Author Archives: larryehu

Government to convert US$140m GRIDCo debt to equity

Government has heeded the Ghana Grid Company’s appeal for help and decided it will convert loans it has on-lent to the power transmitter into equity. This means GRIDCo will not have to pay back an estimated US$140million of debt that government-contracted on its behalf. GRIDCo inherited about US$120million of the debt from the Volta River Authority, from which it was ...

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Ghana becoming “hard” – Okyeame Kwame

Music icon Okyeame Kwame has commented on the road protest staged by Adenta residents saying the economy is becoming difficult as a result of economic situations across the globe. “I think the nation is becoming a little hard because of the global economic situation. Britain is in Brexit, Europe is suffering herself so instead of sending their money to Africa, ...

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Menzgold clients angry over delayed 15% payment

Some customers of Menzgold Ghana Limited, who thronged the gold-trading firm’s Dzorwulu office on Friday 9, November 2018 with the expectation of receiving 15 per cent of their principal investments as promised them by the company last week, were left disappointed as they say the embattled company appears to be only interested in migrating its customers onto its new online ...

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I sold bread, oranges on my way to the top – CID boss

Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has revealed that she hawked on the streets of Konongo to support her family before she was recruited in the Service. “I know how to cook Banku and sell cassava dough… When I come on vacation I used to sell oranges, I used ...

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Medikal responds to Sister Debbie’s ‘Kakalika’ jibe

Medikal and Debbie are said to have split with the former rumoured to now be dating actress Fella Makafui. “My new girl in ass get obesity, Fella Makafui with the backside,” Medikal raps in the viral video shared on his Instagram page. His now ex-girlfriend fired a broadside on a song titled ‘Kakalika Love’ (which translated to ‘Cockroach Love’), which ...

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Opinion: Add Manasseh Azuri to Otabil, ICGC suit

So the man Brother Manasseh could not make comments about his links to the Capital Bank collapse saga because he did not find him culpable even though he (Manasseh) wears a citizen vigilante gown with a heavy machete roaming in town yakking innocent peoples’ shoulders, limps and hands on the media for corruption suspicions and unestablished facts of crime against ...

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Ex-EC Chair drops suit against Opoku-Agyemang; will pay him GHc8,000

The former Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana, Mrs Charlotte Osei, on Friday, 9 November 2018 halted her defamation suit against Mr Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, a lawyer for the petitioners whose petition led to her removal from office by President Nana Akufo-Addo. Mrs Osei sued Mr Opoku-Agyemang, who represented the unnamed petitioners who called themselves Concerned EC Staff, for ...

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I never said Mahama led corrupt regime – Rawlings

Former president Jerry John Rawlings has denied reports that he said former president John Mahama led a corrupt regime during a meeting with former Sierra Leonean Vice-President Chief Sam Sumana, as reported by the Daily Guide newspaper. According to the Daily Guide publication, Mr. Rawlings had said that President Akufo-Addo took over from the erstwhile John Mahama administration in 2017 ...

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I’ve never had a girlfriend in my life – Kwesi Arthur

Rapper Kwesi Arthur says he has never had a serious girlfriend in his life. According to him, he was an introvert, back in school, who didn’t have the confidence to relate with people let alone, girls. He told Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM that “I have never had a very serious relationship. I am serious. I was ...

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