The Ghana Chambers of Mines says it has allocated an annual contribution of USD$442,000 to the newly launched Tertiary Educational Fund for five years. It said the move is aimed at keeping the country’s mining industry on an increasing course with a regular stream of highly qualified astute professionals. According …
Read More »Facebook expands its third-party fact-checking programme to Ghana
Facebook has expanded its Third-Party Fact-Checking programme, aimed at preventing false or fake stories from going viral to 10 additional African countries including Ghana. The move forms part of efforts aimed at helping assess the accuracy and quality of news people find on Facebook, whilst reducing the spread of misinformation. …
Read More »Amidu, AG to work together to retrieve £47m illegally paid to Waterville Holdings
The Supreme Court has directed the Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin Alamisi Amidu, and the Attorney General (AG) to collaborate to retrieve £47million illegally paid to Waterville Holdings Company. That was after Mr Amidu told the court on Wednesday that he had evidence that could help the state retrieve the money. …
Read More »Bawumia presents Ghana’s new look in London
Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia yesterday had an auspicious opportunity to dangle the new face of Ghana when he delivered a keynote address during the Financial Times Africa Summit in London. He lavishly showcased the digitization project of Akufo-Addo’s government novelty which he said had transformed the age-old methods of doing …
Read More »Pick our calls and come for your money – Gold Coast to customers
Gold Coast Fund Management, now Blackshield Fund Management says some of their customers are influencing others from accepting their new payment plan. According to the firm, the aggrieved customers have intentions of destabilizing companies of their founder Papa Kwesi Ndoum hence their insistence on a demonstration. “We have announced and …
Read More »Ronaldo scores 700th career goal in Portugal defeat
Cristiano Ronaldo reached a career landmark on Monday by scoring his 700th career goal in Portugal’s Euro 2020 qualifier at Ukraine. The 34-year-old scored a penalty as Portugal lost 2-1. His 700 goals so far have come from 973 matches – and he has scored at least once in 458 …
Read More »Withdraw CST directive – Ato Forson to Communications Minister
Cassiel Ato Forson, Member of Parliament for Ejumako-Enyan-Esiam constituency wants the government to withdraw a directive to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to halt the upfront deduction of the Communication Service Tax (CST). Mr Forson said the directive, issued by the Communications Minister, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful is unlawful, as she has …
Read More »‘China’ phones to be banned in Ghana soon – Communications Minister
Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has revealed that all substandard mobile devices imported into the country will be banned and confiscated to reduce cyber threats which have become rampant in the country. According to her, these cheap smuggled devices are of low quality and do have health implications on persons who …
Read More »Auditor-General chases Osafo-Maafo to retrieve US$1miilion
The Auditor-General is pursuing Senior Minister, to provide evidence of actual work done by the private investigative firm; Kroll and Associates, which the government, through the Finance Ministry, paid the company over US$1 million for assets recovery. Interestingly, The Herald’s findings show that they might not be a company called …
Read More »Ghana Consolidated Diamonds will be revived
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured the Chiefs and people of Akwatia that Government will do all within its power to revive the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Ltd., (formerly Great Consolidated Diamonds Company Limited), which is no longer in operation. According to President Akufo-Addo, the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Ltd, in times …
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