The Bank of Ghana has shutdown Dancom Microfinance Ltd and also caused the arrest and prosecution of the Directors of the firm for engaging in deposit-taking activities without a licence. According to a statement from the BoG, Dancom Microfinance Ltd was not licensed to engage in microfinance business as per section 6 (1) of the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions ...
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With passion, any dream is achievable – Captain Quainoo tells the youth
Emirates Airlines Captain Solomon Quainoo is urging the youth to be determined and work hard in life to enable them to achieve goals they set. The Ghanaian-born pilot who flew one of the world’s biggest aeroplanes, Airbus A380 to Ghana for the first time, in an interview with JoyBusiness, said, with the right passion any dream is achievable. “I will ...
Read More »NDC lost 36 seats to bickering, internal wrangling – Mahama spills more beans
Aside from the fact, there were diversions of campaign resources that played to the disadvantage of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the run-up to the 2016 elections, there are new issues cropping up as contributory factors to the party’s defeat. Former President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that internal bickering, disunity and power struggle at the constituency level cost ...
Read More »Rawlings must apologize for 1982 judge murders, violence – Sam Okudzeto
A Member of the Council of State and lawyer, Sam Okudzeto has insisted that former President Jerry Rawlings should apologize for the “mess” that ensued following the mysterious deaths of three prominent Ghanaian judges and a retired army officer in 1982. “There was absolute lawlessness in the country,” Okudzeto told Daniel Dadzie on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Wednesday. “The ...
Read More »‘Don’t draw me into your education campaign’ – Prof Yankah to Mahama
The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has advised former President John Mahama to desist from drawing him into his campaign on education. According to him, any process to reform the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagship education programme, the free Senior High School (SHS) policy would compromise the gains made so far. His comment comes ...
Read More »How a policeman’s drunkenness led to biggest tip-off in who killed the judges
DSP Edmund Oheneasah (retd.) was working in the information room at the Police headquarters in Accra that night in August 1982. It was at a time in the country when every long conversation in Ghana would not have been complete without a discussion on who killed the judges. And it most probably would end with another charge on the police ...
Read More »Bank Crisis: Government saved deposits of 1m Ghanaians – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that the rationalisation of the banking sector has ensured that deposits of 1,147,366 Ghanaians were saved. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the new Standard Chartered Head Office on Wednesday, 3rd October, 2018, President Akufo-Addo noted that his administration assumed the reins of office in January 2017, with the country’s banking sector in ...
Read More »Armoede onder werkende Nederlanders groeit hard
Een groeiende groep Nederlanders met een baan verdient te weinig om rond te kunnen komen. Sinds het begin van deze eeuw is het aantal zogeheten werkende armen met 60 procent toegenomen. Belangrijkste oorzaak is dat lonen relatief weinig zijn gestegen. Daarnaast verslechterde de positie van zelfstandigen, die hun winsten zagen dalen, terwijl er tegelijkertijd juist veel zzp’ers bijkwamen. Dat concludeert ...
Read More »LIFESTYLE: You can marry a friend’s ex-lover
Growing up, not everyone was fortunate to have parents who devoted their lives to raise them with love. Lack of good guidelines has led many people into all sorts of mistakes, but as they grew up some realized they were on the wrong path and made efforts to change and become better persons. One example of such a person is ...
Read More »5 lovely photos of Moesha Boduong
Arguably, Moesha Boduong is the most talked about Ghanaian personality on social media due to her ‘wicked’ The Instagram model and actress five months ago received lots of backlash from Ghanaians after her interview with CNN. Moesha in the interview claimed that in Ghana, a lady cannot survive the hard economic conditions without the help of a man to pay ...
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