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Cardi B has defended herself after a video resurfaced of her saying she drugged and robbed men who wanted to have sex with her while she worked as a stripper before finding fame. The rapper faced criticism after the three-year-old Instagram live video recirculated on social media. “Whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive,” she wrote on Tuesday. “I never claimed to be perfect or come from a perfect world.” The original video was made as her career was starting to take off and was her response to…

Cardi B has defended herself after a video resurfaced of her saying she drugged and robbed men who wanted to have sex with her while she worked as a stripper before finding fame. The rapper faced criticism after the three-year-old Instagram live video recirculated on social media. “Whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive,” she wrote on Tuesday. “I never claimed to be perfect or come from a perfect world.” The original video was made as her career was starting to take off and was her response to…

A number of international consumer goods companies operating across Africa including Diageo, Unilever, the Coca Cola Company, and Nestlé have launchede at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali. This Alliance aims to turn the current challenge of plastic waste in sub-Saharan Africa into an opportunity to create jobs and commercial activity by improving the collection and recycling of plastics. Under the alliance, the companies will facilitate and support their local subsidiaries to engage proactively in market level public private partnerships, industry collaboration and alliances. They will also share knowledge, encourage innovation and collaborate on technical and other solutions appropriate for…

A number of international consumer goods companies operating across Africa including Diageo, Unilever, the Coca Cola Company, and Nestlé have launchede at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali. This Alliance aims to turn the current challenge of plastic waste in sub-Saharan Africa into an opportunity to create jobs and commercial activity by improving the collection and recycling of plastics. Under the alliance, the companies will facilitate and support their local subsidiaries to engage proactively in market level public private partnerships, industry collaboration and alliances. They will also share knowledge, encourage innovation and collaborate on technical and other solutions appropriate for…

Alfred Agbesi Woyome[/caption] The Supreme Court has thrown out a review application by businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, which sought to challenge the court’s earlier decision not to have the ongoing legal proceedings in relation to his GH¢47.2 million debt owed the state moved to the High Court. In a unanimous decision today, a three-member panel of the court , presided over by Mr Justice Julius Ansah, with Justices Agnes A. Dordzie and Professor Emmanuel Nii Ashie Kotey as members, dismissed the review application. The court also awarded cost of Ghc6,000 against Mr Woyome and in favour of the Attorney-General (A-G) Why…

Traders at the Odawna Pedestrian Shopping Mall in Accra have served notice to cease payment of all taxes to government and city authorities if the place is not renovated by the end of this year. Part of the mall was razed by fire on January 16 this year. About 80 stalls within the mall were affected by the fire which ocured at night. Managers of the mall were forced to temporarily shut down the place until January 21 when it was reopened for business to resume. But according to the traders, business has since slowed. Chairman of the Petty Traders…

Traders at the Odawna Pedestrian Shopping Mall in Accra have served notice to cease payment of all taxes to government and city authorities if the place is not renovated by the end of this year. Part of the mall was razed by fire on January 16 this year. About 80 stalls within the mall were affected by the fire which ocured at night. Managers of the mall were forced to temporarily shut down the place until January 21 when it was reopened for business to resume. But according to the traders, business has since slowed. Chairman of the Petty Traders…

The High Court in Accra was forced to adjourn sitting on Wednesday after it was confronted with two motions from businessman Seidu Agongo and the Director of Public Prosecution respectively. Seidu Agongo who is the second accused person, and Mrs Yvonne Atakora Obuobisa Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), are seeking varied interventions at the apex court in a case in which Mr. Agongo and his company Agricult Ghana Limited are being tried alongside Dr Stephen Opuni, a former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), accused of engaging in acts that incurred financial loss of GH¢271.3m to the…

The High Court in Accra was forced to adjourn sitting on Wednesday after it was confronted with two motions from businessman Seidu Agongo and the Director of Public Prosecution respectively. Seidu Agongo who is the second accused person, and Mrs Yvonne Atakora Obuobisa Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), are seeking varied interventions at the apex court in a case in which Mr. Agongo and his company Agricult Ghana Limited are being tried alongside Dr Stephen Opuni, a former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), accused of engaging in acts that incurred financial loss of GH¢271.3m to the…

Media General, owners and operators of TV3 and others, will on Thursday assemble the finest industry players to lead a public forum aimed at finding pragmatic solutions to what has become a cyclical depreciation of the domestic currency, Cedi. The forum will be the second edition of the Economic Dialogue Series by MG. A Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Emmanuel Asiedu-Mante, internationally recognised economist Andrews Kwame Pianim, Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance Kenneth Thompson, among others, will speak on the theme ‘The Ghana Cedi; Breaking the cycle of depreciation’ The event has become necessary in the…