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The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, alias NAM1, is still in police custody for failing to meet his bail conditions. The Accra Circuit Court last Friday granted him bail in the sum of GH¢1 billion, with five sureties. Per the bail conditions as ordered by the court, three of the sureties must be justified, while NAM 1 ...

Special Prosecutor, Martin ABK Amidu, has given Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency in the Central Region seven days to render an unqualified apology and retraction for comments he considers defamatory on his hard-won reputation. According to him in a letter copied to GhanaWeb, Mr Amidu said the Finance Minister on July 12, 2019, ...

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) will on Tuesday launch a new exciting game onto the market. The game dubbed: “Super 6 Game” would be launched alongside the VAG Lotto in order to boost the revenue generation capacity of Government through the NLA as well as create jobs. The Super 6 is a dividend game where players have the opportunity to ...

The Minority in Parliament has accused the Akufo-Addo administration of fudging the original Power Compact II agreement to handover the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to surrogates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). “This project was expected to significantly improve access to electricity, ensure operational efficiency, turn around ECG, increase their profitability and have a sustainable, reliable ...

You see a male fowl? (I don’t want to mention its real name so that you start insulting me). When a male cock, ooo, sorry a male chicken wants to have fun with ‘his wife’, he doesn’t just go like that; he finds a very sexy way of opening one wing in a stylish fashion and then approaches the hen ...

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 ...

The headquarters of the Ghana Police Service, yesterday, dispatched a team of crack detectives, backed by heavily armed personnel, from the operations unit to the Northern Region to fish out the gunmen who shot and killed a policewoman on duty. The detectives, drawn from the Police Intelligence Unit, Homicide Unit, and Crime Scene Management Experts, the latter to handle issues ...

The Minority in Parliament is currently addressing the media on the concession agreement between government of Ghana and Power Distribution Services (PDS) which has been suspended. Government of Ghana in the late hours of Tuesday, July 30 announced the suspension of the contract with Power Distribution Services barely six months after the company took over from the Electricity Company of ...

Happening now at the Information Ministry is Energy Minister, Peter Amewu explaining and giving details of why government suspended its concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS). Earlier, the minister said government was unable to detect the alleged fraudulent act because they were under pressure to meet the deadline. However, upon probing further, government realised that the document presented by ...

Monday, August 5, 2019, has been declared a public holiday to cater for the August 4 Founders’ Day which falls on a weekend. A statement signed by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, said in view of the day falling on a Sunday, the President has by Executive Instrument (EI), declared Monday, August 5, as a public holiday “to be observed ...