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Official spokesperson for Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr. Fiifi Boafo, has rejected a Bloomberg report Friday claiming Ghana Cocoa got no buyers on first market appearance since $400 premium. Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producers of cocoa early this month announced every tonne of their cocoa sold on the market will attract a $400 living income differential (LID), ...

IBM’s first female Country Director in Africa, Angela Kyeremanten-Jimoh has taken a leave of her position as country director of IBM Ghana to take on a new role at IBM’s corporate headquarters located in New York, United States of America. In a letter sent to clients and stakeholders of IBM Ghana, IBM stated that Angela will be taking on a ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Deputy Inspector General Police, James Oppong-Boanuh as the acting IGP following a directive for Mr. David Asante-Appeatu to proceed on leave with immediate effect. Mr. David Asante-Appeatu’s leave is pending his retirement from the Ghana Police Service on Wednesday 14, 2019. A statement signed by the Director of Communications of the Presidency, Eugene Arhin on ...

The Inspector General (IGP) of Police, David Asante-Apeatu has been directed to proceed on leave ahead of his retirement on August 14, 2019. President Nana Akufo-Addo has asked the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr. James Oppong-Boanuh, to serve in an acting capacity until a substantive IGP is appointed. Source: citinewsroom.com Share on: WhatsApp

Tiger Eye P.I has insisted the former secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee against Illegal Mining Charles Bissue has not been exonerated of corruption related offences despite being cleared by the police. The CID cleared Mr. Bissue of any wrongdoing despite the video evidence submitted by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas to back his claims of corruption and abuse of office. ...

The United States Embassy is asking for a thorough enquiry into the death of investigative journalist, Ahmed Suale, seven months after he was shot by unknown gunmen at Madina in Accra. With little in the form of a breakthrough for the investigators, the embassy said Mr Suale’s death was more than an attack on Ghana’s climate of transparency, democratic credibility ...

Police in the Western Region have rescued the paramount chief of Lower Dixcove, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX, and four of his elders abducted, and a manhunt launched for the arrest of the abductors. The rescued chief and his elders are currently receiving treatment at the Effia Nkwanta General Hospital. Nana Kwesi Agyemang was captured from his palace by thugs loyal ...

The Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has expressed reservations over the decision of the Police CID to probe the corruption allegations leveled against the secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee against Illegal Mining Charles Bissue. It comes after the CID cleared Mr. Bissue of any wrongdoing despite the video evidence submitted by Anas Aremeyaw Anas to back his claims. “Mr. Bissue was ...

The Ghana Navy is in hot pursuit of pirates who hijacked a vessel from the Tema anchorage and proceeded towards Togolese waters but abandoned the operation midway. The Officer Commanding the Eastern Naval Command Commodore, James Kontoh, said this shortly after a Ghana Navy operation rescued five persons, one of them a Ghanaian, from the abandoned vessel. Some of the ...

Violent crime in the country increased by 43 percent in the second quarter of 2019, according to the Ghana Public Safety and Crime Report released by the Bureau for Public Safety, (BPS). The report also revealed that the most reported occurrence of violent crimes in the first half of the year are murder or manslaughter, armed robbery and assault cases. ...