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Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue has resigned his position. In a letter dated March 1, 2019 and addressed to the Office of the President, Mr. Bissue attributed his decision to resign to not wanting to compromise the work of the IMCIM. His resignation comes on the back of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s latest exposé, which captures Mr. Bissue on tape receiving money to fast track documentation for an alleged mining company. The IMCIM was established by President Nana Akufo-Addo in 2017 as part of efforts to regulate activities of small-scale…

I am one person who has been satisfied with the sanitisation of the financial sector. I believe the regulator should always protect the interest of the citizen in doing business with institutions under its regulation. So on a number of occasions I have defended the BoG’s decision to sanitise the system. In the last few months, exchange rates, especially the dollar has been on a free upward rate movement. In just about a month, the dollar has appreciated against the cedi by about 10%. The talking point has been on for a while and many have wondered what the BoG…

The Tamale Metropolis is undergoing some rigorous beautification process ahead of the 62nd Independence Parade to be hosted in the Northern regional capital next week. This is the first time the national event, which falls on March 6, is being held outside the national capital Accra. Distractive and unauthorized billboards within the metropolis are being pulled down. Similar clearing exercise is ongoing in the adjoining Sagnerigu Municipal Assembly, especially those erected at roundabouts. TV3 gathers all shops erected on the edges of the streets within the two assemblies will be cleared before March 5,2019. The faded walls at the Aliu…

Three of the suspects who were declared wanted by the Ashanti Regional Police Command over a shooting incident at the regional office of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Kumasi have reported themselves to the police. The three suspects, Dauda Ibrahim, 40, alias ‘Wayo’, Agyin Samuel, 32, alias ‘Rock’, and Abdul Ganiyu, 37, alias ‘Petit’ were among 12 suspects declared wanted by the police in connection with the shooting incident, which led to the death of one person. On Monday, February 18, some armed men suspected to be members of pro-NDC vigilante group Azorka Boys stormed the NDC office in…

The President of the National Executive Council of Adisadel Old Boys’ Association is Kojo Yankah (in white)[/caption] The Adisadel Old Boys Association (AOBA) is shocked a committee which investigated an allegation of misconduct  against the headmaster of the school found him guilty. Mr. William Kusi-Yeboah was said to have violated various acts of Ghana Education Service (GES) procedures. The man has since been redeployed to the Ashanti Regional office of the Ghana Education Service for re-assignment. Mr. Kusi-Yeboah is said to have issued directives on the advice of his management to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to deregister two…

A police ballistic expert says gunshots fired close to a polling station in the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election could not have been warning shots as has been heard by the Emile Short Commission currently investigating the electoral violent incident. Michael Cudjoe of the Police CID who joined the Commission on a fact-finding mission to the crime scene Friday morning to analyse the bullet holes concluded “I don’t see it as a warning shot”. He grounded his decision on the fact that the bullet holes on trees, metal containers, walls and a truck suggest the guns were not fired into the…

It appears some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are not satisfied with the performance of some Ministers within the Nana Akufo-Addo government, and if given the opportunity, they would show some ministers the exit. While arguing that every appointee of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has a specific task to perform in the grand agenda of the government, Deputy Communications Director of the NPP, Richard Nyamah, suggested a second look at some of the ministers. He was speaking on TV3’s New Day on the back of new ministerial appointments Akufo-Addo made on Thursday, which brings the total…

The State of the Nation Address (SONA) is a special annual event on the calendar of Parliament, in which Presidents of Ghana meet a special constitutional obligation to keep the Ghanaian people informed about the state of the nation, its achievements, challenges and prospects. Consistent with this expectation, President Nana Akufo-Addo delivered his third SONA to Parliament on 21st February 2019, covering a wide range of issues of national interest from finance, chieftaincy and regional developments, democracy and local governance, and the economy including the social environments of the economy. Particularly, this paper is focused on cross-examining the Presidents’ message…

The State of the Nation Address (SONA) is a special annual event on the calendar of Parliament, in which Presidents of Ghana meet a special constitutional obligation to keep the Ghanaian people informed about the state of the nation, its achievements, challenges and prospects. Consistent with this expectation, President Nana Akufo-Addo delivered his third SONA to Parliament on 21st February 2019, covering a wide range of issues of national interest from finance, chieftaincy and regional developments, democracy and local governance, and the economy including the social environments of the economy. Particularly, this paper is focused on cross-examining the Presidents’ message…

Undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has petitioned the office of the Special Prosecutor to investigate presidential staffer Charles Cromwell Bissue and other officials caught on tape taking bribes to work against the fight on small scale illegal mining. A member of the legal team of Anas, Sammy Darko, revealed Thursday that they have presented all the necessary evidence the Tiger Eye PI team gathered in their latest investigative documentary Galamsey Fraud, to the Special Prosecutor. “A complaint together with the rushes, transcripts, expired mining licence…permit with barcode to mine and receipt of the only statutory payment Tiger demanded to serve…