The Deputy Director General in charge of Managerial Operations at the National Communications Authority (NCA), Dr. Isaac Yaw Ani, has told an Accra High Court that the former Board Chairman, Eugene Baffoe Bonnie, impressed upon him to make the transfer of some $4 million without documentation. Dr. Ani made this revelation while being led in evidence by the Director of ...
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EU envoy lauds ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ initiative
European Union Ambassador to Ghana Diana Acconcia says the EU is shifting away from the ‘donor-receiver’ kind of relationship with Africa to a partnership kind of relationship. The EU Ambassador disclosed this while presenting her letter of credence to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House in Accra on Tuesday. She expressed confidence in the President’s ‘Ghana Beyond ...
Read More »Don’t politicize CTN – Group to Ghanaians
A pressure group, COALITION FOR TRANSPARENCY AT PORTS AND HARBOURS has waded into the controversial Cargo Tracking Note system issue which implementation started on Monday, October,15, 2018 saying the CTN policy is the sure way to securing the country’s economy. The group expressed their appreciation to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the government of Ghana for taking a bold ...
Read More »Amewu ‘brags’ over $50m savings in renegotiated Ameri deal
Energy Minister John Peter Amewu is claiming the government has saved $50 million in yet another renegotiated AMERI deal. It will be the second renegotiation of a highly controversial power deal by the government after the first was heavily criticized. Amewu told Evans Mensah on PM Express, a current affairs programme, on Joy News, Monday evening, that government has concluded ...
Read More »2016 election results: Our system failed – NDC
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is covering up its failure to collate the 2016 presidential election results, saying that its system collapsed. Bede Ziedeng, acting Director of Elections for the NDC, at a press conference on Thursday, said the party tried deploying electronic system for the collation of election results, but the system crashed, compelling the team to resort ...
Read More »Every district will have a factory by 2020 – National Coordinator
The National Coordinator of the One-District-One Factory policy initiative, Hon. Gifty Ohene Konadu, has assured Ghanaians that every district will have its own factory by the end of 2020. She noted some districts will even have more factories than others depending on the raw material potentials they have. Corroborating her claim, she indicated for instance that the Nsawam Adoagyiri District ...
Read More »Bidding for oil blocks must be transpent and efficient – President Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, has charged the Ministry of Energy, the Petroleum Commission, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and the Licensing Rounds Committee to co-operate and ensure that activities under the maiden oil and gas licensing round are carried out in a transparent and efficient manner. Speaking at the launch of the “Ghana Oil and Gas ...
Read More »Part of $175m loan to build hospitals spent on NDC re-election research
Joy News’ investigations have revealed the Ministry of Health under the Mahama administration diverted part of a government loan facility on research into the chances of the then governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). The research was a sub-contract under a 175 million dollar project awarded to British infrastructure company NMS for the construction of seven district hospitals and an integrated ...
Read More »D66 en PvdA: Hersteloperatie na vrouwenbesnijdenis in basisverzekering
D66 en PvdA eisen dat hersteloperaties na vrouwenbesnijdenis vergoed worden via de basisverzekering. Het vorige kabinet zegde dat al toe, maar vier jaar later moeten vrouwen de operatie nog uit eigen zak betalen. De vrouwen die hier moeite hebben met plassen of iets vreugdevols als seks worden aan hun lot overgelaten Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, D66 Sjoerd Sjoerdsma (D66) © ANP Als ...
Read More »Python valt door plafond bij ochtendvergadering Chinese bank
Bankpersoneel uit de Chinese stad Nanning was afgelopen vrijdagochtend meteen goed wakker. Tijdens de ochtendvergadering viel er een python van anderhalve meter lengte door het systeemplafond, precies tussen twee werknemers in op de grond. Het dier schampt de schouder van een vrouw, die ineenkrimpt. Op een video die inmiddels wereldwijd massaal wordt gedeeld, is te zien hoe het dier op zijn ...
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