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Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has expressed sadness over the tragic accident involving players and technical team of the Kumasi Asante Kotoko that led to the death of the team’s assistant equipment manager. “The management and staff of GOIL are saddened by the tragic news,” a statement signed by the company’s Managing Director, Patrick Akorli, said Thursday. The players and officials of the team were returning to Kumasi with the players and officials of the club when their bus was involved in an accident at the Nkawkaw stretch of the Accra-Kumasi highway at about 9:45pm. Head coach Steve Polak is…

The government of Ghana has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sinohydro Corporation Limited for the execution of a number of key projects across the country. Among others, the Chinese state-owned company will undertake a multipurpose hydro project at Pwalugu; a Volta Lake Transportation Project; an Accra Flood Prevention Project, as well as other priority infrastructure projects including garbage treatment plants, solar power plants, and rail projects, at an estimated cost of $4 billion. This brings to $19bn, the commitments made by the Chinese government and its agencies following the acceptance of the financing model proposed by Vice President Dr…

Drivers and commuters plying the Bolga-Bawku road which is under construction are not happy with the state of the road, which they have been compelled to endure. The major worry of residents living along that stretch of the road is the creation of a diversion at Bawku Pulmakom by Queiroz Galvao, the construction company working on the project. The diversion, they say, is posing life threatening challenges to travelers and residents alike. The situation gets even worse whenever it rains. The rate at which vehicles get stuck at the diversion especially when it rains is alarming. On the average, about…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday launched the National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Plan (NEIP), his government’s flagship initiative, which will be the primary vehicle for providing an integrated, national support for start-ups and small businesses. The Plan, according to the President, will enable new businesses to emerge and give them the space to grow, to receive financing and business development services, to secure markets during the critical formative years, and to tap into a wide supply chain and network during their growth years, helping to create jobs at a widely distributed, national level. Despite the severe constraints of the…

There was laughter in court on Thursday when accused Abelenkpe Branch Supervisor of Marwako Fast Food Limited Jihad Chabaan spoke English to the surprise of presiding Abeka District Court. “Can you speak English?” judge Victoria Afua Gyansah asked in surprise, TV3’s Selorm Amenyah reported from court. The accused had once told the court he could not speak English and was only fluent in Arabic. READ: Marwako manager demands Arabic interpreter Mr Chabaan was asking for another adjournment of his case as a result of the absence of his lawyer, Julio Demederious, who he said was out of jurisdiction. But the…

Ghana’s fight against galamsey might fail if government does not tighten lose ends in the current its efforts to end illegal mining sustainably, Mr Kwamena Essilfie Adjaye, an economist has warned. He suggested a broadening of the fight to include the livelihood of the illegal miners, saying any attempt that does not embrace the enhancement of the economic well-being of the thousands in the illegal business will fail. Speaking on ‘Late Edition’, 3FM’s Current Affairs Show, Mr Adjaye suggested that government provides alternative livelihood for the illegal small scale miners while ensuring that they not only get adequate income from…

Ahead of the implementation of the Mental Health Law by the legislature, some top hierarchy members of the Mental Health Authority have engaged members of the Judicial Council in the Northern, Upper East, and Upper West regions on some insights of the law. The team led by the Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, took the Judicial Council through the nitty-gritty of the law in Tamale, Northern Region. The Mental Health Act was enacted by Parliament  in 2012 – Act 846 – but according to Dr Osei, the rollout has been very slow, a situation heavily blamed…

Management of Asante Kotoko has scheduled a screening exercise for every member of the team on board the bus that got involved in an accident on Wednesday. The exercise to be led by the club’s medical team will be conducted on Saturday. A statement issued by the Head of Asante Kotoko’s Medical Team, Dr Michael Leat, on Thursday said all treated and discharged victims of Wednesday night’s accident in Nkawkaw will undergo another screening. Kotoko’s bus rammed into a stationary KIA truck at Nkawkaw while the team was returning from a narrow 0-1 loss to Inter Allies in the Ghana…

An attempt by some law graduates to stop the General Legal Council from administering entrance examination and interview before admitting qualified students into the Ghana School of Law has failed. The group, who are LLB graduates, had gone to the Human Rights Court in Accra seeking an injunction to stop the examination on Friday, July 14, 2017 but the court on Thursday declined. The Supreme Court on June 22, 2017 declared the entrance exams and the interview as unconstitutional because the requirements were in violation of the LI 1296 that gives direction for the mode of admission. It however gave…

President Donald Trump says the mood in the White House is “fantastic” despite intense scrutiny of his campaign’s alleged dealings with Russia. He told Reuters the administration was “functioning beautifully”. The president also defended his son, who it has emerged met a Russian lawyer during the election campaign. US media describe the White House as being in chaos over the story, with a Trump ally calling it a “Category 5 hurricane”, the Washington Post said. Donald Trump Jr met Natalia Veselnitskaya believing she had information that would damage his father’s opponent Hillary Clinton. Mr Trump Jr told Fox News the…