Новости за 21.08.2019

The Accra Academy 1980 Old Boys Association, lsquo;Bl3oo 80 rsquo; has refurbished and handed over the North Gate project to the school 39;s administration as part of activities to mark the 2019 Bleoobii Homecoming celebrations. The ceremony which was held over the weekend brought together all past and present students of the school including the chairman of the Governing Council of the school, Mr. Wilson Tei. The North Gate which connects to the Asere Ayitey Street on the Bubuash ...

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has installed two modern elevators worth $78,000 at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters in Accra. Until the installation, the six-floor storey building constructed in the 1970s had no elevators. The elevators were commissioned by the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) James Oppong Buanuah last Monday evening commissioning, which coincided with the 50th birthday anniversary of COP/Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwaa A ...

An ice cream seller, who allegedly attempted to run-away with a six-year-old girl at a lorry station near the 37 Military Hospital, has been sentenced to 10 years 39; imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. The convict, Sie Kwadwo Amadu, was accused of attempting to steal the minor in December last year after giving her biscuits and a soft drink. He was hauled before the court in January 2018 and charged with one count of child stealing to which he pleaded not guilty He w ...

A million euros cold storage facility that was set up to address post-harvest fish losses in the Ningo-Prampram District of the Greater Accra Region has been left to rot away. The Spanish FAD-sponsored refrigeration facility has been left to the mercy of sea breeze and hard weather conditions due to what is believed to be heavily indebted electricity bills. The landing beach cold store was the first of six to be located in different fishing communities at a total cost of $7 mi ...

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is hurt by the tragic killing of his sub-chief and war marshal, Asamponhene Nana Kwadwo Afuduo. That rsquo;s how Monarchical Historian, Osei-Bonsu Sarfo Kantanka, sums up the mood of the Asante King days after the sad incident. He says Otumfuo is devastated by the death of his close relative and long-time chief driver. It is only natural to accept the fact that it would go deeper to hurt him . It will hurt him a great deal, rdqu ...

President Akufo-Addo says the Bank of Ghana (BoG) should take part of the blame for sitting down unconcerned for the country to suffer the current banking sector predicament. He said if the Central Bank in years past had acted 39;responsibly 39;, the country would not have faced a situation where about 15 banks are going out of business. Experts say over GH cent;20 billion of the taxpayers money has been pumped into the ongoing banking sector clean-up exercise just to salvage peop ...

The Police Administration has been hit with the tragic deaths of two law enforcement officers in the Ashanti and Eastern regions between Monday and Tuesday this week. While Cpl. Bernard Antwi, 37, was killed by suspected armed robbers at Manso Abodom in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region, his colleague, L/Cpl. Alhassan Asare, was found dead in a pool of blood with his service rifle positioned between his thighs at Akim Swedru in the Eastern Region. A team of inves ...

President Akufo-Addo has said henceforth anyone caught doing illegal mining, popularly called galamsey, could face not less than 15 years in jail. The President said this yesterday at a meeting with members of the Council of State. He asserted that on Monday, he assented to the mining law as amended by Parliament, and the maximum punishment is 25 years in prison. ldquo;It was brought to me yesterday for my assent so it is now law; Parliament has amended the mining laws and heigh ...

Six persons are in the custody of the Eastern Regional Police Command for allegedly smuggling 4,000 bags of fertilizer meant for the government 39;s 39;Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) 39; initiative. The arrests took place at Ogorme, a suburb of Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Municipal. The suspects, whose names are not yet disclosed, are currently in the custody of the Somanya police. According to the police, the fertilizers were supposed to be supplied to cocoa farmers a ...

The wife of the Paramount Chief of Yoruba in Ghana, has been arrested for driving on the shoulder of the Spintex road today. She is among 18 others nabbed in Citi TV 39;s War Against Indiscipline exercise in partnership with the Ghana Police Service on the Spintex road this morning. The culprits were a mix of middle class people like lawyers and others like commercial bus drivers otherwise known as trotro drivers. Occupants in the car of one of the arrested drivers had to ...

Former Member of Parliament for Hohoe North, Patience Esi Pomary was on Tuesday presented with a re-conditioned KIA Sorento sports utility vehicle by former President Jerry John Rawlings at a short ceremony in his office at Ridge in Accra. Describing Madam Pomary as a true patriot who has dedicated most of her life to the good of her people ldquo;with little to show for it rdquo;, the former President said he decided to assist the former MP following a request from her a few months ago. F ...