The final year student of Tweneboah Kodua senior high school in the Ashanti Region who was murdered at Manso left the school without an exeat, according to an official statement of the school. The deceased, who was 17-year-old left the school without the knowledge of authorities. He is identified as Daniel Osei-Mensah. The police have arrested two persons including a minor final year student of Tweneboah Kodua senior high school. According to the police, they arrested suspect Eric Anning and a minor with the support of some members of the Fiankoma community in the Ashanti region. The two are said...
Ablakwa respond to Akufo Addo’s positive rating of ministers.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu , Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has condemned the president’s positive assessment of his appointees. According to Mr.Ablakwa, the president is out of touch with reality for not seeing the need to reshuffle the executives. He added that this is dangerous to the country’s democracy. This comes at the back of the president’s comments he made on his two-day tour of the Northern Region. According to the president, he is impressed with his appointees thus there is no need for a shake -up among the executive body of government. The President also believes calls...
Cement prices expected to go up
Cement prices are expected to be increased from next week. The price of a 50-kilogram bag is expected to increase from ¢59.00 ¢68.00. The increment is necessitated by a sudden rise in the cost of operations, from July 2022, as a result of a sharp depreciation of the cedi over the past month. According to some of the manufacturers, it has been very difficult to absorb all the rising costs of operations, and there is a need to share some of the burdens with consumers. The factory price (whole sale price) of a 50 kilogram was about ¢59.00, which was...
Ghana to host largest international petroleum conference
West Africa industry leaders, experts, and decision makers in the petroleum downstream industry are gearing up for what is anticipated to be the largest Ghana International Petroleum Conference (GhipCon) yet as organizers reveal another milestone for the West Africa’s most influential oil and gas event. The conference which is been organized by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) in collaboration with the African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA) and under the auspices of the Ministry of Energy and the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), will take place at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, Accra from the 28th -30th...
Body of missing Chinese found in dam at Esaase
The body of a Chinese man who went missing has been retrieved from a dam at Esaase in the Kwahu West Municipality of the Eastern Region. The Chinese who worked with a mining company as a supervisor for the construction of some roads in the district went missing after his car sunk into a dam in the community. His car is reported to have skidded off the road into the dam while on duty. A search party deployed to find him yielded no result. He was, however, found by the rescue team after traditional authorities poured libation. The body of...
Akufo-Addo shoots down calls for reshuffle
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has shot down calls for him to reshuffle his ministers. In the President’s view, many of his ministers have performed good. Speaking in an interview on North Star radio in Tamale on Monday, 8 August 2022, he said many of his ministers “for me have done outstanding work. Their output has been considerable, and that is what I look at.” “If the output measures expectations, then I don’t have any strong reasons to heed the call,” Nana Akufo-Addo added. He said people have their own ulterior motives for calling for reshuffle. Among them, he noted...
Ghanian passengers lodge official compliant against delta airlines
Some seven Ghanaian passengers have lodged an official complaints with US government office of Aviation consumer protection under the Department of Transportation against management of Delta Airlines Inc for ” unprofessional ” ” unethical” and ” irresponsible” handling of a flight from JFK International Airport to Accra last month. The original scheduled flight was on Sunday , July 24, but was rescheduled to Monday July 25. On the schedules date, the flight had to return to make an emergency landing after two hours in flight due to fuel shortage. This forced another re scheduling to Tuesday, July 26 while those...
Accept 5 peswas coin, it’s a legal tender – BoG.
The Bank of Ghana(BoG) has urged all Ghanaians to accept the one peswa and five peswas coins and trade with it. Head of currency Management Department at the BoG, Domnic Owusu told TV3’s Manu Afful that, the coins is still a legal tender hence as good citizens, Ghanaians must use it. Some traders said ” it is useless because you cannot even get pure water at 20 peswas and so the one peswa, what will you use it to buy”?. But Mr. Owusu urged both traders and customers to mqke it a priority to use the coins. He added that,...
Quran Memorization school commissioned by the national chief Imam at Ablekuma
The National Chief Imam of Ghana His eminence sheikh Dr. Osman Nuhu Sharubutu Commissioned his mosque and Quran Memorization school at Ablekuma Joma. According to the National Chief Imam, the mosque and school which were commissioned on Friday 5th August 2022 are one of his school and mosque projects in the country The event which was chaired by Dr. Ahmed Vandapour was also witnessed by some prominent personalities in an outside Ghana such as His excellency the Vice President Dr. Alhaj Mahmud Bawmia, Sheikh Mohammed Mahey Nyass the leader of Tijanniyah worldwide, His royal Highness Sarki Sanusi Lamido the 14th...
OSP recovers over GH¢1M from Labianca Company; cites owner for corruption-related offenses
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has recovered an amount of GH¢1.074 million from Labianca Company Limited. The money was recovered as a shortfall of revenue arising from the issuance of the unlawful customs advance meant to be duties paid to the state following the importation of the frozen foods owned by Eunice Jacqueline Buah Asomah-Hinneh, a Council of State member who is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA). In November 2021, the OSP was petitioned by one Frank Asare, to launch an investigation into the Customs Division of...