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The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has ordered the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to compensate affected prepaid customers who were unable to purchase electricity units from December 3 to December 12 last year. Affected areas such as Achimota, Korle-Bu, Dansoman and Kaneshie are expected to receive compensation payment from the nation’s power distribution firm by March 1, 2018. In a statement signed by PURC Executive Secretary Mami Dufie Ofori, ECG is expected to compensate the customers for the inconvenience caused them. “ECG has therefore been ordered to pay compensation to its affected customers for loss suffered as a show…

Citizens of Africa have been urged to take advantage of investment opportunities that accompany climate action to earn some money and lift their people from poverty. Secretary-General of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), Mithika Mwenda, has noted that the renewable energy revolution currently being witnessed in the world provides affordable access to energy to people who would otherwise not have access. He noted that renewable energy has also aided in the reduction of emissions, thus contributing to the attainment of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) ambitions of countries. “We are witnessing renewable energy revolution and in Africa and…

The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has impounded a Kia truck full of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis at Buokono, near Asesewa in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region. NACOB in the latter part of 2017 had a tip-off on a boat from Dzemeni in the Volta Region, which was loaded with cannabis and had offloaded its content onto a truck at a village near Asesewa with its final destination being Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region. NACOB in collaboration with the District Police Command at Asesewa intercepted the said truck with registration number ER 105-13 and…

The Imam of Shia Muslims in Ghana is calling on government to repatriate the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees currently in Ghana to any Middle Eastern country or elsewhere around the world. A statement signed by the Imam, Sheikh Abubakar Ahmad Kamaludeen, stated that the existence of the two detainees in Ghana poses serious threats to the country’s security. “These individuals may seek to reengage in insurgent activities once they get the opportunity owing to the experience they have acquired with terrorist organizations like the al-Qaeda,” he said The Imam said it is unacceptable to accept such a risk in the name…

It is emerging that the UNHCR office in Ghana had no knowledge on the refugee status granted the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees in Ghana. The Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey told the Parliament of Ghana that the two are currently the responsibility of the country and have been granted refugee status. The two – Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby – arrived in Ghana early 2016 under an “unconstitutional” arrangement between the governments of Ghana and United States of America. The stay of the two Yemenis that was later ratified by Parliament in 2017…

The heightened Gitmo 2 case was monumental and could have far-reaching consequences for the country. That being so, there is need for all aspects of the case to be considered in order to make its determination stand the test of time. In the year 2016, Margaret Banful and Henry Nana Boakye hauled the erstwhile Attorney-General (A-G) and the Minister for Interior to the Supreme Court for the court to declare that the continued stay of Mahmud Umar Bin Atef and Muhammed Salih Al-Dhuby in Ghana is unlawful. They also sought an order from the court directing the Interior Minister to…

Ghana’s Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia would be back from his sick leave soon for active business, his wife Samira has said. There has been uneasy calm among a large session of Ghanaians when the presidency announced that Dr. Bawmia was taken ill last week. Update on his health status has not been forthcoming, which perhaps might have increased the worry of many Ghanaians as to how the Vice President is responding to treatment. But the wife, Samira Bawumia, who was with the vice president when he was flown to the United Kingdom for further medical care took to…

A 37 year old herbalist, Mallam Abdul Razak Mohamed, resident at Suhum in the Eastern Region, claims to have found cure for HIV and AIDS to end the pain and suffering of people infected with it. Mallam Mohamed, who walked into the Eastern Region office of the Technical Support Unit (TSU) of the Ghana AID S Commission (GAC) on Wednesday morning to disclose his claim of cure, said God had revealed to him roots of coconut tree and a stem of ‘ogyama’ tree species to cure HIV. However, Drama unfolded when this man who claims to be a muslim and…

African civil society organizations on climate change have been at the forefront in building momentum for vulnerable people on the continent and other developing economies to access climate justice. The voices were high and loud going into the UN Conference of Parties (COP21) on Climate Change which produced the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015. But these voices have gone down low after the talks. Two years after Paris, most countries on the continent have slowed in climate action. Sudanese scientist and climate activist, Dr. Shaddad Mauwa, has sat in meetings, shouted and held placards in demonstrations at…

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has been confirmed as the substantive Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. Then ACP Tiwaa Addo-Danquah was asked by the IGP to Act as the Director-General of the CID in October 2017, after her then boss, DCOP Bright Oduro, was asked to proceed on leave ahead of his retirement in January 2018. She was days later promoted from Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) effective November 1, 2018 in line with her new position. A police circular…