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The maiden edition of the Ghana Entertainment Awards USA took place at the Florence Gould Hall Theater in New York (USA) on Saturday, May 20 and awarded musicians and people playing significant roles in the entertainment and media industry. Award-winning and evergreen Dancehall/Reggae star, Samini, and the beautiful goddess Haillie, were hosts of the event. The night saw performances from BP (Bright formerly of Buk Bak and Promzy formerly of VIP), EL, Efya, and many others. The maiden event awarded people in sports, music, film, radio and TV. Medikal bagged the Best New Act award whiles Kofi Kinaata picked up…

Fifteen senior officers of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority at the Tema Collection point have been interdicted for allegedly causing financial loss to the state through tax evasion.  Their monthly salaries have also been cut by one-third and have been barred from entering the premises of the entering the premises of the GRA until otherwise directed. They have been accused of “conniving and permitting” some companies to evade duties and taxes causing the GRA a revenue loss of GHC8,575,796.86, a letter dated May 17 and signed by Fred Charles Anson, the acting Commissioner in charge of Support…

The Ghana Revenue Authority has failed to achieve its target for the first quarter of 2017. Of the GHC7.611 target, it managed to generate GHC7.396 million, thus a shortfall of GHC215.8 million The figure, however, showed a nominal growth of 17 per cent and real growth of 3.5 per cent over the same period for the year 2016. The Revenue Authority has a target of GHC34 billion for 2017. The Acting Commissioner General Emmanuel, Kofi Nti, reveal this at the Authority’s quarter review meeting in Accra Friday said the negative deviation should challenge the management and staff to implement the…

Seven people, including armed robbers and a National Democratic Congress chairman, have been shot dead at Tatale in the Northern region in a gun battle that foiled a robbery attack Sunday evening. The gun shoot-out started when some gun wielding armed robbers arrived on a motorbike at the Tatale Market at about 4:30pm Sunday in an attempt to rob some motorbike dealers in the market of their sales. Eyewitnesses say luck eluded the robbers who attempted to flee the scene but were chased by the residents amidst gun battle. Four of the robbers were eventually killed at Nonyado, a community…

The management and staff of Greenhills School of Health Science (GSHS), a private health training institution in Accra, have paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary, Professor Kwesi Yankah in Accra. Led by the founder of GSHS, Rev. Dr. Charles Antwi-Boasiako, management also informed the Minister on how the school is working to secure accreditation with the National Accreditation Board (NAB), the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Allied Health Professional Council (AHC) to start five degree programmes: BSc Physiotherapy, BSc Medical Laboratory Science, BSc Occupational Therapy, BSc Nursing and BSc Midwifery. The school…

Michael Essien missed a penalty and Persib Bandung missed a chance to go top of the Indonesia Liga 1 after being held to a 2-2 draw at home to Borneo on Saturday evening. A last-minute equaliser from the visitors silenced the vast majority of a near 26,000 crowd. But the former Chelsea and Real Madrid midfielder could have put Persib 3-1 ahead with 20 minutes remaining had he not ballooned his spot kick far over the bar. It started badly for Persib as Borneo took the lead in the 17th minute. Riswan Yusman collected a pass from Flavio at the edge of the area…

Twenty-two students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have been rusticated after investigations cited them for their involvement in a clashes between students of the University, University of Ghana (UG) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in March this year. The clash which occurred during the hall week celebration of the Atlantic Hall left three students seriously injured. The 22 students, most of whom were executives of the Atlantic Hall and members of the 55th Hall Week celebration Planning Committee were rusticated for two semesters except the President of the Hall, Enoch Bart Plange, who was to…

10-man Arsenal beat Everton 3-1 at the Emirates but have to settle for Europa League football after Liverpool overcame Middlesbrough 3-0. Arsenal went ahead when Hector Bellerin reacted to a cross quicker than anyone else, and Everton were two-nil up when Alexis Sanchez was teed up by Danny Welbeck. Between the two goals, Laurent Koscielny saw red for a wild lunge into Enner Valencia. In the second half, Romelu Lukaku drew a goal back from the spot for Everton. More significant was a nasty-looking knee injury for Gabriel, who left on a stretcher. Sanchez then left injured after the hour…

The paramount chief of Assin Owirenkyi Traditional Area, Nana Pra Agyensaim VI has chided small scale miners and people who are opposing government’s fight against galamsey. Those mounting opposition to the crusade against illegal mining are premising their argument on the fact that the exercise is ridding people of their livelihoods and will therefore lead them into engaging in criminal activities for survival. But the paramount chief was emphatic that their reason does not provide enough basis to allow galamsey activities to destroy the country. “People will come out with statistics to prove that crime has gone up in mining…

A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 girls, who were part of a huge group kidnapped from their school in 2014, are in the care of security services in the capital, Abuja. Their parents travelled by bus through the night to meet their daughters. More than 100 of the 276 girls, taken from the town of Chibok, are still being held by the militant group. Their whereabouts are unknown. The reunion in Abuja had a celebratory atmosphere, with music and dance. The BBC’s Alistair Leithead says the…