Myjoyonline.com is learning that galamsey queen, Aisha Huang, has been deported from Ghana. Aisha Huang was deported shortly before 2pm Wednesday, via an Ethiopian Airways flight after the government said she had been living in Ghana with forged travel documents. Her deportation means the state discontinued the trial against the Chinese who had been charged with undertaking small-scale mining operations, ...
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We’ll not resort to reckless borrowing – Akufo-Addo to IMF
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Ghana would not engage in reckless borrowing and economic indiscipline that created the situation where the country had to resort to a bail out from the fund in the past. He said the government would continue with the prudent economic management, adding that a fiscal rule ...
Read More »All validated small scale mining companies and groups cleared to begin mining operations in the country have been given up to Friday, March 29, 2019 to have insurance policy. Again, they are required to have tax identification number (TIN) and secure social security for all their employees by the set date. The directive from government forms part of the requirements ...
Read More »IMF warns government against over borrowing
Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde has warned government against excess borrowing, stating that it could derail economic gains achieved by the country. Madam Largarde is in the country for a two-day visit to complete processes for Ghana’s exiting of the programme with the IMF. Speaking at a conference organized by her outfit in Accra, the IMF boss said ...
Read More »Court places injunction on NDC flagbearer election
An Accra High Court has placed an interim injunction on the upcoming election by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to select a flagbearer for the Election 2020. It followed the filing of a suit by two members of the NDC in Accra, who are claiming that the guidelines for the conduct of the election which has been introduced by ...
Read More »Bagbin blocks Minority walk out
It took the intervention of the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to convince the minority members to stay in the chamber on Saturday to approve the budget estimates of the Ministry of Regional Reorganisation and Development, after swearing to boycott the process. The ministry had been allocated GH¢122.9 million in the 2019 budget for its operations in 2019 ...
Read More »Over $10 billion of Gold shipped out of Ghana unaccounted for – Report
Over $10 billion worth of Gold shipped out of Ghana between 2014 and 2016 unaccounted for, a report by the Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas has said. According to the Chairman of the Civil Society platform, Steve Manteaw, failure by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to track the actual amount of gold exported from Ghana resulted in the ...
Read More »Vote ‘no’ in Oti Region referendum and attract curses on yourself – Nana Tidibom Odamba II warns
The Ntrubo Paramount Chief, Nana Tidibom Odamba II has strongly cautioned Ntrubos and settlers in the traditional area who intend to vote against the proposed split of the Volta Region. According to him, any resident in the Ntrubo Traditional Area who votes against the creation of the Oti Region will be cursed by the gods of the land. “We will ...
Read More »Akufo-Addo gave us false hopes – Manasseh Azure
Ace journalists Manasseh Awuni Azure has lashed out at President Nana Addo-Dankwah Akufo-Addo, accusing him of superintending over corruption – a bane against which he vehemently campaigned against to win 2016 general election According to the one time West Africa Journalist of the Year prize-winner, President Akufo-Addo offered what he (Manasseh) described as ‘false hopes’ portraying him as incorruptible and ...
Read More »Ayorkor Botchwey, Ablakwa in heated brawl; Sam George alleges assault
There was a brawl between Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey and North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa within the premises of parliament on Monday, 17 December 2018. The raucous exchange between the two lawmakers from either side of the house, ensued after Mr Ablakwa accused the government of allegedly inflating the cost ($12 million) of a six-bedroom residence for ...
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