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The former Boss of the Tema Oil Refinery, Asante Berko has been found guilty by the Security and Exchange Commission in the USA for arranging millions of dollars in bribes to be paid to government officials in Ghana to help a client win a power plant contract. Asante Berko, a former executive …

image captionThere are hundreds of children in some of the tents At a US border detention centre in the Texan desert, migrant children have been living in alarming conditions – where disease is rampant, food can be dangerous and there are reports of sexual abuse, an investigation by the BBC …

US Catholic bishops are on a potential collision course with President Joe Biden after voting to commission a document that may call for him to be barred from Holy Communion. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) clashed online over whether to draw up a teaching document on politicians who …

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has urged Ghanaians to be grateful for the 13 percent increment in transport fares. According to the union, other transport unions had proposed a thirty percent increment instead. The GPRTU and Road Transport Coordinating Council announced an increment in transport fares on Wednesday, …

  The Chief Executive Officer of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, (FWSC) Dr. Edward kwapong has admitted that, the 6% increase in wages may not be adequate but workers should bear with the commission as it expects a rebound of the economy to turn things around. The commission says …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionChina has rejected any link between Covid-19 and a virus research lab in Wuhan China has denounced US efforts to further investigate whether Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab. US President Joe Biden has called on intelligence officials to “redouble” their work to find out how the virus …

  Some galamsey operatives arrested for engaging in illegal mining in the Atewa Forest went berserk on Monday, May 24, 2021, at the premises of Koforidua Circuit Court’ B’ after the court refused them bail. The prosecution led by Dickson Donkor and Helen Samlafo both state Attorneys, and Silvester Asare …

AFPCopyright: AFP Thousands of people have been killed since conflict broke out in November 2020Image caption: Thousands of people have been killed since conflict broke out in November 2020 The United States is imposing wide-ranging restrictions on economic and security assistance to Ethiopia over the conflict in the Tigray region. …

  Embattled Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, DCOP (Retired) Kwaku Ayesu Opare Addo has been warned not to dare members of the defunct Delta Force group or they would be compelled to leak secrets about him. While accusing him of masterminding the physical attack and the removal of his predecessor, Mr …

 Chinese governmentt The Chinese government has expressed its disappointment following the involvement of their nationals in illegal small scale mining (Galamsey) as they proposed the Chinese government inclusion in the galamsey fight. They have also proposed a travel blacklisting of its nationals engaged in illegal mining. A delegation from the …