Release JoyFM Editor…Prosecuting Him Is An Affront To Press Freedom - Pratt
Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, is asking for the immediate quashing of the charges preferred against Ato Kwamena Dadzie, Acting News Editor for JoyFM, by the police, since in his view the issue does warrant such an action.
Mr. Pratt argues that any attempt to prosecute the acting News Editor of JoyFM will amount to strangulation of free speech and a affront to press freedom.
Ato Kwamena Dadzie was granted bail by police after he was officially charged on Monday. He is due for court on Wednesday, July 21st. He has been charged under section 208 of the criminal code for false publication intended to cause ...Read more.
Mr. Pratt argues that any attempt to prosecute the acting News Editor of JoyFM will amount to strangulation of free speech and a affront to press freedom.
Ato Kwamena Dadzie was granted bail by police after he was officially charged on Monday. He is due for court on Wednesday, July 21st. He has been charged under section 208 of the criminal code for false publication intended to cause ...Read more.
ExxonMobil Gets Nod
The dust has finally settled on a successor to Kosmos Energy after a protracted impasse between Government and the company over what can be described as ‘trivially-unfounded’ legal claims.
Government requested the American oil giant, ExxonMobil to tender its business proposal after Kosmos Energy’s Chief Operating Officer, Brian Maxtead recently wrote a letter to officially inform the presidency of the sale of its shares to ExxonMobil. The oil giant has already started advertising its competence, expertise and social contributions to Ghanaians in some sections of the media.
Meanwhile, this paper has gathered that claims made by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), particularly on a legal clause in the contract agreement between Government and Kosmos which mandated Kosmos Energy to give Government the first option to acquire its stake, are ...Read More.
Government requested the American oil giant, ExxonMobil to tender its business proposal after Kosmos Energy’s Chief Operating Officer, Brian Maxtead recently wrote a letter to officially inform the presidency of the sale of its shares to ExxonMobil. The oil giant has already started advertising its competence, expertise and social contributions to Ghanaians in some sections of the media.
Meanwhile, this paper has gathered that claims made by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), particularly on a legal clause in the contract agreement between Government and Kosmos which mandated Kosmos Energy to give Government the first option to acquire its stake, are ...Read More.
Armed Robbers Occupy 5 Police Buildings
Armed robbers have taken over five uncompleted storey buildings at Aboso, a suburb of Swedru meant to serve as office and residential accommodation for the police.
The building, which have been abandoned for the past 30 years have deteriorated extensively and the land encroached upon.
The Central Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Stephen Andoh Kwofie, told the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior whose members were on a working visit to the areas on Monday, July 19 that the projects had been captured in the budget every year, but no allocations had ever been made for ....Read More.
The building, which have been abandoned for the past 30 years have deteriorated extensively and the land encroached upon.
The Central Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Stephen Andoh Kwofie, told the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior whose members were on a working visit to the areas on Monday, July 19 that the projects had been captured in the budget every year, but no allocations had ever been made for ....Read More.
Armed "Ghanaian" Robbers Jailed in London
Three men have been jailed after £40,000 from a series of cash van raids in London turned up in South Africa.
A Mitsubishi Shogun car, containing the money, was found on the quayside in Durban, South Africa, in December 2008.
Theo Boateng, 47, from Harlow, Essex, Takaidza Hungwe, 43, from Gillingham, Kent, and Ebenezer Gyau, 43, from Enfield, north London, were convicted of conspiracy to rob.
They were jailed for a total of ...Read More.
A Mitsubishi Shogun car, containing the money, was found on the quayside in Durban, South Africa, in December 2008.
Theo Boateng, 47, from Harlow, Essex, Takaidza Hungwe, 43, from Gillingham, Kent, and Ebenezer Gyau, 43, from Enfield, north London, were convicted of conspiracy to rob.
They were jailed for a total of ...Read More.
