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An Accra Circuit Court has granted a bail sum of GH¢150,000.00 with three sureties to an electrical engineer for allegedly defrauding by false pretense. The Court ordered that one of the sureties should be a public servant. Professor Nii Odartey Mills, aged 61, has been charged with defrauding by false …

Mr Frank Mante, Chief Executive Officer, Public Procurement Authority, says the Authority under the Ghana Electronic Procurement System (GHANEPS) since 2021, has awarded contracts to public entities worth GH¢18,626,490.07. Under the GHANEPS, Mr Mante said, 22,194 suppliers were registered, 198 contracts awarded, 2,234 suppliers trained, as well as trained 2,393 …

The Year-on-year inflation rate for April 2022 rose to 23.6 per cent compared with 19.4 per cent in March, the Ghana Statistical Services said on Wednesday. The figure means that the rate rose 4.2 per centage points higher than the 19.4 per cent recorded in March 2022. At a press …

Annual cancer deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) could reach one million by 2030, nearly double the 520,000 cancer deaths in 2020, according to a new Lancet Oncology Commission’s report. The report, launched in Accra on Tuesday, said cancer incidence was also projected to double by 2040 to more than 1.4 …

The Ghana Industrial Trawlers Association (GITA) Monday announced that one of its member fishing vessels; MV Comforter 2, sunk at sea between the Elmina and Saltpond waters whiles fishing on Friday, May 6. The MV Comforter 2, a Ghanaian Registered vessel, owned by Boatacom Enterprise Limited, sailed on May 4, …

The Commissioner of Customs Division Ghana Revenue Authority, Colonel Kwadwo Damoah, says government will rake in about GH¢2.5 billion this year following the reduction in the benchmark value. The expected revenue is however dependent on volumes of imports that come into the country and the impact from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. …

The Ghana Prisons Service, as at May 2, 2022, has an inmate population of 14,097, which far exceeds the national authorised figure of 9,945. Mr Isaac Kofi Egyir, the Director-General (DG) Ghana Prisons Service, said the issue of overcrowding remained a challenge to the Service as large numbers of inmates …

More than 45,000 persons have died from road crashes from the year 2000 to 2021, says the National Road safety Authority (NRSA). The Authority said the statistics implied that not less than 2,000 lives were lost yearly in road crashes in Ghana. This was made known by Mr Daniel Hardy …

The Seed Production Division (SPD) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is raising 140 million hybrid cocoa seedlings across all cocoa growing regions in the country to increase the country’s yields. The disease resistant and high yielding capacity seedlings have a maturing period of one and half to two years, …

Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, the Deputy Minister of Energy, says Africa has seen low hydrocarbon exploration investment in recent time. He said major oil companies that had played key role in the oil and gas exploration on the continent were being impressed upon by their investors to reduce investment in …