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Traditional leaders to demonstrate over delay in the passage of anti-LGBTQ bill

A section of traditional leaders in Ghana have threatened to organise a nationwide demonstration if Parliament fails to pass the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill in the first quarter of 2023. The traditional leaders added that all chiefs across the country will be forced to hit the streets with their citizenry to demand …

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Zayed Sustainability Prize Opens Submissions for 2024 Cycle

Small and medium enterprises, non-profit organisations and high schools invited to submit entries before the 2 May 2023 deadline Abu Dhabi, UAE – The Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE’s pioneering global award for recognising excellence in sustainability, has officially announced that the 2024 cycle is now open for submissions. Submissions …

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Ginzy’s Pet Shop CEO Nominated For Akwaaba Leadership Awards

The Founder and CEO of the fastest-growing Pet Shop Ginzy’s Pet Shop Mr Patrick Agyenim Boateng has been nominated by the organisers of the 2023 Akwaaba Leadership Awards. Mr Patrick Agyenim Boateng has been nominated as the Emerging Entrepreneur Of The Year. Mr Agyenim Boateng in an interview expressed his …

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Court orders Alex Mould, Gavivina to pay GHC5m bail bond for ‘missing’ Sedina Tamaklo

Alex Mould, a former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), and Gavivina Tamakloe have been ordered to pay a bond of GHC5 million to the state for failing to produce Sedina Tamakloe Attionu. The sureties, Alex Mould and Gavivina Tamakloe, secured a GHC 5 million …

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Duncan Williams, Eastwood Anaba call for the suspension of National Cathedral construction

Two members of the Board of Trustees of the controversial National Cathedral project, Archbishop Duncan Williams and Reverend Eastwood Anaba, have called for the suspension of the project. According to the two clergymen, an independent audit of the expenditure on the National Cathedral Project should be done to ensure transparency and …

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Health Ministry used GH¢20m to renovate an apartment it rented for GH¢15 million – A-G

The Auditor-General’s report on the Government of Ghana’s COVID-19 expenditure has disclosed that the Ministry of Health leased a building for 25 years for over GH¢15million. The report also stated that the ministry used over GH¢20 million to refurbish the building which was to serve as a COVID-19 isolation centre but was never …

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You’ll be super happy, Akufo-Addo supports you – Bridget Otoo ‘replies’ Rev. Kusi Boateng

Journalist Bridget Otoo has responded to recent comments by embattled secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral, Reverend Victor Kusi Boateng. Kusi Boateng told his congregation on January 22 that he was okay, happy and doing well in the face of allegations of financial impropriety and double …

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Domelevo reacts to ‘commendable’ Auditor-General report on COVID-19 funds

Daniel Yaw Domelevo, the former Auditor-General (A-G) has reacted to the latest A-G report on COVID-19 expenditure spanning March 2020 to June 2022. Domelevo disclosed in a TV interview (January 23) that he was about to start auditing the COVID expenditure in line with the Constitutional provision as contained in …

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Akufo-Addo did not give me Sefwi Aboso Glass Factory as his in-law – Kofi Jumah

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GIHOC Distilleries, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has refuted allegations that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given him the Sefwi Aboso Glass Factory as a gift as their in-law. According to him, the allegations are mere fabrications that have been spread by people who want to …

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Two NGOs support three( 3) schools in Yilo Krobo- Obawale

  Story by: Evans Kweku Oboafi Junior (HARDROCK) The Chief Executive Officer of OYE Foundation and KGL Foundation Miss. Abigail Anani and her team have donated Textbooks and other relief items to Schools at Obawale in the Yilo Krobo municipality of Eastern Region. According to Nenebi AYERTEY of Rite fm, …

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