Monthly Archives: December 2018

Gifty Osei wins Gospel Artiste at National Gospel Music Awards 2018

Songstress, Gifty Osei has been crowned the Best Gospel Artiste of the year 2018 at the National Gospel Music Awards ceremony held in Kumasi. The National Gospel Artiste of the Year category was very competitive with other strong gospel musicians vying for honours. Gifty Osei beat stiff competition from Joe Mettle, Jack Alolome, Diana Antwi Hamilton; Akesse Brimpong and Patience ...

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‘Untamed’ Samini roars at Saminifest 2018

On every stage he has mounted this year, Reggae/Dancehall artiste, Samini, has proven that he is the king of live performances so it stood to reason that the energy and delivery would be extra when it came to his own concert and that’s exactly what happened at his Saminifest concert on Saturday, December 22 on the Osu Oxford Street, Accra. ...

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State rejects Opuni’s document

State Prosecutors in the trial of Dr Stephen Opuni, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the COCOBOD and Seidu Agongo, CEO of Agricult Ghana Limited, on Wednesday objected to tendering of a document through its witness. Yvonne Atakora Obuobisa, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), told an Accra High Court that the prosecution witness was not its author and that ...

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2019 to see well sanitized and resilient banking sector – Frank Adu

Ghana’s banking sector should be well-sanitised and more resilient as the central bank continues its reforms, Frank Adu Jnr., Managing Director of CalBank, has said as he called on the nation to back the regulator to clean up the sector. “I think the system will be well-sanitised and become more resilient from next year onward. We should all basically support ...

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Rawlings and Mahama disclose concerns on National Cathedral to Duncan Williams

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams who has been spearheading a fundraising campaign for the construction of the National Cathedral has indicated that two of the former presidents Jerry Rawlings and John Mahama have concerns with the decision on the cathedral. There is a divided front on government’s decision to support the construction of the with some describing it as a needless ...

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Hogere hypotheekschuld bij huishoudens

De totale uitstaande hypotheekschuld van huishoudens is in het derde kwartaal van het jaar met 1 miljard euro gestegen tot 702 miljard euro. Dit is het zevende kwartaal op rij dat de hypotheekschuld toenam, aldus het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS). Wel is de toename in het derde kwartaal de kleinste in deze periode. Begin 2014 stond er 672,5 ...

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Man (44) opgepakt die inbreekt in huis van zijn bange ouders

Een 44-jarige man is zaterdagnacht opgepakt vanwege een opmerkelijke inbraak. De man sloop namelijk het huis van zijn ouders in Tilburg binnen. Hij werd betrapt door een buurtbewoner, die wist dat zijn ouders erg bang voor hem zijn, waarna de politie het huis omsingelde. Omdat hij zich verstopte in de woning, werd een politiehond ingezet om hem te kunnen overmeesteren. ...

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Koning: Nederland een van de beste plekken op de wereld om te leven

Koning Willem-Alexander heeft vandaag op eerste kerstdag de traditionele kersttoespraak gehouden. Hij doet een beroep op burgers om samen te werken en oog te hebben voor het gedeelde belang.  ‘Nederland is een van de beste plekken op de wereld om te werken, te wonen en te leven’. Koning Willem-Alexander deed in zijn kerstrede een nadrukkelijk beroep op de kracht van ...

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Akufo-Addo is clearing NDC mess to make way for development – Chiana-Paga NPP Chairman

The Chiana-Paga constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mohamud Adams Karimu, has appealed to Ghanaians to exercise patience with President Akufo Addo, as he works through the mess created by the former administration, to bring the needed development in all sectors of the country. According to him, the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, in its 8 years ...

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Martin Amidu to approve wives and husbands for his staff

Any would be wife or husband of an employee of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has to undergo proper scrutiny from the security agencies before being given the green light to go ahead with the marriage, says Office of the Special Prosecutor Regulations, 2018 (L.I. 2373). The law also compels an employee who intends to get married to ...

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