over delay in releasing their arrears

Three Teacher Unions — the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) have declared a strike. The nationwide industrial action is expected to take effect from Monday, December 9, 2019. According to them, checks have revealed that …

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Teachers declare strike

Ghana’s major teacher unions – GNAT, NAGRAT and CCT-G – have declared a nationwide strike, beginning Monday, December 9. This was made known to journalists at a joint press conference held on Thursday, December 5. More to follow. . . Source: 3news.com

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Why women fantasise about rough sex

If you’re into rough sex, you’re definitely not alone. When I surveyed more than 4,000 Americans about their sexual fantasies for my book Tell Me What You Want, rough sex turned out to be one of the two most common things people had fantasized about. Most people—regardless of gender and …

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Dozens of Accra High students admitted over suspected food poisoning

Some 150 students of the Accra High School have been rushed to the Adabraka Polyclinic after eating meals served them at school. Information available to 3news.com indicates the students complained of stomach upset after taking the meals and were subsequently rushed to the hospital Monday dawn. They are all suspected …

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Make me proud – Akufo-Addo to final year free SHS students

President Akufo-Addo has charged final year students and first beneficiaries of his flagship Free Senior High School programme to make him proud by passing decisively, their upcoming final exams scheduled for May and June 2020. Addressing the Management and the students body of the St. Mary’s Senior High School in …

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Thumps up for Government Economic Management

More than half (51 per cent) of some respondents interviewed in a recent Afrobarometer survey held in the country have expressed optimism in the ability of the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration to improve the living conditions of citizens. According to the respondents, they believe that things will be …

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Be careful of what you eat – College of Medicine president

The president of the Accra College of Medicine is advising the public how to survive into the new year. Professor Afua Hersey spoke said people should be health cautions stressing they “should be careful of what they are eating”. She spoke to JoyNews at the 9th Annual Psychiatry Debate, themed …

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No basis to condemn free SHS policy – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says infrastructure and other logistical challenges are not enough basis to condemn the free senior high school (SHS) policy. He said the government was assiduously tackling the challenges, and encouraged teachers and students to give off their best to ensure that the policy succeeded. President …

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Buy Ghana rice for Christmas – Bawumia

Ghanaians have been urged to buy locally grown rice this Christmas, on other festive occasions and for everyday consumption in order to give greater impetus to the agriculture sector. Apart from saving Ghana millions of foreign exchange, increased patronage of locally grown rice would bolster production efforts, lead to increased …

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We owe no teacher an allowance or salary arrears – NAPO

Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has stated that no teacher has any course to claim arrears in salaries and allowances under the Nana Akufo-Addo presidency. Speaking at the 70th Anniversary commemoration of the Prempeh College where he is an alumnus, Dr. Opoku Prempeh insisted, “between 2017 and now, …

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Over 600 Nigerian shops at Circle locked up again by GUTA

Over 600 shops belonging to foreign traders particularly Nigerians at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle have been locked up by members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA). This is not the first time GUTA members had embarked on such an exercise in their quest to rid the Ghanaian market …

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Bank of Ghana adopts strict laws to fight money laundering

Ghana is taking the fight against money laundering seriously due to the effect of such practice on the economy and the country’s international image, Naa Welbeck Anuonyam, an Official at the Financial Stability Department of the Bank of Ghana, has said. Ms Anuontam told members of the Institute of Financial …

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ECG, NEDCo & VALCO debt to GRIDCo hit ¢814 million

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has for three years running recorded losses, with a net loss of 114.3 million cedis last year. According to GRIDCo, the Volta Aluminum Company Limited (VALCO) owes it 30-million dollars while ECG and NEDCo also owed about 607 million cedis and 177 million cedis …

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Market women were consulted on new GH¢200 notes – BoG

A number of agencies and market women were consulted by officials of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for their inputs into the decision that went into the introduction of the GH¢200 and GH¢100 notes, Mr Phillip Ottoo, Director of Research at the BoG, has revealed. Speaking at a training workshop …

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Ghana Health Service prepares to fight CSM

The Public Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region has engaged its counterparts from Togo and Burkina Faso in a cross-border meeting to share information on diseases of epidemic potential among the three countries. Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the Upper East Regional Deputy Director in …

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Phase 1 and 2 of VW car assembling plant commences in 2020

German Ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Retzlaff has confirmed that the German car manufacturer, Volkswagen (VW) will from early 2020 commence the first phase for the establishment of an assembling car plant in Ghana. According to him, the second phase of the assembling plant will also be established at new premises …

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