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“This is nonsensical and madness,” Roads Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Atta fumed on Wednesday when he led a team to the Airport residential area Wednesday. The Minister led the team to demolish a concrete barricade erected by some Turkish developers who are putting up a 22-storey building in the area. He also called for the arrest of the contractor working on the ...

Born on April 24, 1827, Ghana’s Kwasi Boakye is the world’s first black mining engineer. The African-Dutch mining engineer was a prince of the Ashanti Empire and the eldest son of Kwaku Dua II, a king of the Ashanti kingdom. In 1837, along with his cousin Kwame Poku, the prince left to pursue an education in the Netherlands. The prince ...

Two police officers from the Noord-Holland force have been arrested in Haarlem for leaking confidential information to the NRC. One of the two played an important role in exposing problems with discrimination and racism at the Hoefkade police station in The Hague earlier this year and was moved the Haarlemmermeer force in September, the paper said. The same month, she ...

The Ministry of Trade and Industry has released a list of 58 completed factories under the government’s flagship program, One District One Factory. The factories’ production ranges from agri-goods to the production toiletries, fabrics and bottled/sachet water. Out of the 58 companies, 22 of them can be found in the Greater Accra Region, 11 in the Eastern Region and 12 ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has justified why 96 out of the 275 ambulances are currently parked at the State House. The issue of these parked ambulances emerged after the Minority side on Parliament’s Health Committee gave the government the ultimatum to immediately release the ambulances or risk further public agitations. Others joined in the campaign indicating that there is ...

Think tank, IMANI Africa, has scored the Nana Akufo-Addo government an overall mark of 48.78% with regards to the fulfilment of its 2016 manifesto promises. The think tank also scored the government 54.35% for how it has managed the economy, stating that out of a total of 162 promises, only 41 have been implemented. The scores are contained in the ...

Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has accused the embattled Auditor General, Mr Daniel Yao Domelevo of heinous moves to scandalise appointees in the current administration under the guise of fighting corruption. “In many instances when the report has come to Parliament we find out that many times the Auditor-General has gotten it wrong and ...

Swansea City manager Steve Cooper has registered his pleasure with the recent form of André Ayew — stating that the Ghanaian will stay with his side beyond the January transfer window. Ayew produced a Man-of-the-Match performance for the Swans in their 3-1 victory over Middlesbrough at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday. The Ghana international opened the scoring from the spot ...

A number of Ghanaians were in action this weekend for their various sides in Europe’s top two competitions this week. Here’s how they got on. Tuesday Majeed Ashimeru was a late substitute for Red Bull Salzburg as they saw out the last few minutes of their Champions League campaign. He came on in the 90th minute with Salzburg already 2-0 ...

Teofimo Lopez came in the favorite as a challenger tonight, and he showed why, as he stopped Richard Commey in the second round to win the IBF lightweight title at Madison Square Garden. The 22-year-old Lopez (15-0, 12 KO) absolutely drilled Commey (29-3, 26 KO) with a right hand as both throw their rights at the same time, Lopez’ getting ...