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The youth of Ahafo in the Brong Ahafo Region have given a one-week ultimatum to the regional minister to ask Newmont Mining Company to start employing them otherwise they will demonstrate against the government and the company.Leader of the youth, Kennedy Adu Agyei, told Accra 100.5FM’s Chief Jerry Forson on …

The Ashanti Regional chapter of the Small Scale Miners Association is expected to embark on their planned demonstration dubbed ‘Yere bre’, to wit, ‘we are suffering’ today Tuesday, 12 September 2017.According to the group, the action is to register their displeasure at government’s stance on small-scale mining after the expiration …

Caterers in the Upper East Region say they will resist any attempt by the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection to impose on them rice that cost GH¢180 per bag for the school feeding programme. At an orientation workshop for caterers in Upper East Region held in Bolgatanga, a …

A 28-year-old Ghanaian ‘scholar’ and former student of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) who was last week in the news for achieving academic laurels from the University of Amsterdam, has been exposed as it turned out that all the 5 awards he claimed to have won were all fake. …

Accra, September 08, 2017 – MTN Ghana Foundation has commissioned a 90 seater e-library for the Koforidua Technical University in the Eastern region.   The facility provides access to electronic sources of information including journals and electronic books from reputable databases and publishers. The e-library has 90 computers with internet …

The Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Kofi Dzamesi, has assured the National House of Chiefs of the government’s plans to pay all gazetted Chiefs in the country allowances before the end of the first term of the Nana Akufo-Addo led administration. Speaking at the general meeting of the Eastern …

The Minister of Defence, Mr Dominic Nitiwul, has said the government will deploy Marine Police and Naval personnel to reinforce the Operation Vanguard task force which is fighting illegal small-scale mining in the country. He said the immediate involvement of Marine policemen and Naval officers would help remove hundreds of …

Residents of Landing Hill area, near Sowutuom in the Ga Central Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have accused six soldiers of molesting five women, including a nursing mother and a woman who is four months pregnant when they allegedly raided the area Sunday night. The women claimed that the …

Small scale miners in the Ashanti Region will on September 12, 2017 stage a demonstration to register their displeasure at the government’s stance towards Small Scale Mining after the expiry of the six months ban their enterprises. Over 10,000 members of the Ashanti Regional Small Scale Miners Association are expected …

Hawker’s have taken over the entrance to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) making access to the facility difficult for regular users of the facility. The phenomenon has rendered access to the facility almost impossible and this has been going on for years. The pavement leading to the hospital has …