Monthly Archives: January 2019

Diaspora investments set to begin this year

The Ministries of Business Development and Local Government and Rural Development intend to spearhead a project that seeks to attract Ghanaians in the diaspora to invest in various sectors of the economy. Importantly, the initiative will deliberately seek to attract such investments into the country’s hinterlands in an effort to achieve spatial diversification in an economy where more 90 percent ...

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1 million farmers to benefit from fertilizer subsidies in 2019

The Ministry of Agriculture has targeted 1 million farmers to benefit from subsidized fertilizer in its Planting for Food and Jobs program in 2019. This target was raised from that of 700,000 following improved numbers of farmers who got covered in 2018. In all, 300,000 metric tons of inorganic fertilizers and 200,000 metric tons of organic fertilizer worth GHc400 million ...

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Court orders MTN to produce Ayariga’s audio chat as Amidu pursues him

An Accra Circuit Court yesterday, ordered the Managing Director of Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) to produce audio conversation of Mahama Ayariga, Member of Parliament for Bawku Central and an officer of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). The court gave the order at the request of Special Prosecutor (SP) Mr Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser Amidu. Mr Amidu told the Accra Circuit ...

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Afari-Gyan lauds Atuguba and Dotse

Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, a former Electoral Commissioner, has lauded two judges for making recommendations to the Electoral Commission (EC) towards improving the electoral process during the 2012 Presidential Election Petition hearing at the Supreme Court. He recounted that during the 2012 Presidential Petition Election hearing in 2013 at the Supreme Court; Justices William Atuguba (now retired) and Jones Victor Mawulorm ...

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Drie jaar cel voor vader die jarenlang dochters misbruikte

De 48-jarige Andreas W. uit Meppel heeft vandaag drie jaar cel gekregen voor het seksueel misbruiken van zijn twee dochters vanaf het moment dat zij nog baby’s waren. Van de straf is één jaar voorwaardelijk. Het OM eiste eerder vier jaar cel en een jaar voorwaardelijk. De rechter liet meewegen dat de man in een later stadium alsnog openheid van zaken gaf. ...

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Reopening of AngloGold: Mine workers will be worse off – Minority

The Minority in Parliament has criticized government over the current AngloGold Ashanti deal that led to the reopening of the Obuasi mine on Tuesday, 22 January 2019 as they say Ghana will be worse off per the deal. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday led a high-powered delegation to officially open the mine with an assurance that domestic content ...

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Supreme Court dismisses suit against construction of National Cathedral, Hajj Pilgrimage

The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit challenging state involvement in the construction of a National Cathedral and the setting up of the Hajj Board. In a unanimous decision, a seven-member panel of the court held that the decision of the state had not breached any constitutional provision. Rather, it held that the state’s actions were to provide social cohesion ...

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You enjoy everything free as Ex-Prez, why are things ‘hard’ for you? — Kwaku Azar quizzes Rawlings

Social media influencer, Prof Stephen Kwaku Asare has fired back at former President Rawlings on his recent comment that “times are hard” in Ghana. Yesterday, MyNewsGh.com reported that former President Jerry John Rawlings has admitted for the first time that times are hard in Ghana and that under the current dispensation, nothing seems to be working. Mr Rawlings observed that ...

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Supreme Court dismisses Exton Cubic case against Kumasi High court

A five-member panel of the Supreme Court justices presided over by Justice Sophia Adenyira has dismissed an application by Exton Cubic Limited challenging the jurisdiction of a High Court in a decision refusing them compensation for the seizure of its mining equipment. It was the case of the applicant that there was rival meaning regarding article 268 (1) of the ...

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