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Former President Jerry John Rawlings has commended government for imposing a two-month ban on fishing by industrial trawlers in Ghana’s coastal boundaries. The former President who was reacting to a statement by the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture on Tuesday, said aside enforcing the ban to protect the country’s marine resources, government should investigate the over-proliferation of industrial trawlers over the past several years which led to the depletion of fish in our waters and almost brought the local small-scale fishing industry to its knees. Flt Lt Rawlings said a lot of fraudulent activities had taken place in the fishing…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has commended government for imposing a two-month ban on fishing by industrial trawlers in Ghana’s coastal boundaries. The former President who was reacting to a statement by the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture on Tuesday, said aside enforcing the ban to protect the country’s marine resources, government should investigate the over-proliferation of industrial trawlers over the past several years which led to the depletion of fish in our waters and almost brought the local small-scale fishing industry to its knees. Flt Lt Rawlings said a lot of fraudulent activities had taken place in the fishing…

Students of St Thomas Aquinas Senior High School (SHS) will now enjoy fibre optic internet connectivity with support from the 1983 year group of the School. The connectivity covers the headmaster’s office, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) department, the science and maths department and other parts of the school’s administration. The fast track internet connectivity is to aid teaching and learning. The year group also donated two fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, and a 42 inch LED television for the staff common room. Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Minister of Communications in a speech read on her behalf said the use…

Two military officers at Michel Camp military base in the Greater Accra region have allegedly abused a journalist whose assistance they had sought in resolving a misunderstanding between two trotro drivers. Mr James Harry Obeng claims he was handed a cutlass and unjustifiably made to weed a bushy area within the camp for one hour before being released by the two officers whose names he gave as Owusu and Mensah. He has since Wednesday, July 24 when the incident happened, lodged a human rights abuse complaint at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) for an investigations into…

The leadership of the governing New Patriotic Party in the Central Region has been asked to suspend almost all the constituency executives of the party in the Agona West for gross misconduct. A petition to the regional disciplinary committee also accused six executives of “creating discord or factionalism within the party”. Executives whose positions are on the line are: Mr. Joseph Afankwah (a.k.a Kojo Addo), Constituency Chairman; Mr. Yusif Maiga, Constituency Organizer; Ako Mohammed, 2nd vice Chairman; Isaac Aggrey, 1st vice chairman; Anthony Kum, Deputy Youth organizer; and Eric Dukah, Deputy Organizer. The petitioners, Kwame Issaka and Idriss Ali Musa,…

With just six days into the opening of nominations for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary primaries in ‘orphan’ constituencies across the country, political stakes are high in Odododiodio, one of the hottest constituencies in the Greater Accra Region. This is because a former parliamentary candidate, a former Member of Parliament and two new entrants are all lacing their boots to clinch the slot to represent the party in the 2020 elections. Those who have declared their intentions to contest the primaries are the candidate for the 2016 election, Nii Lantey Bannerman who is now the Executive Secretary of the…

A member of the Nigerian Air Force who returned a lost parcel containing 37,000 euros ($41,500; £33,300) cash has received a two-rank promotion, as part of his reward. Bashir Umar had been on patrol duties with other colleagues at an airport in the northern state of Kano when he discovered the cash. He then called the phone number that was written on the package and returned the cash to the owner. He was promoted from aircraftman to the rank of corporal, a promotion that should have taken him 10 years to achieve, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. He…

Former Sierra Leone Football Association official Abu Bakarr Kabba has become the latest person to be sanctioned by Fifa. He has been banned for five years and fined US$50,000 for violating Fifa’s Code of Ethics. Football’s world governing body found him “guilty of having accepted and received bribes in relation to the manipulation of international matches.” Kabba was part of Fifa’s investigation “into various international matches (attempted to be) manipulated for betting purposes by Mr Wilson Raj Perumal.” Several African referees and others linked to football on the continent have been punished for their links to convicted match-fixer Perumal. Kabba, who…

But for the timely intervention of the police, residents of Akim Akwatia in the Eastern Region would have mutilated the penis of a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) elder, Kwasi Agbo, after he was caught allegedly attempting to have sexual intercourse with another man’s wife. Police in the area confirmed to Onua FM Thursday that Elder Agbo was arrested Monday, July 22, and has since been granted bail pending further investigations. A resident of Akim Akwatia, Yaw Aboagye, who narrated the incident on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Thursday, explained that Elder Agbo spotted the 28-year-old mother of two [name withheld]…

But for the timely intervention of the police, residents of Akim Akwatia in the Eastern Region would have mutilated the penis of a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) elder, Kwasi Agbo, after he was caught allegedly attempting to have sexual intercourse with another man’s wife. Police in the area confirmed to Onua FM Thursday that Elder Agbo was arrested Monday, July 22, and has since been granted bail pending further investigations. A resident of Akim Akwatia, Yaw Aboagye, who narrated the incident on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Thursday, explained that Elder Agbo spotted the 28-year-old mother of two [name withheld]…