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Director of Operations at Dalex Finance Joe Jackson has extolled the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for paying all the customers of the collapsed banks their locked-up funds. He said the action was good but the BoG has a duty to let the public know how much has also been retrieved from the directors and Chief Executives Officers of the collapsed banks. In a tweet, Mr Jackson stated:“Depositors have been paid-good. What about the CEOs, directors, BOG officials, etc. whose reckless and greedy acts caused banks to collapse? The public purse is severely depleted. Who has been prosecuted? How much money…

Commercial motorbike operators are unanimous in their call for the legalization of their activities. According to them, the business has created income opportunities for thousands of households. At Madina Zongo junction, one of the busiest areas for motorbike operators, 32-year-old Abdul Razak Aziz alias ‘Big Apple’ and his friends have created a bike station. The station is more evident and busier during rush hours.  Big Apple has been doing this for more than four years. He told 3news.com’s Komla Adom, ‘this is all we have and it is the only means of earning a living.’ Big Apple makes on average…

The Chamber for Local Governance (ChaLoG) said it was greeted with shock when the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, assessed and scored herself 90 per cent of the promises made by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its 2016 manifesto. She made this known at a Press conference in Accra on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. ChaLoG said it will rather score the minister 40 per cent for its performance as far the promises are concerned. “Ensure the consolidation of all existing national sanitation policies, plans and programmes into a National Programme and Action Plan…

The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor, has said the conduct of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in office makes a strong case for the drafting of an entrenched national development policy that will bind all governments to finish uncompleted projects of their predecessors. He said this government has failed to continue implementing the good projects instituted by the previous NDC administration, and further described this situation as unfortunate. He told Berla Mundi on TV3’s New Day Thursday, August 27 that the lack of continuity for projects of successive governments is costing the country…

Rapper Freda Rhymz and singer Sista Afia, who in the past seem to have taken their lyrical beef to another level, collaborated to release a new song ‘Saucy’, the first collaboration of its kind after their unsavory fight went viral. This recent step they took to make their renewed friendship official was the release of the song. Freda Rhymz explained their beef was settled quietly by both managements. “When we decided to settle it, it was an in-house something. We did it between my management and Sista Afia’s and we didn’t put it out for people to know and decided…

Hiplife musician Edem says underground artistes do not need studios. His comment comes in the wake of a campaign promise by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to build studios for underground artistes to maximize their potentials. Speaking on the Star Zone segment on the 3FM morning show, Sunrise, on Wednesday, the musician was emphatic that in the modern era one can start even a radio with just a laptop. So underground artistes and painters can start something without nothing, he stressed. The NPP manifesto as outlined by the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, promised to  “set up a…

The National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, has blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay in investigation into the missing excavators. Speaking on TV3’s New Day on Thursday, August 27, Nana Bee, as he is popularly known, stated that “there was a lockdown and nobody was supposed to move. People who probably would be involved must be invited. It can affect it and it has affected it. The Covid situation has affected every sector.” In February 2020, excavators that were seized by the government from illegal small scale miners, popularly called galamseyers, were reported…

Over twenty customers of the defunct GN Bank, have denied being paid their locked-up funds. The customers called into the New Day programme on TV3 Thursday August 27 during the phone-in segment to reveal their concerns after the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Ernest Addison had told President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday August 25 that all the customers of the collapsed local banks have been paid their locked-up funds. The phone-in segment was to fact-check the claim by the governor of the central bank. Some of the customers said they had been waiting on authorities…

Car dealers in Ghana have suspended their planed demonstration against the government that was supposed to have taken place Thursday August 27.  The schedule demonstration was to resist moves by the government to ban  the importation of accident cars into the country. This comes after they had a meeting officials from the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). According to the dealers, the officials assured them that all their concerns will be addressed before the implementation of the ban expected to start in November this year. A statement signed by  Secretary of the Tema Car…

Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency Kennedy Ohene Agaypong has said all the civil society organizations (CSOs) that are up against the Agyapa Royalties deal are engaged in intellectual dishonesty regarding their position on this matter. Mr Agyapong described the CSOs as the most corrupt group of people he has ever met in his life because, in his view, all their advocacies are purely motivated by money and not true love for the nation. Ghana’s legislature approved the controversial Agyapa Mineral Royalty Limited agreement Friday, August 14 despite a protest from the Minority. Based on the agreement, Agyapa Royalties…