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A Tarkwa Circuit Court presided over by Her Honour Hathia Ama Manu has convicted two Chinese nationals, Chen Hung, Labania and Chen Xhili Andy, and two Ghanaians, Stephen Arthur and Prince Dennis Aidoo for unlawfully dealing in gold and money laundering.   The Court found each of them liable to …

The 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of Government will focus mainly on reducing unemployment and expanding on the economy’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Finance has said.   In a statement, the ministry said the budget will also focus on import substitution, digitalisation of the economy, …

A 23-year-old old barber Kwame Amponsah has been jailed 114 years by the Mpraeso Circuit Court for allegedly sodomizing 12 Schoolboys at Atawase, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly. Speaking to Agoo News, the head of Kwahu West Social Welfare department Victor Fayi, said on the …

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has rejected claims that food prices are escalating on the Ghanaian market. He said the statistics being compiled by the ministry on food prices do not support such claims. Speaking at a media engagement in Accra over the weekend, he …

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has said he was shocked to hear the “we will deal with you” comment from Legal Practitioner and Council of State member, Sam Okudzeto regarding a move by two opposition lawmakers to initiate a private members’ bill intended to amend the Legal Profession Act, 1960, …

The Headteacher of St. Charles Lwanga Junior High School at Saboba in the Northern Region, Emmanuel Changer, has been remanded into prison custody over his alleged role in the drowning incident that left nine students dead. The headteacher is alleged to have sent some thirty one students to work on …

Fire has gutted the storeroom of Osino Senior High School in Fanteakwa South District in the Eastern Region. Although the fire was extinguished at the early stages preventing it from spreading to the entire school facility, it caused damage to some logistics used for home economics practicals. Additionally, some items …

A total number of 571, 894 candidates will sit for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) from today, Monday, November 15, 2021, to Friday, November 19, 2021, at 2,158 centres nationwide. A total of 531,707 and 517,332 candidates sat for the examination in 2020 and 2019, respectively. A statement …

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Ghana, Dr. Priscilla Twumasi Baffuor has said that government’s over expenditure in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the economy. Speaking on Newsfile, on Saturday, she explained that there was much-unplanned expenditure including freebies like free electricity …

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