A robot broke a seven-year-old boy’s finger during a chess match in Moscow last week, Russian news outlets report. “The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President, told Tass news agency. “This is of course bad.” A video shared on social media shows the robot taking one of the boy’s pieces. The boy then makes his own move, and the robot grabs his finger. Four adults rush to help the boy, who is eventually freed and ushered away. Mr Lazarev said the machine had played many previous matches without incident. The boy was able to finish...
Gov’t in talks with nuclear vendor countries to develop Ghana’s first nuclear power technology
Government is set to soon announce a vendor country to develop Ghana’s first nuclear power project to provide an affordable and reliable baseload source as Ghana transitions to clean energy. Nuclear vendor countries are those who have the expertise in producing nuclear reactors, and are also capable of helping other countries to build their nuclear energy capacity.According to the Deputy Minister of Energy, in charge of power, William Owuraku Aidoo, the government is currently evaluating submissions from vendor countries to select a suitable vendor and nuclear technology to partner with Ghana in the development of a Nuclear Power Plant. ...
Minority MPs gather signatures to impeach Ken Ofori -Atta from office
The Minority caucus has gathered over 100 signatures from its fold to kickstart the vote of censure proceedings against the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta. Their action seeks to invoke article 82 of the constitution, which provides for the elaborate procedure of removing a minister of the state through proceedings in Parliament. If the motion is admitted, the Minister for Finance will be the second Minister in recent times to have such a motion filed against him, following that of the Minister of Health, which is still pending in the house. The Minister for Finance has been under pressure to...
Bansi bids farewell to Baina TV
The General Manager of Baina Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) has resigned from his post, after eight months since joining the company. Bansi Abubakar Abdul Hamid first joined the Broadcast Giant in October 2021 as the Marketing Manager and rose to the position of General Manager within a short time before his official resignation in June 2022. In his farewell message to Staff of BBC, Mr Bansi admonished workers to continue to support whoever was going to take over from him. Baina TV, a subsidiary of Baina Broadcasting corporation is the only Television Station on Digital, terrestrial platform T2 in Ghana running programmes...
AfDB Board approves more than $1bn for emergency food production plan
African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors has approved 24, fast-track programs to help Africa mitigate rising food prices and inflation caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine, climate change, and the Covid-19 pandemic. The first round of approvals is part of the Bank’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility, established in May to boost food security, nutrition, and resilience across the continent. The facility will provide 20 million African smallholder farmers with certified seeds and increased access to agricultural fertilizers. It will also support governance and policy reform, which is expected to encourage greater investment in Africa’s agricultural sector....
Ignore fake fuel subsidy promo – GOIL
The Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has said it is not running any fuel subsidy promotion. The company has, therefore, urged the general public to disregard any fuel subsidy promotion scheme with a link being circulated on social media. A statement issued by the Company on Wednesday, 20 July 2022, said: “The promotion encourages unsuspecting customers to join a fake trivia which will award winners a sum of GHS500 among other freebies. “Some suspected members of the syndicate have gone the extra length to confirm with fake accounts how they have successfully redeemed their rewards.” The statement encouraged the public...
Agric better under Akufo-Addo than Mills, Mahama combined – Ex-Minister sector minister
A Former minister for food and agriculture in the erstwhile Mahama administration, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna, has debunked claims by the NPP government that agriculture today under the Nana Akufo-Addo government is far better than agriculture under President Mills and President Mahama combined. Responding to a newspaper publication on Thursday, 21 July 2022, Alhaji Limuna described the publication as the biggest joke of the century. The former agriculture minister said that the reality on the grounds is exposing the ‘cooked’ figures used to showcase the performance of the sector. He mentioned the very high cost of agricultural inputs under the...
Islamic SHS chaos: Defence C’ttee accuses police of fabricating lies
The Defense and Interior Committee of Parliament has recommended that Speaker Alban Bagbin set up a bi-partisan committee to further investigate the chaos that occurred at the Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi. The Committee, which the Speaker tasked to fact-find the issue, has accused the Police of fabricating lies. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, 21 July 2022, following the presentation of the committee’s report to Parliament, the Chairman of the Committee Kennedy Agyapong noted that the Police denied entering the school, despite the bullets that were found in some of the dormitories. He indicated that the Committee had recommended...
23year old shot dead in the Ashanti Region.
A student of Oyoko dispensing optics who’s aged 23 has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kumasi, on Tuesday evening. The victim, Kwabena Asumadu met his untimely death shortly after dropping a friend at sofoline around 11pm. His car which was an unregistered Mercedes-Benz. He was shot multiple times through the driver’s seat by these unknown gunmen. “Kwabena was a calm and reliable friend. He didn’t have qualms with anyone because he is someone who immediately apologizes to people he offends. We just can’t understand why someone will do something like this to him. We are pained but God...
Over 15.7million Ghana Cards issued so far – NIA Boss.
Approximately 15.7million Ghanaians have received their Ghana cards, the executive secretary of the National Identification Authority, prof Kenneth Agyapong Attafuah has disclosed. Prof. Attafuah said information gathered to him reveals that 16,969,034 persons have registered for the Ghana card, with about 16,535,623 cards printed as of today. Prof. Attafuah further said that about 15,702,719 cards have been issued whereas some 808,493 cards have been printed but not issued yet. He also stated multiple reasons why some people who registered but have not been issued with their cards yet. “ There are people who have not been issued with their...