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…Excavators Seized, After Minerals C’ssion, ASM Taskforce Strike, CEO Advocates Name, Shame& Jail To Serve As Deterrent   A popular chief in the Akim Oda enclave in the Eastern Region has been arrested for allegedly engaging in illegal mining, notoriously called “galamsey.” Nana Baffour Akyeampem, believed to be the Abontidonhene of the Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area Continue Reading
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There is an uneasy calm at the state-owned Graphic Communications Group of Companies Limited (GCGL), as the company is alleged to be facing some financial challenges and, thus, unable to pay its staff for this April. Even though this April month has long ended, the workers, with the company’s subsidiaries, including the Daily Graphic, Ghana’s […]Continue Reading
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More than 5,000 residents of Ada in the Greater Accra Region have filed a petition against salt mining company, Electrochem Ghana Limited (ELG), owned by businessman Daniel NiiMcKorley, popularly called McDan, for supposedly depriving them of their livelihoods. Clad in red attires, the angry residents, including the aged, students and the physically challenged, who have Continue Reading
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A delegation from the Information Services Department (ISD), led by the director of the Public Relations Coordinating Division (PRCD), Mrs. Ethel Codjoe Amissah, has called on Madam Catherine Mary Wesley, the country manager, Emirates Airlines Ghana, to among others discuss arrangements to partner in training of government public relations officers (PROs). The visit, which Continue Reading
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The yet-to-be-launched campaign of the Vice President, Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia, has been dealt a heavy blow, following a decision by a Deputy Minister of Finance to “cross carpet” to the John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen camp, ahead of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries slated for this November. Madam Abena Osei Asare was perhaps the biggest […]Continue Reading
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The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced that about 1.76million persons were unemployed in the third quarter of 2022. According to GSS, within this population, two out of every three unemployed persons were females across the length and breadth of the country. Additionally, it said close to 7.5million persons remained employed throughout the three quarters […]Continue Reading
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Barring any last-minute intervention by government, the members of the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) will lay down their tools, over failure to approve the new salaries for staff since January, this year. The Anchor is informed that the previous salary, which includes the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA), enjoyed by JUSAG members, […]Continue Reading
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The Anchor has observed a sudden surge in domestic violence where,in less than two weeks, three women, below age 30, have reportedly been gruesomely murdered, each in the Central, Greater Accra and Ashanti regions. The three were killed in Dunkwa-Mfuom, Nungua and Adum respectively by either their boyfriends or husbands. The latest occurred in the […]Continue Reading
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Ghana’s Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (ASM) industry is set to get a certified gold refinery in the coming days and compete internationally. This follows a fruitful engagement between a Government of Ghana team, led by the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, and officials of the London Bullion Marketing Association (LBMA). The […]Continue Reading