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MASLOC Assures Youth Of Loans For Startups

October 17, 2022

Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah, the chief executive officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), has assured young entrepreneurs of the centre’s firm commitment to providing small loans to startups and small businesses in the country. She said the MASLOC is committed to supporting SMEs and start-ups to grow their businesses in the […]Continue Reading

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Private Lotto Operators To Pay 20% Commission

October 17, 2022

Private Lotto Operators (PLOs) across the country are expected to pay a 20 percent commission to the National Lottery Authority (NLA). This directive, slated to take effect last Friday, October 14, was determined by the Board of the NLA and agreed by the PLOs, pursuant to Section 28 of the National Lotto Act, 2006 (Act […]Continue Reading

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Vicious Attack To Scuttle Galamsey Fight Out

October 13, 2022

It has emerged that the ongoing attack on the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, was deliberately orchestrated by some angry illegal mining kingpins, whose concessions were raided by the government’s anti-galamsey taskforce and their equipment decommissioned recently. The kingpins also include some vicious small-scale mining operators Continue Reading

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Review Free SHS To Share Cost

October 13, 2022

A coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the education sector has joined growing calls on government to review its flagship Free Senior High School (FSHS) policy, suggesting a cost-sharing argument. Speaking under the umbrella name ‘National Education Campaign Coalition,’ the coalition said it is the most prudent way for government to ease the financial […]Continue Reading

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NDC Communication Porous, Remove Sammy Gyamfi

October 13, 2022

A Communication Officer-hopeful of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has argued that the party’s communication system is porous and needs to be handled in a different way to help the party win back power. Godwin Kwasi Ametowogo, who is promising the incumbent Communication Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, a good run for his money in the […]Continue Reading

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2 Illegal Miners Jailed 20 Years At Tarkwa

October 13, 2022

A Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced two Nigerians to 20-year prison terms for engaging in illegal mining, commonly known as galamsey. The convicts, Ayodele Jackson and Benjamin Obin, were arrested at Bepoase, near Prestea, in the Western Region. The two men, who were sentenced last Friday October 7, pleaded guilty to the charges, with the […]Continue Reading

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Wassa Dompim Traditional Council Disowns Fake Chief

October 11, 2022

The Dompim Pepesa Divisional Council in the Western Region has exposed a self-styled chief over attempt to associate the name of the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, with illegal mining, otherwise called galamsey. The traditional authority said Nathaniel Dekyi, who is not the chief of Dompim Pepesa, is rather the […]Continue Reading

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Gov’t Won’t Cut Funding To Free SHS, Others

October 11, 2022

The Senior Advisor to the President, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has assured that government will not cut budgetary funding to the education sector, despite the current economic hardship. He said government will also not touch its flagship Free Senior High School, though suggestions to improve its implementation are welcome. The former Senior Minister, who mounted the […]Continue Reading

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‘Don’t Use Ofori-Atta For Your Presidential Ambition’ – Razak Kojo Opoku

October 11, 2022

The founder of the Concerned Voters Movement (CVM), Razak Kojo Opoku, is urging presidential aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop using the name of the Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, as the reason for their presidential ambitions. According to him, it is unwise for some aspirants to consistently blame the Finance Minister […]Continue Reading

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Charles Bissue Woes Deepen

October 11, 2022

The woes of the former secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Bissue, are far from over, as the Office of Special Prosecutor has commenced investigation into corruption allegations against him. A press release issued yesterday, October 10, by the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng, announced that, there is an ongoing enquiry into Continue Reading