Author Archives: larryehu

Naomi Osaka sacks coach

Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka announced on Friday she was splitting with her coach, her second break-up this year as she battles for form and slips down the world rankings. On the eve of the Pan Pacific Open tournament in Osaka, western Japan, the 21-year-old announced she would no longer be working with Jermaine Jenkins, who joined her team after ...

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COCOBOD signs $1.3bn loan syndication deal Friday

COCOBOD is set to sign its annual cocoa loan syndication deal in Paris, France with some 24 French banks on Friday. This was after it secured Parliament’s approval to borrow up to $1.5 billion to aid cocoa purchases for the 2019/2020 crop season. Sources at COCOBOB say the board has already secured the extra $200 million from some of the ...

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Come explain your ‘stinking, rotten’ PDS deal – Minority to Bawumia, Ofori-Atta

The Minority in Ghana’s Parliament has begun collecting signatures in a bid to recall the House over the “rotten” and “stinking” ECG/PDS deal. The 106 opposition MPs want Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to be hauled before the House to explain how come he and Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, unilaterally and arbitrarily, without recourse to Parliament, varied the agreed terms of ...

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You’ll lose 2020 Polls even if you rig – Islamic Cleric drops bombshell

“No amount of manipulation or rigging can save you the defeat of the 2020 polls’, this is the suggestive quote by Popular Ghanaian Islamic Cleric, Numerologist, Philosopher Mallam Sham-una Uztaz Jibril, warning a particular political party. Mallam Sham-una Uztaz Jibril is credited for accurately predicting in 2015 and 2016 respectively with numbers that Trump, Akufo-Addo and Buhari will win the ...

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Bawumia invites Mahama

Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says he looks forward to former President John Dramani Mahama converting to Islam after the latter’s rendition of an Islamic prayer during the Islamic funeral of the National Chief Imam’s sister at New Fadama in Accra. Hajia Aishatu Sharubutu’s funeral at the cleric’s residence attracted important political figures such as the Vice-President and the flag bearer ...

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We’ll come after you no matter where you are – FBI warns internet scammers

The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray has warned criminals involved in business email compromise (BEC) schemes that they will be arrested no matter where they carry out their illegal activities from. His comments were captured in an FBI statement released in the aftermath of 281 arrests worldwide relating to a month-long multi-agency effort to disrupt ...

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PDS deal: MiDA shifting blame to Bawumia – ACEP suspects ‘mischief’

Transaction advisors in a concession agreement with energy company, Power Distribution Services (PDS) have been accused of shifting blame after controversy gutted the agreement. In the controversy, Power Distribution Services (PDS) have been found to lack the financial capacity to provide $12.5m in guarantees when they took over ECG management in March 2019. PDS has been suspended. But the agreement ...

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Suspended Bawumia aide Manaf begs NPP for mercy

An aide to Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia Manaf Ibrahim says he is remorseful for disrespecting the hierarchy of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region in a media exchanges. Manaf, who wants to be the NPP’s Parliamentary candidate for Asawase in the 2020 Parliamentary election, was suspended indefinitely for insulting the party’s hierarchy. He therefore not a ...

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Number of cement companies in Ghana up – Government

There has been an upsurge of cement companies in Ghana, Kwaku Asomah- Cheremeh, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed. This, he said, has resulted in high demand for limestone in the country to produce clinker to make production and supply of cement affordable to Ghanaians. Speaking at a press conference in Accra, Mr Asomah-Cheremeh said the Government through ...

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