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The Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, is coming across as playing smart over the scandal that led to the suspension of the concession agreement between the government of Ghana and the Power Distribution Services (PDS) Limited. On the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, he called for a full-scale Parliamentary probe into the suspension of the concession agreement between the government and ...

Representatives from the Western Regional Police Command have met with the families of the three girls kidnapped in Takoradi. This meeting comes a day after Police investigating the disappearance of the girls found human parts in the sewage system behind the home of one suspects in the case. The three girls are Priscilla Blessing Bentum, Ruth Love Quayson and Priscilla ...

Power Distribution Service’s licence to distribute power has been revoked by the Energy Commission but not its rights to hold asset belonging to ECG, the Information Minister has said. According to Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Energy Commission is in the process of doing that. “My brief is that they are in the process of suspending that one too. They have ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed worry over the sorry state of the Effia Nkwanta Hospital in Sekondi and has given an assurance that everything will be done to fix the challenges. He said he visited the facility recently and that what he saw was “a very bad comment on all of us that we should allow a hospital ...

Controversial Hiplife Artist cum political commentator, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus, has questioned the NPP’s resolve to staying committed to good governance and respecting the rule of law. A plus ponders among others, why government will see through a ‘fraudulent’ power distribution agreement with a local company only to turn around to question that same agreement. In ...

Exclusive documents secured by Joy News reveal that Power Distribution Services (PDS) paid the required $12.2 million premium to secure guarantee to finalise the takeover the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). However, the documents again reveal that the money never got to the reinsurers in Qatar. In the letter dated February 21, 2019, Cal Bank writes to the Millenium Development ...

A financial analyst, Mr Joe Jackson, has said Ghanaians have been plunged into tough times following the hike in some taxes as announced by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta in the Mid-Year budget review earlier this week. The government proposed to increase the Energy Sector Levies by GHp 20 per litre for petrol and diesel and GHp 8 per kg for ...

Lawyers of the Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah have applied for a variation to the GH¢1 billion bail and related conditions given by the court. It is reported that Nana Appiah Mensah (known in showbiz circles as NAM 1) has been unable to meet the bail conditions despite being granted bail by an Accra Circuit court last ...

The University of Business and Integrated Development Studies has been named after former leader of the Northern People’s Party Dombo. This was after Parliament passed the bill that allows the school to be autonomous having been an outlet of the University of Development Studies. The Minority in Parliament questioned President Akufo Addo’s decision to rename the after Dombo. During the ...

The Operation Vanguard Taskforce has arrested 37 suspected illegal miners in the Western and Ashanti regions. Thirty Ghanaian suspected illegal miners were arrested in the Western Region within the general area of Mpohor-Adum Banso in the Mpohor District on Tuesday, 30 July 2019. The suspects are currently in Mpohor Police custody. Two excavators that were seized from the site have ...