President John Mahama has denied pocketing US$300 million from the Government of the United States of America in connection with the transfer of two Guantanamo Bay ex-detainees to Ghana.Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby were relocated to Ghana recently after a deal between the two governments.“There’s no monetary consideration and the […]
President John Dramani Mahama has thrown light on why he rewarded a taxi driver who foiled a robbery attack at Cantonments in Accra on Saturday with a house. The driver rammed his taxi-cab into a motor bike that was conveying two suspects away from a robbery scene where they had shot a female employee of Koala
The chairman of the Agogoman Residents Association, Opanin Kojo Oduro, has accused government of being unwilling to address the cause of clashes between Fulani herdsmen and local farmers in communities around Agogo in the Asante Akyem District of the Ashanti region.This followed the murder on Monday January 11, 2016, of a fetish priest, Okomfo Badu,
Foreign Affairs minister Hanna Tetteh has said the two former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay cell who are being sheltered in Ghana were merely “foot soldiers” of Al-Qaeda with no potential danger to Ghana.According to her, the two had no role in the operational functionality in the terrorist group.Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef,36, and Khalid
The country earned US$1.7billion, roughly 7%, in taxes and royalties out of a total US$23billion, which is the value of gold produced in the country from 2010 to 2013, a study by the Africa Centre for Energy Policy has shown. Using Newmont as a case-study, ACEP said the scant rent the country received from mining
The Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Millison Narh, says the West Africa Monetary Agency (WAMA) must double its efforts to achieve a single currency for the sub-region, after a ban on its international conference in the wake of Ebola crippled operations of the monetary agency. Achieving a single currency for the West African
The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) is holding four operators Microfinance Company in the Brong Ahafo Region where customers’ monies have been locked up for months. The companies which had repordtedly held their customers’ deposits ‘hostage’ for several months due to their closure by the Bank of Ghana, were DKM Diamond Microfinance, God is Love
A Communications Officer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Robert Owusu Tilton is expected to be arraigned before court on Thursday January 14, 2016 for his violent related comments on radio. The Criminal Investigative Department (CID) of the Police Service in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region had earlier scheduled to process him for court
A flagbearer hopeful of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Samia Nkrumah, has downplayed the effect of the defection of Dr. Abu Sakara, saying it will not affect their prospects of winning the Ghanaian people over.The 2012 flagbearer of the CPP is no longer a member of the Nkrumahist party and will be contesting the 2016
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference is the latest to join clamours by religious bodies for the Government of Ghana to send back to Guantanamo Bay, two ex-detainees, who have been relocated to Ghana.In a statement, the Conference said it received the news of the transfer of Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih
