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Zimbabwe President names son in cabinet

1,695  Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of nepotism after naming his son in a new cabinet following his controversial re-election last month. Mr Mnangagwa on Monday named his son, David Kudakwashe, as deputy finance minister as part of the parliament’s youth quota. He also appointed his nephew, Tongai Mnangagwa, the deputy tourism minister, […]

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Sammy Gyamfi fumes over delay in hearing injunction application against EC

1,492  The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has described as unacceptable the decision of the registrar at the Supreme Court to wait for the Chief Justice to provide or certify a date for the hearing of the party’s injunction suit against the Electoral Commission. Speaking on PM Express on JoyNews, […]

Agriculture

Burkina Faso, Togo exporting cocoa produced in Ghana as intensified smuggling leaves COCOBOD with $600m loss

1,554  The finances of Ghana COCOBOD is in dire straits requiring urgent surgery to revive the once vibrant entity. JoyNews is learning COCOBOD lost almost 600 million dollars representing 150 thousand metric tons in the last crop season due to the smuggling of cocoa beans to neighboring Burkina Faso and Togo which made them exporters […]

Politics

Sir John Donates Ghc2k To Support Intensify Education On Limited Voter Registration Exercise, 2023

1,243In the Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency  of the Ashanti Region, Vice Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hon. John Kwame Duodu, popularly known as “Sir John, made a donation of 2,000 Ghana cedis (GH 2,000) to the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipal National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) Directorate. INCENTIVE Sir John, who is also […]

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Urgent call to Local Government Minister Dan Kwaku Botwe: Address the neglected Kejetia fire disaster aftermath

1,633It has been six months since a devastating fire tore through the Kejetia market in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi the second largest City of Ghana with over 7,203 shops. Unfortunately 33 trading shops were affected. At the moment victims and their union leaders are in the dark about the government’s plans for rebuilding and […]