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Produce ID before buying or selling dollars – BOG

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has directed all Forex Bureaus in the country to demand Identification Cards (IDs) before engaging in forex transaction. This is contained in the Central Bank’s new directives aimed at helping regulate the forex bureaux sector. The directive also requires forex bureaus to capture all transactions electronically and submit to the regulator within five working days ...

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US missionary Charles Wesco shot dead in Cameroon

A US missionary has been killed in Cameroon about two weeks after moving there with his wife and eight children. Charles Wesco was in a car with his wife, son, another missionary and a driver on their way to a market in the city of Bamenda when he was shot. He was caught in cross-fire between the security forces and ...

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Weinstein accused of assaulting 16-year-old

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Polish model in New York, legal documents show. The alleged victim claims that the film producer forced her to grope him and subjected her to years of harassment and abuse. She said she agreed to meet Mr Weinstein for a lunch in 2002 while trying to boost her ...

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NCA spectrum auction: Vodafone bid $24m, Quantum bid $2m

Reliable information reaching JoyBusiness indicate at the close of October 8, 2018 deadline for the National Communications Authority (NCA) 800MHz spectrum auction, only Voda Ghana and Quantum Oil had placed bids. There were three 2x5MHz spectrum slots at stake, and NCA’s asking price for each was $33.75million. But Vodafone Ghana is said to have placed a bid of $24million for ...

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Why Leicester owner’s helicopter crashed – Investigator

The helicopter crash which killed Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people probably began with a “major failure of the tail rotor”, a senior air investigator said on Wednesday, Metro reports. Tony Cable, a former senior investigator at the Air Accident Investigations Branch, assessed poignant footage of the chopper as it descended from the skies at the King ...

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Nyantakyi’s life ban not surprising – M.anifest

Popular Ghanaian rapper, M.anifest, has described former GFA president, Kwasi Nyantakyi’s lifetime ban by FIFA as not surprising. M.anifest who had the opportunity to watch the Anas expose titled #Number 12, said the level of corruption unearthed in the video gave no less a punishment than a lifetime ban. “We all need redemption but everybody must be responsible for his ...

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Nyantakyi case not abandoned; AG takes over soon – Gov’t

The Government has stated that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice will soon take over the criminal case of the former President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwasi Nyantakyi after investigations were concluded by the Police CID. This comes after the opposition National Democratic Congress urged the government to expedite action into investigations on the conduct of the former ...

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Obed Asamoah cautions NDC against opposing Oti Region

A former Attorney General in the erstwhile Rawlings administration, Dr Obed Asamoah, has cautioned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against any attempt to oppose ongoing processes for the creation of new regions in the country. He said it would be politically suicidal for the biggest opposition party to be seen as the source of recent agitations against the constitutional processes ...

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