Ghana’s Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Monday, 22 July 2019 participated in the Canada-Ghana Economic Summit organised by the Canada-Africa Strategic Investment Group Inc. in Vancouver, Canada, and urged Canadian investors to make Ghana their preferred destination. Together with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Dr Bawumia presented Ghana as the investment destination of …

A human rights lawyer, Mr Francis-Xavier Sosu, has described a High Court ruling rescinding the bail granted Mr Gregory Afoko, a suspect being tried for the murder of the governing New Patriotic Party’s Upper East regional chairman, Adams Afoko, in 2015 as disappointing and an affront to the rule of law. An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Merley …

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday, 14 July 2019 launched the CEM Ability Village, a charity project that is focusing on the empowerment of persons with disability (PwDs) to live more fulfilling and dignified lives in society. Speaking at the launch at the Charismatic Evangelistic Ministry in Accra, Mr Mahama said: “Persons with Disability do not need our sympathy. …

Gold dealership firm, Menzgold Ghana Limited has refuted claims that it owes about 16,000 embattled clients GHS1.68 billion. State-owned Daily Graphic’s news website reported on Friday, 12 July 2019 that it sighted a charge sheet in court which levelled fraud allegations against the company’s CEO Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1) as well as Brew Marketing Consult and Menzgold. In the charge …

Ghana’s Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has described the murder of Ghanaian investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale in January this year as the “worst” attack on press freedom in the country. Speaking at the just-ended Global Conference for Media Freedom in London, Mr Nkrumah said: “In recent years, Ghana has also experienced its share of the global attacks on …

The Ghana Police Service has arrested a fake soldier at Aplaku in the Greater Accra Region. The suspect, Prince Essel, was arrested on 22 June 2019 by a patrol team at about 2:30 p.m. The suspect, who was in army fatigues had in his possession a jackknife, a pair of handcuffs, one bayonet, a number of military recruitments forms, a …

A fugitive husband, who stabbed his wife multiple times in the head for refusing to allow him to use her money to pay a prostitute, has been arrested and in the grips of the Nima police command. Known only as Kofi, the father-of-two was arrested by the police upon a tipoff. ClassFMonline.com sources say he is likely to be arraigned …