Bearing last minute changes, the Attorney General (AG) and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame will today level fresh charges against the Chinese illegal miner, EN Huang otherwise known as Aisha Huang. The charges against Miss Huang, is in respect of her current offence as well as those she committed before her deportation from Ghana in 2018. The Attorney General assured that he will initiate prosecution when he called for the case docket from the Police. News of Aisha Huang’s re-arrest in Ghana after she was reportedly deported somewhere in 2018 for her involvement in illegal mining commonly called in...
Ghana has recorded the highest inflation figure in 21 years since August 2021- GSS
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) on Wednesday 14th September 2022, Announced that Ghana consumer inflation has increased to 33.9% in August 2022 from 31.74% in july 2022. The report which was read by Professor Samuel Kobina Annim on Wednesday indicated that inflation rate between July 2022 and August 2022 was 1.96%. According to him the inflation rate for August was mainly driven by transport and utilities. ” The inflation rate was driven by Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and Other Fuels (46.7%); Transport (45.7%); Furnishings, Household Equipment and Routine Household Maintenance (44.7%); Recreation, Sport and Culture (36.4%); Personal Care, Social Protection...
Burkina Faso’s military leader sacks defence minister amid jihadist attacks
Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a January coup, has sacked his defence minister and assumed the role himself after a series of jihadist attacks, according to decrees published Monday. The first decree, read on national television, removed General Barthelemy Simpore as defence minister, while the second said the “president has taken over the duties of the minister of national defence and veterans”. Damiba headed a group of officers who mounted a coup on January 24, toppling elected leader Roch Marc Christian Kabore, who had failed to stem the jihadist insurgency that first emerged...
Man, 42, arrested for threatening to shoot Kade chief at funeral
Residents of Akyem Kade in the Eastern Region are yet to come into terms with a shooting incident that occurred at a funeral over the weekend. An eyewitness narrated: “When we got there, we saw a man holding a gun at the area where the chiefs chair had been arranged. He had folded all the chairs down. The Chief ordered we arranged the chairs well. The suspect dared to shoot the Chief if we touch the chairs. The chief dared him as well. The police had to quickly intervene. Some guys held him as he shot in the air. Later...
I have not received GHC14 million as ex gratia – Mahama
Former president John Dramani Mahama has described claims by Abronye DC, the regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party for the Bono Region, that he received an amount of GHC14 million as ex gratia as absolute lie. According to Mr. Mahama, even though government is supposed to pay for his bills, he has for the last 3 elections, paid his own bills including water, electricity,rent , medical bills as well as plane tickets. He made the disclosure in an interview with Alfred Ocancey of Tv3 The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe was reported to...
UEW mourns lecturer, 3 students who died in an accident at Apirede
Students and management of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), have been thrown into a state of mourning following the death of four persons in an accident at Apirede in the Eastern Region. Some of the students, who spoke to Adom News, expressed their shock after the news broke. The accident, which occurred on Friday, claimed the lives of a lecturer and three female students of the institution while several others were injured. The victims are of the university’s Early Grade and Childhood Development who were on their way to an excursion at Mountain Afadjato. The injured, according to the Students Representative Council, are...
The public purse Akufo-Addo promised to protect cannot even be found – Mahama
Former President, John Dramani Mahama, says contrary to President Akufo-Addo’s promise to protect the public purse, the state’s resources have rather depleted under his watch. According to the 2020 NDC flagbearer, Ghana has lost so much money in the Akufo-Addo era, due to the President’s failure to tackle corruption. Addressing a gathering of chiefs and people at the 2022 edition of the Asogli Yam Festival in the Volta Region, he bemoaned the situation and expressed reservations about the current state of the economy. He, therefore, pledged the NDC’s commitment to protecting the public in the purse. “This government, the NPP...
Make Ghana Card acquisition process faster
The Electoral Commission (EC) has called on the National Identification Authority (NIA) to accelerate the pace of the printing of Ghana cards to make it easy for people to acquire their cards, as they will soon be the only form of ID for voter registration. This follows the confirmation by the EC that it has decided to scrap the guarantor system and rather now use the Ghana Card for the compilation of a voter register for the 2024 general election. Speaking at the ‘Let the Citizens Know’ series in Accra last Thursday, the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, said...
Corruption has been institutionalized under Akufo-Addo – Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama has taken on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for what he says is the seeming institutionalization of corruption currently in Ghana. Mr. Mahama cited the 2021 Auditor-General’s report as evidence of how the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has lost the fight against corruption. “The NPP government has completely lost control of the fight against corruption,” he said at this year’s Te Zã (Yam Festival) of the Asogli State over the weekend. “President Akufo-Addo in his inaugural address promised to protect the purse. Today, that public purse cannot be found. “Revelations in the Auditor General report for 2021 are only a...
Ist Gibrine Foundation donates towards construction of first islamic school for the blind in Ghana.
The CEO of 1st Gibrine foundation, Alhaji Gibrine Issah Tutu has made a donation of 10,700 to the Ali Amir foundation on Friday 9th September 2022 at the Accra New town Islamic hospital. Presenting the donation to Ali Amir foundation,Alhaji Gibrine Issah Tutu said he is very happy to support the initiative by Ali Amir foundation,to build the first islamic school for the blind in Ghana. He said, although he also has a foundation, he is very happy supporting the initiative of building a Muslim school for the blind. The Rep of Ali Amir foundation, Madam Hawa Mohammed, on behalf...