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Be patriotic in all your affairs – President Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the public to be patriotic in advancing the course of development for the country. He said, “You cannot be a patriotic citizen and yet indulge in acts of indiscipline…your productive contribution is very key to the socio-economic development of the country, patriotism is the backbone of development”. The President said this at ...

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Parliament to decide on regulation of churches

Discussions on the need to regulate churches in the country will be top on the agenda of Parliament after recess. Speaking to GBC’s Radio Ghana, the Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Ben Abdallah Banda, said this will be done in broader consultation with key religious bodies and other stakeholders for national consensus to trigger the passage ...

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Sniffer dogs deployed at KIA in new GRA search exercise

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has embarked on a search exercise with the help of sniffer dogs at the Kotoka International Airport to screen any infractions on passengers and their luggage. The exercise is to detect if there are narcotic substances, currency and explosives on them and in their bags as well. The Second in Command, Customs K9 Unit, Edward ...

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Public calls for more will power in fighting corruption

A section of Ghanaians from various professional backgrounds have raised concerns regarding the manner in which the government is handling reported cases of corruption by public officials. Whereas a number of them are casting doubt on the “will power” of the government in its quest to fight corruption, others have called for calm, saying that the issues of corruption are ...

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Akufo-Addo, Gabby played no role in PDS — Philip Ayesu

The Chairman of the Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited, Mr Philip Ayesu, has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a legal practitioner and journalist, played no role in the PDS and its power distribution concession agreement. He said whatever the PDS was engaged in, or had achieved as of now, was done purely on ...

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Fighting corruption in Ghana – A Danish view

The eighteenth International Anti-Corruption Conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2018. The conference which was organized by Transparency International in collaboration with the government of Denmark was attended by several high profiled personalities and opened by the then Danish Prime Minister, His Excellency Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Ghana’s delegation to the conference included the Deputy Minister of Finance, Hon. ...

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Run away from corrupt deeds or face severe sanctions – SDA Church warns Sir John, GOIL boss

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA Church) in Ghana has announced its intentions to sanction church members holding positions in government, if corruption charges are leveled against them. The proposed sanctions are beside criminal charges the state might bring against them during prosecution. Dr. Kwabena Annor-Boafo, a former President of the South Central Ghana Conference of the SDA Church, said this ...

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