Monthly Archives: November 2018

Speed up implementation of 1D1F policy – Togbe Sri III

The Awoamefia of the Anlo State, Togbe Sri III, has urged the government to speed up action on the implementation of the One-district, One factory policy to liberate the teeming youth from unemployment. He said the issue of unemployment was causing most youth to migrate to the big cities to seek greener pastures and, therefore, depriving other areas, including Anlo, ...

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Otabil, ICGC, 13 others sued for ‘serious financial loss’ at Capital Bank

Popular pastor, Mensa Otabil, and his church International Central Gospel Church are among 15 shareholders and directors of defunct Capital Bank sued over the collapse of the bank. The Plaintiffs Messrs Vish Ashiagbor and Eric Nana Nipah from PricewaterhouseCoopers say the bank’s collapse was a “direct result’ of defendants’” “‘misgovernance” and “willful” breaches of banking regulations. The writ of summons ...

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Ghanaians ‘worship, celebrate, value’ the dead than the living – Duncan-Williams

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has expressed uneasiness about how Ghanaians “worship, celebrate and value” the dead more than the living, to the extent that some families neglect their relatives in times of need, even when faced by life-threatening situations such as sickness, but are suddenly eager to sponsor the funerals of those same relatives once they die. At his second service ...

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Slave Trade was a shameful era – Prince Charles

The Heir Apparent to the British Throne and head of the Commonwealth, Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, has described the era of “Slave Trade” as a Shameful period in Ghana’s relations with Europe and in particular with the United Kingdom. In his Keynote address at the Commonwealth inspired Public Lecture on the theme; “Towards A Common Future”, at the Accra ...

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Ministry of Education mobilises $1.5bn for infrastructure

The government is making an effort to raise $1.5 billion to develop more infrastructure in schools selected for the double-track system to hasten the process of phasing out the system within the shortest possible time. The amount will be raised from both local and international sources by using 40 per cent of the GETFund as security. Already, the Ministry of ...

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Stop the propaganda; speak in the nation’s interest – Oppong-Nkrumah to Mahama

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has urged former President John Dramani Mahama to stop passing cynical comments about social intervention policies being implemented by government. Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah advised John Mahama to make his public utterances based on facts, and in the interest of the nation. “The administration thereby encourages the former President that when it comes to state and national ...

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EOCO suspends Regional Director for ‘advising’ Akufo-Addo to prosecute his corrupt officials

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), has suspended its Eastern Regional Director, Fred Dzeny for asking President Akufo-Addo to show leadership in the fight against corruption by prosecuting corrupt officials within his government. Mr. Dzeny, according to an earlier publication by Starr News is said to have suggested the fight against corruption will only be successful if the ruling ...

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‘One Village, One Dam’ kick-starts in Kasena-Nankana

Sites for the construction of dams in eight farming communities in the Kasena-Nankana Municipal and West District of the Upper East Region under government’s ‘One Village, One Dam’ policy have been handed over to contractors for work to begin. The Assemblies are to benefit from a total of 20 dams but eight have so far been approved and the construction ...

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Terkper, Sherry Ayitey conspired to deny Ghana ambulances?

It is emerging that some former Ministers may not have conducted themselves in the best interest of Ghana in relation to the procurement of some ambulances for the country. The businessman contracted to supply the country with some 200 ambulances has pointed fingers at former Finance Minister Seth Terkper and former Health Minister Sherry Ayitey. Richard Dzakpa told Daniel Dadzie ...

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Inusah Fuseini asks John Mahama to investigate assault on Joy FM journalist

NDC Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fusieni, has called for thorough and independent investigations into circumstances that led to the assault of a journalist by a member of former President Mahama’s security detail. The Joy FM reporter, Kwesi Parker Wilson, was slapped by the bodyguard, during Former President Mahama’s five-day tour of the Greater Accra Region ahead of ...

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