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03 Jan

New Rates For Agents At Ports Take Effect

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New rates for freight forwarders following announcement by the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) and Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) took effect from Sunday, January 1, 2023. The new rates follow an agreement signed by the two giants in the maritime industry, to guide Freight Forwarders and Clearing Agents who assist importers to clear their goods at the country’s two seaports, Tema and Takoradi ports, and land ports at Elubo and Aflao borders, as well as the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The new rates is said to be in accordance with the GSA’s 2012 (L.1.21900), which ensures that charges correspond…

03 Jan

Ghana Police Get Over 100 Biometric Devices For Field Checks Against National Database

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Police in Ghana have acquired more than 100 mobile devices to perform biometric identity verifications in the field. The devices and associated software are valued at US$2 million, and are intended to help improve the effectiveness of law enforcement activities. Accra-based Margins ID Group supplied the devices. Police can use the devices for biometric checks against the National Identification Authority’s database. This will allow wanted individuals, as well as Ghana Card holders, and vehicle registration and insurance information, to be checked. The NIA database holds biometric records on more than 17 million people, and they can be identified in real time, according…

03 Jan

Queens Share Meal With NPP Women’s Wing.

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Twenty two (22) Queens in paramountcies and seventy one (71) others in other traditional authorities in Ashanti and Bono have commended the Ashanti Regional Women's Wing for working to sustain the relationship they have with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). Speaking at a dinner organised by the Wing with support from the office of the Chief of Staff on Monday, Nana Agyakoma Difie II, Mampongmanhemaa said the queens willingly agreed to attend the event because of the good relationship they have with the Ashanti Regional Women's Organiser and the wing. She asked that government appointees especially Metropolitan, Municipal and…

03 Jan

Ronaldo Is On New Mission To Conquer Europe – Al Nassr Declares Ahead Of Unveiling

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Former world player of the year, Cristiano Ronaldo, will be officially unveiled by his new club Al Nassr FC today, January 3. The Portuguese national team skipper arrived in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia on Monday evening for the much-awaited ceremony. The club declared in a tweet that Ronaldo having conquered Europe is on a new mission to conquer Asia. "After conquering Europe. The iconic star is on a new mission to conquer ASIA!" Al Nassr captioned a tweet accompanied by photos of Ronaldo's arrival at the airport. Ronaldo is for the first time in decades going to ply his…

03 Jan

Govt Has Spent GH₵339M On National Cathedral Project – Secretariat

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The Executive Director of the National Cathedral Secretariat, Dr Paul Opoku Mensah has revealed that the Akufo-Addo government has spent a total of GH₵339.003.064.86 on the National Cathedral project. The amount includes a total of GH₵113 million paid to the Consultant, Sir David Adjaye and GH₵225 million paid directly to the Secretariat for the construction of the project. Speaking after President Akufo-Addo paid a working visit to the construction site on Monday, January 2, 2023, Dr Opoku Mensah also dismissed reports that the secretariat has misappropriated funds allocated for the project by the state. “For purposes of clarity, I want…

02 Jan

FIFA To Ask Every Country To Name A Stadium In Honour Of Pelè

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FIFA will ask all the world's countries to name a stadium for Brazilian football legend Pele, the head of the sport's governing body, Gianni Infantino, said Monday at the late icon's wake. Infantino was in the city of Santos, Brazil, to pay his final respects to the player widely considered the greatest of all time, who died Thursday at the age of 82. "We're going to ask every country in the world to name one of their football stadiums with the name of Pele," Infantino told journalists at the Vila Belmiro, the stadium where the player known as "The King"…

02 Jan

I’m Tired Of Alan’s False Stories – Boakye Agyarko Responds

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I have read the news coming from Alan Kyerematen’s Greater Accra tour with utter disbelief and amazement. He has made false claims in his attempt to discredit Nana Akufo-Addo and the 2012 NPP campaign team, all in his bid to explain his relative absence during the said campaign, as he contests for the party’s flagbearership once again. As the Campaign Manager for the 2012 NPP National Campaign, I am compelled to set the records straight. With respect to not being invited to join the campaign, the truth of the matter is, Mr. Kyerematen left town for an international job after…

02 Jan

Construction Of National Cathedral: We Are Making Progress Says President Akufo-Addo

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President Akufo-Addo has stated stakeholders in the ongoing construction of the National Cathedral project are making progress and getting close to the completion of the project. Speaking at the “National Cathedral Bible Reading Marathon Thanksgiving Service” held at the site of the National Cathedral, Ridge, Accra, today 2 January 2023, President Akufo-Addo said he is grateful to the group of eminent clergymen and women who have “taken it upon themselves the responsibility of shepherding the project to completion”. “The process for the construction of the National Cathedral began with my announcement on 6 March 2017, our 60th Independence anniversary. “The…

02 Jan

Pele Funeral Live Updates And Tributes As Brazilian Football Legend Laid To Rest

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A funeral ceremony for Pele, who won three World Cups with Brazil and is regarded as one of the world's finest ever footballers, will take place in Sao Paulo where he made his name The football world will join the whole of Brazil to pay their respects to Pele at a funeral ceremony for the legendary forward in Sao Paulo today. Pele, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1958, 1962 and 1970, died at the age of 82 in December. Tributes have flooded in from the footballing community and beyond for a man widely considered to be one of the…

02 Jan

It’s Time We Make Systematic Effort Towards Self-Sufficiency – Akufo-Addo

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has underscored the need for Ghana to make a systematic and conscious effort towards self-sufficiency. President Akufo-Addo and Honorary Consul of Ghana in Thailand, Dr. Sicha Singsomboon. According to him, developing Ghana’s self-sufficiency and its food security was one major challenge. However, he bemoaned the fact that a lot of money was spent on importing, especially foodstuffs, into the country. “We spend a lot of our money importing foodstuffs into Ghana, and it has been going on for too long. And I think now is the time that we are going to have to make…