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The Auditor General Daniel Yao Domelevo has asked Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to immediately stop investigating him and his outfit for alleged procurement infraction. EOCO, he argued, has no legal basis whatsoever to subject him and officers from the Ghana Audit Service to investigations into alleged procurement breaches in the purchase vehicles for the Service in 2018. Mr Domelevo, his Deputy in charge of Finance and Administration, Mrs Roberta Assiamah-Appiah, and the Audit Service Board have been accused of circumventing the procurement laws to procure some vehicles for the Audit Service. A petition by a private citizen to…

Parliament has begun debating the 2020 budget statement and financial policy of government presented to the House last Wednesday by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. The presentation was a requirement of Article 179 of the 1992 Constitution and Section 21(3) of the Public Financial Management Act, Act 921. After the delivery on Wednesday, the Majority Leader moved that the House began discussions on Monday, November 18. Osei-Kyei Mensa-Bonsu told members, particularly those of the Minority Caucus, to be guided by “pragmatism” and not “propaganda” during debate. Seconding him, Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu hinted that the policy statement will be the…

Benjamin Osei Asante, a proud Ghanaian IT expert with rich industry experience is set to bring e-commerce platform to the doorsteps of Ghanaians. He has worked with both local companies and multinationals on various projects with an incredible track record of significant achievements. SHOPNAW is the name of the new platform yet to be introduced officially. According to the founder and CEO; the idea of SHOPNAW platform came into conception after he came out of a very gloomy situation. His dexterity and insight led to the analysis of the online market space, particularly, to satisfy the needs of the ordinary…

Benjamin Osei Asante, a proud Ghanaian IT expert with rich industry experience is set to bring e-commerce platform to the doorsteps of Ghanaians. He has worked with both local companies and multinationals on various projects with an incredible track record of significant achievements. SHOPNAW is the name of the new platform yet to be introduced officially. According to the founder and CEO; the idea of SHOPNAW platform came into conception after he came out of a very gloomy situation. His dexterity and insight led to the analysis of the online market space, particularly, to satisfy the needs of the ordinary…

A top police officer being held for his alleged involvement in a coup plot to destabilise Ghana has lost his bail application. The High Court in Accra held Monday that ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo who is charged with abetment to commit treason felony, has influence both locally and internationally as a senior police officer, and could influence and tamper with investigations into the case. Presiding judge, Justice George Boadi, took the view that the bail application was premature as investigations were still ongoing in the case involving a military officer, a medical doctor and civilians. Ahead of committal proceedings, police…

The 2019 Open Doors Report on international education has shown an overall 13.9 per cent increase over 2018 in the number of Ghanaian students attending universities and colleges in the United States, from 3,213 to 3,661.  This brings Ghana into second place in Sub-Saharan Africa, a spot previously held by Kenya. The number one spot is held by Nigeria, with 13,423 students. Over half of the Ghanaian students in the United States are studying at the graduate level and this number increased by 21.3 per cent over last year, from 1,534 up to 1,860, tipping Ghana into an enviable bracket…

Next year is going to be a busy year as far as the Ghanaian arts space is concerned. Many stakeholders have already unveiled what they have in stock and one of such is playwright Kobina Ansah. The writer-cum-director of ‘The Boy Called A Girl’ has hinted his first play for 2020 and it’s ‘Emergency Wedding’. It is sub-titled ‘Man has his timelines but God has the clock’. Kobina Ansah is known for his queer titles and interesting manner of telling stories, especially controversial ones. “Our new play is a double dose of everything we’ve ever served our patrons,” he explained.…

DPS International Ghana swept the award for the Best A Level School at the PSGN Awards Night organised by the British Council in Accra Sunday at the National Theatre. Vishal Mukesh Thakwani, a student of DPS International Ghana excelled in the May/June 2019 Cambridge Assessment International Education exams and received the most coveted 2019 GCE AS & A Level Overall Best Student award. He was also adjudged the best student in GCE AS & A Level Physics (96%), in GCE AS & A LEVEL Further Mathematics (93%) and GCE AS & A LEVEL Chemistry(94%). Vishal Mukesh Thakwani who is now pursuing…

A Ghanaian company says it has made history by becoming the first independent African energy group to discover oil in deep water after its drilling revealed significant quantities of oil off the coast of Ghana. The Springfield Group, which has no history of oil exploration, will in the next few days announce it has made two discoveries totalling 1.2bn barrels of crude in a block that it says will be bigger than the Jubilee field, Ghana’s biggest. The Jubilee field, operated by the UK’s Tullow Oil, is one of Africa’s largest recent finds and propelled Texas-based Kosmos Energy, which discovered it…

A Ghanaian company says it has made history by becoming the first independent African energy group to discover oil in deep water after its drilling revealed significant quantities of oil off the coast of Ghana. The Springfield Group, which has no history of oil exploration, will in the next few days announce it has made two discoveries totalling 1.2bn barrels of crude in a block that it says will be bigger than the Jubilee field, Ghana’s biggest. The Jubilee field, operated by the UK’s Tullow Oil, is one of Africa’s largest recent finds and propelled Texas-based Kosmos Energy, which discovered it…