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HFC Bank Ghana has donated an amount of GHC 35,000 to four institutions as part of its corporate social responsibility. The beneficiary institutions were the SOS Children’s Village Ghana, the University of Ghana Needy Students Fund, the National Partnership for Children’s Trust and the Ridge Church School towards its 60th anniversary celebrations. HFC Bank Ghana is a member of Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) of Trinidad and Tobago. Managing Director of HFC Bank, Mr. Robert Le Hunte, said the donations fit into the Bank’s vision statement which has building successful communities as one of its key pillars. “The Bank, therefore,…

The lifeless body of the development chief of Addeman, Nii Tettey Sarban was early Thursday found at a house in the community with deep cuts. Police suspect the 45-year old chief was gruesomely lynched by a gang of land guards in the community under the Ga West Municipal Assembly. According to the police, he was ambushed by the gang about hundred meters away from his residence when he was on his way to join a group of elders to perform traditional rites as part of activities to lift the ban on noise making in the area Thursday afternoon. Police officers…

The Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association and the Environmental Service Providers Association have asked the government to release the over GHC100 million accrued under the Environmental Excise Tax since it was established in 2013. “One and a half years ago, our enquiries at the Ghana Revenue Authority and Ministry of Finance indicated that we had paid in over 45 million Ghana Cedis,” Mr Daniel Yaw Mensah Tornyegah, Executive Secretary of GPMA said on Late Edition on 3FM hosted by Alfred Ocansey. He was speaking on the occasion of the 2017 World Environment Day and World Ocean Day, which fell on Monday…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has advocated a severe sanction regime against those engaged in illegal and unregulated fishing as a means to addressing the problem. “The growing incidence of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is, therefore, of significant concern to Ghana, as it contributes to overexploitation and the depletion of fish stocks in our waters, as well as globally,” the President. Delivering a speech at the UN oceans conference Thursday in New York, President Akufo-Addo observed Ghana has experienced a major decline in its fish stocks due to activities linked to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing methods by foreign-owned…

I stand here today with a heavy heart to pay tribute to my son, my brother and my friend because these are all what Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was to me. This relationship started right from his birth, because being our first child, myself and Vero his mother, competed for his company. Unlike most children, Maxwell was not the type who as a baby gave us sleepless nights. We were therefore not surprised when he grew up as a very gentle person. As I watched him grow up, I have always had the intuition that he was going to be…

The lyrics in ‘Dedication’, the latest single by Edem, frowns on cheating in marriage and relationships and that has raised the issue of whether he has ever cheated on his wife. The rapper says no. According to him, he had never thought of it though he had faced temptation at certain times. “I have never thought of cheating on my wife and I have never done that. I do get the temptation but I am so focused on my wife and career that I don’t even take note of it,” he said to Showbiz. On how he handles temptations, he…

Government is to convert all post offices across the country into electronic service centres to deepen digital financial inclusion and internet access in the hinterlands, Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful, has said. “We are going to turn all our post offices and community information centres into e-services centres where you can go for all your electronic transactions.  Even if you don’t have the facilities in your home or you don’t have internet connectivity, you can go to a designated point in your community where you can have those services. It is a process and we are working with our partners…

Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was born on November 1, 1985 in Bole to Captain Dennis Mahama Adam and Veronica Bamford. He was the first of three children to the couple. When he was a year and half old, his family relocated to Samreboi after his father got an appointment as a Security Officer in Africa Timber and Plywood Ghana Ltd. It was there Maxwell started Nursery school and Kindergarten. In 1991 the family moved to Takoradi as once again his father got an appointment with Cocoa Processing Company (Taksi). There he started his primary school at Services Primary school, but…

It was a solemn moment when the mother of late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama read a heartwrenching tribute to a deceased son. Veronica Bamford recalled Major Maxwell Adam Mahama “was such a special child”, someone, she said made her a “mother for the first time”. In that emotional tribute, the slain soldier’s mother recounted an instance where he shed tears for his son’s pet – dog – that died, painting a picture of an affectionate and a caring person who had a  “pure and lovely heart “. The senior military officer was murdered by residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Upper…

To my king Hebrews 13:14 New Living Translation (NLT) For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come. “Yo, what was for breakfast” was the last message I sent you on Monday at 9:12 am after we spoke at 6am and you said you were going to have your bath. For the first time in my life, I experienced a ripping heart on Monday night, I woke up to throw up, I had tummy issues too, I just felt sick. Maxwell, I am standing here amongst a crowd, but not to…