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The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Nana Appiah Mensah popularly known as NAM 1 is expected to spend the weekend in custody as the police begins verification process for documents of properties his lawyers have supplied to meet the GHC1 billion bail bond placed on him by the court. According to Starr News sources, the police is verifying the authenticity ...

The hopes of a multi-millionaire fishing magnate, Charles Hagan, to contest the Sekondi parliamentary seat for opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Western Region hangs in the balance due to inability to speak English. Regional Organiser of the Party, Japheth Baidoo who confirmed the development to Empire News said the rich fisherman popularly known in Sekondi as “Panya” could ...

The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has stated that the double-track system within the Senior High School (SHS) level in the country is bound to take about five to seven years before it would be totally eliminated from the second cycle institutions. He explained that the Free Senior High School (FSHS) that has come under the Nana Addo-led ...

President Akufo-Addo has bemoaned the poor road network in the country. According to the President, his working tour of the country has brought to the fore the need for government to invest heavily in the country’s road sector. He indicated that the situation is contrary to the rosy picture painted by former President Mahama who boasted of unprecedented road infrastructure ...

A legal practitioner Nii Kpakpo Samoa has said the CEO of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah popularly known as NAM 1 doesn’t have to prove in court that he defrauded about 16,000 people since the case is not a civil one. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Friday he said since it is the state claiming that NAM1 defrauded these people, it ...

Menzgold Chief Executive Nana Appiah Mensah has been granted bail by an Accra High court. He is however to satisfy a GHC 1 billion bail bond with 5 sureities, 3 to be justified before gaining access to his freedom custody. The matters has been adjourned to August 12. Before today’s court appearance, customers of Menzgold, who thronged the court Friday ...

The Minority in Parliament has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to focus on cleaning what it describes as the mess his government has created in the cocoa sector. They contended that the first-ever highest yield of one million tonnes of cocoa in cocoa production was realised under the Mills/Mahama National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration in the 2010/2011 cocoa ...

Senior Journalist and host of Good Evening Ghana Paul Adom Otchere has hit out at Multimedia Group journalists for toeing a political line by justifying and standing by their works after the National Media Commission ruled a documentary produced and aired by the media house as ‘misleading and sensational’. Singling out a post by an editor at the news organization ...

The Vigilantism and Related Offences Bill, 2019 has finally been passed by Parliament after corrections were effected on Clause 7 (3) of the Bill. Parliament first passed the bill last Monday, but it rescinded the passage following a motion moved by the Majority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, that the sentencing of the offence should be 10 years and not five ...

The British High Commission in Ghana says it is waiting keenly for the outcome of investigations into the murder of Tiger Eye PI’s Ahmed Hussein Suale. The Commission said the outcome of the investigation is of great interest to the UK government. The United States Embassy has also made a similar demand. The U.S. Embassy says there should be a ...