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Ghana Gas audit report smokescreen to divert attention – Edudzi

Private legal practitioner Edudzi Tamakloe has described as façade the forensic audit report on the Ghana National Gas Company. According to him, the forensic audit which uncovered a whopping US$137,861,127.15 in procurement breaches at the company under the Mahama administration is nothing but a smokescreen to divert attention from the litany of corruption scandals that has rocked the government. “At ...

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Banks should serve farmers; not the other way round – Netherlands Ambassador

Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, Ronald Strikker has backed the agricultural sector as the engine of the country thus admonishing the financial sector to serve it in order for the economy to thrive. Speaking at the launch of Hortifresh; an agriculture-based programme aimed at establishing a sustainable and internationally competitive fruit and vegetable sector that contributes to inclusive economic growth, food ...

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ATL awarded contract to provide textiles for NABCO uniforms – Bawumia

The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) and Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) are back in operation following government’s intervention, Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed. He said through the provision of incentives to both local and foreign industries, the two well-known industries which had shut-down because of high production cost, have been revived – with many other dormant industries also at various ...

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GH¢20m sweet-potato processing factory to transform rural economy

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is hopeful that the new GH¢20million Sweet Potato Processing Factory under construction will transform rural communities in and around Gomoa Bewadze in the Gomoa West district of the Central Region. The factory, to be operated by CASA de ROPA Limited – a wholly-owned Ghanaian private agribusiness company financed by the Ghana Export-Import (EXIM) Bank – ...

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Free SHS boosts business in Kumasi

Reports reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that business is currently booming in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital. The Kumasi Mayor, Osei Assibey Antwi, attributed the positive trend to the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy. He said the free SHS policy, notably the Double Track System, has increased enrolment in schools. “Parents and students have been trooping to ...

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NDC names committees to manage 2018 congress

The National Democratic Congress has announced membership of committees to manage its up-coming national delegates congress to elect executive officers. The congress will be held on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra, according to the party at press conference it held Wednesday. Apart from a 17-member planning committee chaired by the party’s General Secretary, Johnson ...

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Nana Addo storms NPP office for appointment of new officers

The National Executives Committee (NEC) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in consultation with the party’s National Council, on Wednesday appointed deputy national officers and directors to head the various directorates of the party. After a meeting of the two bodies at the party’s headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra, seven officers were appointed to head key directorates of the ...

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Lage decolletés zitten priester hoog: ‘Betalen voor te blote trouwjurk in de kerk’

Een priester uit het Italiaans Oriago, nabij Venetië, is het zat om nog langer in de bodemloze decolletés van trouwlustige dames te moeten staren. De roomse geestelijke ziet met afgrijzen de halslijn van trouwjurken lager en lager worden en stelt daarom voor een fatsoenstaks in te voeren. Hoe lager het japonnetje, hoe hoger de prijs. De door het celibaat gebonden prelaat Cristiano Bobbo kan het niet ...

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Bekende Franse slangentrainer overleden na slangenbeten

Frankrijk is in de ban van het mysterieuze overlijden van een bekende slangentrainer. Enrico Horn werd vorige week dood aangetroffen in het huis in een voorstad van Parijs waarin hij met zijn moeder woonde. Het overlijden van de 46-jarige slangentrainer, die een show begeleidde in het bekende cabarettheater Moulin Rouge, wordt met raadsels omgeven. Het was zijn moeder die Horn ...

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