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A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), Dr. Lord Mensah, has opposed assertions by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, that the banking sector clean-up which resulted in the setting up of the Consolidated Bank of Ghana (CBG) yielded positive results including improved deposits. Mr Ofori Atta, during the mid-year budget review in Parliament on Monday, July 29, said deposits have improved in the banking sector due to the clean-up exercise which saw the collapse of nine universal banks. But speaking on The Key Points on TV3, Dr Lord Mensah said the minister’s comments could not be…

A banking consultant, Nana Otuo Acheampong, has said the revocations of the licenses of 23 savings and loans companies by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) in an effort to clean-up the sector would have been done much earlier if government funds were available to do so. He said the BoG has had to adopt a piecemeal approach because of the commitment the government made to safeguard the deposits of customers. The Bank of Ghana on Friday announced the completion of the banking sector clean-up with the revocation of the licenses of GN Savings and Loans and 22 others. The BoG…

A banking consultant, Nana Otuo Acheampong, has said the revocations of the licenses of 23 savings and loans companies by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) in an effort to clean-up the sector would have been done much earlier if government funds were available to do so. He said the BoG has had to adopt a piecemeal approach because of the commitment the government made to safeguard the deposits of customers. The Bank of Ghana on Friday announced the completion of the banking sector clean-up with the revocation of the licenses of GN Savings and Loans and 22 others. The BoG…

Two persons have been confirmed dead in Lukula in the North Gonja District of the Savannah Region. The two are reported to have been killed in a renewed land dispute between two Mamprusi factions over the siting of a mosque. Four others are said to have  also sustained various degrees of wounds. According to reports, the incident occurred on Thursday night and lasted some minutes. A resident,  Mahama Asafo Musah,  in a telephone interview indicated that the incident was triggered by a misunderstanding over the construction of a mosque in the area. He added that one faction in the area…

Arabic and French languages will be taught as compulsory subjects in the newly outdoored Ghana Education Service (GES) curriculum for basic education in the country. This follows some reforms in the sector which have among other things redefined basic education to include Senior High School. Ahead of the commencement of the new curriculum this September, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education Vincent Ekow Assafuah highlighted some of the key reforms carried out. According to him, the decision to include Arabic in the compulsory subjects of study was informed by the fact that “Arabic is a globally spoken language…

Residents living near the Kpone landfill site in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have deserted their homes due to unbearable smoke bellowing from the landfill site due to fire. The cause of the fire, 3news.com gathers, was triggered by an unknown person who lit a cigarette and dropped it at the dump site setting it in flames. Personnel from the Tema Fire Service have since last night  been struggling to douse the flames, despite having deployed six fire tenders. Speaking to journalists, the Tema Deputy Fire Commander, DOI Timothy Osafo Affum, said a lot more efforts…

Procrastination is common – but in extreme cases it can be bad for your health, putting you under extra stress as the missed deadlines whizz by. Here’s how to break out of the habit. Inevitably, before I wrote a single sentence of this article, I put some washing on, made a cup of tea, answered my emails, checked Facebook and read a couple of blogs. By then of course the washing was done and I could procrastinate for a bit longer by hanging it out to dry in the garden and watering my plants while I was there. This didn’t…

Procrastination is common – but in extreme cases it can be bad for your health, putting you under extra stress as the missed deadlines whizz by. Here’s how to break out of the habit. Inevitably, before I wrote a single sentence of this article, I put some washing on, made a cup of tea, answered my emails, checked Facebook and read a couple of blogs. By then of course the washing was done and I could procrastinate for a bit longer by hanging it out to dry in the garden and watering my plants while I was there. This didn’t…

Nicki Minaj has changed her surname on Twitter to “Petty”.  The 36-year-old rapper announced this week she plans to marry her fiancé Kenneth ‘Zoo’ Petty within the next 80 days, but it seems she’s already taken their romance to the next level on social media, as she’s taken on her beau’s last name on her Twitter account. On Friday (16.08.19) Nicki changed her display name on Twitter from “Ms. Minaj” to “Mrs. Petty”, to reflect the last name of the 41-year-old music executive. The change comes just days after she revealed she and Kenneth have obtained a marriage license, and…

A popular gay social network has accused Google of discrimination after its app was removed from Google’s Play store several times without warning. Hornet said Google often employed moderators in Malaysia, where same-sex relationships are illegal, to vet apps. A rival gay dating app told the BBC that it had also been blocked globally by moderators based in the country. Google said it did not comment on individual apps but denied that the company was anti-LGBT. Christof Wittig, chief executive of Hornet, said he was concerned that moderators in Malaysia had the power to “remove LGBT apps worldwide, without warning”,…