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More than 60,000 traders in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo who cross the border regularly into Rwanda and Uganda are to be vaccinated to curb an Ebola outbreak. Cases recorded recently in the Congolese trading hub of Goma, which is on Rwanda’s border, and have raised concerns of cross-border spread. According to Jean Jacques Muyembe, the co-ordinator of the Ebola response in DR Congo – where the virus has killed more than 1,900 in the last year – the health authorities in Rwanda have also ordered 100,000 doses of the vaccine for a similar campaign targeting traders. Over the last…

Beneficiaries of the AKER Energy-GNPC Scholars Program will be increased from 150 to 200 students for the 2019/20 academic year. The increase is to expand the scope of the scholarship programme to cover more brilliant but needy students in the six coastal districts of the Western Region. The AKER Energy-GNPC Scholars Program was instituted in 2012 to provide scholarship to students whose attainment of secondary school education had become a challenge due to the inability of their parents or guardians to provide funds. Since its inception, the Scholars Program has supported close to 700 students in the six coastal districts…

Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana Limited Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1) has said he did not leave Ghana without permission while under investigation for not being licensed to operate as a gold dealer. Earlier this year, the Menzgold CEO was in Dubai where he was arrested for defrauding a gold dealership company. When news of his arrest broke, many questioned how NAM1 was able to travel out of the country on the blind side of authorities while he was being investigated here in Ghana. Authorities in charge of investigations also created the impression he left the country without notice. But…

Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana Limited Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1) has said he did not leave Ghana without permission while under investigation for not being licensed to operate as a gold dealer. Earlier this year, the Menzgold CEO was in Dubai where he was arrested for defrauding a gold dealership company. When news of his arrest broke, many questioned how NAM1 was able to travel out of the country on the blind side of authorities while he was being investigated here in Ghana. Authorities in charge of investigations also created the impression he left the country without notice. But…

A collaborative effort of both the Savannah and North East Regional Police Commands has led to the arrest of two persons suspected to have murdered two persons in Lukula last Saturday, August 17. The two arrested, Abdul Rauf and Amidu Fuseini, were picked up in the early hours of Sunday at Sandema in the Upper East Region, where they were hiding. In a statement signed by the Northern Region Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Yussif Tanko, the suspects are expected to be taken to Damongo on Monday to help in investigations. “Meanwhile, Lukula and its environs…

Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana Limited Nana Appiah Mensah has appealed to the state to unfreeze his bank accounts and those of his firms in order to start doing business to settle aggrieved customers.  NAM1, as he is popularly known, claims if the accounts are unfrozen, Menzgold will get productive and will meet all its liabilities including paying back customers their investments. “As of now, Brew Marketing Consult, Menzgold and I cannot credit or debit any bank account in Ghana,” he complained at a press conference in Accra. “This is why it is highly imperative to consider this kind…

Police in the Ashanti Region have commenced investigations into the murder of Asantehene’s Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Afordour. News about the death of the Asamponhene broke on Sunday, August 18 after he was found in his car with stab wounds. Asantehene’s Asamponhene ‘stabbed to death’ The Ashanti Regional Police Command confirmed the murder of the Asamponhene in a statement released on Monday, August 19, 2019. They indicated the body of the deceased was found in his vehicle near Ebuom on the Ejura-Nkoranza Highway at about 4:30pm on Sunday. According to police, investigations have begun into finding the perpetrators of the crime.…

Four suspected armed robbers are on the run after allegedly shooting a Mobile Money vendor at Vitting, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region. The incident, which occurred on Sunday, August 18, saw the motor-riding robbers shoot the victim, making away with his cash and other items. According to police report, the vendor,  Abubakari Yussif, is alleged to have been shot twice in the arm. The report signed by Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer DSP Yussif Tanko said the robbers bolted with a cash amount of GH¢2,000, some scratch cards and two mobile phones belonging to the…

An Iranian ship held by Gibraltar since July on suspicion of transporting oil to Syria has left port. Marine tracking shows the tanker moving east into the Mediterranean and lists Kalamata in Greece as the destination. Gibraltar earlier rejected a request by the US to again seize the ship, which has changed its name from Grace 1 to Adrian Darya-1. The US made the last-minute request on Friday, a day after Gibraltar lifted its detention order. Gibraltar said it could not comply with Washington’s request to issue a new detention order because US sanctions against Iran did not apply in…