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The Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL), has renewed its relationship, with the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG), by supporting the 42nd MTN-SWAG Awards with GHȼ30,000.00. The package, which includes cash and products, is to ensure the successful organization of the longest running sports awards scheme in Ghana. Mr. Patrick A.K.Akorli, Group Chief Executive Officer of GOIL, said his outfit is an indigenous company, which has the interest of other local companies at heart and deems the SWAG Awards as a worthy event to support. “This is an event that is aimed at rewarding sports men and women, who have…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says West African countries and their people will have no future should they continue to maintain economic structures that depend on the production and export of raw materials. He said if the sub-region is to ensure progress and prosperity for its people, “We must add value to these resources, we must industrialise and we must enhance agricultural productivity”. He said this when he delivered statement at a State dinner held in his honour by the President of Guinea, Prof. Alpha Conde, on Thursday during his three-day tour of Guinea. The visit is to build on…

Final payment to the contractor working on the Wa Airstrip in the Upper West Region is to be suspended until it has given Ghanaians value for their money, Aviation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah has revealed. The minister who visited the airstrip Thursday to inspect the scope of work done so far observed there were few areas that needed to be put right by contractor before final payment of monies are made by the government. “…If there is value for money, we all have seen it, if there is no value for money, We have all have seen it. We have…

Former Attorney General, Martin A.B.K. Amidu, has defended the Senior State Attorney who discontinued the trial of eight members of the pro NPP vigilante group, Delta Force, describing her legal advice as “exceptional”. The eight were being tried for storming the Kumasi Circuit courtroom to harass the judge and other court officials, and forcibly freed 13 other members of the group that has recently grabbed headlines. After weeks of preliminary proceedings, a senior State Attorney, Marie Louise-Simmons, who handled the case docket advised in a letter to the Police that the case be discontinued on the basis of lack of…

A man who drove a car along three blocks of pavement in New York’s Times Square, killing a teenager and injuring 22 people, said he had “heard voices”, according to law enforcement sources. Richard Rojas, 26, a US navy veteran who was arrested twice previously for drunk driving, is now in custody. He also said he expected to die, the sources told AP news agency. According to Reuters, he said after being arrested: “You were supposed to shoot me! I wanted to kill them.” Mr Rojas has been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated vehicular homicide and multiple counts of attempted…

Delta Force 13: AG wants more time to study docket

The Vice President of the Republic, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has assured the chiefs and people of Dagbon that the perennial water crisis in Yendi will soon be a thing of the past, following discussions at Cabinet to approve the allocation of $3m for the Yendi Water Project. The Planting for Food and Jobs, One-District-One-Factory and One Village One Dam Programmes were also designed with the people of northern Ghana in mind, to enable the largely agrarian society benefit from the fruits of their labour, he added. Vice President Bawumia gave the assurance when he paid courtesy calls on the…

Farmers in parts of the country have expressed optimism over Ghana winning the fight against the invasion of fall armyworms which have started destroying vast tracks of farmlands. This optimism follows the visit of Agric Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto. The Fall Armyworms have for the past few weeks hit certain parts of the country, particularly the Ashanti, Brong and the Eastern Regions, causing destructions to crops especially Maize and Cocoa. Affected farmers have been counting their losses following reports that about 1,500 acres of maize farms being destroyed. However, some farmers have expressed hope that despite the threats posed…

The Ghana Bar Association says the discharge of the eight members of the vigilante group, Delta Force, by the Circuit Court in Kumasi on the basis of lack of evidence, is a threat to rule of law in the country. It is thus demanding the reopening of the case in which the eight were being tried for storming the courtroom to harass the judge and other court officials, and forcibly freeing 13 other members of the pro New Patriotic Party group. After weeks of preliminary proceedings, a senior State Attorney who handled the case docket advised in a letter to…

Members of a small scale mining group in the country have issued a three-day ultimatum to the government to allow them to return to their pits or face their wrath. “We have given the president three days to allow us work otherwise all die be die,” Frank Osei who is the Chairman of the group, Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners, told journalists Thursday. Civil society organizations and the media recently joined the government to launch series of campaigns against illegal mining which is causing havoc to livelihoods and property as well as Ghana’s water bodies and forest covers.…