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A military plane with 38 people on board has disappeared en route to Antarctica, Chile’s air force says. The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft took off from Punta Arenas at 16:55 local time (19:55 GMT), and operators lost contact soon after 18:00 (21:00). Those missing include 17 crew and 21 passengers. …

A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced 11 people to terms including life in prison after finding them guilty of a deadly bomb attack on the Saint Petersburg metro in 2017. Abror Azimov, a 29-year-old from Kyrgyzstan, was sentenced by a military court in Russia’s second biggest city to life in …

Record commodity prices and low global interest rates have encouraged African countries to borrow as they did in the 1990s, but now some are struggling to pay up as their revenue slows along with economic growth. The debt of governments as a percentage of gross domestic product in sub-Saharan Africa …

Perhaps, one of the most significant components of the banking sector reforms is the new minimum capital directive issued on 11 September 2017. The directive required universal banks operating in Ghana to increase their minimum stated capital to GHS400 million by the end of 2018. Following the deadline for compliance, …

Award winning freelance journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has fired Special Prosecutor Martin A.B.K Amidu for what he says is a lack of seriousness on his part. In an Accra FM interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Manasseh said that while they may be merit in Amidu’s case against Bawku MP Mahama Ayariga, …

Disturbing details have emerged about how the Mfantsiman Municipal Director of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) was murdered at Mankessim last Friday without any provocation. On that fateful day, Samuel Ampofo appeared to have been targeted by the man who shot and killed him reportedly from a pump-action gun. …

James Naah, a tilapia seller at Yeji in Pru East District of the Bono East region, has been reportedly butchered by some armed robbers. Information gathered indicated that the incident occurred around 5:30pm, Sunday. Confirming the incident on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem Monday, Yaw Mensah, brother of the …

Road contractors who are owed over GHC500,000 by the government are fuming over what they say is government’s refusal to pay them despite claims by President Akufo-Addo. According to the contractors, the pressure on them has heightened after President Akufo-Addo claimed he has paid all contractors during his recent tour …

Some commuters and street hawkers along the N1 highway at the Dzorwulu junction faced an ill fate Tuesday morning when a truck loaded with cement blocks rammed into them. The accident which involves about four cars has rendered dozens injured while one street hawker is feared dead. According to eyewitnesses, …

The woes of businessman Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the man who has been ordered to pay back the GH¢51 million he illegally received from the state, are far from over, as the Attorney-General’s (A-G’s) Department has found fresh evidence of fraud against him. Investigators at the A-G’s Department found that …

The Kaneshie District Court on Wednesday adjourned the treason trial involving ten persons to December 19. This was to enable the prosecution to continue with its investigation. The court presided over by Mrs Eleanor Kakra Barnes-Botchway asked prosecution whether it had filed the Bill of Indictment (BI)  of the prosecution …

It has emerged that Crane Currency, a currency and security printing company in the United States of America (USA), printed the newly introduced GH¢200 and GH¢100 banknotes for the country. Information available to the GRAPHIC BUSINESS indicated that Crane Currency, which prides itself as being in the currency business for …

Government has described the ongoing strike by Teacher Unions as sabotage after their meeting with the unions ended inconclusively. Government’s meeting with the teacher unions to resolve the issue of legacy arrears did not end well, the PRO for the Education Ministry, Vincent Ekow Assafuah speaking to Joy FM accused …

One of the architects of the June 4 Uprising Major [Retired] Osahene Boakye Gyan has come out with some shocking revelations about former President Jerry John Rawlings, 40 years after the 1979 coup d’état. The coup arose out of a combination of corruption, bad governance, frustration among the general public …

A piece of information gathered has it that the Students at Mayani Secondary School in Dedza have been sent home following the temporary closure of the institution due to an outbreak of bedbugs. The school, like many other schools in the country, was supposed to close this term on 21 …

Former President J.J Rawlings appears to be rewriting what history says about him being rescued by Major Boakye Gyan from the jaws of death as he awaited his mutiny trial in 1979. The retired Flight Lieutenant insists that contrary to the conventional accounts, both written and oral, Major Gyan did …

At least 50 buckets and bonnets of tricycles belonging to defunct Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), have been burnt by fire at the Wa Public Works Department (PWD) yard, Monday. The fire is believed to have started around midday and allegedly from a garden set up close to the wall …

Justice Avril Lovelace-Johnson, a justice designate to the Supreme Court of Ghana, has taken a swipe at Professor Raymond Akongburo Atuguba, the Dean of the School of Law, University of Ghana, Legon over his research which seeks to establish that judgements by justices of the court are influenced their political …

A five-year-old boy perished when he got trapped in an inferno that gutted a nine-bedroom apartment last Saturday night at Ahwiaa Over-Seas, in the Kwabre-East District of Ashanti Region. The deceased whose name was only given as Bernard, was in the room with his 12-year-old sister when the fire started, …

The Dansoman Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old man, Prosper Nii Aku, who is suspected to have killed a 40-year-old woman. According to the police report, the lady is believed to be a prostitute who was picked up by Nii Aku at about 11 pm last Wednesday evening to his …

Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo is being hounded out of the office and persecuted for doing his work well as far as the fight against corruption and the protection of the public purse is concerned, investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has said. “I think the office of the Auditor-General is the …

The effiduase traditional council has called on President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo to as matter of urgency call the Sekyere East District Chief Executive to order or remove Mad Mary Boatemaa Marfo from office because she is a liability. The traditional council addresses the media at a press conference …

MTN Ghana has expressed deep concern about the recent sanctions by the National Communications Authority, considering what it describes as the efforts put in place to resolve the issues following the receipt of varied complaints on December 2, 2019. The telecom regulator fined the telecommunications giant a total of GHS110, …

The management of GHACEM cement has announced an increase in the prices of its products. The new prices will take effect from Wednesday, 11 December 2019. A statement signed by Commercial Director for GHACEM, Nana Phillip Archer, on Monday, December 9 said the upward adjustment is due to, among other …

Chantan, Nii Okaiman and Israel Districts of the Church of Pentecost in the Kaneshie Area on Thursday, 5th December, 2019, visited and donated 100 bags of cement worth GHC 3, 100.00 to the Abeka Motorway Basic School and Chantan M. A. Experimental Basic School which share a common compound as …