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Former President John Dramani Mahama is sulking over the apparent jab aimed at him on Monday by Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. His office released a statement yesterday complaining bitterly about why the Vice President called him ‘incompetent one’ and said any attack will not go unanswered. Bizarrely, it was Mr. Mahama who started it all when he ridiculed ...

Parliament’s Committee on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs is expected to visit various sites in the Northern Region where the government says it has built or is building dams as part of the One village-One dam policy. The move, according to the Vice Chairman of the committee, Abraham Odoom, will enable the members to verify the claims and counter-claims. The ...

Some 18 factories have been accredited under the Akufo-Addo government’s One District-One Factory policy with 50 more to receive accreditation by the end of 2018, Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has said. “As I speak to you this morning, 18 factories have been accredited so far and a good number of them have been visited by President Akufo-Addo”, Mr Oppong-Nkrumah told ...

The management of Prudential Bank Limited has asked its customers to disregard information making the rounds on social media that it is “dying”, and, so, they should “rush to withdraw their funds”. “The management of Prudential Bank Limited is assuring customers that the publications are totally false and should be ignored. They are mere fabrications calculated to destroy the good ...

Ghana risks losing a €60 million subsidy facility from the Netherland government to set up a solid waste recycling plant if the country fails to sign a partnership agreement on the project by the end of this month. The project which has the capacity to recycle 20 tonnes of solid waste, incinerate 180 tonnes of the waste per day, and ...

Pressure is mounting on the government to investigate how a whopping $7 billion worth of gold was shipped out of the country unaccounted for in the last couple of years. Steve Manteaw who heads the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) is completely bemused over the apparent state of inertia by the country’s customs officials to get to the bottom of ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Tafo Pankrono in the Ashanti region has allegedly escaped lynching. According to reports, Hon. Dr Anthony Akoto Osei escaped when some members of the party’s vigilante group, Delta forces stormed a meeting with his constituents. The macho men were said to have destroyed items worth thousands of cedi and harassed NPP executives ...

Uitkeringsinstantie UWV betaalt werkloosheidsuitkeringen aan werknemers zonder te controleren of ze zijn ontslagen. Dat meldt Nieuwsuur. Op basis van eigen onderzoek stelt het programma dat deze praktijk tot grootschalige fraude leidt, met name onder arbeidsmigranten. Het UWV zou al jaren op de hoogte zijn van de problemen. De WW is alleen bedoeld voor mensen die buiten hun schuld werkloos zijn geworden, bijvoorbeeld ...

Een 53-jarige man die als penningmeester van een protestantse kerkgemeenschap in Leiden ruim 1,9 miljoen euro heeft verduisterd, is veroordeeld tot drie jaar cel, waarvan acht maanden voorwaardelijk. De rechtbank in Den Haag acht bewezen dat de man, Frank van E., vier jaar lang geld van de kerk naar zijn eigen bankrekening overmaakte. Hij kocht onder meer luxe spullen en ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his government is reviving the Ghanaian economy despite the difficult circumstances it inherited from the previous administration. According to President Akufo-Addo, the first order of the day for his administration was to get the fundamentals of the economy right, a prerequisite for realising the vision of Ghana becoming an industrialised ...