Новости за 19.11.2019

A joint operation by the security agencies in Kagara in the Northern region has led to the seizure of 73 locally manufactured long guns and pistol. The operation lsquo;Kundanlgou rsquo; discovered that the weapons are as deadly as those manufactured outside the country. The team also confiscated 83 metal pipes, three hacksaw blades, two hammers, three G-clamps, three iron files and a grinding machine suspected to be used in the manufacturing process. Similar arrests have ...

There was stoning silence at an Accra High Court on Tuesday as Specialist Pathologist, Dr. Lawrence Edusei, gave a horrifying account of the state of Major Maxwell Adams Mahama rsquo;s body during post mortem. Dr. Edusei said there were visible signs of violence on the body of a ldquo;well-nourished male adult. rdquo; ldquo;There were burns involving the head, both upper limbs, both lower limbs, the abdomen, so in total, about 54% of total body surface area, burnt, rdquo; he ...

The Minister of Education, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has announced Ghana rsquo;s bid for election to the Executive Board of UNESCO. Addressing the global body as the head of Ghana rsquo;s delegation to UNESCO rsquo;s 40th General Conference currently under way in Paris, France, the Minister solicited the support of member states in its bid and spelt out some of the areas of activity Ghana has pursued in the past year. Specifically, Dr. Prempeh referred to steps Ghana is ...

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) begins the second phase of the multi-staged Trial Census for the 2020 Population and housing Census with listing of structures from Monday 18th November, 2019. GSS made this known in a press statement made available to DGN Online. According to the release, the Trial Census Night will be the midnight of Sunday November 24th, 2019, and the actual field enumeration will begin from Monday 25th of November to 7th December 2019. It s ...

The Speaker of Parliament has suspended sitting over massive absenteeism. This was after leaders from both sides of the house complained about the poor attendance in the chamber ahead of the second day of debate on the budget. Complaining about the attitude of members towards work in the chamber, the Speaker said: ldquo;I do not think any of us will want this House to be associated with taking this imperative function lightly.I will suspend sitting and meet with the leaders b ...

Over 30 students from the Legacy Girls College have paid an educational visit to Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) to familiarize themselves with its operations. This is in recognition of GCNet as the ICT Company engaged in the provision of electronic solutions at the heart of government rsquo;s digitisation journey. The students who were led by their teaching staff had the opportunity to learn about the smart integrated electronic solutions which foster trade develo ...

The father of Bank of Ghana rsquo;s Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison and lawyer Philip Addison, has died. Atta Joseph Addison, according to an announcement by the Central Bank, died at age 97. He was one time Deputy Director and Engineer-in-Chief of the Posts and Telecommunications Department, the Bank said. He was the father of Janet Oklah, Marian Akiwumi, Lawyer Philip Addison and Dr. Ernest Addison and others, it said. ---Daily Guide ...

Government is expected to break grounds for the commencement of road projects in three regions under the $2 billion Sinohydro deal. The regions include Volta, Central and Ashanti. In Volta, Government will today, Tuesday, November 19, 2019 cut sod for the Hohoe-Jasikan-Dodo Pepeso Road. For the Central Region, sod cutting for the Cape Coast Inner City Roads will take place on Thursday, 21st November, 2019. The Ashanti Region Nyinahini Roads sod cutting will be done on ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kumasi has dismissed an application for stay of execution filed by Unicom Commodities Limited to stop Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Company from executing a defamation suit the latter won against it. Unicom was trying to stop Nyonkopa from going ahead to retrieve GH cent;1.2 million the Kumasi High Court awarded it for reputational damages it suffered when the former caused a truckload of cocoa beans which had been graded, bagged and sealed, uniquely coded, way b ...

Five years into his reign as the Omanhene of the New Juaben Traditional Area, Daasebre Prof. Oti Boateng instituted the Akwantukese Festival, which has remained an important part of the people since 1997. The Akwantukese Festival is marked annually in the month of November to commemorate the great migration of the ancestors of the chiefs and people of New Juaben from the Ashanti over a century ago. Fostering development in unity is at the fulcrum of the festival, which will be clima ...

Police in South Tongu District of the Volta Region have seized 40 unregistered and uninsured motorbikes in the area. The exercise which was led by the District Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) of the Divisional Command, was in collaboration with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA). Chief Superintendent of Police, Dennis Koku Fiakpui,the Divisional Police Commander told Ghana News Agency (GNA), the exercise was part of activities to decongest the roads and ...