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By Joseph Osei Jr The Greater Accra Police command has ordered the Tema police to hand over one of their own who is alleged to have shot and killed a 49 year old Tanka Driver. The deceased Samuel Asabour whilst driving to Tema, a police patrol team gave him a chase, suspecting him of driving a snatched car. In the chase, the KIA Pride skidded off the road and landed in a ditch about hundred meters from the Michel Camp on the Ashaiman-Tema road. According an eye witness the police opened fire and shot the defenseless KIA driver who staggered out of his mangled vehicle and knelt down to beg the gun-wielding policeman to spare his life. The family accused the police of deliberate killing Mr. Asabour and demanded the police man involve to be brought to book. The morning According to the brother of the deceased Daniel Abakisi, the police command have granted their request and ordered the Tema police to hand over the police man involve.

lawyer sampson Ayenini A highly respected corporate leader sent me this story titled Tsatsu accuses Justice Anin Yeboah of political bias . Saturday afternoon. It came an hour or so after I stepped off the set hosting newsfile. The edition my guests readily agreed to my labeling it “the non substantive matters arising from the Supreme Judgment.” Of course, we could not attempt to discuss a judgment which was not available for our study. I am surprised that that is difficult for some political commentators to do. I am also completely shocked at some of the comments and criticisms so far going to the heart of a judgment the discussants/critics have yet to see. Before I get down to the chief purpose of this piece, I would like my colleague current affairs show hosts and the political and social commentators to be reminded (and I know most of you must have heard me say this just too many times) that Ghana’s Supreme Court per Justice Bamford-Addo in the famous Page 28 case, R...

Security threats to Chinese workers and investors in Africa are part of what seems to be growing Chinese official interest in curbing (illegal) arms exports to Africa. A report from Xinhua via ChinaWire has some interesting quotes from Chinese attending a July 2013 conference on this issue in Nairobi. ChinaWire also included this fascinating story on China's second-hand clothing exports to Africa . Africa watchers have long been familiar with the second-hand clothing markets. When I was doing my Ph.D. research in Liberia, a Peace Corps friend bought a used bowling league shirt in his market, and surprised me by wearing it when we went bowling in Abidjan during a trip to the Ivory Coast. Like China's export of new clothes, these used clothes from the West have long been a challenge to textile manufacturers in Africa. I guess we could have expected that Chinese exporters would join this market, as they have so many others formerly ...

The Film producers Association Ghana is accusing the t he Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) of hoarding the creative industry fund created by government. Government in the 2013 budget, allocated an amount of GH¢3 million to better the lot of the creative industry, but the according The former vice president of the film producers Association of Ghana who is also the chairman of the transitional committee Ben Imoro the Musician Association Ghana selfishly took the money with the involvement of other players in the creative industry. He says they have no option to fall on financial institution to support the struggling film industry. The Film Producers Association Ghana is currently holding its congress in Kumasi to elect new executives for the Association. The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) is single-handedly spending the entire GH¢3 million (¢20 billion) the government of Ghana set aside in the 2013 budget to boost the creative arts industry. Other stakeholders in the ...

MTN Ghana says the recent protracted service interruptions on its network are due to a “hardware problem”, which it said had been resolved. The hardware problem occurred in the midst ongoing modernization and network transformation meant to provide better experience for MTN customers. The company has however apologized to ‘the few’ customers affected those recent challenges, which included frequent speech mutation, call drops, calls not going through and delays in call set up. Some other challenges are SMS not going through and very poor data experience, characterized by very slow download and upload. Indeed, in all of these challenges, customers complained of losing money, particularly when calls drop or speech mutes and one would have to call back. Again slow downloads/uploads meant one achieved very little over a long period of time, and lost data credit. Telcos have often blamed service interruptions on fibre cuts, power outages, cable theft and on the poor quality of ...

By joseph osei The Asantehene Otumfour Osei Tutu ii has caution negative elements in the Micro finance sector whose actions have dwindle the public interest in the microfinance sector. According to Otumfour these companies takes undue advantage of the vulnerability of the masses. The Otumfour has therefore charge the bank of Ghana to maintain its supervisory functions to bring to fall ethical elements in micro financing. The Otumfour said this at a ceremony to launch a new bank by the Sinapa Aba Trust in Kumasi. Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT), a Christian non—governmental micro-finance organisation, started in May, 1994 in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, has extended credit, capacity building programmes and transformational services to low income individuals and entrepreneurs, majority of them being women. Otumfuo expressed his happiness for the company’s efforts to open its own bank after successful operations and was optimistic that they could sustain that effort. He, however, urged...

by joseph osei The Asantehene, Otufour Osei Tutu ii has expressed worry over the concentration of businesses in the national capital, Accra. He believes the concentration of the entire government machinery in Accra has compelled the private sector to follow suit; a situation he believes has resulted in the uneven growth pattern of the country. Otumfour also caution negative elements in the Micro finance sector whose actions have dwindle the public interest in the microfinancing. According to Otumfour these companies takes undue advantage of the vulnerability of the masses. The Otumfour has therefore charge the bank of Ghana to maintain its supervisory functions to bring to fall ethical elements in micro financing. He was speaking at a ceremony to launch the Sinapi Aba trust bank in Kumasi. He also commended managers of Sinapi Aba for making Kumasi the operational headquarters of the Bank.  The Board Chairman of Sinapa Aba Rev. Davis Freeman assured the public of the bank...