The national chief Imam of Ghana, Sheikh Osumanu Nuhu Sharubutu has paid a visit to the Accra new town Islamic hospital on 15 September 2022. During his visit, he prayed and blessed the management of the hospital for their work. The Imam for the area also thanked Allah for bringing this great achievement to their community. Other residents from the area also shared their joy over the achievement and for also for getting them employed. The head of IT for the hospital, Mr Salisu Abubakar thanked the Chief Imam for his visit. He stated that the hospital will run as...
Queen’s funeral: Heathrow cancels flights on Monday
Heathrow Airport has said about 15% of its schedule will be altered on Monday during Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral. This is to ensure the skies over London fall quiet during the events, it said. There will be flight cancellations as a result, including 100 British Airways flights and four Virgin Atlantic flights. Separately tens of thousands of passengers are set to be affected by a French air traffic control strike on Friday. Among the cancelled flights will be many that fly over France, not just to and from the country. Heathrow disruption Heathrow said that all takeoffs and landings on...
We’ve created over 5 million jobs since 2017 – Employment Minister
Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Ignatius Baffour Awuah says the Akufo-Addo administration has created millions of jobs since assuming office in 2017. Speaking at the launch of the 2022 Ghana Job Fair in Sunyani, Ignatius Baffour Awuah said the jobs were formal and informal, permanent and temporary and full-time as well as part-time. “An analysis of data assembled by the ministry from the inputs of various Ministries, Departments and Agencies, as well as the government’s flagship programmes indicates that an estimated 5,306,899 jobs were created by the government between 2017 and 2021”, he stated. He said these jobs were created...
Aisha Huang is an NPP financier – NDC alleges
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is alleging that Aisha Huang is a financier of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to Deputy General Secretary of the party, Dr. Peter Boamah Otukonor, the inability of the NPP government to take Aisha Huang head-on shows a level of complicity. This adds to the unending twists surrounding the illegal mining kingpin’s controversy. Already, the manner in which the Chinese illegal miner departed Ghana following her arrest in 2017 has been a subject of controversy. It was perceived that the illegal mining kingpin was deported according to earlier reports back in 2018...
Ghana will overcome economic challenges — IMF Rep
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is optimistic that the country will emerge stronger from the current economic challenges that have seen the prices of goods and services soar. The challenges have also led to difficulties for the government to access the international capital market for funds to finance development. The IMF said the country had a history of navigating shocks in ways that had built strong buffers and adequate resilience for challenges such as those currently confronting the economy. The Resident Representative of the IMF in Ghana, Dr Albert Touna Mama, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Graphic, said...
King Charles Invites Otumfuo To Queen Elizabeth Funeral
The newly crowned British Monarch, King Charles III has officially invited His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene to attend the state funeral ceremony of the late Queen Elizabeth II. An invitation was also sent out to the wife of Asantehene, Lady Julia Osei Tutu. By the invitation, Otumfuo will attend the Queen’s Lying-In-State, the King’s Reception, State Funeral Services and the Foreign Secretary’s Reception. The event will take place on Monday, September 19, 2022. Somewhere in 2000, Asantehene was a guest of Queen Elizabeth II during a three-week visit to the United Kingdom where he visited the...
Attorney General Ready With Fresh Charges Against Aisha Huang
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...