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The New Patriotic Party has commissioned a new party office building at Busunya in the Nkoranza North constituency of Bono East region. The office was built and donated to the party by the Constituency Chairman, Emmanuel Amofah Asafo-Adjei, with support from the NPP General Secretary John Boadu and one Jacqueline Boatema Bonsu, a constituency patron. Mr Boadu also donated to the constituency, computers and other accessories as well as an undisclosed amount of money. Commissioning the building Sunday, Mr Boadu commended the constituency chairman for the initiative and called on other members of the party to emulate this feat. He…

Shatta Bandle’s appearance in a music video by Rudeboy formerly of PSquare appears to have catapulted the video to the number one position on the YouTube trending list for Ghana. The video title Audio Money has clocked over 689,860 in 24 hours and at the current rate is likely to top a million view by Wednesday. The video makes use of Shatta Bandle’s persona as a social media braggart as Rudeboy advises people to desist living fake lives on social media. The trending clip shows Bandle spraying cash in a scene after being carried out of an SUV. Soon, a…

Shatta Bandle’s appearance in a music video by Rudeboy formerly of PSquare appears to have catapulted the video to the number one position on the YouTube trending list for Ghana. The video title Audio Money has clocked over 689,860 in 24 hours and at the current rate is likely to top a million view by Wednesday. The video makes use of Shatta Bandle’s persona as a social media braggart as Rudeboy advises people to desist living fake lives on social media. The trending clip shows Bandle spraying cash in a scene after being carried out of an SUV. Soon, a…

Ghana-South Africa wine trade was boosted over the weekend as some South African wine companies introduced their class of wines to the Ghanaian market. WESGRO, the official Tourism, Trade & Investment promotion agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape in South Africa assembled some of SA’s best wine brands in separate wine pairing and exhibition programmes aimed at enhancing wine trade between Ghana and South Africa. Ghana’s hospitality industry interfaced with the South African wine industry as seven South African wine companies – Libby’s Pride Wines Cc, M’hudi Family Trust, Aslina Wines, Siwela Wines (Pty) Ltd, Ses’Fikile wines (Pty)…

The Jospong Group of Companies has protested government’s takeover of the Great Consolidated Diamonds Ghana Limited, describing the action as illegal and unconstitutional. A statement issued Monday by the Jospong chastised government for sidestepping due process and disregarding an ongoing court case to take over which has for the past decade been closed down. Government last week announced a takeover of the company from the new investors and appointed a nine-member Interim management committee to steer the affairs of the company, claiming the investor failed to fulfil its contractual obligations, a claim Jospong has denied. According to Jospong, said it…

Ghana-South Africa wine trade was boosted over the weekend as some South African wine companies introduced their class of wines to the Ghanaian market. WESGRO, the official Tourism, Trade & Investment promotion agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape in South Africa assembled some of SA’s best wine brands in separate wine pairing and exhibition programmes aimed at enhancing wine trade between Ghana and South Africa. Ghana’s hospitality industry interfaced with the South African wine industry as seven South African wine companies – Libby’s Pride Wines Cc, M’hudi Family Trust, Aslina Wines, Siwela Wines (Pty) Ltd, Ses’Fikile wines (Pty)…

The Jospong Group of Companies has protested government’s takeover of the Great Consolidated Diamonds Ghana Limited, describing the action as illegal and unconstitutional. A statement issued Monday by the Jospong chastised government for sidestepping due process and disregarding an ongoing court case to take over which has for the past decade been closed down. Government last week announced a takeover of the company from the new investors and appointed a nine-member Interim management committee to steer the affairs of the company, claiming the investor failed to fulfil its contractual obligations, a claim Jospong has denied. According to Jospong, said it…

Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled. Mr Johnson suspended – or prorogued – Parliament for five weeks earlier this month, saying it was to allow a Queen’s Speech to outline his new policies. But the court said it was wrong to stop Parliament carrying out its duties in the run-up to the Brexit deadline on 31 October. Downing Street said it was “currently processing the verdict”. Delivering its conclusions, the Supreme Court’s president, Lady Hale, said: “The effect on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme.” She added: “The decision to advise Her…

It has emerged that at least two senior military officers of the Ghana Armed Forces have been detained by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for questioning over alleged coup plot targeted at the presidency. Lawyer for one of the three persons being held over the alleged plot, Victor Adawudu, revealed Tuesday that the two officers whose names he declined to give, were picked up Monday and had to spend the night in BNI cells in Accra. “…It is unfortunate that with issues like this, that is nowhere near destabilising a nation, you take senior military officers, and put them…

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has deployed medication to communities in the North East region where scabies outbreak has left hundreds of people, mostly women and children with severe skin rashes and severe itching. At least 14 communities in the newly created region have for the past month been battling the strange skin disease, which they initially claimed, was a punishment from the gods until sampled blood test proved positive of scabies, a contagious and intensely itchy skin condition. A team of GHS medical professionals will from today September 24 move into the affected communities to offer treatment services to…