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The US has carried out a missile strike against a Syrian air base in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. Fifty-nine Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from two US Navy ships in the Mediterranean. Six people were killed, the Syrian army said. It is the first direct US military action against forces commanded by Syria’s president. The Kremlin, which backs Bashar al-Assad, has condemned the strike. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, called it “an act of aggression against a sovereign nation”. The attack, at 04:40 Syrian time (01:40 GMT), comes just days…

Government says it would engage the services of the police and military in the second phase of the fight against the illegal small scale mining popularly known as galamsey. The canker has greatly affected water bodies in the country and polluted them so badly, the Ghana Water Company has had to shut down some of its treatment plants. Communities living along some of these water bodies now resort to sachet water for drinking, cooking, bathing amongst others. Major media outlets in Ghana have started a campaign to ensure that mount pressure on government and other major stakeholders to ensure that…

“The desire to see the next generation live a better life than the previous is something that inspires me. I believe a life that is well lived is a life that was lived trying to better the lot of the next generation”. A product of Achimota Senior High school and the University of Ghana, Legon, Mark Boateng has taken a path most young men and women have considered in recent times but the unique story about a humble, ambitious and God-fearing Mr. Boateng is one which will serve as motivation for all. Online journalist Nana Afrane Asante (NA) gets up…

The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery has given a strong indication that government would use all means necessary to re-arrest the thirteen (13) members of the Delta Force vigilante group who escaped when the police brought them to court on Thursday. After the judge, her Highness, Mary Nsenkyire gave an order that the 13 be remanded in prison custody to reappear on April 20, members of the Delta Force group got wind of the news and stormed the court premises, went through the judges chamber forcibly freed their colleagues. They threatened to attack the judge who had to be given immediate…

The Universal Merchant Bank, UMB, has posted a pre-tax profit of GH¢27.4 million for the 2016 financial year representing a 462 per cent year-on-year growth. The Bank set out on an agenda of transforming into a first-tier bank when it was established in 2014. Two years on, the foundations laid have begun to pay off and this is attested to by the Bank’s impressive performance in the 2016 financial year. The bank posted a profit before tax of GH¢27.4 million from a loss position in excess of GH¢7 million recorded at the end of 2015 and again recorded an increase…

Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has petitioned the country’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to withdraw the nomination of deputy minister-designate for agriculture, George Best, also known as George Kwame Oduro. A letter from the Bureau to the President dated March 23, 2017 stated Mr Oduro aka Kay, who was on May 19, 2008 mentioned as a principal suspect in a cocaine case in Geneva, Switzerland where he is wanted. The BNI’s investigations have revealed that Mr Oduro arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on May 17, 2008, on a Canadian passport numbered LJ557784 aboard Royal Air…

The Ministry of Energy and the National Petroleum Authority have commended Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) for its commitment in promoting local content in the oil and gas sector. The commendations were made at the commissioning of the company’s 13.5-million litre Marine Gas Oil Storage Facility at the Takoradi Port in Takoradi. The Facility, solely financed by GOIL, will enable the Ghanaian-owned oil giant to bunker ocean- going vessels that berth at the Takoradi Port. The Minister of Energy in a speech read by his deputy, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, commended GOIL for leading the crusade in promoting local content which…

A 32-year-old mother, Dorcas Adoma Anim, is seeking justice after she was allegedly assaulted by two Egyptians in her shop at Dawhenya in the Ningo Prampram district of the Greater Accra region. Dorcas, who sells second hand clothes for a living, was assaulted on February 3, following a misunderstanding between her and the Egyptians. According to her, she acted as an intermediary in a business transaction for the two Egyptians. However, she conceded that payment for the business delayed, resulting in a misunderstanding. She recounted that one of the Egyptians by name Abood Ibrahim and his brother allegedly beat her…

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The International Court of Arbitration has acknowledged receipt of a request from embattled Ghanaian businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome to arbitrate in the controversial GHC51 million judgement debt scandal . Mr. Agbesi escaped jail term in 2015 after the Fast Track High Court acquitted and discharged him on two counts of defrauding by false pretense and causing financial loss to the state. But the state has been pursuing him to refund the 51 million cedis he received as judgment debt for his role in the construction of stadia for the CAN 2008 tournament held in Ghana after the Supreme Court declared…