Some irate youth of Nyinahini in the Ashanti Region have besieged the District Assembly to fight against the operations of Exton Cubic Group Limited.The government gave an entry permit to the company to mine bauxite in the Tano-Offin Forest Reserve, but this has angered the youth of the area who …
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The Ghana Investment Promotion Council has revealed, it is collecting at least GHȻ500,000 in pledges from Ghanaians moved by the tragic disaster in Sierra Leone, a country mourning the death of about 400 in a mudslide. The Chief Executive, Yoofi Grant, told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, the Council was contacted by …
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The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has said his decision not to allow Exton Cubic Group Limited to continue mining bauxite at Tano-Offin Forest Reserve at Nyinahini in the Atwima Mponua District, is not political but in the interest of the country.Mr Osei-Mensah has seized equipment and logistics hired by …
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The Government of Ghana has assured its citizens living close to the common border with neighbouring Togo of maximum security despite the turmoil in the francophone country.Protesters in the French-speaking country over the weekend clashed with security agencies there resulting in deaths and destruction to property.With the demonstrators set to …
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Small-scale miners in the Upper East Region have threaten to take legal actions against the Akufo-Addo-led government if the ban on small-scale mining is not lifted immediately.In order to help protect water bodies and save the forests from depletion, the Akufo-Addo-led government has launched a war on illegal small-scale mining …
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They pontificate, they preach loudly, and they ventclamorously, often in sanctimonious degree, on how corruption is sinking or has sunk the developmental fortunes of the nation, so something urgently needs to be done about it. Then, whenever the time comes to take pragmatic leap toward confronting public corruption, almost everything …
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The Local Government Minister Hajia Alima Mahama has served notice to all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) that they will face prosecution should they flout the Public Financial Management Act. She made this known during a a meeting with the MMDCEs in Koforidua to educate them on the …
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The Scholarship Secretariat wired an amount of $43,000 (Gh¢191,291) to the Ghana Mission in Conakry, Guinea in 2014 but the money never hit its destination, investigations have revealed. The money was meant to pay for Government of Ghana sponsored students’ allowances between January and March 2014. However, the 2015 Auditor …
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Some staff of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) are being investigated by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) over various acts of malfeasance, board chairman of the Trust has revealed. “….As I stand here some employees and former employees of SSNIT are before EOCO,” said Dr. …
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The 2016 flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has described the mandatory tow levy as a “lazy thinking” which shouldn’t have been conceived at all.He said the Road Traffic Act empowers the District Assemblies to tow vehicles away from the roads and streets and levy …
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