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Two hundred and ninety-three people from four communities in the Bolgatanga Municipality have been selected to benefit from the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP). The communities are Dachio, Dubila, Sumbrungu Aguusi, and…

The King Baudouin Foundation has opened nominations for the King Baudouin African Development Prize. The award seeks to reward individuals or organisations who are making outstanding contribution to development in Africa through…

Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome who is at the centre of the payment of a controversial GH¢51.2 million judgement debt appeared in the Financial Division of the Fast Track Court in Accra on Monday charged with various counts of fraud.…

A magistrate court at Bibiani has granted GH¢5,000 bail to Emmanuel Eshun Armoo, a 34-year-old clerk of Ghana Bauxite Company at Awaso in the Western Region, for abetment of crime. The accused, who pleaded not guilty, would re-appear on…

Mr Edward Ayagle, Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, has commissioned three school projects valued at GH¢225,000 at Nimolgo, Zuarungu and Dachio communities in the Bolgatanga Municipality. Mr Ayagle said government placed education and…

Twenty-one companies have been summoned by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to explain their inability to repay a government of Ghana guaranteed loan of £112.5 million. The loan was granted them between 1990 and 1996 for the…

The President has directed ministers he reshuffled recently to assume office at their newly assigned ministry on Wednesday February 8, 2012. In a communication to the Speaker read to the House Friday, the President formally informed…

Ghanaian and Togolese security agencies are investigating a shoplifting syndicate busted in Lome last Friday. Sunday Obi, 35, a Nigerian, suspected to be the leader of the criminal ring is being held in custody in Lome with two others,…

Precise Marketing Solutions is to host the first ever Embassy Fair in Ghana from May 3 to 4, 2012. The Embassy Fair which would be an annual event is designed to bring together Diplomatic Missions and Embassies operating in Ghana together…

Mr. Kwaku Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh, Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Chief Executive, has blamed the upsurge in illegal mining on irresponsible leadership and selfishness of some traditional rulers and clan leaders. He said these unpatriotic chiefs and…