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Works and Housing Minister Samuel Atta Akyea appears to have bitten more than he can chew for painting Nima black with the suggestion that the people in the popular Accra slum do not have water closet in their homes. Addressing parliamentarians Wednesday, the minister said as part of government’s upgrading of slums in Ghana, Nima will be the first to see a facelift, adding “for the first time, we will see the good people of Nima flushing toilets like anybody will do in East Legon”. But he has received backlash for such a comment which many say is in bad…

Attempts by lawyers for Seidu Agongo, the man standing trial with Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni, for their alleged cause of financial loss to the state in series of fertiliser deals to tender a document as evidence, to suggest the fertilizer in contention was liquid in nature, has been rejected by the Accra High Court. Lead counsel for Agongo, Mr Benson Nutsukpui, wanted to tender the document through the second prosecution witness, Dr Alfred Arthur, a scientist at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), during cross-examination yesterday. But in a ruling, the court, presided over by Mr Justice Clemence Honyenuga,…

A summit between US President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ended with no agreement, the White House announced. “No agreement was reached at this time, but their respective teams look forward to meeting in the future,” spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement. There had been some expectation the pair would announce an agreement on the thorny issue of nuclear disarmament. Mr Kim had said his presence indicated his willingness to denuclearise. “If I’m not willing to do that, I wouldn’t be here right now,” he told reporters earlier on Thursday. “That might be the…

The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Arts has established a Creative Arts Mediation Committee to deal with issues bordering on intellectual property rights. The Committee was set up in consultation with the Attorney General’s Department and Ministry of Justice to help protect content churned out by artistes in the country and help them get their due for work. A statement from the Ministry noted that the setting up of the Committee is in fulfillment of government’s promise to help creatives in the country get paid for their work without any infringement on rights to their intellectual property. “In addition to…

Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining Charles Bissue has been indicted in the latest exposé of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in which Mr. Bissue is seen accepting money to fast track some documents. In the investigative piece, which sought to bring to light some persons shortchanging government on the fight against illegal mining, Mr. Bissue is seen helping fast-track documents without due diligence to allow a mining company begin operations “So please fast track this, include that of the EPA and all of that,” Mr. Bissue was caught on tape telling one of his guys. Mr. Bissue…

What saddens me isn’t what Anas will reveal in his Galamsey documentary, but because LITTLE or NOTHING will be done after we see the rot and corruption. Some PRETENCIOUS punitive action will be taken against people captured in the Galamsey exposè by Anas. This young man(Anas) will risk his life and the lives of his team members to expose all these ills, and the following will be the results; 1. Media will talk about it for maximum two weeks, get tired and stop, because we don’t have prosecutorial powers. 2. The powers that be, will pretend as though they…

US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un have begun their high-profile second summit in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi. They shook hands for the media before holding talks and having dinner at the five-star Metropole hotel. They are expected to discuss a roadmap for ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons in two days of talks. There has been little progress on that and other issues since the first Trump-Kim summit in Singapore last year. Mr Trump said he thought this latest meeting would be “very successful”. He denied he was “walking back” on denuclearisation. Asked whether a formal…

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has invited National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu Ampofo over a leaked audio tape in which he is heard making some comments considered damning. According to the police CID, comments made by the NDC Chairman in the leaked audio have security implications, hence his invitation. In a letter signed by the Deputy Director-General of the CID, Mr. Ofosu Ampofo is expected to report at the CID headquarters to help investigations into the leaked tape. “You are therefore requested to report to the undersigned at the CID…

A Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has denied claims that education at the basic level would soon be privatized and commercialized. The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of basic and second cycle education said although there are plans by the Ministry of Education to revamp education at the basic level, there is no such thing as privatizing or commercializing it. On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, four teacher unions held a press conference and raised concerns over government’s intention to privatize and commercialize basic education. These teacher unions, GNAT, NAGRAT, CCT-Ghana and TEWU indicated that majority of…