By Julian Owusu-Abedi (oneseriouscall@gmail.com) Prestige Links Security Limited has sued Ghana Oil Company(GOC) to the tune of $15,000,000 for damages accruing over an eight year period. In the proposed statement of claim made by Prestige Links Security Limited(herein as Plaintiff) versus Ghana Oil Company(Defendant), the aforementioned is seeking a declaration by the High Court that the Defendant breached a …

  By Julian Owusu-Abedi (oneseriouscall@gmail.com) The former Finance Minister Hon. Seth E Terkper stands vindicated in all his positions, projections and the warning sign posts he mounted in the course of the 2020 fiscal year under review. These are mainly in terms of his long standing critique on government’s reporting of “parallel” figures to the IMF as against what they …

Parler has dropped offline after Amazon pulled support for its so-called “free speech” social network. The platform had been reliant on the tech giant’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter. It is popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user. Amazon took the action after finding dozens of …

By Frank Amponsah The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has promised to work with the newly-elected Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Alban Bagbin to advance the peace, progress and prosperity of the Ghanaian people. In his inaugural address shortly after taking the oath of office for his second term as President yesterday Nana Akufo-Addo congratulated Mr. Bagbin, who had been his …

By Julian Owusu-Abedi Data emerging from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) shows the total revenues generated by the Integrated Customs Management System ICUMS for the authority has reached a record high of some GHc10.5 billion as of December 12, 2020. The breakdown includes some GHc7.6 billion collected by the Customs Division from exports and imports with the rest of the …

By Our News Desk Ghana’s leading mining contracting firm that provides mine support services to the Extractive Industry, Engineers & Planners, has announced its interest in acquiring all of the ordinary shares in Cardinal Resources Limited. Engineers & Planners in a release dated 24th November 2020 and signed by its Business Development Director, Emmanuel Erskine, stated that “The Offer represents …

By Our Reporter Nene Abram Kabu Akuaku III, Chief of Ada has expressed gratitude to the President, Nana Ad do Dankwa Akufo-Addo for working to ensure the ratification of the mining leases to the Ada Songhor Salt Project. Addressing a Press Conference on behalf of the Chief, Mankralo of Ada Nene Agudey Obichere said the people of Ada have over …

    The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reacted to allegations of nepotism, corruption and money laundering leveled against it in the Agri-Plus deal. In a press statement yesterday, November 17, 2020, signed and issued by the Head of Public Affairs, Mr Fiifi Boafo, COCOBOD debunked the allegations. Some documents said to be from the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) and …

The Minister for Communications, Hon. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that Ghana has secured Three (3) million dollars support from the Norwegian government to support its Digital Transformation Centres (DTC) initiative. At a virtual signing ceremony in Accra yesterday, the Minister noted that the support received from the Norwegian government would boost digital skills among citizens of Ghana. The initiative is under the partnership …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has stated that Ghana’s economy is recovering faster than anticipated from the impact of novel Coronavirus pandemic. According to him, the recovery is because his government knows how to resuscitate an economy back to life just as it did from 2017 when the economy had been stretched and was under stress by the then …