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The High Court in Accra has granted an interim injunction stopping the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) from going ahead with its mass transfer and decision to reduce the ranks of some staff. It has also suspended the “proceed on leave” order issued by the management of YEA to some staff in an ongoing restructuring exercise by the Agency. The injunction, which was filed ex-parte (without notice) to YEA, was granted Wednesday, July 5 by the court presided over by Justice Laurenda Owusu, and it is to last 10 days. “…This order shall remain in force for a period of only…

About 199 metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) recently approved by their respective assemblies have up till Monday, July 24 to declare their assets. Their names are expected to be submitted to the Attorney General on Monday, July 10 after which they will have a fortnight to file their assets declaration forms. “That exercise will be monitored,” President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo warned MMDCEs on Wednesday, when he addressed an orientation programme organised for them. The programme was under the auspices of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. It was held at the Institute of Local Government Studies…

The Minority in Parliament has petitioned the Commission de Surveillance de Secteur Financier (CSSF) of Luxembourg to look into the purchase of a $2.25 billion bond reportedly by a firm from the European country. According to the Minority, its investigations have revealed that Franklin Templeton, which bought majority of the 15-year and 7-year bonds, used a subsidiary Luxembourgian company to do so. At a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu said “to satisfy additional jurisdictional issues, based on this revelation, a group of Minority MPs comprising Hon. Dominic Ayine (Dr.), Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and Hon.…

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, who made bribery allegations against the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors, Senyo Hosi, has been sued for eight million cedis in defamation damages. The outspoken MP was said to have claimed that Mr Hosi offered a one million-dollar bribe to the CEO of BOST to influence the sale of five million litres of contaminated fuel, which went to two companies, in his favour. But Mr Hosi has denied the claim in a writ issued at the High Court on Tuesday, July 4 in which he is seeking…

For some, it is just a ridiculous subject. Somehow it has suddenly assumed a matter of pressing national importance. Which country has the best jollof rice in West Africa? But now it is all settled. We no longer have to go find out whose is the best. Now we know who reigns. I mean the long-standing argument of whose jollof rice is the best. It is Senegal Jollof. The debate was settled, at least for now, at the recently well-organized “Jollof War” by 3FM 92.7 from the Media General stable which also houses TV3, 3news.com, Onua FM 95.1, Connect FM…

Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has joined Turkish Super Lig side Kayserispor from United Arab Emirates’ side Al Ahli, where he has been on loan since August, 2016. Gyan completed the permanent deal on Wednesday. He was joined during the signing by brother and former Black Stars player Baffour Gyan. The details of the deal were not immediately made known but Gyan will join a side that placed 15th in the Turkish league last season. Turkey will be the sixth country Gyan will be playing in since his professional career outside Ghana started in Italy for Udinese. He has also…

The Head of Department of Early Childhood Education at the University Of Education, Winneba (UEW) in the Central Region, Dr. Ahmed Jinapor, has charged institutions that are handling the alleged sale of contaminated fuel at the Bulk Oil Storage Transport Company Limited (BOST) to consider the plight o f the people of Ghana and not individuals. The Senior Lecturer says “it is not about the MD. It is not about BOST but it is about what the good people of Ghana wants because Ghanaians had confidences in President [Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo] in fight corruption in the country and that…

The Minority in Parliament has launched a scathing attack on the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government, saying they have displayed no commitment to fighting corruption. “What we have been treated to in this embarrassing spectacle is a new government that has arrived to dash the hopes of many Ghanaians,” Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu said on Wednesday. He was addressing a number of issues notable among them is the sale of contaminated fuel by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Limited (BOST). The Minority has called for the head of BOST, accusing him of owning two unlicensed companies, which were unlawfully engaged with in…

Rwanda’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Claver Gatete has said that though African trade has witnessed remarkable growth over the last two decades, its share of global trade remains at a paltry 15 per cent. He said despite the rising trade volumes from $210 billion in 1996 to $1.2 trillion in 2015, the continent needs to gear up for increased share of world trade. Speaking at the just-ended Annual General Meeting of Afreximbank, Mr Gatete said to compete for more volumes against Europe’s 67 per cent, developing Asia’s 53 per cent and America’s share of about 37 per cent,…

Suspected gunmen from the militant Islamist group al-Shabab have attacked a police post in Kenya’s coastal town of Lamu near the Somalia border, police confirmed to the BBC. Combined Kenyan security forces responded swiftly following a tip-off of a potential attack in the area. A fierce exchange of gunfire lasted several hours and a communication mast was destroyed, making it hard to get accurate information. Al-Shabab militants has not commented. There are no details about any casualties. Source: BBC