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The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has begun investigations into the award of procurement and usage of information technology (IT)-related projects of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) from 2014 to the early part of 2017. This follows the interdiction of the GPHA’s IT Manager, Mr David Boison, who is said to have been implicated in an investigative report conducted by the authority from April to August 2017.  The interdiction letter, signed by the acting Director-General of the authority, Mr Paul Asare Ansah, cited Mr Boison for engaging in unethical conduct by negotiating project costs upwards.Mr Boison is…

The Communications Director of the Conventions People’s Party (CPP) has called on the government not to witch-hunt headmasters who would speak about the challenges associated with the Free SHS programme. Abdul Rauf Kadir said although it is obvious that the policy has come to stay, “let us also admit and be fair that there are definitely challenges in the programme”. The CPP Director of Communication was contributing to the discussions on TV3 New Day with regards to President Akufo-Addo’s comment on the Free SHS during his address at the 72nd UN General Assembly meeting in New York, which he trumpeted that…

Kim Jong-un has said remarks by “deranged” US President Donald Trump have convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea. In an unprecedented personal statement, via state media, Mr Kim said Mr Trump would “pay dearly” for his recent speech to the UN. The US president said on Tuesday that if America was forced to defend itself it would “totally destroy” North Korea. Mr Trump also mockingly called Mr Kim a “rocket man” on a “suicide mission”. The two countries have been engaging in increasingly heated rhetoric in recent months. North Korea has been testing missiles at an unprecedented…

Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to cosmetics firm L’Oreal, has died aged 94, her family has confirmed. A statement said she had died at home “peacefully” overnight. With an estimated 2017 net worth of 33bn euros (£30bn; $40bn), she was the world’s richest woman. She left the company’s board in 2012 and was rarely seen in public afterwards, but remained in the news because of a high-profile exploitation casefollowing her dementia diagnosis. In a statement, the company’s chairman and CEO Jean-Paul Agon said: “We all had a deep admiration for Liliane Bettencourt who has always watched over L’Oreal, the company and its…

Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to cosmetics firm L’Oreal, has died aged 94, her family has confirmed. A statement said she had died at home “peacefully” overnight. With an estimated 2017 net worth of 33bn euros (£30bn; $40bn), she was the world’s richest woman. She left the company’s board in 2012 and was rarely seen in public afterwards, but remained in the news because of a high-profile exploitation casefollowing her dementia diagnosis. In a statement, the company’s chairman and CEO Jean-Paul Agon said: “We all had a deep admiration for Liliane Bettencourt who has always watched over L’Oreal, the company and its…

Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is demanding that the United Nations takes immediate steps to reform the organisation. He said the global organisation is currently not seen as being fair to its own members, hence the need for the urgent reform. The president was delivering his maiden address to the United Nations at its 72nd General Assembly on Thursday. The President noted that though the reform has been talked about and scheduled for a long time, the UN has not had the “courage” to take that bold step to change its structure. “The time is long overdue to correct…

Retired diplomat, K.B Asante is fuming with anger as he describes plan by the New Patriotic Party-led government to rechristen the Founder’s Day as silly. The political historian known for his frankness opined that observing the birthday of Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as Founder’s Day is a foregone conclusion and should be kept as sacrosanct. The presidency has suggested to Parliament to change the 21st September Founder’s Day to August 4 and marked as Founders Day. The September 21 would still remain a statutory public holiday but observed as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day. The proposal has set the…

Chelsea and Manchester City are being investigated by Fifa over their recruitment of young players. This is the third time football’s world governing body has looked at Chelsea, and in 2009 they were banned from making signings for two years. In May, the Premier League fined City £300,000 and banned them from signing academy players for two years. Fifa has stringent rules in place for signing players under the age of 18 to prevent exploitation and trafficking. When asked by BBC Sport about Chelsea and Manchester City, it confirmed an investigation was “ongoing”. City have no knowledge of an investigation and are…

Former President John Mahama has maintained that irrespective of the attempt to rewrite Ghana’s history, its first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s name would forever be written in gold. In a facebook post, Mr. Mahama described Dr. Nkrumah as someone who marched his words with action. In 2010 former president Prof. John Evans Atta Mills instituted 21st September as a statutory holiday to celebrate Founder’s Day in memory of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The decision was opposed by persons who felt Nkrumah was not the founder of Ghana, including Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party who believes Ghana’s history…

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has secured $1.3 billion from a consortium of 25 banks to finance cocoa production and purchases in the 2017/18 cocoa season. An agreement to give meaning to the transaction was signed at a ceremony chaired by Ghana’s Ambassador to France, Ms Anna Bossman, in Paris on Wednesday. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the COCOBOD, Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, signed on behalf of the COCOBOD, while representatives of the participating banks initialled for their respective banks. At the ceremony, Mr Aidoo said the loan was expected to support over 800,000 cocoa farm households and thousands…