The Deputy Minister for Energy in-charge of Petroleum, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, has hinted of a possible prosecution of some persons whose actions and decisions resulted in serious financial breaches at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST). According to him, following the contaminated fuel saga at BOST; two committees were set up explaining that the first one which ...
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Amissah-Arthur’s name pops up in NCA trial
The name of former Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has popped up in the trial of the former Board Chairman of the National Communications Authority (NCA) and four others. It was Navy Captain (Rtd) Asase Gyimah, counsel for Alhaji Salifu Mimina Osman, a former National Security Coordinator on the NCA Board, who claimed the late former Vice President was aware ...
Read More »Twintig jaar lang vermiste Belg woont in Nederland en wil familie niet zien
De familie van Simon Lembi (33) – de man die na zijn verdwijning uit Brussel bijna twintig jaar spoorloos was maar recent weer opdook, is in shock. De man blijkt in 1999 doelbewust zijn huis te zijn ontvlucht om een nieuw leven te beginnen. Hij wil tot grote spijt van zijn ouders, broer en zussen geen enkel contact met zijn familie ...
Read More »Speaker refers Minority MPs’ behaviour to Privileges Committee
Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Minority side who displayed placards during the swearing-in of the MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Madam Lydia Seyram Alhassan, last Tuesday are to face the Privileges Committee of Parliament for their behaviour. The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, who gave the ruling yesterday, directed the Clerk of Parliament to go for ...
Read More »‘Don’t treat Ghanaian migrants as criminals’ – Committee on Foreign Affairs
The Committee on Foreign Affairs in Parliament has urged the European Union (EU) member countries not to see Ghanaian migrants as criminals. It said the country’s migrants were economic migrants who wanted to secure decent work to raise funds to cater for their respective families back home. The Vice Chairman of the committee, Mr Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong, and the Ranking ...
Read More »Cost of 350 abandoned MASLOC vehicles inflated by GHS18m
Joy News investigation has revealed that the cost of 350 vehicles procured in 2016 by the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) for private transport operators cost the state over GHS18 million. This is higher than the market price of the vehicles from the same supplier. The vehicles were purchased for the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) but the ...
Read More »We’ve reported Anas in Dubai for secretly filming me – Nyantakyi
Former President of Ghana Football Association, Kwasi Nyantakyi has revealed that a formal complaint has been made in the United Arab Emirates against investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas over parts of the recordings in the recent #Number12 video footage. According to Nyantakyi, Anas and his TigerEye PI team broke the laws of the Emirati country by secretly filming him without ...
Read More »Jerry, Goosie fire Mahama over ‘boot for boot’ comments
Former President Mahama’s threat to mobilize members of the NDC to unleash violence during the 2020 general elections has attracted tacit responses from some leading members of the main opposition party who are ostensibly unhappy about the utterances. They include the NDC founder and former President Jerry John Rawlings, who has warned: “Those who are bent on using violence to ...
Read More »Hundreds march through Accra in ‘aagbe wo’ demo
Hundreds of Ghanaians on Thursday marched through principals streets of Accra to put pressure on the government to take urgent action against the growing incidents of violence and attacks in the country. The protest, convened by Bernard Mornah, the National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), was christened ‘aagbe w?’, which means ‘they are killing us.’ The demonstrators, clad ...
Read More »‘I killed J.B Danquah-Adu, but I want his family to forgive me’ – Daniel Asiedu
Daniel Asiedu, the man alleged to have murdered the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa-North, Mr J.B Danquah-Adu, has admitted that he indeed killed the MP, but he wants the legislator’s family to forgive him. According to him, he was contracted by some people to kill the MP, and that it was not true that ...
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