Forestry Commission Taskforce in collaboration with the Military have arrested five Chinese Miners who are engaged in illegal mining at Oda Forest at Bepotenten a suburb of Jacobu in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti region. It will be recalled that Chiefs in the Amansie Central District have complained about ongoing Galamsey activities in the District despite the ban ...

The aggrieved Electoral Commission (EC) Staff whose petition caused the eventual removal of Charlotte Osei as EC Chairperson, have also dragged her to the Special Prosecutor. The two, Forson Ampofo and Godsway Dadjoe, filed a petition at the Office of Special Prosecutor, requesting that the dismissed EC boss be prosecuted for causing financial loss to the State. In their petition, ...

Head of Communication and Public Affairs at the Ministry of Energy, Nana Kofi Oppong Damoah has alleged a presidential staffer is plotting to kill him. His only crime, he explained is defending the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko over the revised AMERI deal. Nana Damoah who revealed this on Adom News Monday, said the suspect is government’s spokesperson on Governance ...

Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko has been sacked by President Akufo-Addo. A statement from the Communications Directorate of the Presidency copied to citinewsroom.com on Monday said Agyarko’s sack “takes immediate effect.” The statement said MR. Agyarko has been directed to “hand over his office to the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. John Peter Amewu, who will act temporarily as ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday launched the rural telephony project, in Abenaso, in the Eastern Region, which will connect the town and surrounding communities with ICT facilities and telecommunication services. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, President Akufo-Addo noted that despite the significant spread of telecommunications services across the country, the distribution of necessary telephony infrastructure is still very ...

It was a solemn atmosphere at the Community 11 school park in Tema today, as family, friends and sympathizers of veteran hi-life musician, Jewel Ackah gathered to bid a final farewell and to pay their final respects. Being a highlife legend and an active National Democratic Congress member, the ceremony was largely attended by members of the Musicians Union of ...

Major (rtd) Kwadwo Boakye-Djan, spokesperson for the defunct Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), has questioned why most of former president John Mahama’s opponents in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are from the Volta Region. According to him, all executives of the party from all the regions support the candidature of Mr Mahama apart from those from the Volta Region. This ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the Ghanaian media not to consider juicy headlines and breaking news at the expense of the future and integrity of the country. He advised the media to take a second look at the power they wielded and the responsibility they owed to society and execute their mandate with utmost professionalism while abiding by ...

AMERI Energy has rejected the controversial novation and amended agreement aimed at handing over the $510million power contract it signed with the government in 2015 to a new entity. The novation and amendment agreement, seeking to buy out the deal Ameri Energy has with the government and handed over to a third party Mytilineos for 15 years received approval from ...

Imani Africa president, Franklin Cudjoe, has noted with worry, how some actions of government officials have had detrimental repercussions on the reputation of President Akufo-Addo. In the wake of the controversy surrounding the proposed extension of the Ameri Deal and subsequently, an executive approval of the deal by the president, Mr. Cudjoe on Citi TV’s weekend analysis show asserted that ...