Новости за 22.06.2019

The Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey has threatened to go to the Office of the Special Prosecutor to file a petition against the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA). It follows what he said were allegations of procurement breaches in the accounts of the Authority and others as captured in the 2018-2019 Auditor General 39;s Report. He argued that, GEPA failed to seek the approval from its board before going into some agreements that ran into millions of Gh ...

The Nigeria Union of Traders Association, Ghana (NUTAG) has accused the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) of posing a serious threat to Nigerian traders in Ghana. The group warns that the antagonism of GUTA is likely to degenerate if not immediately checked. GUTA had descended on the Nigerian traders in Ghana for trading in the local retail market space. This week alone, clashes between Ghanaian and Nigerian traders at the Suame Magazine in Kumasi, were recorded, r ...

One person has been picked up following the near-lynching of a police officer at the Abossey Okai roundabout in Accra by some 200 motorbike riders. The incident is believed to have occurred at about 9:00 am on Friday when the officer, a personnel of the Motor Transport and Traffic Department, tried to stop the motorbike riders who were then in a funeral procession to the Awudome cemetery from blocking the road. Eyewitness accounts say the duty officer was then pounced upon by ...

A survey by Odekro has exposed the poor working conditions and lax structures surrounding the employment of research assistants for parliamentarians in the country. In a survey that covered 26 research assistants who were randomly selected from the larger pool, Odekro found that 18 of the respondents (69.2%) were dissatisfied with their work whilst only three said they were satisfied with their job. This sentiment manifested recently after the research assistants complained ab ...

The vice president of IMANI Africa is asking the political leaders of Ghana and Nigeria to sign a pact to curb the attacks on Nigerian retail traders in Ghana. Kofi Bentil, while speaking on the recent closure of Nigerian shops in Kumasi by local traders, said; it rsquo;s time the two leaders of both countries find a lasting solution to the age-old menace of ldquo;xenophobic rdquo; attacks. The immediate stopgap measure is a bilateral treaty, he told host Evans Mensah on Joy ...

The Minister of the Savannah Region Hon Adam Braimah Salifu has paid a familiarisation tour to the Kusawgu and Tuluwe Traditional areas in the Central Gonja District of the Savanna region yesterday Thursday 20th June, 2019. At Kusawgu, the minister and his team paid a courtesy call on the Paramount chief of the Kusawgu traditional area Kusawguwura Sulemana Samuel Kunkarga I. Kusawguwra Kunkarga thanked the minister and his entourage for visiting him and appealed to him to ensure peac ...

A newly assembly hall building under construction for the Jachie Pramso Senior High School in the Bosomtwe district of the Ashanti region has collapsed. The building which was at the roofing stage came crushing on the dawn of Wednesday, June 19, 2019, with half of the structure on the ground. No casualties were recorded. The project is been funded by the Government of Ghana, under the supervision of Deputy Minister of Education, Hon. Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum and the Ashanti Regional Mi ...

The aspiring candidate for the Adentan Constituency, Adamu Ramadan Friday visited the Electoral Commission 39;s office in the Adentan Constituency where the limited voter registration exercise is taking place. Since the exercise commenced, Adamu Ramadan has been visiting the registration centre to ascertain things for himself and to give the necessary support to the NDC volunteers and executives who are actively working to ensure that the exercise is without any breaches ...

WE LEARNT in last week 39;s publication that there are works of God in this world which are summed up in one great work. The Lord Jesus Christ called it ldquo;the work of God rdquo; (John 6:28-29). This work is all about believing in Jesus Christ. In other words, it is getting sinners freed from the bondage of sins by making them to believe in Jesus Christ for the salvation of their souls. Unbelievers do not understand and appreciate this noble work because of the darkness that is in t ...

A GCB Bank memo cited by Adom News indicates that some clerical staff of the bank have secured a court injunction on attempts by the bank to sack them because they did not obtain credits in English and Mathematics in their WASSCE prior to their employment. The memo, dated May 13, 2019, and titled ldquo;Report of Pre-tertiary Certificates of 2017 Clerical New Hires rdquo; was from the Human Resource Department of the bank to the Deputy Managing Director, Operations. According to th ...

A joint delegation from the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana is paying an official visit to Madrid, Spain with the aim to enhance international institutional collaboration and to promote inter-institutional coordination at the national level. The EU-funded Accountability, Rule of law and Anti-corruption Programme (ARAP) is implemented by the Spanish Public Foundation FIIAPP with headquarters in Madrid. This international visit is one ...

Africa rsquo;s output grew by 3.4 per cent between 2017 and 2018 despite the slowdown in global growth during that period, a new report by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has shown. The African Trade Report 2019: African Trade in a Digital World, launched today in Moscow during the 26thAfreximbank Annual Meetings, states that Africa rsquo;s total merchandise trade in 2018 had a value of over $997.9 billion, noting that the continent remained one of the fastest growing ...

The Minister of the Savannah Region Hon Adam Braimah Salifu has embarked on a familiarisation tour to the Kusawgu and Tuluwe Traditional areas in the Central Gonja District of the Savanna region yesterday Thursday 20th June, 2019. At Kusawgu, the minister and his team paid a courtesy call on the Paramount Chief of the Kusawgu Traditional Area Kusawguwura Sulemana Samuel Kunkarga I. Kusawguwra Kunkarga thanked the minister and his entourage for visiting him and appealed to him to ens ...