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A security expert has advised the government not to adopt a brutal military approach to resolve the Western Togoland secessionist group’s hostilities. Professor Emmanuel Kwesi Aning, Director at the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, Kofi Annan Peacekeeping Training Centre, rather called for a well-coordinated approach and dialogue in resolving …

Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister for Finance has appeared before the National House of Chiefs to brief members on the concept and benefits that Ghana would derive from the Agyapa Royalties deal. The move formed part of a broader stakeholder consultation being undertaken by the Ministry to explain the rationale …

Dr Ibrahim Atokple, a former Breeder at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) has said Ghanaians are already eating Genetically Modified foods (GMOs). He said for about six years now, GMO products had been on the shelves in supermarkets across the country, adding “Anybody that …

Seven persons who robbed a Supreme Court Judge and a banker of their vehicles, a laptop and other personal effects at gun point, have been sentenced to a total jail term of 175 years by an Accra Circuit Court. Nene Kwadwo Tetteh, aka Chairman Obed, who was not present while …

FinCEN Files expose tensions between British bank’s New York and London operations. Ivor Ichikowitz recoils at the arms industry’s “reputation for being very cloak-and-dagger.” “We are not in the destroying-anything business,” the 53-year-old founder of South African arms company Paramount Group told CNBC a few years ago. “We’re in the …

Where in the world is Pantheon Worldwide? Not even its own bank can say. They pulled ancient Buddha heads out of the ground in war-torn Afghanistan and stole idols from temples in India. They cracked open shrines in Nepal, and in Cambodia and bought an 11th-century statue of the Hindu …

…Kaloti probe offers rare insight into illicit gold trade After three years of digging, investigators in the United States had accumulated a mountain of evidence that they believed sealed the case  against Kaloti Jewellery Group , one of the largest gold traders and refiners in the world. The Dubai-based conglomerate  …

This article has been edited to include a response from the lawyers of  Asanska Jewellery Limited and the letter we wrote to them seeking comments. Ghana might be the largest producer of gold in Africa, but as available information shows, the country very likely is not getting its fair share …

The Tax Justice Coalition has asked government to prioritise domestic revenue mobilisation and to cut down on the many tax incentives to individuals and companies to raise enough money for development. The group said the many tax incentives and abuses by corporate organisations had led to a significant shortfall in …

The coronavirus pandemic and related lockdown measures have pushed 150 million more children into poverty, according to analysis published by UNICEF and Save the Children on Thursday. Since the start of the outbreak, there has been a 15-per-cent increase in the number of children living in deprivation in low and …