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Court orders arrest of head pastor for not providing sanitary facilities
The Tema District Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest, of the head pastor of Life-Changing Ministry Church, for failure to provide a sanitary facility on church premises. The court presided over by Mr Festus Fovi Nukunu issued the bench warrant after the accused failed to appear before the court on April 21, …
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Scrapping E-Levy will be difficult if collateralised – Prof Bokpin
A professor of Finance at the University of Ghana, Professor Godfred Bokpin, says successive governments may not be able to scrap the Electronic-levy if government collateralised it. Collateralisation of the levy to borrow more funds, he said, would mean that future governments may have to deal with a judgement debt situation, especially if loan agreements …
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Oil & Gas
Ghana government urged to strengthen institutional framework to address issues in energy sector
Reverend Professor Adobea Yaa Owusu, Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, (ISSER) has recommended to Government to strengthen national institutional and regulatory frameworks to help address challenges associated with trajectories of Ghana’s solar energy development. She noted that increasing the use of non-renewable energy sources in the generation of electricity, …
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Ghana is experiencing brain drain of nurses
Ghana is currently, seeing an increase in the migration of professional nurses to high-income countries due to the global shortage of nurses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare said the trend was quiet worrying as it amounts to a massive public subsidy to the wealthier nations given …
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Sports
CAF appoints Kurt Okraku as Executive Committee member
Mr. Kurt Okraku President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), has been appointed as an Executive Committee member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to help in the development of football in Africa. The GFA president was appointed among five others to serve on the team of the football governing body to help in managing …
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Sports
Fiapre Circuit Court remands three sports hooligans in police custody
Three alleged sports hooligans have been remanded into police custody by a Circuit Court at Fiapre in the Sunyani West Municipality of the Bono region. According to the court presided by Ms Rita Amoanywaa Adusah, the suspects-Enoch Diawuo, 32, farmer, and Augustine Apraku, 24, a tiler; and one Ebenezer Okyere affectionately called Omega-were allegedly involved …
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Africa/International
ECOWAS Member States urged to demonstrate political will to domesticate Revised Treaty
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice’s conference on the regional integration model has ended with participants calling on member States to publish, ratify and domesticate the ECOWAS Revised Treaty. A communique adopted at the end of the conference noted the importance of an enabling legal environment in the integration arrangement. Although ECOWAS has a copious …
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Government priority is to make education fit for purpose – Minister
Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, the Deputy Minister of Education, says the Government is moving from the paradigm of memorization to practical- oriented teaching to make the student fit for purpose. He said the Government under its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programme would equip Ghanaian students with 21st century skills to make them globally competitive. …
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Stakeholders engage on assessing floods in hotspots of Ghana
A two- day White Volta Basin engagement workshop, to assess flood disaster risks management (FDRM) and institutional challenges in managing flood situations in hotspots of the country has been held in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. It is the third in the series of meetings conducted by an academic research team from the University …
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Court grants three persons bail for unlawful possession of police accoutrements
An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail to three persons in the sum of GH¢80,000.00 each with three sureties for unlawful possession of police accoutrements and abetment of crime. The Court ordered that one of the sureties should be a public servant. John Essel Baah, aged 49 and Enock Kwame Bosempem, aged 45, were also …
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ICT
Government is working towards harnessing space technology for development – Bawumia
Government will soon pass the Ghana Space Policy to harness space technology for socio-economic development. The policy will support efforts by the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute to explore the space industry for accelerated national growth. Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia announced this on Friday in Accra at the closing ceremony of the United Nations’ …
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