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The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has begun investigations into the alleged maltreatment of more than 200 Nigeria-bound passengers by German airline, Lufthansa Airlines. Local media said the carrier last Friday threatened to call police after the passengers, whose flight was delayed, requested arrangements for their stay. The flight from Frankfurt to Lagos, which was meant to arrive at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, was reportedly delayed after diverting to Cotonou in Benin, and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Lufthansa apologised for the flight delay in a circular sent to its passengers last Friday. The passengers alleged the Lagos airport was not closed,…
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been charged with abuse of power and money laundering in connection with the awarding of government contracts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Muhyiddin, who led the country from March 2020 through the worst of the pandemic, pleaded not guilty to the six charges at a Kuala Lumpur court on Friday morning. The charges were filed after Muhyiddin was questioned by investigators from Malaysia’s anti-corruption agency for a number of hours on Thursday over a government support programme that his government introduced to help building contractors during the coronavirus lockdown. He faces four counts of abuse of power…
Africa’s biggest lender by assets, Standard Bank is ready to re-capitalise its Ghanaian unit after making provisions to cover more than half of its holdings in the nation’s debt. “It may become necessary for us to inject capital in that business and we will, at the appropriate time,” Chief Executive Officer, Sim Tshabalala said in an interview Thursday. Banks in Ghana are staring at losses after President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government restructured ¢83 billion($6.8 billion) of local debt as part of a move to finalize a $3 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund. Standard Bank on Thursday joined FirstRand Ltd.…
Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Reverend Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, says in an effort to ramp up revenue mobilization, the Authority is planning to connect all VAT registered vendors to their common platform. According to him, the common platform is primarily to ensure compliance as well as do away with cumbersome manual invoicing. This follows the GRA’s deployment of officials to various vending sites across the country early in the year to physically enforce compliance to the VAT regime. The deployment had not gone down well with vendors who felt the GRA’s tactic was abrasive and injurious to their…
The former Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr Mustapha Ahmed, has been sentenced to seven days imprisonment by the Accra High Court (Financial and Economic Crime Division 2), for contempt of court. On June 12, 2019, the court in a judgement, granted perpetual injunction restraining the former minister, then the defendant, from trespassing on land, but he violated the order. The court also fined him GH¢12,000 or in default serve 30 days in prison. If paid, the court presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, ordered that GH¢5,000 out of the fine should be paid to Kofi Ammoah Kwafo, the man, who initiated…
An unidentified man was found dead on Thursday after a downpour flooded some areas in Kumasi on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. The deceased’s body was found in a drainage at Abinchi near the Afia Kobi Market after the floodwater subsided. A resident later told journalists that, the deceased, who was not from the community, was seen trying to cross the flooded drain earlier. They reportedly advised him against it but he did not heed them. Meanwhile, a 21-year-old woman is also feared dead after she was swept away by the flash floods. The missing young woman, Francisca Amoah Serwaa reportedly…
The national blood bank received only 169,435 units of blood, far lower than the annual stock requirement of 330,000 units, the 2022 Performance Review Report of the National Blood Service (NBS) has indicated. The report said 24 per cent of the total was voluntarily donated while the remaining were family replacements. It was, indeed, a decrease on the 2021 figures, which had shown an improvement after the previous year of decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From 156,453 collected in 2020, the units of blood increased to 173,938 in 2021 before the decline in 2022. The Ministry of Health and…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is under increasing pressure to address the military abuses in Ashaiman. Many anticipate that the President will make a public statement on the subject as Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The latest to mount pressure is Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization. “Amnesty International Ghana is against all forms of violence and human rights abuses and condemns the violence meted out by the military on civilians. The military is to take a step back and allow the Ghana Police Service to conduct thorough investigations into the unfortunate killing of the soldier,” it said in a…
Trooper Sherrif Imoro, the young soldier killed by yet-to-be-arrested assailants was buried on March 9, 2023 after he had been given a military parade by his colleagues.He was marched in a military convoy and his bier was carried by fully clothed peers to the military cemetery in Burma Camp for burial.It was at the graveside that his remains were handed over to his Muslim family members for burial, earlier on, after his release from the mortuary, he was also given the janaa’iza (Islamic funeral prayers).According to an acquaintance, despite the Islamic prayers and burial, Sherrif Imoro had quite deep roots…
Generally, the excitement that follows the celebration of Ghana’s Independence Day in a selected region is expected.Since 2019, President Akufo-Addo has taken the celebrations to various regions including the Northern Region (Tamale), Ashanti Region (Kumasi), and the Central Region (Cape Coast).The reception has been amazing so far, with various reasons ascribed to same.Volta Region wasn’t any different. Cheers, singing, music and dance greeted the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on his arrival at the parade grounds on Monday, March 6, 2023.What Volta residents said:There had to be a reason for the excitement preceding the event, and what better persons to…
