Новости за 21.09.2018

A Catholic priest on the run for more than 25 years has been arrested in Morocco and extradited to the United States to face charges that he sexually assaulted a young boy in the 1990s, federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday. Arthur Perrault, now 80 years old, stands accused of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 12 on sev ...

Cutlass wielding youth disrupted a National Peace Council 39;s International Peace day program at Sankore in the Brong Ahafo Region, destroying chairs and other properties in the process. It is not clear what prompted the attack on the program that climaxes on Saturday morning. Media persons together with guests took to their heels as the an ...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday ordered the arrest of the management of a ferry that capsized in Lake Victoria, as the death toll climbed to 131 and rescue workers pressed on with the search to find scores more people feared drowned. The MV Nyerere may have been carrying as many as 200 passengers -- double the ferry's capacity -- whe ...

A planned protest against a sharp hike in internet costs in Benin was blocked on Friday in Cotonou, the country's commercial hub, after the authorities refused to grant a licence for the demonstration. This week saw the start of a new law, imposed without explanation, that has driven up the price of using social networks from 2 CFA francs to 10 ...

Daughter of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana rsquo;s first President, believes the current Convention People 39;s Party (CPP) does not deserve a return of seized assets of the party. Although Samia Nkrumah admits it was the resources of members of the party that contributed to the acquisition of the properties, she, however, feels the current leadership ...

Remembering Kwame Nkrumah Today we are remembering the birth of one of the great sons of this country: his contribution towards the attainment of independence etched in the marble of our history as are those of his five other freedom struggle colleagues. We would have rather the controversy surrounding whether or not he was the sole initiator o ...

The new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education in Winneba (UEW), Rev. Fr. Prof. Anthony Afful-Broni, has given assurance that the UEW which is the largest public university is embarking on massive infrastructural development in the interest of the free senior high school (FSHS) programme. He said the FSHS policy was the boldest decision ...

The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Anthony Kobina Kurentsir Sam, has revealed that the assembly has been able to make some significant financial savings through a staff rationalization exercise it embarked on some months ago. He revealed that the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) would save over GH cent;20,000 o ...

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) appears to be making strides in achieving a single currency for the West African sub-region. Commissioner for Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Research with the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, who made the revelation said, ldquo;ECOWAS Commission, in collaboration with West Afric ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced the closure of the 2018 Light Crop Cocoa Season, effective Thursday, 13th September. In a statement issued by its Public Affairs Department, COCOBOD stated that ldquo;it is hereby notified for general information that purchases of the 2018 light crop season will cease at close of business ...

Reports reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that business is currently booming in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital. The Kumasi Mayor, Osei Assibey Antwi, attributed the positive trend to the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy. He said the free SHS policy, notably the Double Track System, has increased enro ...

A Copenhagen appeals court on Friday ruled that a 51-year-old Dane of Rwandan origin can be extradited to Rwanda where he is accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide. The appeals court upheld a lower court ruling from April. Authorities in Rwanda have accused the man, whose identity was not disclosed, of participating in the killing of som ...

Lagos, Nigeria; 21 September 2018: Omolara Adagunodo, the Managing Director of Jumia 39;s hotel and flight services has encouraged Nigerian businesses to engage their customers on social media to gain more traction adding that it will not only increase sales and turnover but also give them free publicity. Omolara stated this during an ex ...

The UK Prime Minister rsquo;s Trade Envoy to Ghana has visited Ghana to promote UK-Ghana bilateral trade relations with a focus on the forthcoming UK-Ghana Investment Summit. Adam Afriyie MP was in Ghana to highlight the world-class offer from UK companies that can partner with Ghana to help realise the President rsquo;s vision of moving lsquo; ...

As the world marks International Day of Peace on Friday, September, 21, Ghana has moved up six points to rank 41st on this year 39;s Global Peace Index (GPI), while it occupies the fifth position in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mauritius, Botswana, Sierra Leone and Madagascar are the front runners of Ghana on the 2018 GPI, released annually by the Insti ...

An illegal miner, who allegedly murdered his fifty year-old mother has been nabbed by the Nsueam District Police Command of the Western Region. The suspect, Augustine Armah, 20, was said to have smacked the mother with a pestle. Superintendent of Police, Jonas Kofi Agbevam, Nsueam District Police Commander, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in ...

Tamale, Sept 21, GNA - The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) had collected a total of GH cent;22.7 billion in taxes as of the end of August, Mr Wisdom Messan, the Deputy Controller and Accountant General, has announced. The figure was GH cent;1.8 billion short of the collection target of GH cent;24.5 billion it had set for the period. GRA has bee ...

Mr Samuel Ayim, the Executive Director of Centre for Transformational Leadership in Africa (CTL Africa) on Wednesday said Ghana needs a value-based transformational leadership for development. We need to agree, adopt and inculcate values at all levels of our national life to help transform our nation for the better, he said. Mr Ayim was spe ...

The Central Regional Manager of waste management company, Zoomlion, Samuel Edu, is cautioning the public to stop the disposal of used sanitary pads into Zoomlion waste bins in both residential and public places. According to him, disposal of used sanitary pads into waste containers has become a major source of worry for workers of the com ...

A ravaging fire on Thursday morning swept through most parts of the girls 39; hostel of the Biriwa National Vocational Training Institute and Rehabilitation Center in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. The fire consumed many items worth thousands of Ghana Cedis including students mattresses, books, beds, cooking utensils and und ...

Mining firm Chirano gold mines has presented a dividend of $13 million to the government following the company rsquo;s operational performance for 2017. The payment of the dividends was approved by the board of directors of the company which includes a representative from the government of Ghana on September 14, 2018, based on financial criteria ...

The country rsquo;s Balance of Payment (BOP) has strengthened consistently over the last eight months aided by oil exports, strong forex reserves and the issuance of Eurobonds by the government. The BOP statistics, which is the record of all economic transactions between the country and the rest of world over the last eight months, was co ...

Voters in the African kingdom of eSwatini, previously known as Swaziland, cast ballots Friday in an election where political parties are banned and winning candidates are sidelined by a monarch who wields absolute power. In the largely rural country that suffers grinding poverty, the election process divides the 1.3 million population, with crit ...

The Finance Ministry had planned to issue the bond to roll-over maturing debts through book-building which opened on Wednesday with initial pricing guidance set at 20.5 percent - 21.5 percent and later revised to 19.75 percent - 21 percent. A senior Finance ministry official told Reuters pricing for the bond was too high. ldquo;Markets too vola ...

Caroline Esinam Adzogble has welcomed the first Ghanaian-based University to her Caroline Excellence Awards. Webster University Ghana, one of the nation rsquo;s top universities has just been announced as the first and only Ghanaian based university to join the Caroline Excellence Awards scheme for the 2018/19 phase. Webster is an American Un ...