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Staff at Rokmer Pharmacy at Dansoman in Accra have described an armed robbery attack on two combined shops as one they have only seen in action movies. The incident took place on Tuesday night around 9:30 when they were rounding up the day’s activities. According a staff member who spoke on anonymity, the two hooded robbers came on a motorbike and walked straight into the mobile money shop which is attached to the pharmacy, where the action began. “One of them walked in and my instincts told me straightaway that he wasn’t here for a mobile money transaction. “Their attire…

Ghana’s leading bank in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) services, Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) has added on to its long and proud history of developing businesses in the country since October 2016 by unveiling the UMB Centre for Businesses in Ashtown, Kumasi. The vision of the UMB Centre for Businesses is to set a new standard in the delivery of SME banking services and to enhance the competitiveness of UMB in the SME market. This vision has been given a boost with the inauguration of the second UMB Centre for Businesses in Madina, Accra. This UMB Centre for Businesses, just…

After four years of “rapid development” in terms of expansion, the Managing Director of  The Royal Bank says it is time the bank refocused on other key areas to enable it serve its customers better. Mr. Osei Asafo-Adjei said the bank will concentrate more on human capital development, introduction of innovative products and new services as well as improving their “exciting” performance. The bank’s Managing Director was interacting with journalists at the opening of The Royal Bank’s 26th branch at Tudu in Accra on Tuesday. It is a wholly-owned Ghanaian bank Mr. Asafo-Adjei however noted that by 2019 every region…

Gospel musician, Mary Agyemang, has been named brand ambassador for Juvenile Reform Foundation (JRF)-Ghana, a non-governmental organisation focused on stemming juvenile crime and violence in Ghana. The ‘change over’ hitmaker, who had her musical breakthrough in 2009 will as part of her new role organise charity concerts locally and internationally, as well as spearhead upcoming programmes of the Foundation. Proceeds from the concert will be used to cater for the formal education, technical and vocational training, and the general welfare of juvenile offenders (released and incarcerated) and vulnerable children in Ghana. Mary Agyemang and JRF-Ghana are expected to visit religious…

The rehabilitated Greater Accra Regional Hospital, formerly Ridge Hospital, has been opened to the public, promising to deliver an improved quality healthcare to the people within the region and beyond using ultra-modern facilities. The 420-bed facility has a comprehensive diagnostic and treatment block with a 24-hour surgical theatre, accident and emergency unit, neonatal intensive care unit, intensive care unit and delivery unit, pharmacy among others. Patients can from Wednesday, May 17 access healthcare services from the new facility which is the first of two phase project started by the John Mahama administration with a $250 million funding from Exim USA…

Ghana’s middleweight world title hopeful Obodai Sai will mount the ring on June 16, 2017 in a fight against undefeated WBO African Champion Walter Kautondokwa. Dubbed ‘XPLOSIVE FIGHT NIGHT’, Sai is expected to entertain his fans at the Bukom Boxing Arena in a make-or-break fight, which could see him aim at a world title shot if he wins against Kautondokwa. The middleweight division is regarded as the hottest division in world boxing with exciting boxers such as Gennady Golovkin, Saul Canelo Alvarez, Billy Joe Saunders, David Lemieux, Daniel Jacobs, and Willie Monroe Jr. among others. Namibian Walter Kautondokwa and Obodai…

Government says it is not perturbed about the minority’s petition to the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States to investigate its $2.25 billion bond issued this year. It said the petition among other actions by the minority in parliament is only a diversionary tactic to sway Ghanaians from seeing the positive work the government is doing. READ: Minority’s petition to US SEC on $2.25bn bond needless – Economist suggests Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who is also the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee petitioned the US body on behalf of the National…

Prompt: Dr. Spio-Garbrah is no nino to the public terrain. He has run for the presidency before and has been in the public imaginary for the longest time. This may be his last stab at glory or risk being consigned to history as the president who never was. Pro: the case for Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah Presidential Bar He looks like a president; sounds like a president and speaks like a president. To some people he is the ‘enfant terrible’ of the NDC; to others he is the ‘beau ideal’. Ekwow Spio-Grabrah is the kind of guy who looks like…

Senior economics lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Osei Assibey has indicated that the Minority’s petition to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over the US$2.25 billion bond issue is needless. He said the minority should have rather exhausted institutions within the country before taking the matter outside. “So I think as a country if we have an issue, we should resort to using internal mechanism or institutions; we have CHRAJ and even our own securities and exchange commission,” he told TV3. “First and foremost we should have exhausted these institutions, and when not satisfied before going out to…

Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has petitioned the Attorney-General (A-G) over what it claims to be minor charges purported to have been levelled against five Chinese accused of engaging in illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. The five alleged ‘galamseyers’- Gao Jin Cheng, 45; Lu Qi Jun, 39; Haibin Gao, 26; Zhang Zhipen, 23, and En Huang, 31, a woman, also known as Aisha Huang, reported to be a kingpin in the galamsey business, were on May 9, 2017 remanded in prison custody by the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court. The court, presided over by Mr Justice Charles Ekow Baiden,…