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Ghana’s anti-galamsey taskforce has within the last month arrested 294 illegal small scale miners operating in three regions of the country. The illegal miners were arrested in the Eastern, Ashanti and Western regions and the latest arrest on Monday was made up of 22 foreigners- 19 Chinese, one Burkinabe and one Nigerian. This was revealed Tuesday when the inter-ministerial taskforce led by the Defence and the Interior ministers paid a working visit to the taskforce at Tarkwa in the Western Region. The military-cum-police taskforce code-named “Operation Vanguard” was deployed on July 31 to the three regions to prevent the upsurge…

A six-week old baby suffering from convulsion has allegedly been left by health officials to die at the Zebilla District Hospital in the Upper East Region because the mother could not afford the cost of a patient folder – GHC10. The baby was sent to the Hospital at about 8:00pm on Monday with a suspected case of convulsion but officials at the Folder Unit of the Hospital demanded she paid GHC10 before a folder could be issued her to see a doctor. According to the 35-year-old Azumah Atiah, though she informed those at the Folder Unit that she is a…

The Minority in Parliament is questioning the basis for which the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta gave approval for the Agricultural Development Bank to give a loan of 10,459,500 to a private firm, the MacDan Shipping Company Limited. Addressing the media on Tuesday, Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu said the action of the Finance Minister is a breach of the procurement processes and rules. According to him, the contract given to McDan Shipping Company, did not pass through the Central Tender Review committee as required by law. He said the action of the minister also amounted to usurping the powers of…

Persons who are unable to find placement for their wards through the internet are being advised to call or whatsapp new numbers provided by the Ministry of Education for support. Parents across the country have been frustrated by the inability to find senior high schools for qualified candidates who participated in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination. But the ministry announced on Tuesday that persons with “problems with SHS enrollment” can now communicate with the appropriate quarters by calling a hotline number 0302747778  or sending whatsapp message to 0207407499. The deadline for reapplying has been extended to midnight on Thursday,…

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Oxford Business Group (OBG) for its forthcoming publication dubbed: “The Report: Ghana 2018”. Under the MoU, GIPC, a longstanding partner of OBG, would contribute to the Group’s research for the publication. A statement from OBG and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the forthcoming report would chart Ghana’s efforts at enhancing its investment environment through a raft of incentives and reforms. The statement noted that the publication would explore the Government’s bid to promote industrialisation, especially in the manufacturing sector, where a drive to boost…

Ecobank Ghana has disengaged 181 outsourced staff as it continues to expand on its digital agenda which seeks to place banking in the hands of its clients. With effect from yesterday, 4th September, 2017, the staffs, including front and back office branch executives and other departments spread across the country were asked to go home. The move will culminate in the reduction of its branches across the country from 77 to 67 to “ensure efficiency is high, and serve customers better.” In an interview with Reverend Patricia Sappor, Head of Corporate Communications at Ecobank, Ghana and Anglophone West Africa (AWA),…

The Deputy Director of the National Service Secretariat, Henry Nana Boakye, has advised NDC functionaries and sympathisers of  embattled Exton Cubic Group Limited not to politicize the revocation of the company’s license to mine bauxite. “It is a purely procedural and legal matter and Ghana is a country of law so if [Exton Cubic] thinks it has been treated unfairly, [it] should proceed to the law court,” he noted. Government on Monday announced the revocation of the mining license given to Exton Cubic Group Limited to mine bauxite in the Nyinahin area of the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti region. The…

Two men have been arrested in Kumasi for allegedly dealing in fake Ghanaian cedi currency. Police found on them fake currency amounting to GHC14,000 as well as a machine suspected to be used for the production of counterfeit currencies. The amount was GHC10 notes in 14 bundles with each bundle totaling GHC1,000. Their names have been given as Dauda Issah, 31 years, and 30-year-old Osman Issah. A third accomplice, Abdul Rahman Suleiman, believed to be hiding in either Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region or Tamale in the Northern Region, is wanted by the Police. The two suspects arrested in…

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has said that he will not take part in the presidential election re-run slated for 17 October “without legal and constitutional guarantees”. But he did not specify exactly what guarantees he wanted. Last week, the Supreme Court annulled August’s election result saying the electoral commission (IEBC) had not followed the constitution. The court said a new election needs to be held by 1 November. In the 8 August poll, incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner with 54% of the vote and Mr Odinga got 45%, according to the electoral commission. Speaking to journalists,…

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