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 …
Read More »Over GH¢18m worth of contracts awarded under GHANEPS – PPA
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 …
Read More »Ghana inflation rate for April 2022 accelerates to 23.6% from 19.4%
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 …
Read More »Annual cancer deaths to reach one million in Africa by 2030 – Report
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 …
Read More »Ghanaian vessel drowns: Captain reported dead, 11 others missing
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, …
Read More »Ghana Revenue Authority expects GH¢2.5b revenue from benchmark value reduction
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. …
Read More »Ghana prisons holding more than 14,000 inmates
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 …
Read More »Road crashes in Ghana took more than 45,000 lives in 21 years
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 …
Read More »Ghana COCOBOD raises 140 million seedlings to increase cocoa yields
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, …
Read More »Hydrocarbon exploration investment drops in Africa – Dr Adam
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 …
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