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United Krobo Foundation a pressure group in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality is calling on the Power Distribution Services (PDS) to write -off the purported debt of Ghc84,625,624.87 it claims to be accumulated bill owed it by customers in the Krobo area. Addressing the media on Sunday , the pressure group said Krobos cannot pay the said debt therefore in ...

To mark the centenary celebration of ICC worldwide, ICC Ghana is hosting a CEO’s Breakfast Meeting at Tang Palace Hotel on the 2nd of July 2019 to launch its activities for the year. The activities include an Africa Conference on International Arbitration, Africa Digital Trade Forum, stakeholder workshop on coping strategies for SME’s to Climate Change and a year long ...

The Marine Police Unit at the Tema Port has arrested five persons for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of 10 containers of canned tomato paste from the Tema Port on May 30, 2019 while transfering the consignment for gazetting and subsequent auctioning. The suspects — Messrs Alex Brako of Oslo Shipping; Alfred Frimpong, a Customs Preventive Officer; Daniel Agyapong, ...

The government has been admonished to swallow its pride and not to reject claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the One Village One dam policy has been a failure therefore must be improved on it. “NDC is not saying it is a bad thing. What they mean is that government should do it and do it better”, ...

Government will hold a stakeholders forum on tertiary education reforms in Accra this week at the University of Ghana, Legon. The forum is an initiative of the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Information. A statement issued in Accra and signed by information minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said government expects active participation from education stakeholders, civil society ...

The World Economic Forum estimates that mental illnesses will account for more than half of the economic burden of disease over the next two decades – more than cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases combined. In high-income countries, more than 35% of people with mental disorders receive no treatment. This rate can increase to 85% for those in low- and ...

Takoradi based Advocacy for Youth Group in conjunction with the Western Youth for Justice together with families of the three kidnapped girls have appealed to President Akufo Addo to as a matter of urgency dismiss CID Boss, COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah for what the group describes as unprofessional, deceitful and misrepresentation of the kidnapping case. The group is ...

Government has rejected claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the One Village One dam policy has been a failure. The NDC has described the dams as dugouts and unfit for the purpose for which they were constructed. “It has now emerged that in place of the small-scale irrigation Dams the NPP promised the people, what they have ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has stated that the 31st December 1981 coup could have been avoided if the People’s National Party (PNP) government led by Dr Hilla Limann had drawn some lessons from the June 4 uprising. The 1981 coup brought the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) into power led by Mr Rawlings. According to him, Limann after his ...

A total of 517,332 candidates from 16,871 public and private basic schools nationwide will this morning begin the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Made up of 263, 616 males and 253,716 females, representing an increase of 7,508 over the 2018 figure of 509,824, they will converge at 1,880 examination centres. They will be supervised by a total of 21,726 ...