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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the Upper West Region has called on all members and the general public to grace this year’s May Day celebration to make it a success.

The event, which would take place at the Jubilee Park in Wa, would be preceded by a route march through some principal streets in the Wa township.

Mr Godwin Gariba, the Upper West Regional Secretary of the TUC, told the GNA in an interview that all was set for the celebration on Sunday, May 01.

According to him, this year’s celebration, on the theme: “Protecting Jobs and Incomes in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond”, would also feature free health screening for the people.

He explained that the theme sought to highlight the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the jobs and the income of the people.

“Since 2019 when COVID-19 visited us some people lost their jobs and others died through the pandemic so it is now time for us to protect the leftover jobs and also our income beyond the pandemic”, Mr Gariba explained

Mr Samuel Berko, the Upper West Regional Industrial Relations Officer of the TUC, said it was unfortunate that the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) had pulled out of this year’s celebration.

He, however, explained that the TUC was engaging the leadership of the CLOGSAG for the Association to rescind its decision and join the May Day celebration saying, “Union thrives on numbers”.

Source: Ghana News Agency

GNA- April 29, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH¢400,000.00 bail with two sureties each to two brothers over an alleged GHS476,450.

00 bank theft.

The Court ordered that the two sureties should be justified with a landed property.

Kwadwo Berko Antwi and Kwabena Appiah Mensah Antwi have, however, denied conspiring to steal the money from a customer’s commercial bank account.

They are to make their next appearance on May 25, 2022.

Police Inspector Jonas Laweh told the Court that Mr Frank Abdulai Iddrisu is the complainant and a Financial Investigator with the Bank, whilst Kwadwo Berko Antwi, was a banker and Kwabena Appiah Mensah Antwi, a graphics designer. They live in North Legon.

He said Kwadwo, a relationship officer at the Bank’s Ridge Branch Accra, was appointed to manage three accounts – a customer of the Bank.

The Prosecution said on March 10, 2022, the customer reported to the Bank that a total of GH¢476,450.00 and US$1,200 had been withdrawn from her accounts without her consent.

A review of the customer’s accounts showed that between the period May 7, 2020, and March 19, 2021, Kwadwo created a Mobile App of the Bank and a funds transfer form with a forged signature of the customer and then transferred a total of amount of GH¢435,400.00 from her account into another account with the name Ankusa Media, belonging Antwi Kwabena Appiah Mensah.

Inspector Lawer said that Kwadwo also transferred GH₵24,000 into another account with Kwabena Appiah Mensah’s name and on March 3, 2021, Kwadwo again transferred GH¢7,050.00 to a different account name, William Osei, now a witness in this case.

He said that on May 25, 2021, Kwadwo also transferred from the customer’s US dollar account a total amount of US$1,200 into an account that belonged to Kwabena.

The Prosecution stated that a formal complaint was lodged with the Police, leading to the arrest of the accused persons. The Police later discovered that Kwabena and Kwadwo were brothers.

He said Kwadwo operated two accounts at the Bank with Kwabena as the sole signatory to the accounts.

Kwabena withdrew monies paid into the two mentioned accounts and repaid it into Kwadwo’s personal account or sometimes paid the monies into his Momo account.

This, Prosecution said, was to cover up Kwadwo’s underhand dealings as a staff of the bank.

During investigation, the Police found out that Kwadwo used the monies he stole to pay off his personal debt, bought two iPhones for himself and his wife and then used the rest of the amount to complete his house at Agbogba, the Court heard.

The Prosecution said on March 3 and 22, 2022, the accused persons refunded a total of GH₵180,000 to the Police, which had been kept as exhibit.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Parliament has denied reports that its power has been disconnected by the Electricity Company of Ghana, although Citi News can confirm that the legislature has been served notices by ECG to clear its debt.

According to the Director of Public Affairs, Kate Addo, on Wednesday, the house suffered two power outages due to an internal fault and not as a result of disconnection over non-payment of bills.

“My conversation with the head of the Development Department shows that there was no such disconnection. On Wednesday, we had two power trips, and it had nothing to do with ECG coming to disconnect power from parliament,” she said.

The ECG in recent times has embarked on an aggressive disconnection exercise of defaulting institutions including state organizations.

A task force of the Electricity Company of Ghana earlier this month visited Parliament to embark on a disconnection exercise as a result of debt the company said the legislature owed it.

On March 14, 2022, ECG disconnected power to Terminal 3 of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) and other offices of the Ghana Airports Company over unpaid bills.

The disconnection exercise was undertaken after the KIA failed to settle its indebtedness to the power distribution company. Ghana News Agency sources say KIA owes ECG close to GHC49 million.

An attempt by the management of the KIA to pay the debt by cheque when the disconnection exercise was underway was rejected by the task force.

Power has since been restored to the Airport company.

Source: Modern Ghana

Accra, Apr 28, GNA-Wi-flix, Africa’s fastest-growing online streaming and live TV platform has announced a partnership agreement with ayoba – a super-app made in Africa for the world, to offer a phenomenal streaming experience to ayoba customers.

A statement issued in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the partnership forms Wi-flix’s bold content strategy to allow global access to diverse and exciting premium African entertainment on-demand.

It said with this partnership, ayoba customers could now access Wi-flix’s channel on ayoba to stream premium and authentic movie trailers and clips anywhere, anytime on the app.

Mr Bright Yeboah, Co-Founder of Wi-flix and Chief Operations Officer, speaking on the partnership noted that “Over the years, the way people view and consume content had changed immensely with customers seeking easy ways to subscribe to and enjoy multiple streaming platforms.

The partnership with ayoba will therefore make it easy to reach highly engaged customers of over 10 million who can catch a glimpse of their favourite movie clips and epic trailers on the Wi-flix channel on the super app,” it stated.

Mr Burak Akinci, Chief Executive Officer of ayoba said, ” It is a pleasure to welcome Wi-flix to ayoba. We are proud to work with this top-quality African partner.

The Wi-flix channel is already in our top 10 channels for March 2022, so it is clear that our users are enjoying their content. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership, it said.

Mr Anthony Shaw, Wi-flix Ghana Country Director, in a brief remark said, “This partnership gives millions of new and existing Ayoba subscribers exclusive access to a broad selection of authentic entertainment on the Wi-flix platform.

We are thrilled to exclusively partner with ayoba to bring our streaming platform to even more customers as we look to continue to grow our subscriber base in innovative and compelling ways,” he added.

Since launching in Ghana, the online streaming platform has offered unlimited access to subscribers in Africa and the diaspora with over 30,000 hours of blissful entertainment on demand plus 10 Live TV channels available at unbeatable price points anytime, anywhere.

Wi-flix is a leading African-based live streaming and subscriber video on demand provider offering authentic, originally African and international content to subscribers in Africa and the diaspora. The service offers premium content at an affordable price point as part of a bold agenda to democratize content in Africa.

diaspora.

Since its launch in May 2019, ayoba has reached millions of users, with current figures showing a monthly active user base of 11.6M. The app offers users free access to an ecosystem of digital and rich media services through channels, micro-apps, and payment solutions, embedded within an African super-app.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Tamale, April 28, GNA – Alhaji Ibrahim-Tanko Amidu, Executive Director of STAR-Ghana Foundation has called on Ghanaians to shy away from the fear of being misrepresented and to remain resolute to report anomalies against duty bearers who misconduct themselves.

He noted that Ghana did not have an all-convenient environment for people to freely point out ill-happenings without being tagged politically.

He said, “Our political dialogue has been reduced to partisan politics such that people cannot speak out without others reading political meanings into it.”

 He, however, urged citizens not to desist from correcting the wrongs in society for fear of getting misinterpreted and advised them to be active contributors to national dialogues.

 Alhaji Amidu made the call at the launch of the STAR-Ghana Foundation’s Active Citizenship Strategy report in Tamale, a project aimed at equipping citizens to attain inclusively and developed Ghana.

The report would serve as a working document for the STAR Ghana Foundation for the next five years to enhance the ability of citizens to be more active on national issues.

Alhaji Amidu further called on the citizenry to exert themselves into responsibilities that accompanied the rights of being a citizen to foster unity and speed up the nation’s growth.

He urged the citizenry to emulate the likes of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and members of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society, who fought for the good of the country.

He said, “If you look at our independence and what happened to Dr Kwame Nkrumah and those who stood up with him, you will realise they were active citizens, who were prosecuted, but they won.”

He said “The independence we are enjoying today as a result of the persistence of others. The conditions have not been completely perfect, but we have to persist all the same.”

Source: Ghana News Agency

Dodo-Amanfrom (O/R), April 28, GNA-Kadjebi District Assembly, in collaboration with Ghana’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, has presented 20 bundles of roofing sheets and nails to rainstorm victims at Dodo-odo-Amanfrom.

The Assembly presented 15 bundles with nails, while the High Commissioner, Mr Rashid Bawa presented 5 bundles.

A total of 732 victims including 376 males and 356 females with 65 houses were affected by the disaster which strikes the town on Tuesday, April 19.

Dodo-Amanfrom R.C Primary and D /A Primary Schools and Dodo-Amanfrom market structures were also ripped up by the rainstorm.

Mr Wilson Agbanyo, the Kadjebi District Chief Executive (DCE), presenting the items at Dodo-Amanfrom, a farming community in the district said he was terrified by the disaster when informed and been a responsive leader, he quickly summoned a District Security Committee (DISEC) meeting to deliberate on the issue.

He said the items presented were meant to relieve them from their present predicament as the Assembly could not bear all the cost of damage and urged them to contribute towards the re-roofing of their structures.

He advised them to be disaster conscious by planting trees around their building to serve as a windbreak.

The DCE appealed to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and philanthropists to assist relieve the victims from their current quandary.

Mr Agbanyo also appealed to them to honour their tax obligations, so that the Assembly could generate enough Internally Generated Fund (IGF) to develop the district.

Dasebre Oduro-Guranim I, the Paramount Chief of Dodo-Traditional Area, who received the items on behalf of the victims, thanked the donors for the gesture.

He appealed to those who might not receive the relief items to exercise patience, since theirs would come.

He also called on those whose buildings had been marked by the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Officials as uninhabitable to vacate and demolished them.

Nana Kweku Odumgya, the Paramount Stool father of Dodo Traditional Area, asked the citizenry to help develop the country since development was a shared responsibility.

He said the practice where people sit on the fence only to engage in a blame game when things go wrong would not help progress as a country.

Mr Volk Johnson Dzakpasu, Kadjebi District Deputy NADMO Director in charge of Operations, appealed to people to help prevent avoidable disasters in their communities.

This, he said, would help reduce the risk of being affected by a disaster.

Mr Dzakpasu said that even if the hazard could not be removed, the vulnerability could be decreased and in case of an impact, the capacity to withstand to respond and recover would be strong.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Information reaching DGN Online indicates that the Police in the early hours of Thursday morning arrested four delegates of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) for obstructing elections in the Okaikwei South Constituency in the Greater Accra Region.

According to reports, the suspects threatened to halt processes that would see to the success of the current ongoing constituency election particular in the area, following the allegations that over 430 names have been deleted from the register.

The aggressive victims who were prevented from voting went on rampage to disrupt the process, as they massed up on the road, blocking the vehicle of the Electoral Commission (EC) officials being escorted by the police from gaining access to the voting grounds.

But the Police when had the information rushed to the scene to put the situation under control after an exchange of blows between the Police and the delegates.

Some of the angry delegates pelted stones to prevent the Police from ensuring the election took place.

The Police resisted and in the end, whisked four of the delegates away from the Prince of Peace School at Bubuashie.

Some of the delegates who spoke to Joys News, monitored by DGN Online expressed worried about the incident as they accused the party officers of allegedly deleting their names from the party album.

The affected delegates and people from other constituencies have rather been included in the album to partake in the exercise.

They also added that some members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been added to the register to vote in favour of a particular faction, as some of the aspirants vowed to fight for their rights until the right thing was done.

Meanwhile, the Party is yet to officially communicate on the said incident.

Source: Modern Ghana

Fareast Mercantile (FMCL) Ghana is aware of false and unverified allegations made against our business in an online publication in Ghana.

We believe these allegations to be incorrect as FMCL Ghana does not sell any expired products and, to the best of our knowledge, we are not aware of any unethical conduct by our current employees.

We however, view these allegations in a very serious light and have initiated an internal investigation into the matter.

As a responsible corporate citizen, we strive to adhere to and comply with all market regulations, including health and safety standards in all our operations. This includes the adherence to rigorous independent auditing of product expiry dates, as well as rigorous ethical and regulatory policies that guide our operations.

Source: Ghana Web