The government is set to lease the Komenda Sugar Development Company Limited to the Indian-based firm West Africa Agro Limited for a renewable term of 15 to 20 years. Trade and Industry Minister K.T. Hammond explained that this initiative aims to revive the factory’s operations to meet domestic demand. Established in 1964, the Komenda Sugar […]

The Electoral Commission (EC) will open nominations for Presidential and Parliamentary candidates from Friday, August 2, to Friday, September 13, 2024. Presidential candidates must pay a fee of One Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC 100,000) upon submitting their nomination forms. Female candidates and individuals with disabilities are required to pay Seventy-Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC […]

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has been unable to recover a stolen Toyota Hilux that was taken at gunpoint from Kingsley Agyemang, the Central Regional Coordinator of the Free Senior High School Secretariat, in 2018. MoE officials reported that the theft occurred while Agyemang was driving home to Kumasi from a funeral. During a Public […]

The Assin Kyekyewere District Court has remanded Ebenezer Dwamena, the New Patriotic Party’s Parliamentary candidate for the Twifo Atti-Morkwa constituency, into police custody. Dwamena faces charges of conspiracy to defraud by pretence and false pretence, under Section 131 of the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). According to the constituency communication officer for […]

A court in Guinea has sentenced former military leader Moussa Dadis Camara to 20 years in jail for crimes against humanity. Guinea’s criminal court announced its verdict on Wednesday after a two-year trial over the leader’s deadly suppression of an opposition rally at a stadium in the suburbs of the capital, Conakry, in 2009, which […]