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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…

The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah, says it will take disease researchers at least a week to determine the particular type of meningitis that killed four students of the Kumasi Academy. Autopsy report by health authorities in Kumasi showed the four students died of meningitis contrary to speculation that it was caused by food poison, something that caused disturbances in the school. In an exclusive interview with TV3 Thursday, Dr. Nang-Beifubah “Point two meningitis was detected because the pathologists found signs suggesting inflammation of the meningitis”. However, he explained though the inflammation of the brains is…

Contractors, petty traders, investors, and entrepreneurs from China have been pouring into Uganda for the past decade. China is a top investor in the east African country, accounting for as much as half of total foreign investment between 2014 and 2015, according to the Uganda Investment Authority. But according to Ugandan immigration officials, there’s one major downside: an increasing number of Chinese men are marrying Ugandan women to gain residency and continue their business interests in the country. Officials told a parliamentary committee in late November that they are seeing more and more Chinese-Ugandan couples, often in sham unions. Couples…

Authorities of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACAS) have suspended all school activities and sent all the students home. This decision by the authorities follows the death of some four students of the school which has been attributed to meningitis. Authorities of the school say the students are ‘distressed’ and may not psychologically sound to undertake the end of term exam. The school further indicated that the burial of three of the deceased students would take place over the coming weekend. Due to these developments the school has asked all parents to go for their wards from the campus.…