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While indications are clear that West Africa’s first refinery, the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is in a deep debt hole burden, officials employed to turn things around have rather resorted to a denial syndrome. The company lost a staggering GHS186 million in the first four months of operations this year. …

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will soon shut down some investment firms operating in the country after it completes an ongoing forensic audit of some 21 investment companies, the Deputy Director-General of SEC has disclosed. According to Paul Ababio, who refused to give further information on these firms, SEC …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has tasked the Western Regional Police Command to bring to book all perpetrators involved in the attack and abduction of the Paramount Chief of Lower Dixcove, Nana Akwasi Agyemang. According to President Akufo-Addo, “I have told the police that all those who carried out the …

Seven Junior High School students have been caught using love charms to woe girls in their class. Pictures of a cream akin to the famous Mama Gee attraction creams and concoctions, have been sighted in a Facebook post by a teacher, Jay Song believed to hail from Tamale but his …

A claim of mismanagement of the cocoa sector by former President John Mahama has incurred the wrath of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana COCOBOD. Hon Joseph Boahen Aidoo said someone who supervised the total collapse of the cocoa sector under his regime has no moral right to …

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld the entire results of some 26,434 candidates pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractice detected during and after the conduct of the examination. The Council in a statement signed by Mrs. Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Head of Public Affairs for …

The Immigration Service has honoured five Officers whose vigilance prevented the smuggling of fuel through unapproved routes along the country’s borders. The officers include the Akanu Sector Commander, Chief Superintendent Godson Attobrah and Officer-In-Charge of Grounds, Assistant Superintendent Augustus Okyere. The rest are Inspector Samuel Ampofo, Assistant Inspector Kofi Asante and …

Top Kenyan officials led by Foreign Minister Monica Juma have handed back 35.4kg of gold smuggled from Tanzania. The value of the gold – which the team handed to President John Magufuli – has not been declared but a Kenyan news site is reporting that it is worth at least …

The new prime minister is due to make a statement to the House of Commons having addressed his new cabinet ministers for the first time. Boris Johnson told the cabinet they had “a momentous task ahead”, as he repeated his commitment for the UK to leave the EU on 31 …

A 26-year-old woman, who inflicted cutlass wounds on her 10-year-old biological son, is in the grips of the Obuasi Divisional Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service. Mariam Issah, a resident of Boete, a suburb of Obuasi, was arrested following a report by a neighbour …

Parliament is to rescind the third reading and passage of the Vigilantism and Related Offences Bill, 2019 following the detection of an anomaly in the bill. Barely three days after the passage of the bill into law, the Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Ben …

Joy News journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni is unhappy with the National Media Commission‘s (NMC) ruling on his documentary dubbed: ‘Militia in the heart of the nation.’ According to him, the ruling was unfortunate and inappropriate. While expressing worry, the journalist argued that although he provided the NMC with all facts regarding …

I read in the Ghana Web a publication on 17th July 2019 attributed to Mr. Asiedu Nketia, in which he was alleged to have said that he “personally warned” me, Martin Amidu, “against taking up the job of Special Prosecutor because the laws that established the office does not give him …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government and the security agencies are doing everything possible to rescue the three young women believed to have been kidnapped in Takoradi between August and December last year.Speaking on the matter on the second day of his tour of the Western Region, the President …

Scores of actors and actresses from the Ashanti Region, led by Nana Ama McBrown, on Wednesday, 24 July 2019 petitioned Ghana’s parliament to ensure that a Film Village is built in Kumasi, the hub of Ghanaian movies (Kumawood) rather the Kyebi, Eastern Region. McBrown told Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu during …

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is planning a mammoth demonstration against government in three months, if it fails to enforce laws governing retail trade. President of the Association, Dr Joseph Obeng, at a press conference held at the Central Business District (Opera Square) said, if government does not …

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) says the National Media Commission’s ruling on the government’s dispute with Joy News over the airing of a documentary which exposed the existence of a militia group at the Christiansborg Castle in Osu is confusing. The NMC ruled that the Joy News documentary …

I didn’t see this coming, but I am able to bring my mind into agreement with Charles Dickens when he wrote in chapter 1 of his book the ‘Bleak House’ which deeply criticised the court of chancery as ‘This court of chancery…which gives to monied might the means abundantly of …

The first batch of Ghanaian pilgrims were airlifted Wednesday morning at the Tamale Airport to perform this year’s pilgrimage in Mecca. About 492 pilgrims left with Boeing 747-400 aircraft in the Northern region. The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Hajj Board in the region, Alhaji Eliasu confirmed to Class …

A huge number of heavily armed police officers have taken over the security of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in anticipation of the return of the ousted Vice-Chancellor of the school, Prof Mawutor Avoke, who, together with some staff who were also dismissed, stormed the campus on Tuesday to, …

Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has backed the current Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Professor Anthony Afful-Broni,  saying “there’s only one Vice-Chancellor” at the University. Mr. Prempeh’s support comes on the back of brewing tensions in the University with a combined team of National Security Operatives and …

The Managing Director of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Dr Kofi Kodua Sarpong has been appointed as the Chairman of the Ashanti Regional Council of Patrons of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The appointment letter dated July 19, 2019 and signed by Mr Bernard Antwi-Boasiako [Chairman Wontumi], Ashanti Regional …

The government of Ghana spent US$4.5 million on the senior national football team, the Black Stars, at the just-ended Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in Egypt, Youth and Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah has told parliament.The Black Stars, who were tipped as pre-tournament favourites, exited at the round of 16 …

Government has revealed it will reintroduce the issuance of national certificates aside the WASSCE, as part of the rolling out of new curriculum for basic schools. According to the Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the certificates will be a prerequisite for gaining employment in the country. Speaking at a stakeholder …

Two Gambian soldiers working for a hit squad controlled by former President Yahya Jammeh on Monday admitted to participating in the 2005 execution of 56 West African migrants, including 44 Ghanaians on the orders of Jammeh. Lieutenant Malick Jatta and Corporal Omar A. Jallow revealed to Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and …