Author: TNRgh

Patience had no plans of becoming a cobbler, but fate always has its own way of making the untended happen. Such is the story of 35 year old Patience who trades as a cobbler for a living. Patience was once married to a Cobbler. Being a cleaner at the time, she would occasionally assist her husband in her spare time to mend shoes. Her husband passed away in 2014. She has since quit her job as a cleaner and taken over her late husband’s as a cobbler to fend for her family. Patience lives at Adentan in the Greater Accra…

Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump: From enemies to frenemies?[/caption] North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump are to meet in person by May, it has been announced, an extraordinary overture after months of mutual hostility. News of the meeting was delivered by South Korean officials after talks with Mr Trump at the White House. They passed a verbal message from Mr Kim, saying the North Korean leader was “committed to denuclearisation”. Mr Trump hailed “great progress” but said sanctions would remain in place. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said the news “came like a miracle”. “If President…

The Komenda Sugar Factory, set up to provide 7,300 direct and indirect jobs, remains shut, two years after its inauguration. Sugar cane farmers and the people of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem municipality in the Central Region have been hoping that efforts by the Ministry of Trade and Industry to reactivate the multi-million dollar factory will bear fruits. But the enthusiasm among farmers that they will get a ready market for their produce at the factory is fast waning. The chiefs and people of the area feel disappointed with the current situation, as the government still cannot concretely tell them when the factory…

Last Sunday was the maiden show of a news program on GhOne TV hosted by Nana Aba Anamoah. Normally our media houses do not have very rich current affairs programs for their viewers on Sundays, so this program caught my attention right from the start. The truth however is that, during the headlines, I heard the term “belly schooling”, a term I was hearing for the first time in education literature, so I decided to listen to what the story was about. That story broke my heart. Pupils in a school in Yikurugu in the Northen part of Ghana lie…

Ashok [in brown], his Indian wife [R] and two children[/caption]The Supreme Court has quashed an order by the High Court ordering the restoration of the residence and work permit of Indian Businessman Ashok Kumar Sivaram. According to the Justices of the Supreme Court, the high court judge erred in granting the order of mandamus. The apex court also indicated that the judge exceeded her jurisdiction in making the order. The justices further added the order for mandamus could not be granted in this circumstance when the businessman has not gone through the administrative processes of getting the revocation addressed. This…

Alfred Agbesi Woyome[/caption] The Court of Appeal has set aside the findings of the Judgment Debt Commission chaired by Justice Yaw Appau against businessman Alfred Agbesi woyome for breach of the rules of natural justice. The three member panel presided over by Justice Victor Ofoe also made an order for the findings to be expunged from the whitepaper dated 18th November 2015 and the Report of the Sole Commissioner on the findings and decision pertaining to the businessman. According to the court, the EOCO report relied on by the Commission, for instance, was not from the appellant but an investigation…

Enyonam Louisa Esi[/caption] Enyonam Louisa Esi is a woman living with disability at Amanfrohene at Otoase in the Eastern region of Ghana, who has risen beyond her disability to put smiles on the faces of many. She has no upper limbs and depends heavily on her lower limbs which unfortunately are not well developed. Regardless, she pursues her daily activities with joy. For her, disability is not inability. It was her dream to become a lawyer, but she is currently a teacher having served for 28 years already. She teaches children who are on admission at the National Catholic Health…

SIC Financial Services Limited (SIC-FSL) one of the shareholders of ADB has denied having pledged its shares in ADB to uniBank in fulfillment of an earlier financial commitment. A source within the company tells thebftonline.com that, SIC FSL which is an arm of the State Insurance Company (SIC) a government entity could not have been part of the consortium, led by Belstar Capital–a turnkey project finance and implementation institution–also includes Starmount Development Company Limited, EDC Investments Limited and SIC-FSL to pledge their shares, proceeds, entitlement and voting rights to uniBank. The news comes as a surprise to many, as it…

The three Envoys from L-R Mrs Amma Adomaa Twum-Amoah Mr. Eric Odoi-Anim and Mr. Frank Okyere[/caption] The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sworn in three new Ambassadors, who are to safeguard and promote the image and interests of Ghana outside her shores. The short ceremony was held on Wednesday, 7th March, 2018, at the Flagstaff House in Accra. They are Mr. Frank Okyere, Ghana’s Ambassador to Japan; Eric Odoi-Anim, Ghana’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe; and Mrs Amma Adomaa Twum-Amoah, Ghana’s Ambassador to Ethiopia. [caption id="attachment_77590" align="aligncenter" width="608"] Mr Eric Odoi-Anim, Ghana’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe[/caption] Reminding the Ambassadors about their roles, President…

The Agricultural Development Bank Limited (ABD) has rejected claims by Ghanaian-owned Unibank that it has acquired a majority stake in ADB. Unibank had confirmed in an interview on 3FM Wednesday morning that it has bought over 51% shares of ADB for about 600 million cedis. This, the Executive Director of UniBank, Clifford Duke Mettle said, became possible after a consortium of financial institutions that control the majority shares in ADB pledged their proceeds, entitlement and voting rights to UniBank. But the claim has been denied by the Bank of Ghana, which is the regulator. READ MORE Later in the evening, the board…