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Scores of customers of defunct Menzgold have amassed at the premises of the Accra Circuit Court in anticipation of the trial of the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Nana Appiah Mensah, alias NAM1. NAM1 is said to have defrauded 16,000 people of GH¢1.68billion on the name of investing their monies. It is the case of the state that the ...

Police at Tepa-Abotoase in the Oti Region are investigating circumstances that led to the kidnapping of two girls who were later found tied in an uncompleted building near the Zongo community. The Worawora District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mr Simmons Amenu, who confirmed the story to The Chronicle, said that the rescued girls have been reunited with ...

The Coalition of Textile Workers has said jobs of its members are under threat with the unbridled dumping of pirated fabrics in the Ghanaian market. The group is therefore calling for an emergency meeting with the Trade Minister Alan Kyeremateng on Monday August 5, to address the phenomenon. Below is the full statement   Source: Starrfm.com.gh Share on: WhatsApp

A former Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Dr KK Amoah has vehemently denied allegations levelled against him by one Kelvin Taylor on his social media platform ‘With all due respect’. According to Dr Amoah, Lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah never referred any case which includes a Dubai company Horizon Royal Diamonds to him when he was head ...

Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng, a British Conservative Party politician with Ghanaian roots, was promoted Thursday by the new UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Mr Kwarteng has served as MP since 2010 for Spelthorne, Surrey, south-east England. On November 16, 2018, he was appointed Undersecretary of State in the Department for Exiting the European Union following the resignation of Sue-Ellen Braverman. ...

It is emerging that two partners of embattled Chief Executive of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, bought two luxurious houses from the proceeds of gold scam which defrauded Dubai firm, Horizon Diamonds. The two partners, Ghanaian Charles Opoku Darko and Nigerian Adetunji Olorunfemi Adewoye negotiated with real estate developers Codco Limited. While Charles Opoku Darko is supposed to be highly connected ...

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has said President Akufo-Addo’s comments on Ghana’s cocoa sector under the erstwhile Mahama administration were made out of ignorance. “It would appear to us that in his struggles to do anything meaningful about the continuous mismanagement of our country under his watch, President Akufo-Addo has put himself on an auto-pilot reactionary mechanism, such that anytime ...

The Supreme Court has given clearance to the State to proceed to sell two properties of the embattled businessman, Alfred Woyome. The two properties to be sold for is valued at GHC11.7 million and comprise an executive building at Trassaco and a residential building at Caprice. The total portfolio of properties set to be sold are two executive buildings located ...

Acting President of the Western Regional House of Chiefs, Awulae Amihere Kpanyinli III has condemned in no uncertain terms the brutality and violence meted out at the Paramount Chief of Lower Dixcove, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX last Monday dawn. Awulae Amihere Kpanyili III who is also the overlord of Eastern Nzema Traditional Area cried that the act was barbaric and ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has identified the country as having prevalence of chronic hepatitis B and C virus infections, which are leading causes of death from infectious diseases globally. A statement released by the GHS in Accra yesterday, said about 421 people died out of 117, 095 viral hepatitis cases between 2014 and 2018 in various health facilities across ...