Monthly Archives: February 2019

Rot at BOST: Deputy Minister hints of possible prosecution

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 ...

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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 ...

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‘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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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