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Ethiopian Airlines Suspends Pilots Who Missed Landing After Falling Asleep

August 22, 2022

Africa’s biggest carrier Ethiopian Airlines said it has suspended two pilots who reportedly fell asleep and missed their landing during a flight from Khartoum to Addis Ababa. The plane overshot the runway at Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital on Monday before landing safely, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. Independent website The Aviation Continue Reading

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Gov’t To Introduce SpecialBill For Gold Transaction

August 22, 2022

Licensed gold dealers in Ghana will soon heave a sigh of relief, as government is set to introduce a special bill that would aid the transaction, without moving around with huge cash. The idea was to minimize risk factors in the sector and also ensure safety, as far as, carrying huge physical cash around is […]Continue Reading

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Special Prosecutor investigates vehicle auctions, others by Customs from July 2016 till date

August 22, 2022

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is embarking on a full-scale probe of some activities at the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). This time, the auction sale of vehicles and goods among other activities is the focus of this latest investigation. This comes barely a week after Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, […]Continue Reading

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GNPC Boss Shares Challenges In Oil & Gas Sector

August 22, 2022

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Opoku-Ahweneeh Danquah, has disclosed that there are inherent challenges in Ghana’s oil and gas sector, which requires the immediate attention of all stakeholders. He said, “the challenges to the oil and gas industry should not be dismissed as future threats, they are real […]Continue Reading

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Imprisonment of fishers will be enacted in our laws – Fisheries Minister

August 18, 2022

The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has disclosed that plans are underway to ensure fishers are imprisoned for three to six months maximum when caught engaged in illegal Unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing practices. The sector minister, speaking to the media in Takoradi, explained that the decision to imprison recalcitrant fishers is […]Continue Reading

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Former beauty queen Penelope Jones-Mensah supports Dzelukope

August 18, 2022

Former beauty queen, lawyer and philanthropist, Penelope Mawulolo Jones-Mensah, set the town of Dzelukope, in Keta in the Volta Region ablaze with excitement on Sunday, August 14. The women’s and children’s rights activist and Anlo Royal, visited Dzelukope to mark her 50th birthday which she officially celebrated on July 21. She spent the moment with […]Continue Reading

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Heir apparent to Yaa Naa Mahama Abubakari Mahama II passes on

August 18, 2022

Dagbon has been plunged into mourning following the announcement of the untimely death of the heir apparent to the Dagbon Skin, the Mion-Lana, Naa Abdulai III. He was the next in line after Yaa Naa Abukari Mahama II based on the rotational system of the Dagbon kingship. Known in private life as Mahamadu Abdulai, the […]Continue Reading

Opinion

Ghana Loses Galamsey Fight at Own Risk

August 18, 2022

The Anchor dreads a day very sooner than later, when Ghanaian would be told in a modern Ghana tell-tales that people of Ga-Mashie wake up to the mischief of meeting heaps of judiciously-guarded dug-sand right at the MantseAgbonaa, being sieves with gusto, and brazen bizarre of doing galamsey right in the heart of the national […]Continue Reading

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Include ‘UP Tradition’ In NPP Constitution To Avoid Future Mistakes

August 18, 2022

A policy analyst and member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Razak Kojo Opoku, is urging the current leadership of the party to include the “UP Tradition” in the Constitution of NPP and take steps to correct the narrative in order to prevent the confusion associated with the usage of Danquah-Dombo-Busia or Danquah-Busia-Dombo Tradition by […]Continue Reading

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Bawumia blames economic woes on Covid-19, Ukraine-Russia war, banking reforms

August 18, 2022

Government has blamed the country’s economic crisis on the effects of the banking reforms, Covid-19 and the Ukraine-Russia war. Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia speaking on Wednesday explained that the banking reforms cost the nation $7 billion. An amount, he argued could have been invested in the country’s economy if not for the negligence of […]Continue Reading