Author: newsfilegh

Effective Monday June 1, 2020, all transactions related to the import and export of goods at the various ports will be conducted through the one-stop service for all customs clearance procedures, dubbed Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS). This follows successful simulation and piloting of ICUMS at Tema Port, the final port to be hooked onto the system.With the exception of Tema Port, ICUMS has been operating at all entry points across Ghana for over a month now.ICUMS is a system built by Universal Pass (UNI-PASS), specially tailored to Ghana’s situation and provides an end-to-end supply chain solution that incorporates and…

Violence has erupted in cities across the US on the sixth night of protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd. Curfews have been imposed in nearly 40 cities, but people have largely ignored them, leading to tense stand-offs. Riot police clashed with protesters in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, firing tear gas and pepper bullets to try to disperse the crowds. Police vehicles were set on fire and shops were looted in several cities. The National Guard – the US reserve military force for domestic emergencies – said on Sunday that 5,000 of…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has given the green light to the Electoral Commission (EC) and other constitutional and statutory bodies to moderately scale up their activities By easing measures for containing COVID-19, President Nana Akufo-Addo, had offered the EC the green light to compile the new voter register that is scheduled to start in the last week of June, barring any hitch.Delivering his 10th Covid-19 containment address on Sunday, the President, stressed that bodies such as the National Commission for Civic Education and the National Identification Authority should operate but must adhere to preventive measures including social distancing and…

The Assistant Headmistress in charge of Administration at the St. Mary’s Senior High School, Mrs Sarah Garshong, is calling on government to hasten slowly in taking any decision to re-open schools en masse. In the event it becomes necessary for government to reopen schools, she said, that should be done gradually, starting with final year students. “The government must do it gradually by allowing the final-year students who are due for examinations,” she said. Mrs Garshong made the call when Zoomlion Ghana Limited disinfected and fumigated St Mary’s Senior High School Saturday as part of the national disinfection and fumigation…

A group identified as Builsa South Youth Association (BSYA) is calling on the Ghana Police Service and other relevant authorities to speed up investigations into circumstances that led to the death of a young man from the Baasa community in the Builsa South District. The deceased, believed to be in his 30s, reportedly lost his life at about 9:00pm on Wednesday, May 20 at Fumbisi in the Upper East Region after his throat was slit. He was allegedly killed in a fight between youth of the Wiesi and Baasa communities at the Fumbisi market, GhanaWeb had reported. Reports also had…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed disappointment in America and its citizens for what he describes as atrocities against black citizens in the United States. He has described as shameful a recent incident where a white police officer was filmed kneeling on the neck of a black, George Floyd, despite the latter pleading he could not breathe. George, 46, died shortly after, provoking protests by blacks in Minneapolis. In a tweet Friday, May 29, the former Ghana president expressed discontentment with the way America looks on while such atrocities are carried out over the years. He intimated such acts…

The National Chairman of the PNC, Bernard Mornah is being investigated by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police for threatening to disrupt the upcoming voter’s registration exercise to be conducted by the Electoral Commission. He is therefore expected to honour a CID invitation on Tuesday. “The CID Headquarters is investigating a case in which you were alleged to have threatened to resist any attempt by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter’s register for the 2020 general election,” the CID said in a letter to Mr. Mornah on Thursday, May 28. The PNC chairman is alleged have…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 28th May, 2020, presented presidential charters to the Pentecost University College, Accra, and All Nations University College, Koforidua, at a ceremony at Jubilee House, the seat of the nation’s presidency. According to President Akufo-Addo, the presentation of the charters means that the two universities “are going to transition into autonomous Universities, with the capacity, now, to award their own degrees and diplomas.” Delivering the remarks at the event, the President indicated that the country’s tertiary education system, like that of other nations, is composed of both public and private institutions, with the public universities established by Acts…

The Ghana immigration has repatriated seven Burkinabe who entered the country illegally through an unapproved route in Pulmakom in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region. The seven were intercepted by the Zebilla Inland Checkpoint at about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday onboard a passenger mini bus with registration GR 8130-14 from the Bawku operational area to Kumasi. Their arrest brings to 150, the total number of immigrants who have been intercepted and repatriated for illegally entering the country since the closure of Ghana’s borders in March this year. Unit commander at the Zebilla Inland Checkpoint, Superintendent David Aseidu Addo said,…