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The Accra High Court has quashed the decision by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, to revoke the mining exploration leases granted Exton Cubic. The court presided over by Justice Kweku Ackaah-Boafo held the Lands and Natural Resources Minister exceeded his powers by assuming the powers of an adjudicator. The Minister, according to the court, breached the rule of natural justice by not giving Exton Cubic, a company owned by Ibrahim Mahama, the brother of former President John Mahama, a fair hearing, adding that the licence was properly acquired. Consequently, the court held the minister’s action was…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given indications that the implementation of the One-Village-One-Dam project is set to kick off this year. “This year, the One-Village-One-Dam project starts full operation. It is a simple, low-tech project but these dams will make a big difference to all our lives and the livelihoods of our farmers.” The president, who was delivering the State of the Nation address on the floor of Parliament, said five regions have been earmarked across the country for a takeoff of the project. “We have identified 100 dams in five regions across the country – Upper East, Upper…

The story of three female friends who decided to make fortunes out of exposing cheating husbands and boyfriends, will hit the cinemas on Saturday March 3,2018. Produced by OldFilm Productions, SideChic Gang, revolves tells the story of the three ladies played who unexpectedly made tons of money for reporting a cheating husband to the wife, and that was the beginning of their ‘gang’ The three quit their ushering job to set up “Sidechic Gang” – an agency solely dedicated to clamping down the side chick menace. Their services are available to only women. After a few exposés, their ‘Sidechic Gang’…

The National Youth Authority (NYA) Thursday launched its latest project aimed at equipping over 3000 unemployed youth with Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship skills. The beneficiaries are young men and women from both urban and rural areas as well as those living with disability. The training programme is in partnership with the Accra Digital Centre, the Ghana-Indian Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT and Ecobank – the Pan-African bank. Speaking at the launch of the training programme, President Akufo-Addo said in a speech delivered on his behalf by the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo that, “Indeed this programme is an…

Three months after the controversial Ghana Post GPS system was launched by the government, patronage of the system that was touted as the solution to the decades of poor addressing system in the country, has been low. Figures from Ghana post analysed by TV3 showed patronage has dipped after the initial impressive interest shown particularly in the GPS app in the first week. As at Wednesday February 7, the Ghana Post GPS office had recorded 350, 000 downloads of the app on Google Play Store. READ: IT expert exposes ‘amateurish’ technical flaws in Ghana PostGPS Out of this figure, 40,…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners have celebrated the transformation of private maternity homes in Ghana. The celebration saw the gathering of Midwives, government representatives, USAID staff, and partners in Accra. The event included presentations, poster exhibitions, and a panel discussion on revitalizing the private maternity sector in Ghana. Present at the event were President of the Ghana Registered Midwives Association, Netta Ackon and USAID/Ghana Health Office Director Akua Kwateng-Addo. Others were the President and CEO of Banyan Global, Meaghan Smith, and Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service representatives. Private maternity homes are an…

Twitter just rolled out a new design for embedded tweets that could attract new users to the site, while deterring fake bot accounts at the same time. Embedded tweets on news stories and other sites no longer show how many times a post has been retweeted, according to Slate, which first spotted the change. Instead, embedded posts now show how many ‘people are talking about’ a tweet, using a metric that combines both replies and retweets. The tech giant hasn’t publicly acknowledged the change, but Twitter users began noticing the update on Tuesday. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Dailymail.com that…

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has refuted reports that majority of commercial banks in the country are owned by foreigners. Some industry players have raised concerns about the directive by BoG to commercial banks to raise their minimum capital to GHC400million by December 31, 2018 which they say could led to extinction of local ownership A recent report published by GN Research expressed worry over the dwindling number of ownership of Ghanaian banks. It said foreign investment in Ghanaian banks keep increasing as local private interest witness a downturn. Figures from by the African Report showed the local ownership of…

Former Petroleum Minister Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has asked government to scrap the special petroleum tax with immediate effect. “I think it is important that in the face of the numerous taxes, the special petroleum tax must be removed with immediate effect,” he told TV3’s parliamentary correspondent, Evelyn Tengmaa. Mr. Buah who is the Member of Parliament for Ellembelle, admitted Ghanaians have not been treated well by government with respect to the increasing fuel prices in the country. Despite the 2.5% reduction by the Akufo-Addo led government from 17.5% under the erstwhile Mahama administration to 15%, consumers of petroleum products…